Mosaic Mystery Quilt {Squares and Triangles}

It's time to check in with my progress on the Mosaic Mystery Quilt hosted by Cheryl of Meadow Mist Designs!

I didn't post an update in September, so I decided that I would combine my September and October clue progress together in one post.

September's clue was to make stitch-and-flip "house" blocks. These were very quick and easy! Since I am using fat quarters instead of yardage, I used three different fabrics for the stitch and flip squares, so half of the units have the pink and burgundy scroll fabric, a quarter of the units have the burgundy mottled print, and a quarter of the units have the dark pink Fairy Frost.

An aside: I absolutely LOVE Fairy Frost. I had a lot of scraps of it years ago and used a lot of the scraps in my Harry Potter quilt, which I realize has never actually been shared as a finish, and I will do that eventually.

For October, our assignment was to make two different sets of square-in-a-square (SIAS) units. These were quick and easy as well; it seems like I have done so much itty bitty piecing lately -- it's so nice to work on something with bigger piecing! All of the green/brown and background fabric SIAS units are the same; there are two each of each of the four different pink fabrics for the pink/background SIAS units.

Now the long wait to November begins!

Stretching Scraps {Christmas Ribbons}

When I posted my Not Quite Christmas Ribbons quilt last week, I was trying to decide what else to do with the quilt.

I did some quilty math and figured out that I could squeeze out enough units to add half blocks on each side of the quilt, but not enough to make full blocks to make it a square quilt. Adding blocks on both sides instead of one side allowed for the secondary designs in the quilt to be symmetrical throughout the quilt.

Here are my half units:

Except that sewing these all into units was the wrong move! I actually found that I needed to take half of the units apart and turn the units 90 degrees. Oops.

A little bit of seam ripping, resewing, and chain stitching later, I had a slightly larger quilt top!

Now instead of a oddly skinny 32" x 48" quilt, I have a 40" x 48" quilt top -- which is perfect for a baby quilt. If I decide to add borders, it would end up closer to 50" x 60" -- which would be perfect for a cuddly couch quilt.

Happy Monday!

Sharing at Oh Scrap and What I Made Monday! And Wait Loss Wednesday and Needle and Thread Thursday!

Moxi Charm Baby Quilt {Finished Quilt}

After the short detour as a result of running out of thread, I finished my Four Squared baby quilt!

Once my thread arrived, I was able to finish up the quilting in about five minutes!

For the binding, I used the leftover fabric from the backing. I like to cut a 2.25" binding, and for this quilt, I sewed the binding to the front by machine and hand stitched it to the back.

I really am wishing that I would have had another charm pack or two to make this quilt bigger and keep it for myself! But I'm sure that this will end up snuggled by one of our friends' babies eventually!

Quilt Stats:
Name: Moxi Four Squared baby quilt
Pattern: Four Squared from Moda Bake Shop (pattern no longer available)
Fabrics: Two Moxi charm packs + solid white
Techniques: using precuts, free motion quilting
Quilting: free motion swirls using Mint Aurifil
Size: 40" x 48"
Batting: scrap batting
Started: August 2019
Finished: September 2019
Future: Baby quilt/TBD

Sharing at:
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Finished or not Friday
Peacock Party
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Ribbon Candy {Units to Blocks}

I've had a lot of fun working on my "not quite" Christmas Ribbons scrap quilt and the project has gone from units to small blocks to large blocks in a rather quick fashion!

The blocks are built from the units I showed previously:

There are two of each unit in each smaller block. I paired the units and paired the pairs to make "four patches" made up of my scrappy units.

And in turn, the smaller blocks were paired and then paired again to make the larger blocks that show off the pinwheel secondary design.

While it might have been nice to have another three blocks to make this square, I definitely don't have enough background fabric to make that happen. I'm not sure what kind of borders -- if any -- I should add to the blocks.

What do you think I should do? Borders or no borders? Add other piecing with a different background fabric? The quilt would measure 32" x 48" without borders.

Also make sure that you check out Autumn Jubilee hosted by Carole of From My Carolina Home! There are going to be great prizes, tutorials, and fun throughout the month of October!

Sharing at Wednesday Wait Loss and Needle and Thread Thursday!

Brutal Honesty {October 2019}

September was slightly less productive than July and August but I am excited about quilting some of my long-waiting quilts this month after getting backings for two completed tops.

I have finished my Moxi charm pack quilt, but I have not been able to get pictures of it yet!

Completed tops:
1. Breezy Blooms C2C Bee -- July UFO project -- I ordered and received the fabric I plan to use for the backing of this quilt! Now to start planning how to quilt it.
2. Radiant Jewel Quilt -- April UFO project -- I got the backing fabric for this quilt too! Hooray!
3. Daisy Chain Quilt -- no progress

Tops partially finished:
4. Romantic Garden Quilt -- no progress
5. Monthly Wall Hangings -- March UFO project -- no progress
6. Pineapple Stash Bee Blocks -- February UFO project -- no progress

Just blocks and units:
7. Sew Kitschy Blocks -- no progress
8. Cubicle Quilts -- no progress
9. Happy Houses blocks -- September UFO project -- no progress
10. Birthstone blocks -- June UFO project -- no progress
11. Jingle Bell Square -- no progress
12. Big Block C2C Bee Quilt -- no progress
13. Marigold Quilt -- no progress
14. Pave the Way Quilt -- no progress

Quilt alongs and long term projects:
15. Monthly Island Batik Ambassador projects -- In September, I made an Ohio Star baby quilt (or small throw) using Quiet Shades fabrics. This month our theme is applique table toppers. I have a whole collection of Honey, Bunny, and Doll patterns for table runners and place mats that feature applique! Which one should I choose?

16. Mosaic Mystery Quilt -- I have completed the September directions and am ready for the October directions to come out on Thursday! I'll do a real update post on this project once I complete my October units.

New projects:
17. Faceted Churn Dash -- Our "sort of QAL" on Facebook is in full swing. I have been making a LOT of HSTs.

18. Not Quite Christmas Ribbons -- I have been making units for this project and it is going a *lot* faster than I anticipated!

My UFO for September was my Happy Houses blocks. I did not make any progress on this project.

My UFO for October will be making use of some of my orphaned blocks and abandoned projects that I don't have listed as UFOs. Some of the orphaned blocks will be made into table runners and mini quilts -- and this will also hopefully use up some batting scraps as well.