Barn Quilt Blocks -- Julia G.

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Magnolia Sewing Circle

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I love to go to Sewing Circle to help with the projects and visit with the other ladies. We started this "String Quilt"

 over a year ago at our annual "Guest Day Sewing."

Now after many months it's finally finished.

Last Tuesday we also bound the comforters that had been knotted at our "Annual Comfort Knotting" back in March.

Till the end of the day, the finished stack was so high it fell over.

We also had faithful quilters, Elmina, Louise, & Paul's mom, Silva.

Others tied more comforters, Evie & Sherlyn.

Cactus Rose

This is my latest invention called "Cactus Rose".  The center of the wall quilt is paper pieced.  Notice the shinny fabric in the dark green and the dark red, this give the quilt some dimension and sparkle. 

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Spring Pinwheels

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This was a fast and fun little quilt to make.

I got the idea from Jackie's tutorial. First you piece together blocks to make a top and add a border to it.

Then make a template of a small square with the off centered X in it. You have to be sure that when laying the X on the lines that you don't cut into the next block.

After I've cut out the blocks with the template the first quilt looks like Swiss cheese.  If you are really thrifty you may want to cut smaller blocks from what's left to use in the border.

Keeping the small squares in order sew them together to make a smaller quilt with pinwheels.

Add some borders, quilt it, and bind it, and ta-dah! I've made Spring Pinwheels in a simple fast way!

Scappy Quilt

 This is Nancy who took my Scrappy Baskets class.  She through me for a loop in class.  She wanted to use her green and pink scraps in her stash. I was fine with this idea but then she suggested a navy background....  I wasn't to sure about that, but the more we talked about it and laid out her fabrics and chatted, the idea started to come alive and the sparkle began to grow.  The quilt turned out lovely and is very striking.  The flash on the camera changed the brightness of the fabrics.