Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Scraps and Retreat

I just got home from a 4 day quilt retreat last night. So totally exhausted but I got lots done and I wanted to show you 3 of those today. I took many easy things along to work on and I managed to finish piecing 5(almost 6). I felt pretty accomplished to do 5 even though some are small(baby or table runner). And I managed to have lots of chat time with good friends :-)
This first one is a scrappy strings one from Scrap-palooza. I was going to make it with red blocks, green blocks and blue blocks, but when I got 6 green ones sewn I decided I liked the look of all green for this quilt. It will be a donation quilt when I get it quilted.  Please forgive the creases, I just pulled it out of the suitcase!

I also took along a bunch of light blue charms I cut from my stash to make these 2 baby boy heart quilts for our local neonatal. Last week I showed the finished pink version. 
Linking up with  Freemotion by the River, Oh Scrap, and Let's Bee Social.
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9 comments:

  1. MartiDIYJanuary 27, 2015 at 1:21 PM

    I love the hearts! Last night at guild someone demonstrated a quilt similar to your string quilt and a fast way to put it together. I didn't take a print out of the directions because I thought it was easy enough to remember. But now I can't remember how they did it except to cut charm blocks in half.

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  2. Judy@Quilt ParadigmJanuary 27, 2015 at 5:28 PM

    WOW! You accomplished a LOT! Your tops are fabulous! Love those heart quilt tops, so adorable :) And the all green top looks great! :)

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  3. Cynthia Brunz DesignsJanuary 27, 2015 at 6:16 PM

    A very productive retreat! All those green string blocks look great together and the blue hearts are pretty adorable too. Thanks for sharing with Oh Scrap!

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  4. JasmineJanuary 27, 2015 at 6:41 PM

    Sounds like a great and productive time. My idea of a retreat is a father and sons camp out. Then I can retreat to the seeing room. ;)

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  5. DenaJanuary 28, 2015 at 8:12 AM

    I love quilt retreats! My yearly retreat doesn't come till November. I have a ton of strip scrap wanting to be in a quilt. Yours look great. I hope I can get to them this year.

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  6. Yvonne from Quilting JetgirlJanuary 28, 2015 at 9:08 AM

    Oh, yay for quilting retreats! It sounds like you had a really nice and productive time. I really like the blue hearts. :)

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  7. Connie Kresin CampbellJanuary 28, 2015 at 11:25 PM

    Sounds like you really kept busy at the retreat, neat quilts! I don't know if I could talk and quilt at the same time.....I would have to keep a seam ripper close by!

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  8. ClaireJanuary 29, 2015 at 1:42 PM

    Like you I take simpler things to retreats so I can sew and talk at the same time. going with all green was a good decision--lovely result. claire aka knitnkwilt

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  9. Alycia~QuiltygirlJanuary 29, 2015 at 8:39 PM

    Oh my gosh - it is perfect with all greens!! Love it!

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