Using the leftovers

Sometimes, I make more units that I should because I either didn't bother to count, miscounted, chose to cut out enough for an intended project that has yet to be started or decided that I wanted to have some layout choices.  I've attempted this month to finish a few of those up.

Two of those were in my Giving Tuesday post.  I cut out additional squares to make a second plus quilt and then used up all the extra "layout choice" units from my in-laws quilts.  This time around, I used the second set of charm squares from the Animal Party Charm Square Baby quilt that I made.

This is actually the original one that I gifted to a co-worker.  Apparently, I did not take a finished picture of the second version before I sent it up to get donated at the hospital.  Instead of white sashing, I used the remaining solid from the in-laws quilts and bound it in all the extra blue bindings I could find.

Next up in the leftover pile were blocks from the two Birthday Cake quilts that I made using Acacia.  Had I known how much I could have sold the raccoon prints from this line....I probably still would have made these quilts and donated them anyway.  Kind of like how I saw that one Tula print I had over a yard of sold for $14/ fat quarter and I chose to cut into it.

 So, I had maybe 24 leftover units from these two quilts.  I combined them with units from my first attempt at the Bizzy Kid pattern.  The first attempt had just involved way too many dark fabrics and not enough value contrast.  But, the colors did manage to coordinate really well with Acacia.  The solids of the leftovers and the sashing are not a perfect match, but it is close enough and I was happy to turn the leftovers into another baby quilt to send up.

When these two baby quilts (like the one above) were made for co-workers, I stitched the second line before cutting off the extra triangles.  This left me with 118 HST to press and trim.  I combined those with leftover hourglass blocks (probably from this hourglass quilt below ) and backed the quilt with a little more than  a yard of the blue superhero fabric from Ann Kelle.

Here is the new quilt.

It is backed in the blue superhero fabric and bound with Kona Pacific.  I decided to randomly sew the HST together into four patches.  I was a little more deliberate when I put the hourglass blocks in, but I did not over-analyze and just went with where they ended up with little rearranging.  Much better to get it done than paralysis by analysis.

Giving Tuesday

Today is Giving Tuesday.  I wasn't really aware of that until reading somebody else's post.  Figured I should perhaps showcase the quilts that were dropped off at Seattle Children's Hospital that I haven't talked about yet.

 First up is a stacked coins quilt using a variety of fabrics donated to me by Katie's Comforters Guild or my sister.

The second quilt was made from the leftovers of the two Pacific Crest quilts.  I overbought fabrics because of the wide variety of colors in the pictures my mother in law sent for her two quilts.  I made approximately 80 extra units so I could get the layouts and colors balanced the way I wanted to.  Rather than let the extras sit unused, waiting to be assembled, I threw together this quilt.  My normal layout assistant was a little distracted and chose to have identical units by each other.  I went with it rather than argue.  

The backing was made of other extra pieces from the quilt.  The fabric is from Laura Gunn's Edges collection.  

There was a single block Swoon quilt that I did not snap an additional picture of.

I got to choose a block for my guild's charity quilt bee.  I chose the Birch Tree quilt pattern by Amanda Jean Nyberg.  I made a couple blocks, pieced the guild blocks, made the backing and quilted it.  Binding was hand attached by another guild member.  This quilt got dropped off for Children's as well.

And finally, since the spirit of today would be giving, here are two that I finished up this weekend but did not make it in time to travel to my sister's house so she could drop them off before their appointment yesterday.  Hopefully I will get these to the hospital before the end of the year.