Twinkle Twinkle Scrappy Stars by Lori Holt

      I found this tutorial by Lori Holt for scrappy stars and I fell in love.  I made a star with her tutorial today and I'm planning to start cutting some stash fabrics for this quilt top.  I usually don't work on more than one quilt at a time but since my current quilt project is just putting scrappy 2.5" squares together which is extremely easy, it won't be hard to fit in a few scrappy stars in between rows of the squares.   These stars are really easy and fun to make and I think they are incredibly cute.

    These two scrappy quilt top projects will help me whittle down my scraps and stash.

Working On A Scrappy Quilt

I found a bag of 2.5" squares I cut last year in the colors of green, blue, gray, and yellow that I cut from fabric that I found in my stash.  I also cut some white and beige neutrals to alternate the colors with.   I made my first stand mixer cover with these fabrics last year and I enjoyed the soft colors together.  

I'm sewing these pieces together and I should have more than enough for 68" square quilt.  It's a nice easy sewing project.  Here's a sample of the first two rows put together.

Some Little Projects

I took time on Sunday morning to make a spool block to decorate my sewing space.  I used the MSQC youtube tutorial to make the block.  It was fun and I would love to make a full quilt with spools.

I also got my embroidery done that I wanted.  It was much easier the fourth time.  These were made with white thread on navy blue fabric.

Christmas In July

I love Christmas tree quilt blocks.  I found this tutorial on a blog, The Spruce Crafts,  Christmas Tree Block  and I had to make one.  I thought the original size was a little too small so I increased the size of the strips to 3.5" and I increased the length of the tree pieces about 2 to 4 inches each so they would be substantial.  The final size is about 15.5" x 17.5 inches.  Perfect for a pillow cover.

Playing With My Embroidery Machine

            Last year, my dear daughter and I were walking through Hobby Lobby and she saw a towel with "Bake me a cake as fast as you can." embroidered on it.  I told her I could make that.  

            I finally finished that embroidery for her today.  She also asked me to embroider Mark it with a B.  She likes that because her last name starts with a B.  I put these on some gray fabric for her because she wants to frame both of them.

             I had to learn how to embroider these on my Brother PE770 embroidery machine.  I had never done proper phrases on the machine before and it's not very well explained in the instruction book, but I figured it out.  I had to do each line separately and I wrote down the adjustments so I would have them handy in case the embroidery went wrong and I had to start again.  The machine jammed up while I was doing a sample as my first try at this so I made my notes on the adjustments of each line in case the machine jammed up while it was going.   The second try went very smoothly and I was ready to make the final embroideries.  I will also use the adjustments to make a set of these embroideries for myself.  

The Grandmothers Flower Garden quilt is finished

I'm finished quilting the top last night and the binding was finished today.  I'm so glad this is done because I can't make myself have more than one quilt on the go and I want to make other quilts.  I have loads of scraps for string quilts and some charm squares set aside for another quilt.   

I took this picture outside hoping it would show the quilt colors better.  I was wrong.  I didn't do a great job picking my colors because they are the same bright tones, but I loved them when I got them and thought they would be an awesome combination.  They look cool, but it's hard to distinguish the pink from the orange in my pictures.

More pictures.