I liked the "Lunch Box" pattern so much that I decided to make a second one with the brown and tan fabrics. This time, I used turquoise scraps that I had in my stash to supplement the brown and tan scraps that were donated to me by a friend.
Here is the finished top which is 64" x 72".
I hope you like it. And thank you Bonnie Keller for donating the fabric.
One of my quilting friends called me this week and asked me if I wanted some of her old fabric collection. They were mostly fat quarters and I ended up with a huge box of browns, greens, and blacks. After sorting them into dark, medium, and light values, I went to my favorite scrap quilt book, "Charm School", by Vanessa Goertzen, for inspiration.
I picked "Lunch Box" to make this quilt. All I needed to add was about 2-1/2 yards of my own fabric to give the quilt a cohesive feeling. Well, I had jus the right red fabric and in just the right amount to pull this pattern off.
I cut the fat quarters of the dark fabric into 5" squares and 2-1/2" x 2-1/2" squares. The light fabric was cut into 5" x 2-1/2" rectangles. The red fabric was cut into 9" squares. Super easy and fun to make, I made the 9" blocks and using half of them, layered them with the red fabric and sliced them one way; and the other half were sliced as a mirror the first half.
I made a second black and white charity quilt, but instead of doing stripes, I made square in a square type blocks and offset them with log cabin blocks. This is a super easy quilt to made with scraps. It's 60" x 72".
I hope you like it.
This is the final quilt made from scraps donated to our charity quilt group. I started with 5" squares then will nilly added scraps, any width to the squares. I kept adding pieces until I had a large enough block to trim to 12-1/2" x 12-1/2". I used 30 squares for this quilt, which is 60" x 72". It was fun and freeing to just grab the next piece and keep sewing. I listened to a lot of music and rocked out!
I hope you like it.
This quilt was made with mostly materials donated to our charity quilt group. I added solid black to tone down all the busy colors. It's really fast to make!
You just sew 3 each of 2-1/2" strips of black fabric with 3 each of 2-1/2" strips of white fabric, then cut the strip sets into 12-1/2" blocks. Then you sew 2-1/2" strips of fabric in a log cabin type of block and make them 12-1/2" square too. Alternate the blocks into 5 blocks across and 6 blocks down. And that's all there is to get this 60" x 72" quilt. The perfect size to donate to our comfort quilts charity group.
I hope you like it!
I made the pattern "Trinkets" according to the pattern designed by Vanessa Goertzen. See a previous post about that quilt. Since I still had 2-1/2" strips and 5" squares from the material from our charity quilt group, I redesigned the pattern.
Here's the pattern instructions:
For each 13” block, make a double square in a square block
with 2 different colors and one background fabric. You need 25
blocks to make this quilt.
Up size the corner square side length to 4-1/4” and trim the block after sewing it together.
Upsize the corner square side length to 5-1/2” and trim after
sewing the block together.
The block showing the parts sewn together:
Sew five rows of five blocks each.
Here is the finished quilt top:
I hope you like it.
I made this quilt from Tula Pink fabrics that I've been saving (hoarding) for a few years. She designs interesting fabrics that usually include some kind of animal. This line was called "Slow and Steady". The darker fabric that I used pictures a turtle. The pink one features a snail. Tula Pink is so funny and witty!
The pattern is a relatively new one called "Trinkets" and is made of 16 each 18" x 18" blocks. One of my favorite modern quilt designers is Vanessa Goertzen and this pattern is on her web page. She designed the pattern to use fat quarters, but I used yardage.
Using the square in a square calculator that I posted about previously, I made 6" to 9" blocks; then 9" to 12" blocks. Here's a few tricks if you make square in a square blocks:
1. Add 1/8" to the size of square used to make the half squares. It is much easier to trim the edges than it is to end up with blocks that are too small. For instance on the 6" to 9" block, the calculator calls for cutting 5-1/8" squares. Size these up to 5-1/4". The 9" to 12" calls for 6-7/8" squares. Size these up to 7".
2. Fold the pieces in half and match up the centers.
3. Sew with the bias edge against the feed dogs, and the straight of grain on the top. This way, the bias edge doesn't stretch.
4. Trim up the blocks. There is very little waste. Can you see the tiny sliver that was trimmed off?
Follow the same steps for the next round. Add 3-1/2' x 6-1/2" rectangles of the outer color, 3-1/2" x 6-1/2" rectangles for the background, and 3-1/2" x 3-1/2" squares for the 4 corners out of the background fabric.
Make 18 blocks and sew them together. I added borders to use up the rest of the Tula Pink fabric. The quilt measures 81" x 81".
