Daydream Dicey Log Cabin Quilt

My Daydream Dicey Log Cabin Quilt was completed in March but I didn't want to post about it until I could take a photo of it with the darling Granddaughter. After all it was made in celebration of her Eighth birthday and another one to add to her ever expanding collection. The delay in finally posting was due to not being able to visit the GP House for seven weeks and even though we've made two visits since then, there wasn't time or the weather and or the darling Granddaughter wasn’t cooperating to taking a photo. Well, today the stars finally aligned.

Back in January, I received my Ruby Star Society Quarterly Club of fat quarters from their latest collections. There has been a very few times I actually made something from these Club packets, normally they sit on my shelf for way too long. I knew I wanted to make something right away with HSTs rather than the usual strips and squares.

I've been collecting Moonkin Stitchery patterns for the past year and after looking through them, I decided the Dicey Log Cabin pattern would be perfect. It is available as a free download Here, (not an affiliate link).

I added a few more fat quarters from my Ruby Star Society, Free Spirit and Art Gallery stash since I wanted more larger focus prints. I also thought the gray prints I found in my search would accent the pink, teal and gold prints nicely.

This is a fun and easy pattern but I want to mention that it's very important that all of the blocks are sewn and cut the same way as per the pattern. It's no surprise the angled-challenge quilter, which I am, made the first block wrong.

I made seventy blocks, 7x10 layout to make a 56" x 80" quilt.

I machine quilted with straight and wavey lines in Silver Aurifil thread. The backing was a gray and white stripe print from my stash and the binding was a gray plus print. I named this quilt Daydream Dicey Log Cabin based on the pattern name and because it was a dreami project which I worked on over days at a time rather than all at once.

Finally, a pic of the darling Granddaughter with her birthday quilt. The Master Quilt Holder did an excellent job of getting her to sit for this photo. She does not like having her photo taken but she does love her quilts (that’s what I tell her).

I do have another quilt finish for mmmquilts Glowing Hearts Quilt Along but won't be posting it until June 15th, the Famous Canadian Birthday Parade.  I am pretty pleased with already having this fun make finished but I can wait to share.

Linking up with:My Quilt Infatuation/NTT

Throwback Thursday: Fassett and Feedsack Fabrics Go Together-Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

Well February definitely flew by and I was just finishing up a project for this week's Friday link-ups and I realized that today was Sandra's mmm!quilts Throwback Thursday link-up so I thought I better post since I missed last month's.  I do like participating in Throwback Thursday (TBT) since it gives me an opportunity to show and explain some quilts which were made many moons ago and may explain why I sew things the way I sew.  Sandra, in her last month's post mentioned that when she and her friend first started quilting around the mid 1990's and went to buy fabric for their first quilt class, her friend said "Well, apparently in quilting you can mix prints, no problem...." which is the same thought I embraced wholeheartedly when I started quilting right around the same time, so something must have been in the water back then.  And for me, there were no better fabric mix than Kaffe Fassett and Feedsack fabrics which at the time the above quilt was made I was accumulating a nice stash of both.

I made my Flower Bed quilt in 2003 after seeing this quilt in  Pamela Mostek and Jean Van Bockel's Quilts from Larkspur Farm book and absolutely fell in love with it and as you can see I pretty much duplicated it without a benefit of a kit but a lot of fabric searches on foot before online days. Fortunately, I worked at a quilt shop at the time and was able to buy the Piece of Cake's stripe and some of the floral prints along with some greens and found the Kaffe Fassett lattice print through one of my many quilting jaunts which is what you did before buying online.

I was needing some more floral prints and I found some in my Feedsack stash which I have accumulated through the generosity of my quilting peeps, Mary and Linda, yes, the same friends from the Aunt Amy's Bullseye QAL which I posted about in January's TBT.  I am pretty sure that the original quilt did not have any Feedsack prints and I always chuckle to myself when I think about the fabrics I used in my quilt "Feedsack and Fassett together, who would have thunk."  Another takeaway from this quilt is that I discovered Pat Mostek and after the Quilts from Larkspur Farm book, she published Just Can't Cut It!, Quilts From Fabulous Fabrics, which validated my feeling of not wanting to cut up my large focus prints and started my love of making quilts with big blocks.

I'm still keeping my tradition of Feedsack and Fassett (F&F) fabrics, although separate now. For the past few weeks, I have been working on the Fassett version of Darlene Zimmerman quilt which I made in Feedsack fabrics and finally finished in 2015 during Country Thread's UFO Challenge. When I first saw the pattern over ten years ago in American Patchwork and Quilting, I decided that I wanted to make two versions of it and after finishing the feedsack version, I wasn't in a hurry to finish the Fassett version. I just need to add the borders to this quilt and will post about the latest F&F quilts later.

And now for some stats for my Flower Bed Quilt:

Size:  68" x 82" (approx.),  Ninety-nine  7.5" Square in the Square Blocks, funny I just mentioned the other day that Square in the Square Blocks were not my favorite and now I may know why.  Also, the original quilt was 84" x 98" and I probably made it smaller because I didn't have enough of the Kaffe Fassett Lattice fabric but bought more after the quilt was finished.

Pattern:  Flower Bed by Pam Mostek and Jean Van Bockel, 2001

I've been going a little bit modern in my quilts for the past few years but after pulling out the Quilts from Larkspur Farm, there really are some lovely quilts using floral prints in this book, and I could easily make another quilt from this book--after all I still have lots of floral prints from the 1990s in my stash.  And finally, for a few days this week after the announcement of Free Spirit Fabrics closing and the uncertain future of Kaffe Fassett fabrics, I thought my stash was going to be a real treasure chest but am glad they found a new home with Jaftex.  Yay.  More Kaffe Fassett fabrics to buy!

I'm linking up with:  mmm! quilts Throwback Thursday