Penny Richards' photos with the keyword: Quilting

I'm making a string quilt from scraps of past projects, for a show in February. These are the first sixteen blocks. Sorting fabrics into color groups, ironing and cutting them into strips, and assembling these blocks, even adding embroidery to some of them, has been a nice mental distraction.

Last new quilt for 2024; eighth total, and largest I've ever made. I know, it needs ironing. :) The neon squares were from Trash for Teaching, a warehouse of post-manufacturing waste (not there anymore, sadly). They were already cut into squares of this size, so I accepted that gift. The print fabric and rickrack are probably from my grandmother's 70s/80s stash. I'm thinking of it as a blank-slate quilt--the giftee can add to it, write on it, draw on it, etc. It's also bright and different enough to be easy to find on the beach.

This is my seventh-ever quilt, smallish, basic, but I think I'm still improving with each one so I'll keep going for now. They will all be gifts. All the fabric here was free from a neighbor who was giving away her quilting scraps on Buy Nothing. The prints are mostly are Christmas red and white, and dogs.