Roo's Quilt or the Hearty Heart Quilt

Roo's Quilt has hundreds of little hand appliquéd hearts. I don't remember how many, but I do remember being excited that we only had 187 left to go. It's a full size quilt and a happy birthday quilt, made in what we termed the "bruise palette" -- greens, yellows, purples, and lots of turquoise (Roo's favorite color).

After this quilt I swore I would never make another heart pattern again. Why might you ask, did we make a heart quilt? Well this project was part of the half finished project pile, and all of the hearts were leftovers.


We also made a matching tuffet. Here it is:

First of the Dresdens!

One of the Dresden Plate blocks in the shop hop 2011. I believe we have four or five. After quilting we might add a gawdy bright red or yellow button in the middle of the yoyo.

Rescued from the Rag Bag!

Reaching back one more generation. Grandma Henry embroidered these state bird and flower blocks from the 40's. When cut apart, they were different sizes. Totally an annoyance to her, so she disgustedly plopped them in a drawer. Fast forward 60 years... and S, it's your turn to take up the story.



So years later S and Grandma A were cleaning out the half finished projects. This lovely quilt was destined for the rag bag. The strips of embroidery were inches from tossing the rag bag, but I saved them in all their embroidered beauty.  It wasn't until I cut all the squares apart that I realized that Grandma Henry never measured anything in her life, nothing was square, nothing was the same size so I threw the birds in a candy tin and there they sat for 10 more  years.

Finally I saw a picture of a wonky log cabin. I realized I could put borders on the squares the borders didn't have to be the same size.

There you have it one of our longer half finished projects done. Production time 72 years.

Jill's Graduation Quilt Leftovers Make a Baby Quilt

Here is Jillybean's graduation quilt...no...
Wedding? No.
Congratulation on the twin's birth? No
Anniversary? No.
Happy Birthday Quilt? YES!

And here it is, 12 years of procrastination later, (...as soon as I find the image and yes I am rolling my eyes.) I will create the blog for it, but in the meantime we hope you enjoy our leftovers from several project turned into M's baby quilt.




We had a few leftover pieces, so made this baby quilt for wee baby M. The wee baby quilt also has leftover pieces from my moment of insanity, the postage stamp days.

Flying Wild Geese

I wasn't doing it this year; I didn't have time... Right. So here's a block from our guild's Round Robin -- the one I wasn't participating in.



I've always had a soft spot for wild geese blocks. This one flies in a circle, is paper-pieced and made a brilliant sun.

Spring blossom

This square was complicated little tiny squares weird curving center. But is done and cute. 

Here it is again -- after fixing the corners. :) Amazing how our brains "fix" things. I certainly didn't notice those two corners being kittywampus at first.

It's a Dot

It's a dot. Sadly I need a new camera so it's a fuzzy dot. One square closer to a finished quilt. 

worktable block

One more block done on the quilt shop hop. 78 or so to go. 

Evil Stripey Quilt of Doom:Middle

When I started this quilt I was ooh so excited. I cut out thousands of little diamonds. I had a pattern, a color scheme, everything was going to be great! My color scheme is mostly greys, pale yellow, and purples with a touch of pink/red.

Then my little diamonds wouldn't sew together properly. So I threw my project in the bag, lost my patterns, and have a million little diamonds and strips all cut out. This is one of these projects my family will look back on and say your great auntie started this quilt in the early 2000s.

Below is my sketch of what it would look like when it is done (with color coding)

The Citrus Quilt:The beginning

For many years I have been collecting fabric and thinking about the citrus quilt. At the moment, it has lemons, limes, and grapefruits with some Turquoise for contract. . However, I have also included some other fabric that have the same color scheme. Attached are pictures of my fabric, and the patterns I'm thinking about. The fabric may be culled to remove stuff I don't think fits. The top picture is an applique pattern(no yoyo for mine). The bottom are patterns of my own making. Someday, I will decide which one to use.

Welcome to S S and S quilts

Welcome! We are three quilters trying and sometimes failing to finish up three generations of half-finished projects. Our projects range from super easy, weekend quilts to  paper piecing, embroidery and applique. We have high hopes of completing these projects soon -- really, really soon...just as soon as we try this cool, new pattern.