To Do Tuesday

 Today is clean up sewing room day with finishing off items and 

choosing some new projects. 

I went way off campus this month with my RSC and 

ended up working on a wealth of green log cabins!

I have lots of log cabin tops ready and the two greens

will bring the total up nicely. Lots of scraps were used up 

and the bag is empty.

 All that remains outside of the drawer,

 is a popcorn box of scraps and the chunk portion of the stash!

These little popcorn boxes are great for using as work boxes instead

of letting the desk or floor overflow with bits of fabric!

  My retreat friends would be happy I am controlling my mess!

The chunk section is large but orderly so that is all good. 

Time wise, I have been having lots of sewing time for the last few 

weeks. The smoke last week keep everyone in and certainly created 

good reasons to stay in and stitch!

This weeks plan is to :

~Finish up the green log blocks

    ~ Assemble 2 green log cabin tops

              ~Trim out the work box of orange scraps

               ~ Make up 2 5x5 blocks 1 orange 1 green

            ~ Plant the last pumpkins in the big tub

Looks like a nice plan to work on for a sunny day!

Must finish off with someone else having a great day!

Yes, three pelicans and two moose right

in the middle of our small town!

Stay safe and sew on !

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15 Minutes to Stitch

Log Cabin Bonanza

  The Zebra coordinator had 

suggested some larger sizes would be well used so 

these will do nicely.  The log cabins are such fun 

to make that there are still a few left in the vault 

to sandwich.  Last review saw a blue one,

a purple one,

and two multicolored twin tops are hiding in the back ! 

  There are almost enough

 blocks done for a green twin sized quilt. 

There are already two pink quilts complete and waiting 

in the closet so I can't wait to do some more  quilting

 

and photograph a log cabin tower!

A real log cabin bonanza! 

Stay safe and sew on!

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Pretty in Pink 2

 More results from the batting cutting frenzy

a while ago are finally getting stitched. 

First on the table was the red  " Not Quite Postage  Stamps".

Next,  the pink log cabins were getting a turn. 

They each have a single batt of Hobbs 80/20 inside. 

Quilting a line down the diagonal of the colorful 

pink strips seems to be accenting the colors and is 

very pleasing to the eye.  I was going to add echo line, since

the light colored strips were getting left out of the quilting,

but the large cross hatch worked so well, it wasn't necessary! 

These two plentiful pink beauties are destined for 

the children's charity, Zebra. Here they are ready for binding.

Once again here in the blog verse, a few days time slip and...

   

Ta da!  They are complete!

This one measures 45" 56" and, as seen during binding,

 

has cute up-cycled flannel on the back to make it cozy.

Thank you to DH for holding services on a beautiful sunny day!

The next, larger one got the same treatment and measures

64" x 72" with the wonderful multicolored back that 

was also shown off in and earlier post.

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Yes these are the ones with the kicking corners,

 I was certainly on a roll that day!

Now the questions of the moment, okay you from the Times.

"How many pink quilts in all?"

Four , count'em four!

And from the Journal?   

 "Do you have any pink scraps left?"

Yes, yes I do. 

Pink is not even my favorite colour!

Yikes!  The rest will be waiting for next year's scrap tamer.

Can you guess what I am working on now?!

Stay safe and sew on !

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Red Red Red!

 Preschoolers and toddlers really affect our

song choices don't they!  Quilting up this 

red, "Not quite postage stamp" has me singing

the color song !  The next line is usually, 

"The table is reeed! "  Today it is definitely,

the squares are reeed! 

Here it is all ready to stitch, pins in place. 

After looking at the back , I decided to

quilt from the back so all the pins had to shift.

Next off, under the needle. 

Quilting up this many seams wonder, was 

not as difficult as I'd imagined! The back 

had the large, all over pattern and a suggestion

came into my brain to follow the pattern. 

Well, that didn't work. I thought I had mapped 

it out well enough to be continuous but after 

twice around the edge it got way out of control. 

So I switched it up and went with large overlapping

curves and it finished nicely.  I will save the clouds

and crescent moon pattern for my next quilting session. 

I would also like to do a simpler grid on a postage

stamp quilt so there are lots more in my future. 

I am still not sure if the chunky thread used on the top is 

my favorite, but I think only a quilter would have an

opinion and few of my quilts are given to fellow quilters. 

The edge of this quilt sandwich got zig zag because, Wow, 

what a lot of seams. 126 to be exact!

Then the line up for trimming made me appreciate the large 

tables in the work space. 

 The kitchen table got to keep its plants!

Who doesn't love a nice straight trim!

This quilt is currently unassigned but I am sure it wont be long

before a need comes up.  Just a binding decision to make and 

there will be another finish for 2023! 

Time slip!

 Here it is, all sewn up and with a binding!

The blue inner border really makes the red sparkle.

A bright sunny day made photography fun!

Stay safe and sew on !

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Bounty from a Quilt Show!

 May is a great time to visit quilt 

shows. The world wide event is over, 

summer is breaking thru and the roads are clear.

My good buddies coordinated a meet up at 

a mid province quilt show, The Central Alberta Quilter's Guild. 

I picked up a few goodies and boy are they fun!

First up, a brand new rotary cutter! 

 Yes, I did just rid out 

a bunch but this style is my favorite. The price and 

colour called to me. It is by a newer to me vendor, Ormkraft. 

They sell rotary blades at reasonable prices and this 

cutter has a good feel and action. They do mail order in Canada. 

A local shop did a whiz bang demonstration on notions and 

tools and we were almost cheering from the front! The shop 

owner/presenter was entertaining and we joined the que at

the booth after and came away with a wool mat cleaning tool. 

One of my good buddies MV (we chat almost every morning)

gifted me lovely wool mat material yardage . I put it under my 

ironing board cover so it does not collect thread.  However, 

my design wall has enough thread to do its own embroidery!

This little Gypsy brand tool really cleaned up the space and 

is made of metal  so will last forever!  Great find!

Last but not least is the ITCTA ( Item Too Cute To Avoid). 

These adorable mini cutting mats also by Ormkraft.

A set of four was under $10 so they came home with me!

They will be great for random small piece trimming and 

even coasters for a quilt chat. 

It was certainly a great time with friends and shopping. 

The show was great too!. 

Stay safe and sew on !

 

Some in, Some out, All good!

 I have a change to my stash report!  

Yay! It has been a slow start this 

year but I finally have another finish. 

Surprisingly , it looks a lot like the 

last one only larger!!

This twin pink quilt is destined for 

the Zebra foundation . It has a Hobbs 

80/20 bat with an up cycled 

sheet (wrong size for the spare bed)  

on the back in wonderful soft and happy colours. 

Oh look, a bit of orange there too!

The quilting follows the edges of the colour bars

of the courthouse step blocks and I machine bound

all this pink delight with a scrappy binding. 

Finishing out at 64 x 72 inched it makes a nice twin. 

That brings my totals up to:

2023 STASH TOTALS

           Used last week:           6 m 1 quilt

Used year to date:       23  m

                                      Scraps out               0 m    

                                   (1 bag=/.5 k=.5m)  

                                      Scraps In                  0  m

Added last week:          5 m (shop hop Great deals)

                                  Year to date:            47 m bolt 27m bucket batiks 15m

Net added in 2023          22.5 meter

Some more scraps are on their way but 

until they are in the door, they don't count!

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Who's in a Bind?

 Wow, finally lots of binding going on here!  

This is what I ended up with after a busy few days, 

hiding from the smoke and sewing into the wee  hours. 

First scary pictures of smoke and fire, yikes. 

 Rest assured, the cows are safe! 

Now a happy picture of quilts with binding ready to 

sew from Friday night!!Woot woot! 

Four , count'em, four quilts to bind! 

Friday Night Sew In, I made up four sets of 

binding and solved 2 mysteries with some cute 

Aussie detectives!  Saturday morning, I virtually

stitched on one complete binding with a group from 

all over at  The Idiot Quilter's pop up online sew day!

Lots of stitching and lots of fun!  They started up at 6 my time

and had a little lie in and joined them just after 7am. 

 It was fun and surprisingly, 

I finished the entire binding on a twin sized pink quilt. Yay! 

Look at this killer corner!  My sewjo was on!

We chatted about subscription boxes during the sew day and 

a few good ideas came up. One in progress, trading by mail, is 

selling unwanted or " just not my style" fabric or swapping 

with a group , reasonable pricing and 

great fun getting packages in the mail. 

The other, (my suggestion) just sending your UFOs

 out to people and hope they return them finished! 

What, no takers, so disappointing!

Any way, a fun morning before we went out into the smoke and 

helped some of our kids plant a garden. 

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RSC 2023

Not quite abandoned! RSC

 Argh.  I had planned all my RSC projects

and made the fatal mistake of choosing one

with too much white!  

So instead of sending

the blocks to the orphanage, 

they've been redesigned into something different!

First I tried to make the crumb scrap Irish Chain

but in a small size. It looked incomplete with only 

the six large blocks  sooo, 

I moved them around a bit and came up with 

something that looks a bit like a small hills. 

 Still needed a little bit of something,  

I dug into the wonky star pile and added them to the 

sides to make the ratio more appealing. 

After a few switches of the colors, 

I came up this arrangement! More stars finished

out each side and the size is good.

 I am calling it Toddler's staircase.

My flurry of making backs and pinning, created some 

larger bits and a nice stripy back will suit this little blue baby. 

The stars spice it up nicely and it is a 

good save for a project that lost it way!

Stay safe and find a good place for those

abandoned blocks. 

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Almost mid year! Stash report!

 My oh my!  I looked at stash reports

this morning and not only am I big

on the  intake side, I am behind

on tracking.  Here is a quick review!

I track my scraps/culled fabrics out

so I have that.  I received 2 larger gifts of 

fabric so there's a big plus. 

There are lots of tops in the vault ,but

those do not count until the binding is 

on  (but I do have 7 twin size tops so I am making progress!)

There are 3 quilted and waiting for binding.

One more is under the needle.

Finishes this year have been few but great

to work on. 

A big wonky finish for a family set,

baby log cabin to match,

and a repurpose of some RSC blocks

into Toddler's Steps. 

So this year looks like :

2023 STASH TOTALS

                        Used last week:           17 m 1 queen 2 baby quilts

Used year to date:       17  m

                                      Scraps out               7.5 m    

                                   (1 bag=/.5 k=.5m)  

                                      Scraps In                  1  m

Added last week:          5 m

                                  Year to date:            42 m bolt 27m bucket batiks 15m

Net added in 2023          23.5 meter

Something gets stitched nearly

every day in the sewing room

but I did take a month off when we went on a holiday

so I am activily stitching extra!! A hard task but

someone has to do it!?!

Happy Stitching!

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