Blue Embroidered Blocks Quilt

The Blue Embroidered Blocks quilt came home the same day the purple embroidered quilt did. I did not embroider these blocks, I purchased them off the resale table at the Jane Stickle retreat.

I used the same sashing design in this quilt as I did in the purple embroidered quilt and Radiant Blues.

The finished quilt measures 94" by 96".

The quilting is a Baptist Fan design, a perfect quiet overall background design. Calico Point was the quilter.

The backing fabric is this beautiful paisley fabric I purchased some where years ago. It's been waiting to be used in a special quilt.

This quilt will be going to granddaughter Lydia, she's a blue girl.

The pattern for Radiant Blues was designed by Marsha McCloskey and is located in the January/February 2007 issue of Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting.

The blocks were purchased from Patty Harants. She won't be able to attend the spring retreat this year but I'll be taking this quilt along to the November retreat to show her the finish.

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Stonefields

The first four blocks in Section 9 of Stonefields have been appliqued. The blocks are called Finale but they're not the last blocks to be appliqued. Like I've said, I'm not the one who has named these blocks.

These sweet little flowers stitched fast. The Stonefield blocks finish at 6" and were designed by Susan Smith.

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Purple Embroidered Quilt

The purple embroidered quilt has been quilted and the binding attached. Calico Point did the machine quilting.

The quilt measures 96.5" square.

The quilting is a Baptist Fan design.

I embroidered these 12 blocks years ago. To make the quilt square four appliqued blocks are the corner blocks.

The sashing design is the same design I used in the Radiant Blues quilt, it just makes blocks pop!

The pattern for Radiant Blue(s) is found in the January/February 2007 issue of Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting.

It would have been nice to hand quilt this quilt but that takes time.

This quilt is the first complete finish of the year.

Here is a prior post about this quilt.

Last week I posted about a pattern for the Wiggly Whimsy quilt. A commenter left a link to the pattern, here it is!

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Quilting Rhapsody in Blue

The bottom row of Rhapsody in Blue is quilted. The first picture is across the whole border.

Here are pictures across the end. The first picture is the left corner, the picture is taken from the side. The picture isn't true to color and there are shadows in the pictures.

The pins on the quilt mark where there is no quilting. I would probably see the not quilted places but they are just a reminder.

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January Retreat at the Essenhaus

I pieced several small quilts while at the new to me retreat which was held at the Essenhaus Inn in Middlebury, Indiana. This motel is very nice, the sewing space was spacious and the complimentary breakfast was delicious!

The first blocks I pieced were the corner and inset triangles for the Garden Party quilt. Those are done and sometime I'll start sewing all the blocks together. I don't have a picture of the blocks I sewed, you'll see them in the quilt.

It was time to sew a 3 yard quilt. I didn't want to buy a book, I'm not going to make that many 3 yard quilts and I'm tired of buying books that don't get used. I googled free 3 yard quilts and several patterns pulled up, I decided on the Awareness pattern designed by Donna Robertson.

This quilt sewed together very fast since I had cut all the pieces at home. This little quilt measures 46" by 52". 

I had bought these fabrics in a kit that was intended for a 3 yard quilt. I hadn't looked closely at the fine print on the label of the package before, it said the yardage was 3 & a quarter yards each. I could have added another row and used more of the fabrics! 

Several years ago I purchased this cute butterfly fabric on the spur of the moment at Calico Point. For a background fabric, I used a gray pinstripe fabric.

I designed my own pattern and came up with a little quilt that I call Butterfly Beauty, she will also be a compassion quilt.

The mottled looking blue fabric on the left corner is actually a lovely purple fabric from the stash. I didn't have a large enough piece of the butterfly fabric to use. This little quilt finishes at 44" by 52" and will be quilted and donated in the spring.

I had prepped blocks to possibly piece two Wiggly Whimsy crib quilts. I started the first one but I didn't think the squares blended well. So I stuck those pieces back into it's bag then pulled the second one and made a good start. It's pieced and hanging in the to be quilted closet, I forgot to take a picture! Here is a link to a crib quilt I pieced several years ago. It's a free pattern somewhere on the Moda Bake Shop site but I can't find it now. * * * * Update * * * A commenter left a link to the pattern. Here it is!  I've also added a direct link to the pattern in my sidebar list of free patterns.

The last project was to strip piece for a teal patchwork quilt.

I sewed strips together but wasn't able to subcut them. That I did at home. I pieced the subcuts into 8" finished blocks. This flimsy now measures 55" by 71".

A backing has been pieced and the binding is also sewn. This will probably be the first quilt to be machine quilted in the spring quilting binge. 

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Snowdrops

The last blocks in section 8 of Stonefields are appliqued and are called Snowdrops. Actually it is titled Snowdrop because there was just supposed to be one block of this design but I appliqued two blocks because I like the design.

And the second block.

I made two snowdrops because the last block designed, called Sunflower, for this section is EPP'd. I don't mind EPP but since the blocks finish at 6", the pieces are really tiny! I did print the pattern off onto card stock paper the weight of regular EPP paper. I might be brave someday and attempt the EPP work but then I may not. 

I've run out of room on the display wall! I'm up to 97 blocks with 24 more blocks to be completed. I'll probably remove all these blocks then put newly completed blocks on the wall.

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Carolina Lily

A new long term foundation paper-piecing project called Carolina Lily has been started. Here is my first block!

It took close to 2 hours to piece this first block but I'm hoping to pick speed as I go along. My goal is to piece at leasts 5 blocks every month, maybe more. These blocks finish at 6" so it may take several years to complete this quilt.

I'm using the foundation paper-piecing pattern by Cindy Edgerton. Her design is for a small wall quilt.

I watch From Small Things on Youtube. In 2024 she displayed her red & white quilts and her green & red quilts (Episode 11). She had purchased this pattern then foundation paper-pieced 100 of these little blocks and made them into a lovely quilt. I thought it was so pretty, I wanted a quilt of my own!

The pattern is a physical pattern and the papers are tissue paper, just like the clothing patterns like we used to sew. I copied the tissue paper on my printer then printed my foundation papers on newspaper weight paper.

I did manage to complete 10 blocks in January, now I need to get started on the blocks for February.

You don't need yardage to make these blocks, the largest piece in the blocks is the bottom green triangle. I'm using fabrics I already have on hand. The light green used in 4 of the blocks is at least 20 years old.

I'll let you know at the end of 2026 how many blocks have been pieced. WARNING: this is NOT the pattern to learn how to foundation paper piece.

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