Little Quilts

Here's a Prim quilt I put the finishing touches on this week. It was one block of a quilt called Remembering Cheri after Cheri passed away from cancer. It is growing on me the more I see it! LOL

Here's the solid little quilt with the yellow binding. I LOVE it!

It is backed by a piece of feedsack. This makes me pine for spring!

I machine quilted both of them.

I hope ya'll are doing great! I feel like I'm surrounded by Covid but so far, so good! 

Much love

 

Friendship Quilts- Cheri Swap

 My swap quilt from France arrived last week! My partner was Betty (see the quilt I made her HERE) I love her friendship quilt!! Thank you Betty!

 The "rules" actually said please add no extras, but Betty is a rule breaker, I guess!! LOL I will treasure the little extras too!!

These are crazy times and we need to follow the recommendations and stay well. We also need to keep a sense of humor.

About that snow....

These robins obviously haven't gotten the word about social distance!! 

 This one was actually fluffed up IN the rose bush, just chillin'. 

I'm not sure what Elsa is thinking.

Big announcement on Wednesday! Let's stay connected during these trying times.

Much love

Sweet Land of Liberty Month 1

This quiltalong was originally in 2018 and I've been asked to "play it again'! So here we are March 1, 2019 and this will be our first installment of Cheri Paynes Sweet Land of Liberty. I've made some edits so it makes more sense as far as the dates.  Everything else pretty much stays the same. 

You can always look at last years linky party for other month 1 ideas: CLICK HERE. 

Yay! I'm so excited to be sewing this quilt with ya'll.  The rules are, LOL, There are no rules! This is YOUR quilt. Make it as you see fit. My blog is called Humble Quilts because I try and embrace the "errors"  I make while sewing- starting with my month 1 section!!

This is what we will be sewing for month 1.  

Here we go!

 The USA blocks finish at 4". I'm not into making templates so I made paper piecing patterns. I believe my S turned out backwards my first try, so remember to reverse the pattern if paper piecing.
On the basket block you can see I paper pieced that too so my blue star is actually on the "wrong" side. The basket block will finish 12x7, cut  1" & 1 1/2" border strips.
For the house block cut background 9"x10". Cut 1" strips to place around house block.

We will be making some blocks each month for the border. This month we are making 5 economy blocks that finish at 4"

Your first month blocks can be sewn together like this. Add strips or pieces where needed to make it fit.
My friend Denise will be making blocks ahead of time so you can get a few different ideas.

She is using some wool in her blocks. 

Lovely Denise!

I hope you enjoy your primitive sewing!

Happy New Year!

I posted this on Facebook and will do it here for those who are not on Facebook:
I am going to clarify once more. I'm not giving the pattern for Sweet land of Liberty, only the block sizes. It is up to you to find a pattern for each block that you like. Most do NOT have the pattern, so don't panic! It is supposed to be fun and yes, possibly, out of your comfort zone. It is primitive and sizes are not an exact science. You may need to cut an extra strip to make something fit, or whack something off. I'm making it along with you (only 1 month ahead) and will be doing the same thing. I already see variances between Denise's blocks and mine- that's perfectly fine! We will assemble the quilt in sections so you won't be faced with the entire quilt trying to figure out how to put it together. Relax, breath, embrace the challenge. And if you've changed your mind about making it, that's okay. I'm not keeping track.