Strawberry Lemonade

Come on in quilters, have a seat while I serve you up a big ole glass of refreshing Strawberry Lemonade.  Oh no this isn't the store bought Lemonade, it's homemade...YUMMY!

Freshly squeezed lemons with big ole chunks of macerated strawberries.  Nothing says warmer weather any better than lemonade.   Add a little strawberry liquor and the world is much better place, well in my world anyway.  It's so nice to finally have this quilt finished.  I love everything about it.  The buttery yellow and tickle me pinks feel so springy and girly.  I learned something new while quilting this one.  Normally when quilting I do tons of ruler work which takes forever.  This one has very little ruler work and quilted up super fast.  I think I might have found a new love....NO RULER WORK!

Over the past few months I've been talking to another quilter about our ever growing fabric stash and what will become of it when we're gone.  Well I don't want to leave this world with a ton of stash hoarded away that no one will love as much as I do.  So I've been very carefully watching what I buy.  Most frame quilters would rather have one solid piece of backing fabric.  Sure that's ideal, but why not use up what we have?   Since this is a scrappy quilt, why not  make it 100% scrappy with a scrappy backing.  It didn't take long to find what I needed in  my stash.

The 100% poly batting helps to show off the quilting.  And unlike cotton batting this quilt will keep you warm.  It's a win win in my book.

Once again I used a super tiny quarter inch binding to finish off the quilt.  The binding fabrics were cut from the excess backing needed when quilting on a frame.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed the lemonade!  You can find a quick recipe for this quilt here.

~ Lea Anne ~

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Spring Quilting

Happy Monday quilting friends!  Spring is finally here in Podunk.  The flowers are starting to peek through the mulch and the veggie garden is well under way.  With so much going on outside it's inspired me to dig through my needs to be quilted pile of UFO's.  This pink and yellow Irish Chain quilt that I call Strawberry Lemonade looked like the perfect spring project. 

A quick dig through the stash for a backing left me in a pickle.  The stash of backing fabrics are getting low.  All that's left is dark colors.  What the heck...a scrappy quilt needs a scrappy backing.  Four pieces of pink yardage were sewn together to make the backing.   Now she's loaded and ready to go.

As usual I'm putting feathers in the open areas, whats a quilt without feathers, right?  The plan was to do mostly free motion quilting because it's much quicker than ruler work.  However the center of the feather work is made with a ruler.  The feathers aren't as uniform as I'd like but they are staying put and we'll just say it gives the quilt character. HAHA!  

If you'd like to make a scrappy Irish Chain quilt you can find my quicky tutorial here.  Some quilt making knowledge is required.

~ Lea Anne ~

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Pink Progress

 Last week I decided to take my sewing machine along with me to mamma's.  Between her upset stomach and Doctor appointments I managed to make a few blocks with my scrappy pinks.

After making a few of the blocks above I thought it might be a good idea to make a test block of the alternating block.

The best part was seeing how it was going to look with both blocks together.  I'm Lovin' It!

There's no time for a proper tutorial.  It's such an easy pattern I'm sure most of you don't need a tutorial.  So I'm going to give you the basics.

The pinks are scrappy so there's no way I can give yardage for them. 

3 yards of pale yellow background.

1 yard for the binding

5.5 yards for the backing

The quilt will finish at 72.50 x 84

Below is how many of each you will need to cut.

Linking up with the following blogs.  Click on the links below for quilting inspiration around the world.  Don't forget that most Linky Parties allow you to link from several types of Social Media.   So you don't need a blog to strut your stuff or find new online quilting friends!

Cynthia@Quiltingismorefunthanhousework for Oh Scrap!

Beth@CookingupQuilts for Main Crush Monday

Judy@PatchworkTimes for Design Wall Monday

~ Lea Anne ~

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Podunk Pickins #10

Hellos sweet friends!  I'm running a little late today with Podunk Pickin's.  For some reason I thought today was Saturday.  OOOPS!   My distraction was 

1652 pink 2 x 2 squares.  Scraps!  I'll be linking up today's post at Quilting is more fun than Housework for the week OH SCRAP Linky party.

If I counted correctly there's about 50  different prints.  The plan is to clear out those scrap bins by making a scrap quilt of each color.  Well after cutting all of these I still have enough pink for a couple more quilts.  Not sure I'll be able to keep up with this bright idea.

The pattern is a basic Irish chain quilt.  Here's the layout and my cutting notes.  It took a day and half to cut the pink, the butter background shouldn't take nearly as long.

Now let's get to Podunk Pickin's link up.  

This will be the last week you can enter to win the super sweet Santa Express Bundle below from this months sponsor Bev at 44th Street Fabrics.  

There's been several ways to enter the drawing during the month of October.  If you're new to Podunk Pickin's  you can still enter the previous weeks by clicking on the Podunk Pickin's Logo in my blog side bar. 

This week you can enter by linking up a quilting/sewing tip or tutorial from your blog or other social media sites.  For this week all who link up will get 10 entries in the drawing.  It can be a new or old post that you want to revive, as long as it's new to Podunk Pickin's link up.  Please only one link up a week.

An InLinkz Link-up

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