Showing posts with label triangle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label triangle. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Diamonds In the Rough

My year of making string quilts started out

with these lovely color family isosceles triangles.

The blocks are coming along nicely.


Smaller amounts of lovely greens and purples,




and yellow, blues and oranges.


Surprisingly, a large amount of browns, 


and the same amount of beige/white units!


Red seems to be the big winner!


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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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Pin Me Up & Show Me Off

 Over time I have discovered that 

many quilters seem to be

avid collectors of small items.

Personally, I seem to collect

buttons, beads, pins and odd costume rings.

I also seem to accidentally, collect commemorative pins.

You know the ones who have tucked away somewhere

from shop hops, quilt shows, shopping trips, special 

fund drives and special occasions.

They lived for a long while , stuffed in a drawer.

I finally found a great solution used by a few 

of my Quilting buddie.  

Put them on the wall hangings!  

So here they are !

The first is small wall quilt,

made by retired art quilter, Lorie S. 

 The perfectly pieced triangles are a 

great backdrop for these cute shopping and friendship pins.



The next display area is a small quilt I used to cover

one of my sewing machines.

The quilt itself is a memento of  great times,

 and the pins add to its charm by highlighting other adventures.


Many also get displayed on 

some of my nametags,

The pins get shown off at

 meetings until the 

lanyard gets too heavy and 

I have to move some of the weight to the wall displays.










Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Happy Holiday!

 Well there's nothing like being off the grid for a 

month to recharge your batteries and inspire your creativity.

A tropical trip with many adventures, both culinary

and active really sparked some 

interesting brain activity and memories.

A lovely tropical cruise provided

beautiful vistas,


 fantastic flora

and many animal encounters.

These nectar loving birds, Purple-throated Carib,

 were delightful to watch.



I hope you all missed me and now 

it's time to get back to blogging.

One of the highlights of the trip,

was a stop at the Caribbean Boutique Factory.


It wasn't actually a factory but a storefront and 

shop with demonstration area where 

visitors could peruse a wealth of beautifully

artistic batiks and learn about the 

process used to create them.

All the designs are individually drawn

using straight edges and freehand together

to create unique views of the islands.






Then, sequential alterations of dying and wax applications,

create the intense buildup of colors,

culminating in unique artistic pieces.






There are many all over patterned fabrics as well as

thematic art pieces suitable for framing.

It was a delightful visit.

Stay tuned for some more tales of  

our tropical adventure.


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Monday, March 3, 2025

Tower of Power


Organization is so empowering!
I was gifted a big tower of drawers.


            It precipitated a reorganizing of the sewing room. 

           The question for now is to what to put in the drawers.

               I think I will reevaluate the chunk piles

       that I have in my stash closet. My BB
recently took all her chunks and
cut them into workable strips,

and I think that might be the direction I am headed.

To start off, though, I'm getting projects ready for a retreat.

The chunks will move to the top of the list

if I get done with that.

My most popular size of scrap is 2 1/2".

I used up a goodly supply last year making

the stash buster Irish Chains.

There are still copious amounts of strips remaining.

Organization is great, but I feel that being

organized won't help you get anything done if

you don't spend time in the sewing room.

One particular blogger I follow, Kate over at

Life in Pieces

encourages us to track how much time we spend sewing.

A small goal will encourage us

all to make some time to get some stitching done. 

When we do that we often find that getting a little

stitching is good for our soul and ours psyche.

I think I will sort some more chunks

by color to ease up some of the stress

in my sewing room.

The center section is already color sorted,



but the two sections to the sides are

a jumble of recently acquired chunks from various sources.





I'll also may start storing 2 1/2 inch strips by color.

It would make for easier and

tidier set up when I'm ready to sew.

I will let it happen organically when

I'm working on projects.


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