Dancing Shoos

I made this as a “for fun” project. I saw the picture on the cover of a magazine, realized I had the right fabric in fat quarter assortments, and decided it looked like a fun quilt. I made it slightly bigger than the magazine’s instructions so it would be the suggested size for donation quilts. The guild is currently giving quilts to the homeless shelters and Dixie Fire victims. I hope this one goes to fire victims as it looks cheerful. Turns out that the guild liked the quilt so much, they decided to donate it to Nurses’ Appreciation Day at Mills Peninsula Hospital. I am happy that the quilt was admired and elevated in status, that’s never happened to one of my quilts, ever!

The name of the traditional block is shoo-fly, and the pattern calls the quilt “New Shoos,” so I changed it slightly to “Dancing Shoos.”

• 63 1/2” x 81 1/2" single bed size
• Quilted in parallel, slightly wavy lines at a slight downward angle across width of quilt. Occasionally quilted a slightly wavy line at a slight upward angle that crossed some of the downward lines.  Used bright orange thread “Orange Glow” Omni brand 100% polyester from Superior Threads for the top thread and medium aqua thread “Treasure Isle” Omni brand 100% polyester from Superior Threads for the bobbin thread.  Free form quilting. 8 bobbins. Quilting by Patty.
• Backing: Green and turquoise vine print, wide fabric for quilt backs. Fabric came from a Connecting Threads sale and I have had it in my stash for some time.
• Batting: 80% cotton/20% polyester bleached, Comfort Blend by Winline.
• Binding: Dark turquoise batik print from Connecting Threads, bought as an alternative fabric for Dogs and Sea Otters quilt and not used for that, but looks perfect for the binding of this quilt.
• Pattern: "New Shoos” from Fons and Porter Love of Quilting Mar/Apr 2021. Pattern by Jenny Kae Parks. It’s the Shoo-Fly block made with bold, colorful fabrics and no sashing between the blocks.
• Piecing by Patty
• Pinned into frame September 21, 2021. Quilting on long arm quilter September 21-24, 2021. (Patty). 
• Binding by Patty. 
• QC by Spencer

Picture from the Guild.

Aunt Linda’s Brown Spice Market

Aunt Linda made another quilt like Mother enjoys making. See Aunt Linda’s Mountain Quilt from October 2020 and Mother and Sally’s Quid Pro Quo from March 2020 and the earlier quilts that Mother made. This time Aunt Linda used a brown rather than black accent strip in the blocks, hence “brown” in the quilt’s title.

• 69" x 80" Single bed size
• Quilting: Quilted in slightly wavy, unevenly spaced, mostly parallel but crossed at random points lines. Free form quilting. This is a quilting pattern I recently saw in a magazine and have wanted to try ever since I saw it. The quilting represents scent wafting off the brown spices. That’s my story and I’m sticking too it. Used medium brown 100% polyester thread (Omni from Superior Threads-named "Allspice". Even the name of the thread is appropriate for this quilt.) 7 bobbins. Quilting by Patty. 
• Backing: Pieced back from brown and gold fabric with stripes of various prints, very pretty!
• Batting: 80% cotton/20% polyester “Comfort Blend” from Winline
• Binding: To be done by Aunt Linda.
• Pattern: Inspired by “Spice Market" by Vicky Wozniak from a McCall's advertisement.  
• Piecing by Aunt Linda
• Pinned into frame September 14, 2021. Quilting on long arm quilter September 14-16, 2021. (Patty). 
• Binding by Aunt Linda. 
• QC by Sally

Front of quilt

Back of quilt

Aunt Linda’s Block of the Month

Aunt Linda sent 2 tops for me to quilt. This is the first. Aunt Linda made the top, Cousin Tim, driving his new Miata, delivered it, I quilted it on the longarm, and Mother QC’d it. It takes a village to make a quilt!

• 59” x 72" single bed size
• Quilted in a loop-de-loop meander, medium sized loops. Used medium blue thread “Tidal Pool” Omni brand 100% polyester from Superior Threads for the bobbins and off-white thread “Cream” Omni brand 100% polyester for the top. Free form quilting. 7 bobbins. Quilting by Patty.
• Backing: Blue print cotton. Backing supplied by Aunt Linda
• Batting: 80% cotton/20% polyester. Comfort Blend from Winline.
• Binding: To be supplied by Aunt Linda
• Pattern: A block of the month pattern from Aunt Linda’s quilting guild. To me it looks like a flower.
• Piecing by Aunt Linda
• Pinned into frame August 31, 2021. Quilting on longarm quilter September 3, 2021. (Patty). 
• Binding by Aunt Linda. 
• QC by Charlotte—Mother