Author Archives: Cherie

Thrifting

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It was a good day at the Goodwill Clearance Center last week as far as cotton shirts go 🙂  I snagged two black striped shirts and some nice green plaids.

There were three colorful madras plaids in the teal/blue family, a wonderfully bright blue stripe and a big variety of pinks!  And a couple of solid shirts in bright green and pink, nice!

An orange & pink stripe, an orange stripe and a yellow stripe joined the others in my cart….woo hoo!!  And last, three nice blue ones rounded out my haul.  All washed up and ready for de-boning 😉

Happy Quilting, Cherie

Doll Quilt

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A co-worker gave me a soft pink gingham dust ruffle she was getting rid of (yes, people give me shirts and other items for quilting, he he he).  I put the gingham down next to my pile of recent thrifted shirts…..and it looked perfect with a sweet flowered shirt.  That was a sign, right?  So I made a doll quilt…..with a oops that I decided not to fix, gasp!  I quilted it with my walking foot in straight lines and then added some big stitch quilting with perle cotton.  I threw in some French knots, just for fun.

Happy quilting, Cherie

 

RSC July Red

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I’ve continued working on the RSC broken dishes blocks using thrifted shirts.  I have been making two pair of these blocks almost every month since Dec 2014 (wow, 2014 really?!?!) and now have 164 blocks, including the two below for July’s RED color.  I am making a quilt 12 x 13 blocks so I am, sadly, done making these.  I only need 156 blocks, so I have eight extra blocks to edit out….maybe I’ll make two more for a 9 block baby quilt…..mmmmm.  Linking up with RSC…wow, it feels good!

I started a new RSC challenge block…….5×5 blocks from 2 1/2″ squares for the Positively Scrappy quilt by Becky Tillman Peterson found on (Edited to change the link to the main Quilted Twins site, then click the free patterns tabs.  This will avoid the sign me up pop up that won’t go away) this page.  It is shown in scrappy blues but I think it will be fun in RSC colors.  I won’t make it as large (it’s 100″ square!!).  I’m thinking 5 x 6 or 30 blocks will give me a nice throw 🙂

Happy Quilting, Cherie