Happy To Do Tuesday

Yes I am happy on this Tuesday because I met my weekly goal of quilting and binding two quilts. Both of these quilts are lap size. 

Purple is one of my favorite colors, but you might not know it as I don't work with purple much. So this was a treat to make an all purple quilt. These were leftover fabrics from when I was an Island Batik Ambassador the line is Black Pearl.  In January, while in Arizona,  I started piecing it and made all the pieced blocks chain stitching strip sets.  Then sub cutting them and re-arranging them and chain stitching them back together. Oh what beauties, it was such a pleasure to work with purple!  And then it set until this spring when I cut the lavender blocks and finally finished it into a flimsy. The quilting and binding happened this week. 

The pattern is Jasmine by Villa Rosa Designs.  Using up the whole bundle that coordinated was a personal goal, mission accomplished!  I had a 2 yd. piece of the dark and leftover pieced blocks. I employed my hubby for the math portion to figure out how big to cut the lavender and purple to piece in between the blocks.  In the end it all came out perfectly.  This one will be listed in my Etsy shop as soon as I get some really good photos.  

The second quilt is this red and black one. It is a Missouri Star tutorial called Summer Stars.  This was made using a black/gray jelly roll that was purchased several years ago, I planned to use it for a quilted jacket.  Since then I got out of the mood to do the jacket and just wanted to work with it.  So this quilt was born.  The red stars I made using my 8" Accuquilt cube instead of making the stars as shown in the tutorial.  I am not sure but this could be my first red/black quilt.  It was started in early 2021 with the black/gray blocks being made then. February this year I made the stars and the borders went on last month and quilting/binding was finished last week.  

So happy to have it out of the closet, but rest assured there are several more flimsies in the waiting line. 

I had this black wide backing in the stash, so everything used in this quilt was from stash. Love when that happens, don't you.  Gray Glide thread was used on top and a gray Superior SoFine in the bobbin.  This one too will go into my Etsy shop after I get better photos. 

On a non-quilting front we have been enjoying some wild black raspberries, yum!! The first night we just ate the right off the bushes.  The second night we picked and froze this batch.

Last night we picked almost 2 cups of black ones plus a big cup of the domestic red ones. We ate some fresh and froze the rest. 

We are enjoying our Bee Balm red blooms too. 

This week's goal is to just have fun, no pressure. I hope you are able to do the same.  Won't you join us Tuesday To Doers over at Texas Quilt Gal, where we link up our goals each week. 

Did I meet my Goal?

Do you want to know if I met my One Monthly Goal (OMG).  Keep reading to find out.  Patty at Elm Street hosts the OMG each month in hopes of helping us move projects along.  When I remember, I like to post a goal in the beginning of the month and try hard to meet it.   This month was to make a bunch of red stars. 

Here is the start of the stars, I needed 10 of them.  I wanted 8" finished stars so I used my Accuquilt Go 8" cube to make quick work of it.  Before long I had five finished and then added spacer strips between the stars to make them fit the rows of black/gray blocks.  Another day I whipped up the other five stars.  

And then I couldn't stop, the stars got quickly sewn to the black/gray blocks that were already sewn into strips.  There are two rows of the blocks, then a star row followed by four rows of blocks, another star row and two more block rows. A fun quilt to make and I have been wanting to do a red and black quilt. I think this fits that desire quite well.  So yes I met my One Monthly Goal. 

I think I will add a small red border and then a tone on tone black or gray border to finish it off. This is a Missouri Star tutorial called Summer Stars. 

Linking with Elm Street Quilts, Midweek Makers and Wednesday Wait Loss