Top Is Done

Texas Tumbleweeds top is done!  I love how this turned out.  All the fabric was stash fabric except for the blue ladder blocks.  I really wonder how they would have looked scrappy. 

I didn't have enough of the blue for the small inside border so I used purple.  The outside border is a Hoffman floral from the 1990's.  Love how this all came together and how I used up some stash!  I really need to come up with a plan for backings. (One that I really will execute.)

Texas Tumbleweeds

The center of Texas Tumbleweeds is completed!  I always enjoy seeing how scrap quilts come together with all the mix of old and new fabrics.  The blue used is a new fabric and all the spinning star blocks were made from 2.5 inch strips I have in my Scrap User's System.  (As were most of the white on white and white on beige fabrics.)

So I shopped my stash for the 2 borders needed on this quilt.  I'm excited to see how it will look altogether!  Stop back soon, I hope to get the top done this week.  

First Row

The first row of Texas Tumbleweeds is complete!

The next rows are coming right along.  I have some fabric from the stash picked out to see how it will look as the 2 borders.  There is a very narrow border and a bigger border to bring it to twin bed size.  I'll show you what I picked out once the center is completed.

Little Parts

Little parts are becoming bigger parts!  I love scrap quilts!

Spinning star 

All the ladder blocks are done!  So am I half way done with the blocks?  Hard to say, since the spinning star blocks have so many pieces.

Ladder blocks

Texas Tumbleweeds

I'm still plugging along with my Texas Tumbleweeds blocks.  Here are some units I have done for the spinning star part of the blocks.

So many little parts, but I love how they look.  I am using these as Leaders and Enders as it comes from Bonnie Hunter's book, "More Adventures In Leaders And Enders".  But sometimes I just send a batch through the machine.  I have to press them open, so I try not to do that very often.  I like pressing just a couple at a time.

I also wanted to share with you that I still don't get notified of comments.  I thought I had a fix, but it didn't help.  So I will answer you back on the blog for now.  Thanks for your patience with all this.

Plugging Along

Plugging along has it's benefits, I now have a new quilt top.  Bubbles is done!

All seams are sewn.

I'm so excited about the way this one turned out, I want to make another.  Only this time I want to set it different and use all different fabrics for a really scrappy look. (Plus to use up some of the shorter scraps.)

Now to go shop the stash and see what I can find for a backing....

I Have A Question.

I have a question for you.  What do you do with your pattern after you finish a project?  Do you keep it?  Toss it?  Give it away?  Hold on to it, in case you want to make it again?  I know I won't make it again, so why do I hold onto the pattern?  

I've been going through some of my magazines and free patterns I have printed off.  Some I have tossed as I know the desire to make a quilt or project like that has dissipated.  But others, I haven't.  I've also noticed a trend with some of the patterns.  Some start to look alike.  I'm taking that as a sign to make a quilt similar to that.  

Some free patterns or patterns found in a magazine I take to my stash and pull fabrics to get that quilt started.  Such was the case with this pattern I found while going through some old magazines.  Here is the pattern, "Harley & Howie's Gang" by Tony Jacobson. And the fabric. It was in a Fons & Porter's Easy Quilts magazine from Spring 2014.  I just need the background fabric.  Will check further into my stash and see if I have something that will work.  Otherwise, next shop hop I know what to buy.

The Pattern

The Fabric