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Club Tropicana from Wendy's Quilts and More

I've finished my Swatch quilt and I've called it Club Tropicana.

A while ago I started naming my quilts after my favourite songs from the 1980's and I loved Club Tropicana by Wham. Here's link to the video in case you need a reminder. This quilt does have some palm trees it in and the bright yellows remind me of pineapples, so Club Tropicana seemed appropriate.

This was a quick and easy quilt to make and it will be perfect for my older son. I won't have to worry about it living on the floor ...

added by Wendy @ Wendysquiltsandmore 1 year, 5 months ago. under club tropoicana , easy quilt , kaffe wide back , ruby star society , swatch quilt

Swatch Quilt from Wendy's Quilts and More

Remember those fabrics I showed you last week? Well, I cut them up and made the world's fastest quilt pattern - the Swatch Quilt by Ruby Star Society.

I chose some fairly bold prints for this quilt, but I think they all work together because I've limited the colour palette to blue, yellow and pink/red/orange, with black to break it up. I resisted my usual urge to add green because it would have been too much.

Plaids: by Kaffe Fassett Collective and also Kathy Doughty

Yellow spots: Alison Glass

Blue birds: After the Rain by Bookhou for ...

added by Wendy @ Wendysquiltsandmore 1 year, 7 months ago. under easy quilt , rssspringsewalong , ruby star society , swatch quilt

Quilts for Ukraine - an update from Wendy's Quilts and More

This week I spotted two of our New Zealand quilts that are ready to donate to Ukrainian children in Germany. The kiwi block makes the first one quite recognisable! But I also recognise the borders because I assembled our quilt tops before I sent them over to Claudia in Germany.

Claudia received far more quilts and blocks than she ever could have imagined, and she has been donating quilts as quickly as she can. I'm not concerned that our tops from New Zealand are still working their way through the finishing stages. It's lovely to see that they ...

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