A Scrappy Quilter

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A New Helper in the Sewing Room

A recently thrifting find

was this wonderful Ottlite desk lamp.

Of course the name Ottlite instantly

gave me the shivers but has been a bit above my

limit for a desk lamp.

Here it is!

It's got all sorts of wonderful whiz-bang features!

It is great fun to use and the colour change base

can set the tone for your sewing or crafting.

They are available at Rona ( in Canada) .

Monday, June 23, 2025

Guild Garage Sale , Oh What a Night!

Well, there is nothing more fun

than a garage sale.

Our guild just hosted one and wow,

it was fantastic.

I think it was just the atmosphere of finding a bargain,

and hanging out with friends not seen in a while.

Helping each other find some good bargains was fun too.

A 60 mm cutter, you must have one. This really great ruler,

got to get that too. It was a great night.

Here's my haul:

This beautiful yellow fabric,

a bit heavy in weight but very suitable for quilt backing and

some great thread and thread ends.

Thread is my weakness and I bought more.

I also found this wonderful

binding tool to quickly mark my stitching

line on binding.

Last but not least, I picked up this

wonderfully heavy pincushion.

I can just toss my pins its way and it will snatch them up.

One can never have too many pin cushions!

All the money raised go to a good cause the guild supports.

A great way to cap off the guild year and

enjoy the company of fellow quilters.

To top all off, I forgot my sweater

so now I get to go to a quilt store to pick it up, bonus!

Stay safe and sew on.

Linking up with:

Needle & Thread Thursday

Design Wall Friday

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Stash Report

Well this is my first stash report in 6 months,

The end of June is here and I'm happy to report

that I'm always keeping close to the plan

of no fabric in this year.

My small purchase early on of

batik fabric, went right back out

as a donation to a gift basket for the quilt sale.

My most recent purchase of 3 1/2 m

of this beautiful yellow fabric

will turn into a backing for one of the tops

to be quilted this summer.

The stash report for the first 6 Months

of the year is as follows:

Fabric Purchased: 8.5 m

Used since last report 5 m, 3 m ( baby quilt)

Fabric In to date: 8.5 m

Used to date 2025 : 8 m

Total in .5m

Net Fabric in YTD: .5 m

There has been a lot of fabric

coming in the door in in the form of scraps.

Scrap Usage is like this:

4 medium bags in and the same out

as dog bed bits and donations so I am

holding steady .

Happy stitching.

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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Count Me in, 8s & 10s

Woohoo! It's turning out to be a good

morning here in the sewing room.

The bottom of a rabbit hole,

8 x10s are coming along nicely.

The real name for this pattern

is something like 6 and 8s.

I'm using an 8" and 10" variation of my own,

solely because it worked with what I have.

Strings of various widths are edged

by black on two opposing sides.

Here is my progress.

I have enough for about 1 1/2 twin

sized quilts. I'm aiming for 2 twins.

Here is my source.

A bin of string/scraps and other

hidden treasures. Look what I found!

A project ready to go:

A dazzling pile of chunks:

(look at this one!)

and a raft of light/low volume strips

I'm going to be stitching up the blocks into tops

as soon as I get the dividing

black strip on the last few edges.

Stay safe and sew on !

Linking up with :

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Wait Loss Wednesday

Put Your Foot Down

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Jumping Onto a Spring Fling

The deep, dark hole of YouTube videos a

Facebook links, has coerced me into jumping onto

a Canadian scrap quilter's Spring Fling sew along.

I had a pleasant few evenings stitching up

even more low volume scraps strings and bits,

into sashing to to join other unknown

components to complete a mystery.

Sew far I am only up to clue two, but it has used up

a considerable amount of scraps and bits.

Clue number two looks like a diagonal

string block so it should be easy to stitch up.

The design wall has been cleared and

currently holds the start of the

sashed crumb squares. They got off to a bit of a false start,

as the frame I used for the crumb squares was

a gray that turned out to be just too dark.

It has been replaced with a gray print

that seems to be doing the trick.

I'm excited to get more crumb blocks

into a top!

This will end up hopefully using 16

of the scrap squares.

I found even more crumb squares

when I was cleaning up last night!

My BB is coming up for some stitching and

a quilt show so I need to make room for two!

Have a great week stitching!

Stay safe and sew on.

Linking up with :

Design Wall Friday

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Monday, June 2, 2025

Hopping To It

The Hopscotch top is finally complete.

It was first finished up a few weeks ago,

but the size was a bit small at a 56" x 64"

so I upped the size by 8" so now it

measures a nice 63"x 71".

Here it is with the additional top row,

all sides pinned and ready to stitch and,

finally all sides on. A nice press

and it's time to audition some backings.

The organization bug bit me,

I tidied it up a closet and happened

to find a small bin of yardage for quilt backs.

This Hopscotch is getting a nice green check back

with small baskets of flowers.

There were enough 3-4 meter pieces

that 3 more quilts now have backings!

The Sea Glass will get this nice gold

enhanced backing.

The first of the blue scrap strip quilt is getting

a muted striped backing that

mirrors the stripes on the front.

The multicolor strip quilt will

be backed with a small floral print with a

black background.

It turned out to be a very productive start to the week!

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Put Your Foot Down

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