Love You S'more x 2 Quilt Finish

 Raising our family, we never had much money. We had enough and we were richly blessed in so many ways, but we never had extra and we were pretty frugal with what we DID have. Plus it was almost impossible to leave the ranch as it was just us taking care of things and we couldn't leave everything unattended. So we didn't take vacations, but we fished on the ranch

We swam on the ranch

And we camped on the ranch

Now that we recently 'retired' from ranch management and moved to the mountains, we want to continue those traditions with the grandkids.

When I stumbled upon a crazy deal for Love You S'more Layer Cakes for $10 and FQ bundles for $30, I knew I needed camping quilts. LOL

Last year I made this one as I thought the little hst flying geese looked like tents

And then, in January, the FQS posted about this Scattered Stars pattern and I knew that would be my 2nd camping quilt.

I down-sized the blocks to 10 1/2" in order to make the best use of the fabric I had and made 1 test block

I loved it and stitched every chance I got for a week. I reached a point where I began to second guess my decision to down-size the blocks. SO many little flippy corners!

I had cut too many of the little black squares and figured I'd use them in the star centers to make them more prevalent. I like the original design and will make it at some point, but for this project, I liked the variation.

42 blocks gave me a 60" x 70" quilt. Enough room to grow into, but not too big to haul on a camping trip. I'm tickled with how this one turned out

Sandy quilted a design called One Cloudy Day on it

I backed it with a print from the collection that I found on a good sale and bound it with a green Grunge from my stash.

I'm looking forward to breaking them both in this summer.

Love You S'more Quilt

 I'm popping in to share my latest quilt finish today

The grandbabies are still pretty little, but it won't be long before we'll want to take them camping. When you're little, that's such an adventure! So when this Love You S'more line appeared I was very tempted. I held out until an email arrived one morning advertising S'mores Layer Cakes for $15.00. I hit that order button so fast! The same day, I saw a fat quarter bundle at a 50% discount and I ordered that as well. This was quite a while before we knew we were moving.

Last month, I made this Animal Crackers Quilt  and I thought that pattern (Deep Dive from Moonkin Stitchery) was a great fit for a Love You S'more camping quilt. I thought the triangles looked like little tents.

I made this one bigger at 64" x 72". I used the Layer Cake and cut additional fabric from the fat quarter bundle. I also added a few extra fabrics from my stash

I found this critter tracks print and really like how it looked so I added it. You can also see the fun quilting pattern Jackie and Sandy used. I love that they used a variegated thread too.

The backing is a print I've had in my stash for years. It's one of the bargain fabrics I bought when a quilt shop was closing. I bought the whole bolt for $22.

I will need 2 camping quilts so I'm narrowing down a pattern for the 2nd one. In the meantime, I'm tickled with how this one turned out.

While they're this little, we'll take our maiden camping trip down below the house, and S'mores will definitely be on the menu!