Certainly Stars!

Since my "Bonus Bears" is on the longarm now, I decided to start a new project. This time I thought I'd better draw it up in EQ BEFORE I started sewing, to help me keep track of where I wanted to go. So, I got my pattern all designed and plan to start making it tomorrow!

Certainly Stars!

56" x 66"

Do it totally scrappy, or control your colorway... either way, these look gorgeous! I think it would look great with a black or colored background, too!



I was right! Here's my completed Certainly Stars with black background, and I really like it!

Bonus Bears

Bonus Bears

I decided to use up about 480 bonus 1-3/4" HSTs in brown and cream to make a new quilt. And yes, it does require a lot of additional background and border fabric to DO, but if you were doing a quilt WITHOUT those bonus HSTs it would take even more, not to mention all that wasted fabric! *grin* It's going to make a great Christmas gift to a guy in my family! (Always thinking ahead on that sort of thing!) Anyway, I'm really happy with the results.

Happy Quilting!
Jean MaDan

Jean's Choice

A couple of weeks ago I posted my new Tumbling Blocks quilt. When I made that, I ended up with over 1000 bonus HSTs. I was able to incorporate ALL of the BLUE ones in this quilt. I was calling this block "Sister's Choice", but I guess I was doing a variation... so we'll just call it "Jean's Choice" instead. LOL!

JEAN'S CHOICE

Scrappy Sensation

Scrappy Sensation 

Finished size 68" x 80"



Churn Dash Chains Free Tutorial

Several people have asked for details about the Churn Dash Chains quilt, and since it's fairly simple, I thought I'd share it here.
First, gather all your 1-3/4" bonus HSTs you've been saving! One side should be WOW or a consistant background color you like. The rest of the colors should be as varied as possible if you're going scrappy.

Next, cut 1-3/4" square of the background.

Now you need to make your divider strips. Cut from background and a scrappy print, rectangles measuring 1-3/4" x 1-1/8", and sew together as shown: (make 4)

Now put  your little parts together to make a churn dash block:

Your unfinished churn dash size should measure about 4-1/4" (finished size 3-3/4")

Your nine patch blocks will consist of 5 churn dash, and 4 background squares. You will make 7 of those. They should measure 11-3/4" unfinished size.

Your border blocks will consist of 3 churn dash, 1 background square, and one background rectangle that is cut at 4-1/4" x 11-3/4" You will make 10 of those.

Cut 18 background squares measuring 11-3/4" x 11-3/4", and assemble as shown below:

Happy Quilting!
Jean MaDan

Woven Fat Quarter Strips

Woven Fat Quarter Strips

I recently saw a GORGEOUS quilt on one of the groups, done with woven strips of 30s type fabrics. I don't really carry those fabrics in my stash, so I decided to see if it could be done using a wide variety of Fat Quarters from my stash. And MOST of the colors COULD! So I worked out a pattern to do it that way, and got started.

(My pattern gives instructions for 3 different size quilts.)

This is the one Wanda made using my pattern! Very nice!!

Happy Quilting!
Jean MaDan

Modified Tumbling Blocks scrappy

I love 3-dimensional type quilts, but have never liked doing set-in seams. The newest finish for me is my modified tumbling blocks, done scrappy style.

Happy Quilting!
Jean MaDan