alphabet blocks, quilt completed

 

Alphabet Blocks
93 by 70 inches
2021

Quilted by Sue Divarco.

Made loosely using the Moda Spell it with Fabric directions found here:
https://www.fatquartershop.com/moda-spell-it-with-fabric-quilt-free-pdf-pattern

My setting direction are here:
https://kleinmeisjequilts.blogspot.com/2021/07/30s-repro-alphabet-top-completed.html

I didn't have to cut any squares for the corner blocks, the sashings, or for the border. All were in my 30s reproduction bins of 2 1/2, 2, and 1 1/2 inch squares.
It was one of two alphabet quilts I started this year on New Years Day. It is the fourth alphabet quilt I have made. I am pretty sure more are in my future.

Setting is my design. Use at your pleasure.

62 to 63, a calendar quilt in the time of Covid, quilt completed

62 to 63, a calendar quilt in the time of Covid
88 by 76 inches
2020-2021

Quilted by Sue Divarco.

I started this quilt on my 62nd birthday and finished the piecing for my 63rd. There is a pieced block for each day of that year (366, including both birthdays) and a plain spacer block between each Saturday and Sunday.
The squares were chosen to commemorate a person or event or a feeling of each day. Or, just because I liked the fabric! Many scraps of my mother in here, a few from my grandmothers, and some from my small-group round robin 2 1/2 inch square exchange during the year we were not able to meet.
I did not work on it every day, but made sure I was caught up each weekend.

You can read about my construction here:
https://kleinmeisjequilts.blogspot.com/2020/08/calendar-quilt-year-in-life-62-to-63.html
and about the final setting here:
https://kleinmeisjequilts.blogspot.com/2021/07/62-to-63-calendar-quilt-in-time-of.html

My design. Use at your pleasure.

maple leaf, made about 2000

Maple leaf
Made about 2000

It has no label and I cannot find any date written on the back.
I blogged about this in 2006, but it was made several years before that.
Read more about it here:
https://kleinmeisjequilts.blogspot.com/2006/10/another-maple-leaf.html
It is one of my all time favorite quilts and I am glad to share it here again to celebrate November.
The back is a fabulous Alexander Henry fairy fabric.