GrrannyH's projects

I started making the scrappy squares using a free pattern from Bonni K Hunter @http://quiltville.com/. When I put them together, however, the quilt was too busy for my liking, so the squares just sat. One day I decided to raid my stash and see what the squares would look like interspersed with plain squares, and voila! I could use all the squares I had made in various colors and fabric from my stash and have a smallish throw for my MIL, whose favorite color is blue. Again, this was machine quilted on my home sewing machine.

I watched this tutorial and also bought the issue of Block. I learned I had to starch my fabric if I was going to make bias HST blocks and have them all be the same size. I used the Eleanor Burns pillow case quilt method instead of making the traditional sandwich because I wanted to get this done, but I think a brown border with an unbleached muslin binding or at least a brown binding would have made the pinwheels "pop" a bit more. This is the first quilt I machine quilted on my home sewing machine.