Two more quilt tops

I was on a roll in April, with 4 quilt tops made, and 2 good sized quilts bound and finished.  Lots of blocks were made for other projects, and it's always good when there is forward progress.  It turned out to be a good thing that the weather was chilly, damp, and windy most of the month because I spent a lot of time in my sewing room.   

The 3rd quilt top finished in April is Rectangles.  I posted on Friday that I hoped to have the rows put together by the end of the weekend, but I actually got it done on Friday morning.  This was a free pattern from Mary Quilts.  I love her easy designs and instructions.  For this one I used 18 strips from a half jelly roll, and cut 18 black strips from yardage.  If you look closely near the top right side, you'll see that I made a doll quilt with the leftovers.  The doll quilt is quilted and bound, and ready to give away.  The quilt top will hang in the closet until I decide how it will be quilted. 

The 4th quilt top finished in April (also on Friday) was this Saturday Sampler.  All it needed was borders, but I kept changing my mind on how those would look.  I finally decided that simple was best, and added a 2" light border, a 1.5" dark blue/green border, and finally a light 4.5" border.  The blocks all have scrappy batik backgrounds, so using different batiks from the stash for the borders worked out well.  The final result is even better than I hoped. 

This was a Saturday Sampler quilt from 2019-20, and I'm happy to say it is now in the hands of a long arm quilter to apply her magic touch.  I'm dreading putting the binding on this one when I get it back because it's huge and will be heavy.