Part 1 (first ten quilts), Part 2 (11-20), Part 3 (21-30)
Blanket #31! October, 2024
I saw a tiktok that showed how to quickly and easily make quarter-square triangles, so I figured I’d try it out. It was easier, but I still hate triangles. I’ve given myself permission to make some smaller quilts and get these babies done! So no pattern on this one. I made enough to make a baby/crib size quilt. I just happened to have this backing piece that worked perfectly with the colors I chose for the squares. Finished size 37″ x 28″.
Blanket #32! October, 2024
While I was cleaning out my basement, I found a box. A box that apparently had more fabric. Some of the fabric was fleece. So I went to the Project Linus website where they had some suggestions for finishing fleece into blankets. I went with this 1″ fringe.
Finished size: 48″ x 64″
Blanket #33! October, 2024
I saw the pattern (Acadia by Modern Quilt Studio) for this quilt and immediately thought it looked like comic book pages. I happened to have some Marvel fabric, so I had to make this. I love how it turned out! I was also able to use some fabric I received from my local Project Linus chapter for the backing!
Finished size: 54″ x 44″
And in the midst of making these, I received a message on Facebook. A mom reached out to me. Her 3 year old son had recently been in a local hospital and had received a Project Linus blanket. Now that they were home (and he is doing well) she looked into Project Linus. I’m guessing she found our local chapter’s Facebook group, and saw her son’s blanket posted there, where I had said “I made those!”. She wanted to say thank you. Now normally I love seeing thank you notes for Project Linus blankets, but when it’s for a blanket I actually made… I think my heart may have exploded a little.
Blankets 34, 35, 36! November 4, 2024
Along with the fleece for blanket 32, I found this yellow fleece and this purple/blue/yellow floral fleece. So blanket 34, the yellow with fire trucks. I finished this with just a folded over mitered “binding”. Finished size roughly 40″ x 50″. I had enough of the floral fleece to cut in two and make two blankets. Blanket 35 I finished with a fringe. I won’t do that again, it takes forever and it’s very fiddly to make sure the fringe is long enough, but doesn’t cut the seam. Finished size roughly 55″ x 60″. And the second floral I finished with a folded over mitered binding. Finished size the same, 55″ x 60″.
Blanket #37 – November 18, 2024
This one didn’t require any piecing. The fabric is a big panel of dog squares! Donated to me by a family member, with this adorable coordinating backing. I had the perfect orange for a binding. This one went together quickly since I didn’t have to piece it, and it’s much smaller.
Finished size 42″ x 38″
Blanket #38 – November 21, 2024
This one is HUGE. While cleaning and organizing my basement, I found another box of fabric. I’m pretty sure this was given to me years ago. It was mostly flannels, but I found this pieced top from the same family member who has donated other fabrics to my stash. In OTHER fabric from this family member, was a piece of fabric that was JUST the right size to back this big boy. I went with simple horizontal lines since I knew it would be tough to wrangle in my machine.
Finished size: 75″ x 60″
Blanket #39 – November 22, 2024
Again, while organizing, I found some old stuff, including stacks of these squares. I had started this quilt many many years ago. Several years ago, I stole some of the squares to make my daughter a bag. Luckily, I think I had originally planned for a queen size quilt, so I still had plenty left over to create this throw-sized quilt. Some of the squares had already been sewn into pairs, so I had to re-figure out how I had planned to put them together and hope I had enough to continue it. I did! The back however, I didn’t have enough of anything coordinating, so I stole a technique from blanket 28, which was to piece together big cuts. Blanket 38 has a binding made from leftovers from this blanket, and this blanket’s binding is leftovers from 38’s backing.
Finished size: 61″ x 55″
Blanket #40 – November 29, 2024
I really like patterns from Cluck Cluck Sew, and while reviewing the instagram account, I saw that she had a tutorial for this quilt. Not really a pattern, exactly, but a technique (which also had measurements and calculations for various sizes, so pretty much a pattern, but without exact fabric requirements). I loved the look of it, so I tried it out. It’s a tiny bit tedious in that you can’t just cut all the pieces in one go, but other than that, it’s pretty quick and fun to put together. If I do another one, I’ll do more offset squares, I think those make it look more modern. Also my “background” fabric I think turned out to not be 100% cotton (based on how it reacted to ironing), which was a bit concerning, but it turned out fine, even after a wash in hot water and full dryer. Backing fabric is from the bolt given to me by Project Linus!
Finished size: 41″ x 55″
Kathy Eager Creative 