I’ve finished the top of one more community quilt made with the free Kaufmann fabric. I’m not sure how many quilt tops have been made with the free fabric at this point. I’ll have to count them before I pass them along.

This is the second Miss Rosie book in my library. I made all 13 from the first book. There are 13 in this book also, but three are repeats from the first book so I intend to make the remaining ten.

The first quilt in the book is Due South. It has 212 flying geese and 11 stars. I did have to adjust the size of the flying geese as I used strips from the Kaufmann stash. The original geese were 3″ x 6″. The new geese are 2″ x 4″ which makes a much smaller quilt.

I would have been much quicker to use the Lazy girl flying geese ruler. It makes four geese at a time. Where I used cut- off strips, I used Kimberly EInmo’s flying geese ruler. It makes one goose at a time.

The cut geese with the white sky.

Stack of geese.

The finished top.

After I finished the top, I pulled out all the remaining strips and cut them down to 2″.

I’m not sure what I will do with them, but they are ready when a pattern comes to mind. There may be another one in the Miss Rosie book. The remaining Kaufmann fabric is in a mile a minute bin. It seems good to see the end of this fabric.

I’ve been making a lot of tops and decided to put them all on hangers and get them ready for quilting. I can’t believe how many I found around the room. It will take forever to quilt them all. Only one is basted and ready for quilting. Last Friday, as I was coming out of a restaurant, I had a chance visit with one of my long arm quilters. It’s serendipity. I think that I’m supposed to send some to her. She can quilt the larger quilts and I can quilt the smaller ones. I don’t mind quilting by check.

Have a great day and happy quilting.

The sewing room and I seem to be apart this summer. I just came back from a nice vacation in Maine. While there, I attended the Maine Quilt Show in Augusta. There were so many beautiful quilts and lots of inspiration.

I organized the sewing room again. Just enough to not know where things are. There are thirteen community tops to quilt plus another four larger ones. It’s time for the basting frame to come down from the attic. I pin basted a scrap quilt today. I haven’t decided if I will free motion quilt it or use the even feed foot. The inspiration will hit when it is under the needle.

I’ve finished the top of another quilt made with the Japanese Kauffman fabric. It is made with a dragonfly fabric. There wasn’t enough to make the size that I wanted so I added some floral fabric. It’s called Dragonflies In The Garden.

This is an easy pattern. Stripes were sewn together. Squares were trimmed from the joined stripes. The squares were cut on the diagonal. Four were sewn together in a pinwheel. Then sashing and two borders. It’s a masculine quilt.

I can see at least three more quilts using the Kaufmann fabric. One will be the first quilt in a Miss Rosie book. It has flying geese on the diagonal with some stars here and there. Then I will make mile a minute blocks with the rest of the fabric. They can be used in many ways. It will be great to use another fabric. I’ve made a lot of quilts with the free fabric.

I had been saving my small scraps in flannel pillowcases for dog beds. An article on Facebook stated that this was not a good idea. The dog would chew the pillowcase and swallow the scraps. I’ll have to come up with plan B and figure out what to do with the scraps. The pillowcases can be joined for backings for baby quilts.

The Hexagon Star quilt is coming along slowly. It’s enjoyable to sew the hexies together while watching TV in the evening.

Have a great day and happy quilting.