Link A Finish Friday #75

Today is starting with Quilt #1 from the stash by my wife Tanya.  She is trying to get rid of some of the back log of flannel we bought on sell before Christmas last year and over the last week and half I have been cutting and she has been sewing.  I know that so far there is at least 5 quilts made from them.  On yesterdays post she asked you to guess how many quilts total do you think she will make out of my cut pile of flannel check out yesterday's post to make a guess.

It is now time for Link A Finish Friday.  Today I would like to start with a big thank you to Fat Quarter Shop who has offered to Sponsor our Link A Finish Friday with Prizes.  This month's winner (July) will win a $15 gift certificate to spend at Fat Quarter Shop. 

Please remember to thank our sponsor by visiting their store at http://www.fatquartershop.com/ their blog http://www.fatquartershop.blogspot.com/ and Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/FatQuarterShop

Double Pinwheel for Pam - Design Originals by KC

Epic Swoon Fail - Re Engineered

I made another thing - Life is a Stitch

Did you miss me? - The Amateur Quilter

A cat among the ermines? (I think I lost the name of this post in the translation)  - Bambisyr Med Sin Quiltgladje! (I love the Web it is so fun to see what is going on around the world and Google translate is my friend, while most of the time any way)

Quilt 1 - Pretty Lady Baby

Really Random Quilt #2 - Katie Mae Quilts

 Linky Code can be found on the right side bar

1) Who likes rules. Toss them out.

2) Add a link to your finish blog or where ever you show off your finishes (Not limited to quilts but I like them the most).
3) Visit a few of the finishes and comment or encourage them on.
4) Monthly random winner picked from all of the months linkups to $15 gift card from Fat Quarter Shop.

Not required but fun to do

1) Follow my blog.
2) Follow the blog of all those that link.
3) Link back to my blog.
4) No finish, go quilt and stop reading the web.

Rag Quilt #1 From Stash

This is the first of many rag quilts being made in attempt to use our huge stash of flannel.  We will try not to torture you too much, by just showing one a week.  

 This one is blue flannel, blue train flannel, and white with yellow and blue dots.  

 Here is a closeup.

The first few will look pretty basic, towards the end they might get quite interesting as stash gets smaller and smaller and more fabrics combined.  Anyone care to guess how many they think we might get without adding anything to stash.  

Little cut corners and other things.

Over the last few weeks Tanya has had me working on all kinds of odd's and ends preparing for quilts and patterns that we plan to make over the next few months.  Above is scraps cut off of some of those blocks any one care for a guess?

Maybe these strips will give you some clue as to what I have been up too?  Hum, maybe that is not a big enough hint?  Maybe not how about this?

Hum that is looking some what familiar, but what the heck is it.?

Yes, we are making Granny Squares again. (Granny Squared, Granny Gone Wild)  As you can see from the stack above were just starting and not nearly done with them.  I have them in different  stages from ready to just stacks of blocks.

We have a variety of colors also not just sticking to one color.  You ask what in the world are we making?  Yes you guessed it, baby sized quilts.  We have more then 30+ blocks in various stages.  No they are not all for 1 quilt.  The plan is to make quilts with 1 of each color in either 3 rows by 3 rows or 3 rows by 4 row sizes.

But can I do any thing simple?  Heck no to add to the mess going on we are also making 25 block squares of the various colors. (Mom's Quilt, Orange and Gray Baby)  Above are some pink and below some purple.  These are just the first of yet another pile of 30+ blocks.  Again the plan is to make baby quilts of either 3 rows by 3 rows or 3 rows by 4 rows.  We will make some quilts with just 2-3 colors and others with 1 bock of each color.

Just so you realize we do other things then 2 1/2 inc blocks (oh that is the size of all the above little blocks) Tanya had me cut up all of the flannel that we have stored up, so we can make all the rag quilts and get rid of the flannel.  We have decided we much prefer the pieced quilts over the rag quilts, but we need to use up the fabric.

This picture shows about 1/8th the pile I have cut.  We have enough for 10-20 rag quilts and will be spitting them out over the months to come.  To end on a fun note this is what we did on the night of the 4th, a simple little fireworks show in the front yard.

Purple and Green Windows Quilt

 This quilt is echo quilted so, there is a fun grid pattern that has really great texture with the striped fabric.  The  back is off white and shows the quilting.

 We used the green vertical striped fabric for the binding.

This is one of my favorite quilts so far.  This quilt was added to our Etsy shop.  A little boy version is in the process now with owls. I ran out of fabric for the larger four patches.  

We were happy to find out about a brand new quilt shop less than 2 miles from our house called ...and sew on.  It is smaller, but very reasonable priced. The next closes to us is 6 or more miles away.  

Link A Finish Friday #74

Winner for Last month is LAFF #71 and  linkup #30 Lynn at http://monkeyneedle.wordpress.com/

It is now time for Link A Finish Friday.  Today I would like to start with a big thank you to Fat Quarter Shop who has offered to Sponsor our Link A Finish Friday with Prizes.  This month's winner (July) will win a $15 gift certificate to spend at Fat Quarter Shop. 

Please remember to thank our sponsor by visiting their store at http://www.fatquartershop.com/ their blog http://www.fatquartershop.blogspot.com/ and Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/FatQuarterShop

Sew Many Yarns

Architecture Top - Knit N Kwilt

"+" and Wonky Squares - Life on Fluke Ln

Terry Aske Art Quilt Studio

Bunchberry Studio

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1) Who likes rules. Toss them out.

2) Add a link to your finish blog or where ever you show off your finishes (Not limited to quilts but I like them the most).
3) Visit a few of the finishes and comment or encourage them on.
4) Monthly random winner picked from all of the months linkups to $15 gift card from Fat Quarter Shop.

Not required but fun to do

1) Follow my blog.
2) Follow the blog of all those that link.
3) Link back to my blog.
4) No finish, go quilt and stop reading the web.