Here it Comes!

 Wow, what a busy time the end of the year is becoming!

Sew days, shopping days, and days of preparation for guests!

It is interesting but we all seem to love the excitement!

The weekend sew days were very productive! More about 

them next post. Today it is all about the season coming up! 

With turkey soup still simmering for most, my seasonal 

softies are coming out today so get set for the show!

First up, this little wall hanging stays up all 

year.  A good friend made it and it is like having

a visit every time it catches my eye.

My little GS climbs onto a chair and 

touches corner teddy buttons every time he visits. 

Then there is this interesting and memorable

Christmas window. 

 My BB ( best buddy)

and I each made one at a retreat.  It was 

memorable as it was it was my 

first project with so many techniques. 

A friend's spouse even cut wooden lights 

half for the accents!

Here are some little woolly friends 

that hang in kitchen. They look a bit 

wrinkly but we all do as we age so we

wont hold it against them!

( I will give them a press!)

This next little runner hangs beautifully over 

the basement railing.  It works from 

both sides so it is a favorite.

 I love the checkerboard portions too.

A tree hanging is always lovely.  One very hectic winter, 

(four teenagers in house and company coming), 

we managed to get all the decorations up 

with everyone helping.  A visitor arrived and 

commented on the unusual hanging on the 

stairway. It was upside down!

This next Dresden plate was made by a crafty SIL.

It fits perfectly on our heritage wind chair. 

The last two are very sweet and 

sentimental . My two oldest wanted 

to make something so we put 

together these two flying geese trees. 

 The then 7 & 8 year olds quilted them by hand. 

A very special memory. 

Don't get too crazy this holiday season. 

Take time to relax and maybe quilt!

Stay safe and sew on !

Linking up with:

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Put Your Foot Down 

Monday Musings

Midweek Makers

To do Tuesday

Wait Loss Wednesday

Monday Sew & Tell

 

Last Stash Report of November!

 No change in stash numbers but a goodly 

amount  of projects are moving forward!

The pineapple quilt is getting a back, then

off to the long arm tomorrow. That will 

become part of my Cozy Collection. 

The black log cabin block stack is now 

down to 20 pieces and the plan for 

it in my brain is almost solidified. 

See the two counting clips?

 I may even use a  tiny solid zinger border to 

top off the last of these wild blocks. 

The third of the four tops made from 

the big pile, is getting its color slash 

border this week.  The wheel did get 

reinvented a few times during this 

process but by the fourth border I 

really got my mojo in line and was 

sailing thru the piecing. 

A table runner got started but 

since it seems I never follow directions, 

I now have enough of a forest to 

decorate the Christmas table and the sideboard!

The weekend finished up with 30 more 

Terry Rowland 3 1/2" blocks so the sew 

days count as a winning weekend for me!

Stay safe and sew on!

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15 Minutes to Stitch

Everybody's working for the Weekend!

 Yep , we are, working for the weekend this week. 

There is a two day UFO weekend and boy do I have some!

First up is the little cuddle quilts to be 

made from the GKs( grandkids) sleepers.  

A friend gave me some minky  type fabric 

so they may get all sewn up.  The plan is to use the 

arm and leg bits for a nice fringe around!  

Yes this did change up the numbers for 

the stash report. The new numbers are:

 2023 STASH TOTAL

Used last week:     0 m

Used year to date:       133  m

                                      Scraps out               0.0 m   

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

                                       Scraps In                0.5  m

Added last week:        2 m

                                 Added Year to date:            177 m bolt 27m, bucket batiks 15m

destash gift 68m

Net added in 2023         12. meters

Next will be the pineapple. The rows are ready to join

so I can stitch them up with one small switch to separate

some blue corners.

 

If all that gets completed, there are two more black/crazy 

log cabins that need centers stitched together.  The border

treatment will be different for each one.

 

It sure sounds like a busy and entertaining weekend for me!

Stay Safe  and Sew on!

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Wednesday Wait Loss

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Finished or Not Friday

Friday Foto Fun

Peacock Party

RSC 2023

Oh Scrap

Sunday is a Fun Day

 Lots of sewing fun this week and even 

some things accomplished!  This even 

lead to a change in numbers!

2023 STASH TOTALS

  Used last week: 18 m

Used year to date:       151  m

                                      Scraps out               .5 m   

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

                                      Scraps In                 0.0  m

Added last week:        0.0 m

                                 Year to date:            147 m bolt 27m, bucket batiks 15m

destash gift 68m

Net added in 2023         -39.0 meters

First up, the pineapple quilt top is almost assembled. 

There were a few bumps 

along the way .  I got ahead of myself 

and skipped a trimming step so a few 

blocks had to be finished up

and retrimmed so it is almost ready to join. 

It looks great tho, doesn't it? 

Unfortunately, the longarmer is 

way behind and it will be complete in time for 

a spring showing on my bed!

Then I zipped up a binding or three! 

Here are the fronts. These quilts are RSCs from this year. 

Here are the backs! The yellow yardage is finished 

so now I can move on to some nice prints.

 Getting near the end of the pinned pile.

There are still lots of other things to 

quilt in the flimsy vault tho!

 Our bee group's charity's headquarters fell victim to fire 

so they will be needing additional quilts at 

end of the month. These small twin quilts should 

do nicely. My BB (best buddy) left a pile of

wonderful quilts to help out. She is amazingly generous.

 

Holiday events are starting soon so let's all get

our jingle on!

Stay safe and sew on !

Linking up with : 

Stash Report 
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Peacock Party 

Whoop Whoop

Finished or Not Friday

Oh Scrap!

RSC 2023

Patchwork and Quilts

Block Bank! Banking day!

 Look thru the block bank !

Well this is sure an eye opener! 

A brain twist started me thinking about listing

my UFOs etc on a blog page 

(thank you Kate at Life in Pieces for the inspiration)

 so I dug thru my UFO basket.  It seems a majority are 

block parts that should go up in the Block 

Bank Basket. However, there are quite

a few that could easily be sewn up into tops. 

So  I will be busy stitching up more tops!

There are also a wealth of passed on projects

from give and take tables, "here I am tired of this:

and "you do it " moments. Once those are moved 

out of the basket along with the never 

started but great ideas bags, the UFO basket 

isn't actually that full ! 

(Okay 14 projects, some are resting elsewhere!) 

 Look at all the blocks though!

Yee haw some good tops in there!  There are still 

a good stack of little star blocks that could be 

added into these so the creative juices seem 

to have been set in motion. 

The first one roughly planned out maybe one of two designs.

An all square top using different sized squares. 

I have blocks of squares that look like they should

play nicely together. It could be a true , 

Earthquake at the post office quilt!

 

The blocks could also be combine with some curvy 

nine patch blocks. Really not sure if it would be 

pleasing to eye with the curves mixed.

   

Experimenting awaits!

Stay Safe and Sew On.

Sunday Stash Report , a Misty Morning

 Another Brigadoon day for the small town I live in

We are actually a city now for various political reasons,

but small town sounds better to me.  

The Brigadoon 

reference is from a classic movie of the same name. 

Two young men walk thru the mist and end up in 

a small town where time and progress seemed to 

have stopped.  Not quite the same as here but the

morning mist always brings the move to mind.

We are getting misty morning instead of snow

so I am perfectly okay with that. 

Now on to the stitching!

No change in numbers, but lots of sewing this 

week. Thirty blocks are  a good start on 

the last log cabin of the year.

 It will be a 2 sided behemoth for my cozy 

collection. I can't miss the chance to have

another log cabin for my bed.  Two 

smallish bags of strips were used up in 

the making of blocks so it is a win all the way 

around. We did venture out for a hockey game

but it was a no win situation. We enjoyed the even tho

and had a great time with family. 

Oh, and late last nite I won bobbin chicken!!

There is the empty bobbin, and yes something 

still under the needle !  Yay!

Stay safe and sew on !

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Whoop Whoop

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Foto Fun!

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Patchwork & Quilts

Buddha bowl fabric

 Have you every had a fabric that just seemed to never run out?

I have had three over my quilting calling. 

Sale fabric that was perfect as background and backing for a quilt, 

I used it up and yet..  I keep finding scraps years later.

Another fabric purchased since it was such a great bargain it 

couldn't be left was a red leaf print. The bolt had some cuts fresh

 from the factory so I bought three meters. 

It really seemed to reproduce over time. 

 I used some  earlier this year for a binding. 

 The piece seemed to come out of hiding just for the project. 

My next  Buddha fabric is really 

 two white on white fabrics, one with 1/4" dots and 

the other with 1/4" diamonds.  I split a bolt of each with a 

sewing buddy two decades ago (or more)  and still come 

across bits of it. They seem to show up whenever 

I need white scraps!

Here is bit of the dot one, the diamonds are being

 elusive this am. 

It is such a delight to find them in amongst the scraps.

Stay safe and sew on!

Here is a Buddha blessing.

• "Three things cannot be long hidden: 
• the sun, the moon, and the truth."

I guess some of that never ending fabric too!