Surprisingly, I had some spare time this week, so I made a quilt top and fooled around some.
Here’s the quilt top, made to use up the beautiful fabric from the Robert Kaufman Ancient Beauty fat quarter bundle I couldn’t resist. I already made one quilt from the bundle, so I’ve done my thing. This one is intended for Flying Horse Farms, so I’ll send it to my friend who quilts those for our group.
Then I looked through a number of possible projects and decided just to make a group of blocks for fun, using some of my Alison Glass fabric. Of course I added some fabrics from other collections, especially novelty fabrics.
Here’s my favorite block so far:
My husband grew up in Roswell, NM, so I include UFO blocks in my quilts whenever possible. And for once it’s “the real” UFO, not the usual UnFinished Object we quilters are familiar with! Even stranger, I recall shelving those books about “The Roswell Incident” when I worked in the library during high school! Interesting how those things come around.
Zippy Quilts 
Your Alison Glass random blocks are great! Did you just make ’em up?
Yes, I pretty much just made them up as I went along. Of course, nothing is really new so I’m sure I’ve seen similar things before. They were fun and I’ll make more then see about fitting them all together!
Wonderful, Zippy! It always amazes me the differences a simple 1 block design can conjure up depending upon the fabrics used. The RK Ancient Beauty scraps (because they were leftover from another project!) really class-up your latest donation quilt pieced with that humble block! I can get into a rabbit hole of delight making ‘groups of blocks for fun’ – especially when justified by using up my bits of scraps! HA! Key here? Having fun – right? BTW: my sewing fun yesterday was noodling around with free motion quilting on my quilt sandwich scraps after getting two quilt tops squared & ready for sandwiching and set aside for further finishing after I get my Bernina serviced over the holidays! 😉
BTW: those two are the ‘Ma’s & My Medallion’ and the ‘Ankara Reward’ tops!
Oh, good for you! Sounds like you’re going to quilt those yourself, so I’m looking forward to seeing what you do. Thanks for your comments.
That was certainly a fun pack of fabrics to play with and arrange (over and over?). I look forward to seeing what you do with your just for fun blocks, and I think the spaceperson block is cool.
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Thanks! More blocks to come, a good use for these indoor winter days.
You HAVE to read “The Road to Roswell” by Connie Willis. It is a SciFi, road-trip, comedy, romance, western. Too much funYour Fan in Port Angeles WA,Chris
Thanks, Chris! I just added it to my library list.
I love the UFO block and that wonderful yellow! Looks like some fun folling around. The Alison Glass and Robert Kaufman fabrics are beautiful!
Yep, gotta love those bright fabrics!
Beautiful fabrics and a lovely, simple quilt. I am sure it will be treasured.
I also like the bright blocks you made for fun
Thank you, and best wishes for whichever holidays you celebrate!