To do #4

 My to do list from last week 

~ Chose  joining blocks for spiderweb ~X

Done and dusted! The Aliens quilt is finished!

Definitely got a good finish!

~Trim square dance blocks~

~Plan and assemble a few cobblestone blocks ~X

But I got distracted by blues. Looked in my 

Block bank and found 26 - 16 patch blocks !

They turned in to this!

and now this!

The center is together!

So this week's list is :

~Finish up Blues for Baby  quilt~

~More Cobblestone block and scrap taming~

~Trim square dance blocks~

~Finish planning 2 bluesy quilts for the teal ladies~

Sounds like I have a busy week planned!

I should add " Stay focused"!

I think this Blues for Baby is going to 

one of those drop everything

and make projects, I couldn't resist 

the call of the sixteen!

Stay safe and sew on !

Tuesday to do!

Needle an Thread Thursday!

Put your foot down!

I do love blues!

 It has been a busy week.

I've been trying to land those Aliens!.

I did find some time to work on

some blues and I have a lot of it.

Oh and did I add the blizzard?

And the batting pick up? And the airport run?

I am planning to catch up on all the months

of rainbow scraping by making a rainbow

row quilt with  crumb strips of each monthly colour.

A visit to the block bank and I hit pay dirt!!

I even found my layout plan from March 2019 ,

along with some orange parts from a Staircase quilt.

The paper used for foundation was still attached.

The meat flyer! Look at that turkey!

A white strip complementing all the colours

should make it a success.

Blue ones are in progress so that's a good start.

I really liked the look of the horizontal quilting on

Blues for Brothers so this

will be a good repeat of that plan.

I also found this great little pattern from McCall's 2006.

It definitely has potential.

A co-worker out East is  having a baby boy

in a few months so it's a perfect time

to  raid the block bank and make a

blue coloured quilt for the new arrival.

Three more blue family square and the top

will be complete.

 These little 1 ½” inch blue strip sets left over

from a long ago colour wash quilt needed a purpose.

There are so many! They should work well as 

a border around the colour blocks.

Here is a little mock-up! It really works! 

A little border of white and then 1 ½” inch blue

strip sets followed by a saucy

blue binding really does the trick!

Off we go into the wild blue yonder!

Stay safe and sew on!

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Oh Scrap!

Woot woot!

 Just had to share Progress!!!!

The "Aliens quilt " is finally together!

I found a big pile of greys, 

and managed to dig out an assortment 

for the setting triangles. 

  

I have a friend who would love a teal blue

quilt, but I am not sure this one qualifies. 

It has some blues here, 

And here :

but I don't think enough for my teal addicted ladies. 

The top is almost a flimsy.  It still needs

the side frame borders. 

It will be finished off with a piano key

border in shades of gray with the occasional

wheel color thrown in for spice!

Should finish up as queen size. 

The end is in sight!

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15 Mins to Stitch

Stay safe and Sew on !

Keep those scraps flying!

Wow!  Lots of weather changes and 

lots of quilting changes. Things are 

ramping up for spring ! Hopefully spring

will bring new beginnings for us all!

Progress in the quilting realm too!

Accompanied by some good science fiction,

I am flying  my Alien quilt toward completion!

The joining triangles will end up being varied greys. 

I chose the pale grey to let the multicolored blocks  shine!

Cleaning up the scrap table has turned out 

two new items to add to my "ongoing progress list". 

This ongoing scrap buster will 

help keep little bits out the waste bucket!

One more scrap buster is in the 

works  using solids to border small scrap 

string blocks. 

I even harvested some string blocks to add to 

the block bank!

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Put your foot down!

Off the Wall Friday!

Stay safe and sew on !

 

Make some room!

Some days you just have to tidy up!

Seems I was a little over enthusiastic and 

got out more projects than I could do!

Workspace definitely needed a clean up and sort!

So... I assembled 4 of  the "Many Strips" for the APQ sew along.

They were all laid out on my block boards and 

taking up a lot of room. Somewhat defeating the purpose

of block boards! I made mine from a candy box 

a kind neighbor gifted us. 

Then I UFOed the Lady of the Meadow.  I am 

not sure if it is becoming green enough so off to 

marinate it goes. 

I did make sure the pattern was in the box. 

Tonight and this week I will be working on the Aliens 

and getting the setting pieces in place to turn it into a flimsy. 

Cobble stone alley and its variation will be in progress too. 

They will really clean up the scrap piles on the work table . 

So I can add in my weekly list also.

Last week I finished a few!

~ Chose  joining blocks for spiderweb~
~Make extra blocks to enlarge spiderweb X
~Trim square dance blocks~
~assemble Many Strips blocks for count X

I will finish up the two leftover items and get the 

cobblestone working to clear up the scraps. 

~ Chose  joining blocks for spiderweb~

~Trim square dance blocks~

~Plan and assemble a few cobblestone blocks~

Wish me luck , there may be frost 

still every morning but the 

afternoons are sunny and bright for 

sewing in the summer sewing room!

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Tuesday to do!

Wednesday Wait Loss

Stay safe and sew on !

Did you say Blue!?!

 I love blue!

I have two projects boxes with 

bits left over and now is the perfect 

time to use them up!

First up, a Cobblestone Alley.

Predominately blues and I may 

use solids to surrounded the 3 strips sets

to finish up the block. 

Then there is my "Blue Bands" box.

Lots of leftovers from the "Blue for Brothers".

I may make the same type again but change the 

layout to something different , or use all blue

even for the background!  

Two BC friends would like tealy

 blues so that's an option to explore too!

Wedding quilt 2012!

Here we go, what a great month!

Stay safe and sew on!

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Oh Scrap!

Flimsies are piling up!

 Whoo hooo!  Lots of flimsies are getting completed!

Lots of sewing days and a retreat gave me lots of 

opportunities to get thing complete. 

The stretched stars top is done with all the rows attached.

The String Star blocks got all assembled too.  Woot woot!

They were labeled by rows in a pile and I got it together with 

only 3 little errors that were easily corrected!

Last but not least, got 5 more spider webs done for the 

Alien quilt while watching/listening to Seth M's weird creation,

"The Orville". A very productive week!!

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