The Quilted Snail: March 2024

Monday, March 18, 2024

Give it a Whirl Blog Hop - My Day

Welcome to the "Give it a Whirl" blog hop. The challenge in this month's blog hop was: "Life can send us spinning sometimes, so let's put those spins and whirls to good use in a quilt. Make something with pinwheel blocks, circle quilting, or whirly gigs. Try not to whirl out of control."

This is my day to post and I'm looking forward to sharing my project with you.

For a while I've been working with sewing up my littlest scraps (things like strings, oddball squares, triangles, etc.) by sewing them to adding machine paper for stability in dealing with lots of wonky sides. I started with dark blue first, and end up with over 1000 linear inches of dk blue pieced strips.

I paired some of the made strips with some 6" unfinished HST's (the blue/cream), made the red HST's and cream tonal scraps to make this quilt top.

The outer round of the blocks with the blue and cream form 2 interlocking pinwheels. And overall, the blocks give the quilt a 3D look.

At this point the quilt top still needs a border, but I have not been able to figure out what to do. Anyone have an idea?

Don't forget to go check out what everyone else has posted about today.

MARCH 18

Gratitudes:
1. Things are finally moving on the remediation work at the house, with cabinets and flooring finally being chosen

2. For the "quick" appointment at the ENT's office about the back-to-back sinus infections.

Sunday, March 17, 2024

Give it a Whirl Blog Hop Coming This Week

The "Give it a Whirl" blog hop is happening this week.

The challenge in this month's blog hop was: "Life can send us spinning sometimes, so let's put those spins and whirls to good use in a quilt. Make something with pinwheel blocks, circle quilting, or whirly gigs. Try not to whirl out of control."

Be sure to check out what everyone posts about this week!

MARCH 18

MARCH 19

Quilting Between The Rails

MARCH 20

Karrinâ€™s Crazy World

MARCH 21

Kathy's Kwilts and More

Homespun Hannah's Blog

Gratitudes:

1. I'm almost through getting everything out of the great room and kitchen that needs to be out of there before the remediation work can be done.

2. For all those that have given of their time and effort to help me get to this point.

Friday, March 15, 2024

ScrapHappy March 2024

Welcome back to the ScrapHappy blog hop for March.

First up was sorting through more of the 2 gal ziploc bags of sorted scraps to weed out the strips, small scraps, single squares, and oddball prints that never seem to get used. I managed to get the reds, pinks, and greens sorted. Once that was done I sewed the red ones up.

Each of the long strips is at least 72" long, So between all of them, when added together it is roughly equal to 1 yd of fabric.

Then I quilted this toddler quilt. The pieced panel is a scrappy one that I bought from a scrap barrel at a quilt shop in Texas. The yellow was a remnant piece bought here in AZ and has all sorts of traffic signs on it. The quilt will be bound in what remains of the yellow.

The backing was pieced from a remnant of a grey that matched the yellow and a piece of grey Kona that was leftover from another project in the past.

Don't forget to check out what everyone has done this month -

Kate, Gun, Eva, Sue, Lynda, Birthe, Turid,

Tracy, Jan, Moira, Sandra, Chris, Alys,
Claire, Jean, Dawn, Gwen, Sunny, Kjerstin,

Sue L, Vera, Ann, Dawn 2, Carol,

Preeti, Viv, Karrin, Amo, Alissa ,
Lynn, Tierney and Hannah