Yellow and Daisies Baby Quilt

This little quilt was made using all the squares that were left after piecing a full-sized Double Irish Chain quilt in yellow and blues.  I have yet to quilt the Double Irish Chain.

Yellow Baby Quilt

Double Irish Chain

The ‘Daisies Galore’ pantograph by Irene Steele is a great match for the little yellow quilt. 

Daisies Galore Pantograph

I was planning to quilt the Double Irish Chain and sell the two as a set, however a friend wanted a baby quilt for a gift and this Yellow Daisy Baby quilt was it!

This is one of the first quilts that I quilted when I bought my Millennium long-arm quilting machine.  When I showed it to my friend Terry she started bringing me quilts, thank goodness, it was the push I needed, as up until then I kept telling everyone “I’m still practicing.”

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation. ~ Will Smith

Scrappy Trip Along in Grey

This month the Rainbow Scrap Challenge is going to the ‘Dark Side’ and I decided to start with grey and the scrappy trip along block.

Scrappy Trip Along

I also did a bunch of scrap management, it looks like a little, however it takes a bunch of time.

Scrap Management

I’m managing my scraps using the Go Accuquilt Cutter and cutting strips, usually 2 ½ inch - because that’s what I need for the scrappy trip along, and another scrappy quilt I’m working on – then 2 inch because it’s a good measurement and the size I cut my bindings after that whatever size I can get with what is left.  With some of the larger scraps I see how the scraps fit on either the 4 inch square or the large or small tumbler cutter.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. ~ Pablo Picasso

… A scrap of fabric, the world wide web.