Schnibbles pattern, Harvey

I made this quilt back in October, 2004.

I joined "A Year of Schnibbles and a little bit more", and this was one of the patterns that we were given.

You can read what I wrote about it here, I'll wait for you....

You're back, it's much prettier quilted, isn't it?

I didn't end up putting it on the bed, I gifted it to my son and his family.

My friend Cindy Paulson did a magnificent job on the quilting, as she usually does!

I think the quilt is very feminine with its different shades of pink,  and beautiful floral quilting.

I used a lot of text fabric for the background.

I really love the backing, it's pink with bright colored leaves on the trees and little strawberries.

I gave the quilt to my son Addison and his beautiful wife Mabulane (mah-boo-lah-nee), who is from Lesotho, Africa.

She is Addison's eternal souvernir from his two year LDS mission to Johannesburg, South Africa.

They have 3 sweet little girls, Neo (nay-o), Kylie and Isabel.

I love giving quilts to my family, but making six for Christmas is too much work!!! LOL

AYOS and a little bit more - February

I loved February's parttern, it was Fig Tree's Mini Jumping Jacks.

I chose Pam Kitty fabrics because they're bright and happy.

The orange fabric with the flowers by the blue dot is Flower Sugar.

I used a text fabric for the sashing just because I love text fabric!

I love this color combo, it's the traditional Union Jack colors.

I'm Canadian and this used to be our flag until 1967 when Canada was 100 years old.

I used to draw this flag all the time in Elementary school and it was really hard to get the right dimensions because the lines are different widths.

This block should have had a yellow dot, so I'll be turning this one into a real little mini mini :)

Here are my little blocks :)

Each one measures 8 l/2" X 9 l/4".

I used an older Flower Sugar pattern for the back, and a black and white houndstooth to match the text sashing.

I machine quilted in the ditch, around the sashing and each jumping jack block.

The finished quilt is 21 l/2" X 29 l/2".

I really love it!

You can see the parade of other quilts like mine at A Quilting Life and Pink Pincushion.

Whit, finished!

I made this little table topper in September, I wrote about it here.

I machine quilted it myself, with stitch in the ditch, echo straight stitch, and a wavy stitch on the border.

I love all the little flying geese, and didn't want to quilt over them.

I made this for my daughter, and she loves blue.

I really enjoyed sewing this mini, and would recommend the pattern.

AYOS and a little bit more - November

This is our quilt pattern for the month of November.

Stems, by Fig Tree & Co.

It's only 19 l/2" X 25 1/4".

When I first began quilting, Snippets by American Jane was very popular.

I loved it because of the colors and it had a definite vintage theme.

I used one of my Snippets charm packs for this mini quilt.

I love the look and I did a some outline machine quilting.

I'm not so sure about the uneven "x's" in the middle, but I still love it.

The pink I used on the back is my favorite color and print in the entire line!

AYOS and a little bit more - October

This is the Schnibbles pattern that was chosen for October in the group "Another year of Snibbles and a little bit more".

I'm really enjoying the group, but I was a little hesitant about making this quilt.

I didn't think it looked very nice.

I could not figure out what color to use for the background.

I was looking around my sewing room and my eyes landed on this bolt of green fabric that my daughter and I found at a garage sale.

It still had the cellophane on it, so we bought it and split it in half.

I think this fabric is perfect for the background because it's bright and happy and textured, and goes well with pink :)

I went through my stash of charm packs and 5" squares and found low volume colors.

It took a lot of time to cut the fabric, sew all the half square triangles and then crop them all.

I stayed up until 1:00 a.m., three nights in a row.

I'm so pleased with the colors!

I took the quilt outside this morning and took some photos.

I live in northern California, so the weather is in the mid 70's and most of the leaves are still on the trees.

You can see some red and yellow ones on the ground :)

I'm really thrilled with this quilt, it measures 72" square.

Often I make a quilt, unsure of what I'm going to do with it.

When my son moves out at Christmas, I'll put this quilt on his full size bed.

Thanks for sharing my quilt journey with me :)

AYOS and a little bit more, winner!

I joined "Another Year of Schnibbles" and a little bit more, this year :)

I worked really hard to get my "Whit" pattern finished before the end of the month, you can see it on my blog post here.

You can see half of the parade of the small quilt parade on Sherri's blog, A Quilting Life, where my quilt top is featured.   

The other half of the parade is on Sinta's blog, Pink Pincushion.

Four winners were chosen, two from each of the quilt parades.

Mine was chosen as a winner!!!!

This lovely box came in the mail and it was really heavy!

Carrie, from Miss Rosie's Quilt Co, sent me a fat eighth bundle of "Miss Kate", and a beautiful handwritten note :)

That's not all....

It was literally like Christmas!!!

A cute little mini charm pack of "Pot Luck", and the cutest little "Hello Kitty" Hallowe'en tin of sour orange bone candies.

Isn't the tin adorable?  

I can hardly wait to fill it with pins or something :)

A Clover seam ripper and a Clover curved awl!!!

A fantastic little package of glass pins and a little house tin to hold them.

Aren't these the dearest little things?

I'm beyond excited!

Hold on to your chair....

Carrie also sent me some mint green "Miss Kate" fabric, enough for a quilt back, about 7 yards worth!!!

I'm in heaven :)

I shared it with my husband and he very patiently admired everything.

I wanted to share it with you because I know that you will be as thrilled as I am!

You should think about joining the Schnibbles parade.

"Harvey" is the pattern for the month of October.

AYOS and a Little Bit More, September

I am so excited to be joining in on the fun of Another Year of Schnibbles and a Little Bit More!

I have always wanted to make a Schnibbles pattern, so I thought this would be my chance :)

The pattern for September is called "Whit" from the "Little Bites" line from Miss Rosie's Quilt Co.

"Little Bites" are packs of 2 l/2" squares from a line of fabric.

I used a charm pack (5" squares) from Moda called 1974 (the year I graduated from high school) Ha ha!!! by Urban Chicks.

There are three patterns, Whit No. 1, 2 and 3.

The reason I chose Whit No. 3, (Flying Dutchman) is because I had a busy month and the pattern only called for 128 2 l/2" squares as compared to 140 or 160, not including the background squares!!!

Below are 128 squares of background fabric...

Here are all of my 128 background squares cut in a neat little pile.

I neglected to take a photo of my charm square pack, but here is a sampling of what the color scheme is, without the yellows.

Here is my Whit pattern with a portion of my assembled, non trimmed flying geese.

Yay, a finished itsy bitsy 4 l/2" Flying Dutchman square.

Progress, all of my blocks are finished :)

This is everything layed out, ready to sew, and I need to make a larger design board!

I finished sewing all the blocks, posts and sashing, I just need to add the border.

This is a new color scheme for me, usually I sew with bright colors.

This color selection is more muted.

I added the border, but something is missing.  

I think it looks a little dull, and the quilt only measures 22" square.

I'm making this as a table topper for my daughter Rebecca's dining room table which is right next to her living room.

The dining room table sits on top of a jute rug, so that's why I chose Kona "stone" as the background.

The colors in the quilt are matched to the rug in my Rebecca's living room.

 I looked through my fabric stash and found this Michael Miller houndstooth which I think looks great on the quilt!

It adds some brightness or life, to the Kona "stone" which is a little dull.

The quilt or table topper, now measures 28" square.

It will look great on my daughter's dining room table which measures 53" square.  

I know the fabric I chose for the binding will also liven up the colors.

I don't have much in the lines of plum or teal, or berry.....

These are the fat quarters I pulled from my stash which are even remotely similar, but they don't work.

The colors don't blend.

I remembered my little collection of Denyse Schmidt fat quarters.

Yes!!!

Denyse's colors are a little muted, and I love the medallion fat quarter with its greens and blues.

I would have loved a berry or plum but I'm still happy with this choice.

Rebecca has lots of blues in her living area, so this fabric will be great for the binding :)

Here's a hint of what the quilt will look like bound, but the quilting and binding will have to be shared in another post.

So many projects, so little time!  Ha ha!

Here's a photo of Rebecca's new living room rug.

I pulled the colors from it, along with the color from the blue couch and accessories.

If you would like to follow the parade of finished "Whit" quilts tomorrow, October 1st, go to Sherri's blog, A Quilting Life, or Sinta's blog, Pink Pincushion.

Thanks for reading my blog :)