Three Little Pink Quilts

This week my focus in the studio was to finish some of the pink quilt tops that I’ve been sewing up from scraps this month. Pink is April’s color for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge, and I like to make as many pink quilts as possible whenever this color comes up so that I don’t have to mix it in with the other ROYGBIV (standard rainbow) colors. 

But first I did sew some cute little 4” bow tie blocks using some of my 2.5” squares. 

Then in one afternoon I went on a basting frenzy and sandwiched up three little quilts to be quilted. There was only one day this week where the weather allowed us to work outdoors due to rain, so it was no problem to quilt, bind and label them for our QFK workshop today.

This first one was made from various leftover width-of-fabric strips that I had  collected over the last couple years and kitted up for a pink sewing month. It measures 37xx44”.

The backing was this awesome 100%. Cotton sheet (well, half of it). I love plaids!!

Next up was another WOF strip-and-chunk quilt of fabrics gathered and kitted last year.

I was so excited at how well this recent online fabric purchase for the backing matched the quilt front. The quilt finished at 39.5x46”.

The third quilt used a lot of crumbs, leftover half-square triangles and pink fabric squares. 

It finished at 40x48”.

I still have another pink-and-color-friends quilt to quilt, and one pile of scraps and selvage half hexies to assemble into a quilt. That will be a fun project for Sunday.

In between the above quilts and blocks, I devoted some sewing time to my new Zipper Quilt. There were only four blocks left to sew, then it was quick work to assemble the 54x63” top. 

I prepped the backing - a lovely floral on navy background fabric thatI purchased at Missouri Star Quilt Company last summer. Now it’s all on a hanger, waiting to be quilted next month. 

We interrupt this blog post to bring you a word from our sponsor, Alfalfa. He’s here to remind you that if you do not have a furry quilting supervisor, then you are not doing it right!

That is all. Carry on.

And as you can see in the picture behind Alfie, he insisted that I make some progress on my Hearts for Ukraine quilt (he’s a slave driver I tell you!). I found an old blue and yellow floral jelly roll that I’m going to use to finish up the top. 

So I added a stop border and am in the process of sewing and adding the checked border. It’s just slapped up on the board for now, not sewn.

The final border will be a piano key border on the top and bottom in these fabrics to make it rectangular. It should finish about 54x66”. Unless Alfie or I change our minds. 

If you’re interested, I did a post mid-week that shows all the recent renovations we did in March. You can visit by clicking the “older post” link below or visiting here. 

This week Bruce and I finally bought a new bed. It will be delivered in mid-May. That gives us time to shop for sheets and rugs. I also bought plane tickets for my son Ryan I to fly up to Seattle next month to visit and help out my daughter Megan, who is having (female) surgery. More about that trip later. Between all that and the recent remodeling, I feel as though our money has grown wings. But I am grateful we have it to spend. With the state of things in the world, I know we are very blessed. Life is good.