I'm Faaall in' . Faaalll in'

 Another busy week and we 

are back to Tuesday! 

Seems my home is overrun 

by furry bunnies and I have

been down the rabbit hole

a few times this week! 

First off, the list from last week. 

                                1 Stitch on binding for big ole strings! 😀

Done and looks oh so nice hanging

on the railing. 

                              2 Work on  string blocks 😀

Lots of these now live in the block bank!

                              3 Sew up confetti squares😐

Still the same, waiting for attention.

So this weeks list is looking like this!

                        1. put inner border and make outer 

                            scalloped edge border for this small top 

                        2. assemble, add borders and scallop 

                            edge a baby quilt from left over blocks

                        3. eagerly await  next RSC color!( easy one)

                            Make more little houses. 

                        4. finish assembling block chain top

1

This little top was made from my

block bank. Like a fuzzy bunny I 

chased this down the rabbit hole 

and finished up the top.  I had to 

adjust a few block and complete a 

few more but is came together fast. 

Now for borders!

2

I will make up a smaller top

with the left over blocks 

and do the same scallop border

treatment on this one.

3

This one is easy!

Look forward to the new color!

More houses and possibly

other RSC blocks may 

turn up too!

4

Block chain is getting

assembled. Small bits 

are going in and the larger

blocks need to shift.

All in all a busy week ahead!

If I can keep away from 

squirrels and rabbits, I should 

get lots of projects moved ahead. 

Stay safe and sew on !

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To do Tuesday.

Monday Making 

Design Wall Monday

Wednesday Wait Loss!

Can I get a Whoop Whoop!

Off the Wall Friday!

Finished or Not Friday!

Oh Scrap!

Orange you sailing away!

 Oh my , why does orange 

bring out the punkins in me!

( I know that was a bad one!)

Anyway , found more orange, 

drank too much decaf and 

sewed the oranges onto some 

unfinished parts and Voila!

A rainbow lozenge quilt is born! 

Actually, it started with an

overflowing parts department

and I thought some small

tops could be stitched up. 

I had to resized 6 blocks, 

( white triangles were too small)

but it went together quickly!

Block chain is peeking out from under it 

but does look interesting so this top may 

end up with a piano key border. 

This go to scrap block has 

entertained me many cold , 

Alberta evenings.

 I will first found this pattern in

 Leisure Arts: Relax and Quilt.

It is one of my favorites. 

The archives will have to be 

opened to find the first quilt made 

with this block. It even had a 

wavy edged border. 

Enough nostalgia, now back to orange. 

We had a great day in the country,

 LOML(Love of my Life) caught a fish and 

I sewed up a pile of 

mini houses. 

There are two upside downers that 

need to be fixed but these little 

blocks are a lot of fun. Yes this 

is a little cat in the window.

They finish at 3" so I have a 

long way to go to get a quilt together!

Stay safe and sew on!

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RSC 2021

 

Hey hey, a finish!

 Yes, it is back to Ripley's 

believe it or not today, I actually have a finish!

Big Ole Strings is done and dusted, 

as MAN says ( My Australian Niece).

I spent the morning, repairing 

a dog chewed blanket and patching 

a hole in a duvet for the kids .

I  fixed up this cozy blanket for my GD. 

It ended up being made into

2 small crib sized blankets they 

can use in the car this winter. 

Those blasted dogs!

  They are rescues 

so we make allowances but Mimi can 

only fix so many household linens!

Anywho, I did finish my project!

This design is one of my favorites and 

may end up as a repeater.  I am sure 

my lovely children each would like one!!

I even started some additional blocks so 

I feel  they are already committed to 

accepting and loving them. 

I started with some middles, 

just stitching together two high 

contrast strings and trimming them 

to a close to finished length. 

Then, after adding the strings to each side and 

trimming to size, ( these are 61/2") they 

are clipped together in a group of ten. 

There are about 100 plus of the 1/2 colored in 

the box already so I am well on 

my way to at least one more. 

My first turned out very well. 

The photo session outside 

went well and I have 

a dandy place on the railing 

to display it until gifting. 

The back of this quilt is made of 

20" squares. I find these use up 

smaller portions of fabrics and 

add a lot of interest to the back.

5 x 5 of the 20" squares

make 100" square back which 

is more than enough for my 

usual size bed quilt. 

So that is one thing checked off 

my todo list and 2 extra items complete!

Now to move on to the block chain

top and get something 

ready to stitch the rest of the day. 

Stay safe and sew on !

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Finished or not Friday 

Can I get a Whoop Whoop!

TGIFF

Woot woot a new flimsy!

 It has been quite a while since 

a flimsy arrived.  I looked 

at it again last night and realized

I had something to post!  

So here it is ! 

This top is made of 

parts I found in a bag of scraps. 

 

The variety may 

have been the reason for 

the discard as it is a bit heavy 

on the teal and peach. 32 more 

units were added from my 

supplies and Voila! , a top is born! 

It spent a lot of time 

on and off my design

wall since I was having 

a hard time seeing 

the " zipper". 

 

It is supposed to mimic 

the zig zag of zipper 

teeth. I am excited for 

 the quilting. I am 

thinking of zig zagging thru the 

colored rectangles. 

Should be fun!

This little cutie measures 

57" x 68" . It will be 

great for all ages ! 

One item on the move!

Halfway thru!

 The week is sailing by!

It is great to be busy 

and getting things done!

My list from the weekend:

                                        

1. layout block chain
2. hang flimsies
3. finish quilting up big ole strings 
4. work on some waffle blocks
5. add white to RSC confetti blocks

Made lots of progress

in the past few days. 

The block chain is ready for some

little bitcoin accents.

 

The flimsies are hanging 

wonderfully in the 

closet. It is so much 

fun to be able to look 

thru them wrinkle free!

All that waffle work 

created a big mess but 

it is tidied away and replaced 

by string block chaos so no 

real progress. The waffle blocks 

are stored away tho.

  

The poor confetti blocks 

are still in limbo so a big 

nope there.

 

Still the net outcome is great, 

and I am moving lots along.

The list of to dos for this week!

                              1 Stitch on binding for 

                                 big ole strings!

                              2 Work on  string blocks

                              3 Sew up confetti squares

Did I mention my sewing room

is now the temp storage of 

30 cases of wedding reception 

wine?  Cowabunga what 

a fall and winter sewing it will be !

Stay safe and sew on !

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Wednesday Wait loss!

Orange you with me?

 I really thought I was 

finished with orange!

Then I saw Orange tiny houses

over at Making a Lather and 

felt the need to locate more

orange and get busy!

The last orange houses 

I made seem to have 

light but colored backgrounds. 

I guess this quilt will have 

a colorful back ground!

The orange and white confetti style 

quilt will get some additional white

this week too!

Filling in the white with my 

found strips will bring the blocks 

up to size.  If I follow thru with 

other RSC colors and make a 

few blended blocks,

 I should eventually have a great

rainbow quilt!

A bitcoin spinoff I'm 

making seems to have a lot of 

orange too so I thought it would 

be worth a design wall picture. 

Have a great week !

Stay safe and sew on !

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Working for the weekend!

 Great weekend in the making!

Sew day, cool weather, lots 

of fabric! 

My to do for the next while 

is heavy on organizing and

moving things along. 

List for the week:

1. layout block chain
2. hang flimsies
3. finish quilting up big ole strings 
4. work on some waffle blocks
5. add white to RSC confetti blocks

Here are some pics of my tasks for the week!

Block chain is a take off on the Bitcoin

quilts that have increased in popularity 

lately.(see what I did there?)

Some 2" strips needing a home, so 

I sewed them up and have a pile to 

layout. 

Next up: my flimsies have been living

on a bench in the workroom. 

 Turns out

there is an  almost empty closet I can 

use to organize those piles into 

a nice wrinkle free vault of tops.

The big ole strings is well on 

its way to completion but still 

under the needle. 

Unfortunately , my waffle blocks

have managed to spread themselves

out all over my small sewing room. 

I have a nice big mess to clean up!

When I get most of that list done, 

I can work on my rainbow scrap challenge 

blocks. 

All in all , a very busy time coming up!

So stay safe and sew on !

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Kon -do my reno!

  So our  clean and sort dance is moving along.

The recent item out of the list-jar

was my upstairs makeup and

toiletries drawer .

Yikes!

 I know  many of us have

a bit of a Jones for makeup

supplies and facial care especially

as we age and those

wrinkles just won't stay away!

I am so guilty of this,

I always tend to look at the makeup and

lotions on sale. 

To justify myself, I do use a lot.

My province is very dry and

we all should up our moisturizing quotient,

both men and women.

I even have my MOMD ( Man of my dreams)

consistently using  moisturizer everyday!

 1st I dumped everything out of the drawer.

Then I sorted by usage.

This works best for getting things

organized and actually making decisions.

If I categorise, then I can ridout

without feeling so guilty and

vacillating over every individual.

Also, I am big compiler.

I put like creams with like creams.

We always seem to end up with

duplicates of everything and

that always makes our storage unruly.

 I do indeed cut open tubes of things

to get out the last little bit.

It's just my frugal nature.

The cleanout went pretty well!

I've got the items I use every day

in a nice wicker box,

backup supplies are tucked in a drawer,

out of the way but still available what I want them.

     I even discarded some unused and

not going to be used items

to cut down on the clutter.

 Big news is, I removed my daily supplies

from the countertop and it now lives in a drawer.

Makes the bathroom look much cleaner!

 Since doing the bathroom counters

is part of our upcoming rental it's

nice to have that sorted and consolidated.

So the reno is stalled . Mainly due to a

jaunt to BC and indecision , but one

item is complete.

Two beautiful new garage doors!

Keep tidy!

Rainy days and Sundays!

 What a great Sunday!

The day did not live up to its name

but was  calm and relaxing anyway!

Awoke to a steady drizzle

and perfect quilting weather.

So much on the go here !

First up are the table scraps of orange. 

Sorted out scraps into 

shapes and fired up the 

feather weight !

Side story here ;

We had scheduled a 

Featherweight flash mob but

covid shut us down.  We were 

going to meet on a driveway, 

Featherweights in hand and sew

up some charity tops. Saved for 

another day. 

Now back to orange!

Worked on sewing these all up . 

I got really frustrated with the 

minimal progress , but then noticed

all the parts I had ready!

Soldiering on I managed to 

get all my orange scraps sewn up 

except these small bits. 

Here is the wealth of orange parts for my 

block bank !

There are 3 - 8 1/2" string squares, 

a bunch of 4 1/2 " string sets, 

  a stack of 2 " squares for the box, 

5 - 12 1/2" crumb blocks, and 

some stacks of 6 1/2", 2 1/2" & 1 1/2"

strips sets.

Surprise output is 2 sets of orange and white 

blocks using this pile of 1 1/4" scraps 

that finally turned up. 

 

I will keep working 

on them to make 12 1/2" or larger 

blocks in the confetti style that is 

so popular right now. 

I will even add that to my 

mental RSC block list.  

When next year comes I may 

actually be organized for the RSC 

but no promises are being made!!

Stay safe and sew on , 

see you again soon!

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