New Ruler

After reading reviews of  how wonderful the Stripology ruler is, I was cautiously optimistic about buying one. But I can say truthfully there is something wonderful about it!  The main advantage is it’s so fast to complete a task, cutting strips, squaring up blocks, and maintaining a straight line. Makes using rulers old fashioned!  So I re-watched the videos for the GEasy Class Pack Vol 1, Katrina and Zoe. As instructed I used the stripology ruler to cut pieces for both quilts using Harmony by Michael Miller bundle of 12 half yards I had bought last year from GE Designs. Couldn’t believe how fast that chore took!  I’ve already made a Katrina quilt and then the Zoe as a part of her quilting class and using my old rulers etc. Here is the Katrina top using the new ruler. 

I am now deciding how to arrange the strips for the Zoe quilt. I have cut the fabric without using a background fabric, hoping to arrange lights and darks from the four shades, rust, sand, blue sky and coal!  I hope it works!  Here are two squares I’m testing for contrast…

 

Here’s another completion

 I have two more quilts in the to be quilted pile, one is my Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt. I’m loving the smaller quilts!

Here’s Zoe!

Some more quilts completed for donation

 I’ve shown the fronts of these earlier and now they are completed. I’m on a roll…

6 blocks done on Diatom

 I think I’ll call this one done as I don’t have enough purple scraps to make the remaining 6 blocks, and I’m tired of all this purple!  So for the next 6 blocks I’ll do something different …haven’t decided yet.  And on a day I’m feeling ambitious I still may swap out that very dark in block one to match the dark in 5 and 6  I think I have enough fab

Another charm square challenge completed

 Love how this one turned out, think I’ll give to a cousin’s granddaughter. Fun  and easy to make and I have a pile of waiting charm squares!  I see some crooked lines because my little measuring arm thingy on the walking foot became loose!  Gotta keep checking that little screw!

Memory quilt

 In 2014 while visiting my sister, we started making pineapple blocks, big ones. I eventually made 6 and she made 4. We had such a good time, all different scraps piled on her dining room table and us digging through them. My sis no longer quilts due to health and memory issues and so I gathered her squares and put with mine and made a lap quilt. It brings me memories looking at fabrics I used years ago and so I’m gifting it to her, maybe it’ll spark a memory for her

Think this’ll be an Easter cactus!

 I ordered this on line 2-3 years ago, was listed as a yellow Christmas cactus. In reality it is a salmon color! 

Block 5 of Diatom

 I’m slowly running out of purple fabrics for this quilt along which is 12 blocks. I may have enough for the 6th block and could make a lap quilt. Then for the rest of the blocks use a different group of fabrics for another lap size  This is block 6 before the frame part.  This is the most difficult block I can remember making…matching all the seams and preserving points.  Some parts I redid 4-5 times and still wasn’t satisfied!   Yvonne has certainly taught me to strive for more preciseness!  Not sure that’s a good thing!

And this all five completed blocks. I wish I hadn’t used such a dark purple on block 1. I may redo it

Another Kimberly

 I love making this quilt and since I’ve made one or two already, it goes together quickly!