Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Birthday Bonus and Lots of stitching!

 Well , a birthday week, 

lots of stitching, organization

and sorting!  Busy time all around!

Beautiful flowers, tasty homemade cupcakes and 

lots of visits made it a wonderful weekend. 



First off, my zen quilting technique, 

(quilt everything that falls off the shelf), 

got me this week and a stack actually 

fell down while I was on a zoom meeting!

The pile was yellow tho so, at least it was 

this month's color!!


The scrap piles were getting out of hand, 

so organization and some good music

took over. I rearranged, putting the fat

quarter-sized piece stacks closer to where 

they can be used. This of course, just means

lower shelves! I think I have a few more cycles

of  Rainbow Scrapping here. Each cubby has

four stacks of chunk piles! Sew on!


 Large backing pieces that 

were taking up shelf space, were measured, refolded, 

put in a bin and a snippet put onto a reference sheet. 

I can easily choose backing fabric with out unpacking

and remeasuring, yay!

Some droopy wood shelves were flipped and 

mixed color yardages stacks were reorganized. 

All in all a rewarding afternoon of organization and sorting!

Then I got to stitching up some yellow crumbs blocks. 

That lead to a resort and count of my block bank crumb blocks. 

I seem to have accumulated 55 -12 1/2" crumbs squares

 of various colors! Forty nine squares will make a nice

84" square queen sized quilt.  

Hmm an new top may come into being soon!


My RSC top got a mellow yellow row with the 

neutral border added. All ready for next 

months color there!

Getting on to my OMG  -one monthly goal, 

I pulled out batting and backs

and got two large quilts pinned up.  Some large pieces 

of batting got stitched up and two more twin quilts

were ready to get pinned up!! 


Woot woot! Now for 

some intense time quilting up those sandwiched quilts!

A birthday visit from the pipeline couple got me inspired

 to clear off that layered bulletin board.  Wow, there 

were surprises under those layers! I removed 4 quilt tops and 

found this! It is interesting how some items are 

no longer important after aging a few years!

I found this cute little Hawaiian shirt.


The buttons are so tiny! I don't think I will make another of these!

This paper pieced pattern might be great for a 

weekly project to get ready for the holidays! Such 

cute little blocks!



 

I even found a bag of western shirt accents that 

I planned to use for geocache prizes one summer. 

I need to get into that to explore the countryside!

 

Now I can go back to using my bulletin board as 

design wall without too many treasures behind.

I want to finish this post with a few pictures of a 

support quilt made by my daily walking partner. 

She put this together in support of the Ukraine 

and it is off to raise relief funds. 

Her Thursday group was doing a kaleidoscope/stack

 and wack with a beautifully colored fabric. 



                                          She created this star,  


 

surrounded by pieced arcs of color.



Even the corners use the starter fabric
 and have tiny pieced units. 

8 comments:

  1. Happy birthday! I like your zen quilting technique - lol! What your walking partner created is beautiful! Your snippet idea is a great one and puts me in the mood to organize. Looks like you had a fun time in your room.
    Thanks for linking to To Do Tuesday!

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  2. Lovely.... inspiration.... as always needed!!!

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  3. Happy birthday, Deb!! I know you are going to have fun with those Crumb blocks you found. Thanks for sharing your walking partner's incredible quilt!

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  4. happy birthday and wow a lot going on in your studio. I like to see others organization

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  5. Happy Birthday! I'm still chuckling over the mental picture of a stack of fabric falling on you during a Zoom meeting...! Clearly you need many more birthdays to ensure all that fabric is put to good use! ;-)

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  6. YOu had a LOT of fun!!! Your Zen quilting method is awesome haha!!
    And the Hourglass blocks quilt - that is going to be amazing!!!

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  7. Happy birthday! Sounds like it was tons of fun and you still got a lot of work done too! Love the Ukraine quilt your friend made, and your RSC quilt is looking wonderful! Thanks for sharing on Wednesday Wait Loss.

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  8. Wow, you have had a busy week. Happy belated birthday! Love your colorful post. Thank you for linking up to Put your foot down.

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