A finish for us all . . . .

It's time for the Sunflower Sisters "Autumn in my Garden" parade! As a refresher, Nicole/Sisters Choice, Lisa/Stashmaster and I saw the completed quilt last year at the Buggy Barn Quilt Show.  We all agreed we each needed to make this quilt and if that wasn't fun enough,  we decided we also needed to swap fabric to get a really scrappy quilt.

And here is mine.  This was a really fun project for me.  I made the centers like you would piece a bargello quilt, creating strip sets and then pressing the seams in opposite directions when I sewed the rows so all the blocks would nest and fit together perfectly.  I didn't use any pins when I was sewing those rows together. 

Once the centers were done it was time to make over 300 red and yellow hsts, my favorite block and I used my favorite method,  the Easy Angle. I always make mine bigger and square them up.  All the pieces went together perfectly.

This is Lifetime Quilt Number 116

The pattern is Autumn in my Garden by Buggy Barn Quilts

It finished at 68" x 84"

It has approximately 2,479 pieces.

One of my favorite things about this quilt is the reindeer fabric that Lisa included in her swap fabric.  I have reindeers prancing all across this quilt and it makes me smile every time I see them.  It's like life today, here we are enjoying fall but Christmas is starting to show up here and there, a reminder that it's just around the corner.

My Sunflower Sisters, Nicole and Lisa, are blogging about their finishes today too, be sure to check out their tops, each one is just a little bit different from mine.

Lisa and Nicole, it was nothing but fun sewing along with you, let's do it again!!

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Smooth sailing

Here's my progress on Autumn in my Garden.

                    This is one fun project, everything is coming together easily and perfectly.

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Sunny Flowers

My sunflower centers now have petals!

The pattern is Autumn in my Garden by the gals at the Buggy Barn.

Have a great weekend!

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Wordless Wednesday . . .

or not. 

It took me two days to piece and trim my 320 half square triangle units for Autumn in my Garden.  Next up, turning these squares into sunflower petals.

Odds and Ends I've been meaning to pass along;

1.  The Buggy Barn has announced that due to popular demand, and since the book with the pattern Autumn in my Garden is out of print, they are now selling just the pattern.  It's available here.  All the easier for you to make that quilt too!

2.  Hilda, at Every Stitch, finished her Carolina Lily quilt the end of August, it's one of the most amazing quilts I've ever seen online.  If you happened to miss the post where Hilda blogged about the completed quilt click here, you won't want to miss it.  Even if you didn't miss it the first time, go look at it again, I've been back several times and am amazed every time.

This giveaway is now closed! 

3.  And finally, a few weeks ago I was the lucky winner of 65 ten inch squares of Tula Pink fabric from Moda Lissa.  She's cleaned out her stash and has been giving away fabric almost every day for the last two weeks.  

Since winning the fabric made my day, I thought I would share that feeling with someone else.  So I looked through my stash and decided I could part with this, Collection for a Cause, Historical Blenders by Howard Marcus for Moda.  It's still in its protective wrap.

I'm running this giveaway the same way Lissa is running hers, leave a comment today, the winner will be announced tomorrow.  I always get a kick out of reading the comments when I ask a question that allows me to get to know you better, here's this giveaway's question, "What is/was your favorite thing about your mom?"  If the USPS will deliver to your address you're eligible to win.  Please leave a way for me to contact you should you win.

This giveaway is now closed! 

That's if for Wordless Wednesday, thanks for stopping by!

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Fall Catchup

We're just two days into Fall and I'm already behind.

Last year, Nicole/Sisters Choice, Lisa/Stashmaster, and I attended the fun week of quilt activities at the Buggy Barn.  The last day was a huge outdoor quilt show and this quilt caught our eye.

This is Autumn in my Garden from the Buggy Barn book A Little Bit Crazy.

While on the trip we decided to have a little sew along and make this quilt.  To make things even more fun we swapped fabric, to make a super scrappy version of this quilt.

Here are our reds.

Here are our yellows.  Yellows are hard, my stack had more of an orange tint to them, Nicole's were more gold, Lisa probably did the best job with swapping actual yellows.

And here are all the brown strips I needed to make those flower centers.

And I have made them.  Someone threw in some light browns in their stack and I love the little bit of sparkle they add to those blocks.  I would have stuck with dark browns and blacks, I'm so glad Lisa or Nicole thought to include those strips.

And here are my blocks looking a little more like sunflowers.  What a difference those yellow corners make  to those blocks!

Next up, 320 half squares triangles.  

Since I couldn't stop playing with my last project, Lisa and Nicole got a jump on me and are well into their projects, stop by their blogs to check out their tops.

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