The Little Owl quilt is a finish!
Pulling off the cover of big Bernie was the answer,
and I had a wonderful evening stitching up lots of pink.
and finished up with a rough outline of the Little Owls themselves.
The Little Owl quilt is a finish!
Pulling off the cover of big Bernie was the answer,
and I had a wonderful evening stitching up lots of pink.
and finished up with a rough outline of the Little Owls themselves.
The sewing group I joined when I first moved
to northern Alberta no longer meets but
we still manage a retreat each year.
I took along the second hopscotch box
to work on. There were about 1/3 of
blocks made up so I had a pleasant afternoon
stitching away on twosies to get it underway.
Then, I arrived at the edges.
The original pattern shows a confetti like
border but I wanted the blocks to flow
into the border and appear to be floating.
I took a small hiatus and hung out in the
beautiful Alberta Rockies for the weekend.
grizzly paw Mountain Trail Marathon.
Canmore Nordic center.
We enjoyed fantastic weather,
lots of camaraderie and the kids both
finished well in their classes.
The Young Buck of the family actually
ran all five legs of the marathon and finished 8th in his class,
so overachievement all the way around!
We managed to get it all four seasons in one weekend.
Saturday morning was cool and fall like.
Later in the morning it was still cool
but beautiful like a spring morning.
Early afternoon was bright and sunny,
without too much heat for the runners,
The evening began to cool off
with a tiny spit of rain by dinner time.
A perfect day for running through the woods.
The next day we awoke to.... Snow!
We walked thru the beautiful town of Canmore
and had a delightful lunch at a café.
Truly a wonderful vacation.
Now on to the stitching!
The cover is coming off and
I'm going to start working
on decreasing my personal backlog.
First up will be that adorable little owl quilt.
Horizontal stitches across the quilt,
will run up to each of the owls.
The owls will be outlined and
maybe accented with one line of echo quilting.
A nice complimentary binding and it should be done!
Happy Stitching!
A little owl quilt is turning out to be quite a hoot!
The strips of flannel were given to me in a bag of scraps
from one of the guild's charity groups.
There was a wealth of blue and pink flannel scraps.
The little owls were part of a grab bag at a quilting garage sale.
The mention of a quilt needed for a new cousin
by one of my DILs, made my brain
jump into action and the cuteness of the
little owl print squares did the rest!
It came together right on the design wall,
with no written plan, so the spacing of the owls
is very random.
the same is happening with the back.
A white strip of donated knobbly minky,
are going together to make a nice pieced backing.
This top may or may not end up with batting
as the weight of the flannel and the minky
could make it cuddly enough without a batt.
That will be decided at the pinning stage.
~~pin, pin, pin~~
This little quilt definitely needs a batting.
The different weights of the minky and the flannel
will be evened out by a batting.
Oh the pinning was fun!
We'll see the finished quilt in a few weeks!
It was definitely a hoot!
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The last retreat did not produce a border for
the many strings quilt,
but it did inspire a new quilt using the borders that were too wide .
Pinned up on the design wall it looked like this.
I had great plans to use the sew along
leftover gold 2" strips
as sashing for this quilt,
but they weren't really making the colours pop.
So I started auditioning colours.
Just like Goldilocks,
the black was too dark
there's not enough of this green,
My year of making string quilts started out
with these lovely color family isosceles triangles.
The blocks are coming along nicely.
They will end up in a few different tops.
It is possible that one will be completely blue,
with maybe a hint of yellow or green thrown into spice it up.
Maybe even black, which always makes the colors pop.
Blue is my largest scrap color
so there are a lot more scraps to be sewn up.
There weren't any gray strips lining up
to go into the triangle blocks.
The gray drawer in my storage bin,
has an abundance of strips so I may revise that,
in order to add gray to one of the colors
that's a little short on blocks.
That was my initial plan but a
color wash top would be fun too!
The color piles were moved in to storage bins in
the workroom to present a bit tidier look for zoom meetings .
The tidy lightens up the mood too!
Stay Safe and Sew on
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