I used Nicole’s Napkin tutorial to make the napkins.  I love them how they end up quite large, and very sturdy.  My MIL has several things with a chili pepper motif, so this fabric that I bought years ago to make her something worked really well.  The edging/background fabric (green, red, black) is Moda Bella – I just love that fabric!!  There is a set of six napkins.

I also made a set of six placemats:

I just used the fabric and backed them with Moda Bella in black. I had found at Missouri Quilt Company, some Moda Bella bias binding already pre-cut/pressed, etc on a roll so that all you have to do is go.  I don’t know if I would do it for every project that it calls for, but it was nice to just get going on the project.  I bought about 15 yards of binding and have about half of it left.

This was the second quilt I bound over the weekend.

All I have to do now is add a temporary hanging sleeve.  This quilt will be donated to the Hopes and Dreams Challenge in the name of my guild.

and here is the back:

I will wash it with a ton of color catchers his week and give it to the intended recipient.

The blues are “Bundle of Jungle” by Marcus Fabrics.  The white and reds are Moda Bella Solids.  It measures about 48” square.

At last… time to reveal this project!  The recipient has gotten the quilt and she sure looks adorable on top of the quilt!

I made this quilt for my oldest sister’s first grand daughter.  She is about three months old now.

Seeing this photo of her, she looks just like her daddy!!

I was having a hard time coming up with block patterns, so I decided to go with a few classics:

Friendship Star:

Churn Dash:

and finally Ohio Star… but I didn’t remember that the center block was supposed to be the same as the star points, so they are something different…

and that concludes all 50 of the tsunami quilts that I made.

The obsession is over… or is it?  Yes… it is… for now!

I was running out of ideas for simpler blocks.

Back to Pinterest.  I had pinned a block that I wanted to try.  It looked simple.  I drafted it into EQ to get the size I needed.

I made one block and discovered I could get one block out of 4” of two different fabrics.  So I made a few of these – they were fast, simple, and looked great.

I think that I could have made the rest of them like this… but it felt like “cheating” to me by making multiples of one block.  Don’t ask me what I was thinking.  I only made five total.

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Another pinterest pinned block I drafted:

I loved doing this one.  The problem with this one was I didn’t have a lot of fabrics that coordinated 5 different prints/solids.  I would have made more of these.

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Another pinterest pinned block I did was this one:

I drafted it at 7” because I thought it would be easier than figuring out what would fit a 12” block.  I added borders and called it done.  I would have made more of these, but again, I didn’t have the fabrics in three values of a color.

This brings my total up to 43.  7 more to get to 50.  I was seriously running out of ideas for blocks…

I had 30 quilts done and quilted (just not bound yet) and decided that 50 sounded like a better number.  That was only 20 more quilts.  I got to 30 so quick that I didn’t think 20 more would be so bad.

Looking back, what I didn’t take into consideration when I made that decision was the fact that 17 blocks were already done and the remaining seven were already cut.

But I was obsessed.  I couldn’t fall short of my goal.  I had a purpose.  It seems when I have a purpose to what I am doing, I can complete my goals easier.  That will be something I apply to my goals for next month.

Ok.  Now what to do for the remaining 20 quilts.  I didn’t want to go too elaborate, because, as I said, I didn’t want to fall short of my goal – that would be failure on my part in my mind.

So the first few were simple and left over fabrics from the Jelly Roll Sampler.  I just took leftover Jelly Roll strips and did a stitch and flip.  I planned it on the diagonal, so that the smaller strips were on the outside and then I just trimmed the blocks down.

Great… That was four blocks that were quick.  I still had scraps leftover, but not enough to make more of the strip quilts.  Hmmm… What to do.

I had seen on pinterest about the disappearing 16 patch.  I figured it was as good a time to do it as any.  I made one try – it yielded two blocks. They were tiny.  Much tinier than I needed… (but I was using 2 1/2” squares.  So I added borders.

Six more blocks down and I could use up the fabric I really didn’t like.  SCORE!

Total quilts now: 36

Bolstered by the fact that I knocked a UFO off so quickly, I decided to do that to my March UFO (#8).  The blocks were already done.  I couldn’t come up with a setting – the whole reason it was a UFO to begin with.  So why not just quilt them and be done with my March UFO?

Done!  Something knocked off my list and given to a good cause! I was rocking with the “high” of those things.

Here they are:

These were made several years ago and my piecing has improved a lot since then. 

Again.  I could have stopped here.  This gave me 30 quilts that I could turn in at the March guild meeting.  That would have been awesome right there.  6 would have been great.  18, marvelous. 30… awesome.

Sometimes… I see my O.C.D. coming from a mile away.  This time, it hit me upside the head and kept at it.  I was obsessed and on a mission to get to 50. Don’t ask me why. 50 sounded like a nice round number. I was insane and crazy and obsessed.  More obsession to come…

I was looking around in my project boxes trying to decide what to work on next – I needed to clear out a box for another new project.  My eyes fell upon these.  I figured I could finish the few blocks and whip up the top and move it out. 

When I took out the blocks and the cut fabrics and such, I realized, I really didn’t like them.  Ok.  No big deal.  I could still finish the top and give it to Na Lima Aloha (my guild’s charity project). 

I still happened to have the previous tsunami tops on my desk and I put two and two together.  I finished the blocks that needed to be done and then decided I would add them to the pile of tsunami blocks.  I figured “cool, a way to knock out a UFO and accomplish a goal of giving a nice number of quilts to the project!”

Here they are quilted:

I could have stopped here with 18 quilts… but noooo….

First, this will be the tops that I posted a few days ago.  Before the “craze” hit me.

So… not so bad huh?  Six little quilts to give.  I could have stopped there… but no…