On the Go Quilt

I had never paid attention to the on the Go Quilt campaign, until this year when my friend  Tammy tried to talk me into doing a quilt with her. She has been making on the go quilts for years with her mother and her sister. 

My first stop was Pine Needles in Gardiner village.  This block was actually the only block that I could make without appliqué.

I also found this adorable fabric in their store that I knew would make the perfect background.

This block was one of my favorites.  The quilts and long johns are only attached at the top where the clothes pins are.  I had to drive down to Mona to a store ran out of a basement in their home to get this block.

Here are some random blocks I made from Provo Cotton Shop, Christensen in Richfield, and My Girlfriends Quilt Shop in Midway.

The center block here was from a quilt shop in Salem that I have forgotten the name of.

While putting all these blocks together I was also drawing up the quilt on graphing paper, trying to figure out exactly how I wanted it to look.  In this picture you can see the bee flying over a ruler, it was from Lora Lee's Rather Bee Quilting.  The block was still missing all the fun flowers.  The hot air balloon block on the side is from Floyd and Lizzies in West Jordan.

Here is the blocks when they were all put together.

Here is the finished quilt, when I was turning it in to My Girlfriends Quilt Shop in Midway.  I finished this quilt in 5 days!  I did have the help of my friends Tammy, who did the quilting on her long arm machine.  I can't believe, she finished her quilt in 4 days!

Buggy Barn Stars

Master Bedroom

  Am I the only one who makes quilts for everyone except for myself?  It seems that in the last two years I have made multiple quilts but they never seem to be for me.

  I know I don't ever get that much time to quilt and don't do near as much as other quilters out there, but it is still a hobby I enjoy perusing.   I have made 3 bedspreads for my daughters, one for my mother and mother-in-law, 5 for neices and nephews, multiple baby quilts and even one that I donated to a friends cancer cause auction.

  Last summer I decided it was time to make me a new summer and winter quilt and get rid of this bedspread I have had for the past 8 (did I really say that) years.  

I chose the colors, summer: cheerful and bright, winter: warm and cuddly, and patterns, summer: Metro Hoops and winter: A- Maze Me.  That fabric was even all purchased but I ran out of time.  Now, being March national quilting month, I decided it was time to work on this project.  

Here is my todo list for this quilt

☑️ Make HST (360)

☑️ Make pinwheels (90)

☑️ trim pinwheels to 10"

☑️ use QCR to cut pinwheels 

🔘 Sew edging on pinwheels 

🔘 trim pinwheels to 9 1/2"

🔘 create rectangles (418)

🔘 trim rectangles to 2" x 9 1/2"

🔘 create rectangle sets (209)

🔘 Layout quilt

🔘 Stitch together top 

🔘iron

🔘 Baste

🔘Quilt

🔘 Bind

My goal: 

-Tuesday get the squares all cut to 10" and then cut with the Quick Curve Ruler

-Wednesday/Thursday sew the curves onto my 90 blocks

-Friday square up the blocks to 9 1/2"

-next Monday/Tuesday rectangles

-next Wednesday  place the pieces 

-next Thursday Sew the top together

Can I get all this done?  Maybe, well I hope so!  It is national quilting month!

I have just got this time sewn together (it was in the works for 2 1/2 years!

This is Craftsy's free pattern for 2013 BOM.  I used Robert Kaufmann's Spot On fabric.

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Curve it up

Last year at a local fabric store, Cotton Shop, I was asked to make the BOM quilt.  I was already in the process of making a Curve it up quilt by sew kind of wonderful, for my MIL for Christmas, and so they thought we should do this for the BOM.  

I made the quilt over a year ago, minus the edging on the bottom (I was 4" short on fabric to finish) and finally today I finished the border!

The fabric is a combinations for fabrics, chosen by Ricki at the Cotton Shop, by mainly Spectrum by Camelot Design Studio.

After I purchase some batting, I will complete the quilt with this binding and backing.

I'm not really in a hurry because I don't know what to do with the quilt.  Any ideas?

Here is the change in colors I used for my MIL's quilt

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