August OMG Windup

Finished 7 wheelchair quilts this month! 

Three are left of the original 10 tops I had planned. 

It seems that these little quilts lend themselves

so well to spare blocks, I just keep finding 

more items to turn into tops!

Next month's goal may be the same, 

to finish/make more wheelchair quilts!

Each 36" x 45" quilt has a back pocket

and a small holiday stitchery piece since they 

will be  given at Christmas time. 

This one has a matching binding.

I used a black binding on this one. 

There was enough of the yellow left to 

bind with yellow too. 

Four more were completed too, you can 

see them pictured here. 

The puzzle feeling of piecing together

orphan blocks and odd block 

pieces seems to be contagious 

as 2 more sewing friends are 

working on these small, useful quilts too!

I will sure have fun making another pile next month!

Stay safe and sew on !

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Stash Reporting End of August

 Two big finishes for me this week. 

They don't count unless a binding is on!

All the quilts I make are machine bound. 

As the years march on, every moment 

becomes more precious and I love 

zipping thru binding.  A few friends

really enjoy the process of hand stitching

a binding and I envy their patience. 

Here are the numbers for this week:

 2023 STASH TOTALS

  Used last week:     22 m

Used year to date:       86  m

                                      Scraps out               0. m   

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

                                      Scraps In                  1  m

Added last week:        0 m

                                  Year to date:            111 m bolt 27m, bucket batiks 15m

destash gift 68m

Net added in 2023          15.5 meters

Queen sized quilts really up the usage count. 

These two beauties are now complete.

This lovely queen is destined to be 

a wedding quilt!

A large twin, this wonky log 

cabin will go off to a teen in crisis.

 This pattern will be made again as 

I do love the look of the blue log cabin. 

Stay safe and sew on !

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15 Minutes to Stitch

 

Progress and Completion!

 Finally, I have some big finishes thanks to 

sewing all day Saturday and a Friday Night Sew In.

All that sewing carried on again solo for 

Monday and another big top was stitched up. 

This will go into my cozy collection if  need 

doesn't pop up.  The rainbow design makes

such a great wedding or house warming gift,

that I have made this pattern twice before

but gifted it instead of keeping it!

This 86" x 86" is a real RSC quilt with many colored 

string squares and a nice black sashing. Having such 

large squares makes it get large fast . 

Two or three squares sets of each color 

provide lots of variety and opportunity for

each color to shine!

Digging thru my bin of large yardage (say that three times fast) 

produced some wide width backing and 

this quilt enjoys a grey and 

black botanical back.

The smaller blue , 62" x 78" was a joy to stitch and moved 

               easily under my needle.  I think ease of quilting on a 

              domestic really depends on the designs that we choose. 

               Many starts and stops always take me so much longer 

         and I get a little frustrated trimming off all the little eyelashes

                                    from the automatic cutter.  

                                 A cross-quilt pattern or character             

             stipple really makes the quilting faster and more enjoyable.

                         This blue wonky log cabin turned out so well

                                  everyone (thing?) is enjoying it !

Stay safe and sew on!

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Whoop Whoop

RSC 2023

Oh Scrap!