It’s Been a Quiet Week

It’s been a quiet week in the quilt cave, but a busy week otherwise.

I have a couple of mug rugs that I need to get done, so that was on my to do list for the week. One is completed; the other is still in its design phase in my head. This one, however, has been sitting in my UFO pile since January. Time to get it done! Technically, it’s not a quilt. It’s a handkerchief — two of them. I have a stash of hankies that belonged to my mother and grandmother. One day it dawned on me that they might make cute mug rugs.

The background was just a plain light green hankie, which I’m sure my grandmother had planned to embroider. The corner is another hankie that I cut up. I thought the two looked nice together. Rather than piecing the corner hankie, I appliqued it onto the green hankie. It got a little puffier than I would have liked, but I’m happy with the outcome. The background fabric is the same print as the binding. It was a little difficult to crosshatch because the material shifted around a little.

One of the last Creativity Challenges was to make a mini quilt. I had been wanting to make something a little more bright and colorful for spring, so I pulled out a kit I purchased at a local quilt shop and modified it a bit to fit on this shelf.

I posted a picture of this last week, but I wanted you to be able to see it finished and in its place. The shelf that it sits on was a built-in planter when we moved in to this house. Down the middle of the shelf was a metal liner for the dirt, etc. Since we were a little concerned about water damage, we decided to redo it. My handy husband and I put our heads together and came up with this. Not only does it have room for a cute mini quilt as you see in the picture above, it is also a built-in quilt rack. The rungs lift out so you can access the quilts easily.

I have finished piecing the top of the superhero quilt; all I have left is to add the borders. I’ll be handing it off to its owner for finishing on Monday.

Four more elephants and the blocks will be ready to be sewn into a quilt top! Pictures soon, I hope!

Happy Friday, everyone! Enjoy your weekend!

Wendy