OMG Feb

 Another month and more quilts to finish up. 

January was a clean sweep with my 

scrap plan moving along well. 

Just a few crumbs to sew up tonight!

It seems OMG (one monthly goal) is my push 

to quilt up my flimsies and make room in the vault! 

This month my goal is to pin and quilt tops!

My red coin  from January is out and ready.

One or two larger ones from the vault 

may be in the running too! 

Quilter's choice for this month

since I only have self-imposed deadlines.

 A main and a mini for a couple due for 

a family starting in March would be fun. 

Two large tops are calling to me also. 

I may be temped to stitch up a mini for the 

Great Big Strings!  I have a couple in mind and 

keeping a matching baby quilt in reserve would 

be fun!

The one on the left would get have a wavy 

edge cut in after quilting and then finishing with 

a bias binding. 

There are not any premade backs left 

in the vault that would work , so

it is off to the stash to pull out more  20 inch blocks.

This process makes a dent in the stash as well

as letting me preserve some beautifully patterned

fabric.  The quilts do end up reversible and 

recipients seem to appreciate all the 

beautiful colors on the back!

Stay safe and sew on !

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Last of the RED hots!

 Wow, what a month! 

Red everywhere!  I am 

just finishing up the very last of the 

red scraps. 

They were well under control, but when looking 

for some neutrals, I found more!!

These will be sewn up into crumb blocks 

to finish up the red month.  I did manage to 

put together a few strip nine patches for my 

block bank. Not a good name but they 

always feel like a nine patch 

when I am laying one out!

Imagine all the quilts I can make from a 

year of these rainbow blocks!

A few zoom meetings and a sew morning

gave me time to make 

postage stamps blocks for the 

Snowball  25 patch that is my current 

zoom back drop. 

I am using quilter's fuse to sew up 

the border blocks. 

Six are complete and 4 more are ready to sew. 

Twelve blocks should be enough to complete the border. 

My guild lotto block for January is

a pieced woven heart! I managed

to get 5 done up and even snuck in 

two in red!!

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REDdy to go ! Sneaking up fast !

 January is flying by ! 

Lots to do and lots going on !

New house , cold weather and some travel!

( In country only so no worries!!)

Getting lots of stitching done too 

so that is a big bonus.

First off , I almost have a scrap 

management plan. After years of 

trying to follow along and embrace 

other schedules, mine has emerged. 

I have many scraps in bags separated by color. 

I follow along with RSC 22 color of 

the month and wrangle that scrap bag 

into a big clear bin.

 Then I fire up the iron, press, sort, sew

 and trim into various units and shapes. 

These string blocks are perfect for 

many designs so doing up these 

will replenish my block bank .

 The color family 

blocks always delight the eye!

I am also cutting my scrap list and 

putting the pieces into labelled bins. 

  

There are also big bins of mixed colors to sort. 

They are getting sorted by colors into the 

color bags. Slow and steady should have them 

redistributed by year end, ever hopeful!

For now, here is the progress . 

Lots of string sets sewn up :

Labelled boxes with squares and 

strips:

Crumb blocks of all colors:

Scraps bags are labelled and straightened:

and here are bins and bags to sort!

Some regular sewing was completed this week too!

I made a good start on the Stop & Goes ( Leaders & Enders)

for the B Hunter hourglass quilt. 

I don't have nearly as many white background 

prints as I thought!

The 6" wide red coin strips were combined

with some lights strips sets from the 

block bank to make a good start on a 

red coin quilt!

Excited with the first month of color!

What's up next!?!

 

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Life in the Scrapatch!

Needle and Thread Thursdays!

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Off the Wall Friday

Wonderful Weekend

 Any weekend , meeting people 

and sewing, is a great time. 

Attending a virtual retreat makes 

for a very great weekend!

First up, my OMGs (One Monthly Goals)

 are almost complete. Block chain was a 

joy to quilt, thank you Karen

Brown. I used her recommended

cross quilt wave and it worked wonderfully!

Quilting starts at the upper right and 

goes across and down in a big wave.

The back is a failed attempt I had in the 

vault. I tried a jelly roll race with 6" strips. 

It was unsuccessful but with the addition 

of a few side strips it sure makes a great back!

It was going to be a gift but it

sure looks good on our living room couch!

This smaller quilt ( 47" x 57") was enhanced 

with vertical quilting in the 

dramatic colors with finishing

horizontal quilting across the top and bottom. 

I finally attempted my first ever

planned, back to front binding.

 

This is where the binding is wrapped

around to the front.  I had some 

difficulty deciding how much 

batting to trim out and how wide

to make the fold over , but it was a success!

Wonder clips were great for clipping down the 

folded over back and kept me from getting skewered by pins!

Matching thread for top and bottom made the 

stitching almost invisible. I do use the stitch in the

ditch foot for binding top stitching to keep the 

row of stitching nice and straight! 

  I used an 1 1/4" fold of the 

back fabric and 1/2" of batting to 

be folded over with it.  Some of the 

corner batting was trimmed out to 

reduce bulk. I did not manage nice 

mitered corners tho. Next time I 

will trim out more batting there. 

It sure looks nice on the basement railing!

Retreat results:  I never realized 

I has sew much red! ( See what I did there?)

A good portion of the weekend was spent 

sewing up red string blocks.

The weekend ended with 39! of these

lovely string blocks!  They are destined for 

a few rainbow quilts for sure!

Multicolored scraps were used to sew up 

a bunch of wonky log cabins. I had a bit 

of trouble with the wonky. I think I am 

cutting too straight! I did manage to get 

over 40 wonky blocks done but my strip

collection has not diminished much!

It was really a great weekend!  

Stay safe and sew on !!

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Off the Wall Friday!

Peacock Party!

Great to see you !

 First sew day of the year and 

wowzer!  Got nothing on my 

list done!!! I was clearing off 

my cozy sew space and saw the

half square triangle pieces 

and couldn't resist. I made them 

into 19 blocks! 

That was just sew day warm up! 

Then next morning, still getting 

ready , I was moving baskets of

strips intended for a Big Strings

and couldn't resist!  

Most of the strings were ready so that

 was a big time saver.  I only had a bit of

 trimming and cutting to do.

 The end of sew day found me 

just 20" away from having enough rows

for a nice large queen size string 

quilt!  Woot Woot! 

 This top will go into the vault for a quick 

completion if we go back into the 

deep freeze, weather wise! 

 It is actually only -22 today 

so a brisk morning walk  was lovely. 

I did have a load of cut offs from 

the strings to deal with .

The side effect of scrap quilting is, 

oddly enough, more scraps!

A quick sort into color and lengths

 make this heap manageable.

 They can be sewn up into sections

for borders or a small top. Maybe even

another set for one of my family-to-be friends! 

Lots to do !  Stay safe and sew on!

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2021 in Review!

 Wow, it has been a crazy year! 

Take a look at my finishes. 

Just a few are in my collection!

I do try to gift for occasions and really

enjoy the process!

Enjoy the show! 

Linking up to 

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Needle and Thread Thursday!

Berries and Cream 

84 x 84 

46 x 54 

Double batting, nice and fluffy!

Stretched Stars   80 x 84

Gifted for a 60th Birthday

The last of the florals . 

Gifted to a gardening friend so she can 

have flowers all year. 

One of the final florals. 

Donated to the Zebra Society

String stars. One of my favorites

Gifted to the Calgary RT at south campus.

85 x 85

Florals for my Sewing buddies. 

4 of 8 total!

45 x 45

Purple fun for an arriving baby!

83 x 84 Big Block Color

Off to an RN in BC

This grad quilt is totally reversible.

This side is Christmas with three borders. 

This grad quilt is totally reversible. 

Measures 80 x 87

The other side

is colored string blocks. It certainly depleted

my string block stash!

Blues for Baby  60" x 60" Flannel Back 

5 oz poly batting 

38" x 43" minky back no batting

40" x 46" 5 oz batting

38" x 46" 5oz batting

49" x 53" 5 oz batting

38" x 53" Minky back no batting

Curved Log Cabin 1996-2021 

83" x 99" single 80/20 bat

 

Bali Knot 68"  x 70" 

5 oz poly batt

Baby rag time 

Charlie's Hearts

single 5 oz batt

54" x 62"

Baby green log cabin

Large log cabin 85 x 90

double bat 5 oz poly  & 80/20 cotton

These two are off to a climber and his 

family. Thanks for holding onto my son's rope!

Baby purple crazy patch

Pink Baby floral

Friendship star, flannel backed.

Lattice crib with beige flannel

Crib size Panel with flannel back

Crib circle with flannel back

Mountains!  85 x 90

double batt 5 oz poly  & 80/20 cotton

Another climbing buddy who supports my son!

Baby Mountains

Cambridge Bay #1

single needle punch batt

56" x 72"

Cambridge Bay #2

single needle punch batt

59" x 72"