Long time sewing!!

 Well, zooming ahead here. 

I participated in a  sewing day   (via zoom)

so lots to report  today! 

My 1/2 block lozenge set  got a rework. 

I found a lovely pattern for 

white background 1/2 squares, 

so I changed out the white 

backgrounds, for beige or off whites. 

A dozen of those scrap lozenge blocks

are now ready for the parts department. 

The pattern I found uses low volume 

background squares to set off the 

white & colored 1/2 squares. 

I found a picture from 2019 here.

Pop by her blog for some triangle fun!

Mine will be called Triangle Musko!

Those waiting triangles must go!! 

With my sew day companions for support, 

I was able to ... finally get block chain together!  

Another  flimsy for the horde!

I really need a quilt week, I have gifted 

quite a few quilts lately so need  to quilt up 

the vault and build up the reserve a bit!

The pink parts that were waiting 

found their friends.

The top should be sewn up tomorrow.  

If the planets align and the Northern lights 

are shining( for more inspiration),

I may get 2 more little pink quilts out for the Zebra 

charity on Wednesday! I will 

pillowcase close this one and 

the Pink Pillars I made last week.

The rest of sew day was spent working 

on the pineapple blocks . I sorted scraps 

and did another round on almost 80 blocks

so that is definitely progress.

The blocks will be trimmed up during 

 another sewing session. 

I even got some stop and go pieces put 

together for a bali border !

I am off now to tidy up some scraps

Stay safe and sew on !

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Happy Halloween!

 

Get those quilted!

 Well, I really need to get some tops quilted! 

The extra motivation that

may help get me there is 

coming from OMG (One Monthly Goal) at 

Elm Creek Quilts.

I am going to make my November goal to pin 

and quilt at least 2 tops!

Combined with cleaning up my scrap disaster,

 this goal should keep me busy as 

we chug into the holiday season! 

These are the two beauties

I am going to work on!

This one is a Stretched Star 

( look at the white corners and you will see it).

It measures 82 x 84 . 

 This one is Berries and Cream. 

It measures 82 x 91.

They are both hanging in my flimsy vault 

right now. It is getting impressive in size!

Here is the scrap disaster

I need to tame. Argh , no judgement please!

Full disclosure , there are also a number 

of TUBS that are filed with scraps but..

baby steps!!

A stern conversation with myself 

has resulted in the sizes to cut:

Strips- 1 1/2", 2 1/2" and 31/2 " min 12" long

Any 1 1/2" strips shorter than 12" go to crumbs or toss.

The wider strips shorter than 12" go to

 Bricks - 2" x 3 1/2", 2 1/2" x 4 1/2"-6 1/2", 3 1/2" x 6 1/2"

Squares- 2", 2 1/2", 3 1/2", 5", 10"

Strings - anything more than 12" & less than 1 1/2" wide 

I will attempt to keep 

a smallish container of crumbs too!

Wish me luck !

Stay safe and sew on !

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Look, Progress!

 Well, I actually got 

some things moved along!

This little baby quilt has 

a back and is all quilted. 

One of my former Girl Guiders

 asked me if the pattern is a Guide knot,

 and it is very close!

The joy

 of working with scraps

is the surprises you find along the way. 

Do you see the little snowman peaking out? 

The next block shows an 

inquisitive ginger bread man!

Happy accidents both ! 

Lots of progress on other 

fronts too! 

Block chain is  almost a  flimsy!

Just six more seams and a trim !

The last of the florals ( 8 in total)

are complete and 1 is gifted. The 

second is dropped off  for delivery to 

the zebra charity also! 

I even baked banana bread

for a new neighbor and met 

her adorable English sheep dog puppy!

The bread is the 3 ingredient type 

so quick to make but oh so tasty!

They got a whole loaf with

 chocolate chips on top .

Our test loaf was delicious!

A distraction into Pinterest

uncovered some   1/2 patterns 

that may be worth a try!

This week's todo list 

                    1. Finish up block chain top ( carry over)

                    2. Add borders to the scrap lozenge quilt  ( carry over)

                    3. Organize 1/2 square projects

                    4. Sew up pink strips

                    5. Layer a few flimsies

That sounds ambitious enough for 

this week!  

Stay safe and sew on ! 

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On the way to an empty spot! Pink Squirrel!

A great time sewing !

Encouraged by my good friend KS, 

and some blog friends too,  

I sewed up a pile of strips into 

piano key sets for future borders. 

I needed a place to store these

parts so I pulled out a box of 

pink strips thinking I would 

do a jelly roll race. 

But the strips were already

sewn up into coin units! 

Sew today, I will inventory and 

enhance and plan a pink top!

The bits will go into some sort of 

crumby 12 1/2 " block to clear out that 

bin. This may be my first pink squirrel!

I am also making great progress

on my block chain top.  

Since it is raining kittens and 

puppies here, it is a 

great day for finishing

up some projects. 

Now back to the pink. 

There were enough 2 1/2"strips

to make this little top!

I stitched it up during a 

guild zoom meeting. I added the 

dark pink rectangles for interest. 

 The talk was all about quilt batting. 

Very informative!

However , I now have another

top to quilt up! 

I did manage to make up 

some mac and cheese for the kids.

Even found a big bag of crispy 

fried onions at the store , yummy!

 They had a great hiking 

adventure but came home to 

a leaking dishwasher, a broken

washing machine and a soggy floor. 

After hiking in to a wintery cabin for 

a week it was a shock to come home 

to broken appliances!

Just got a note that the dishwasher is

fixed so things are getting better there!

Have a great day sewing!

Oh, and I found this great little 

arrangement for half squares to 

use as my stop and go quilting! 

Stay safe and sew on !

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Moving forward , but slowly!

 Whew!  Why do ours weeks seem 

so busy but progress seem so slow!?

It is getting on to spooky time so 

I just had to share one of my 

neighbor's answers to decorating!

( From the spooky movie IT)

Any way, we celebrated a late Canadian 

thanksgiving yesterday with most of 

the family. Lots of fun and food and baby 

giggles. 

I did have some time this week 

to clean my machine.  I 

even took off the bottom!

It was definitely worth it .

There was lots of fluff and dust. 

When I get stalled out , I do the only thing

 possible an .. sort my pins!

Then , still not out of the slump 

I did the next reboot item...

I organized bobbins!

That helped with the recharge, so the 

next morning I got out my batiks and 

worked on some pineapple centers!

I clip the groups of ten together

to keep organized. 

The creative grids ruler makes 

the pineapple doable for me. 

So this week , I will focus on stripping 

up the wealth of scraps I have piling up,

making some centers for 

bright bits, and more organizing. 

Upon reflection, I did 

get a few items complete from last week!

                         1. Packing up 4 quilts for health care 

                           workers.  All done and shipped!

                        2. Prep a new project or 2 just for fun

                            Doing this now!

                        3. Finish up the last floral Final florals are complete!

                        4. This small top will get a scallop border after 

                            quilting and already has three places to be!

                             It is making me fall back in love with 

                            scrape white backgrounds! 👎

                        5.  The corners did get mitered! This baby 

                            quilt from left over blocks will get 

                            a fuzzy blanket back and no scalloped edge.👎

                               

                        6. Get that block chain pieced !👎

So, my mojo sewjo should be 

back on track shortly! 

Stay safe and sew on !

Linking up to :

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Wow, way up North!

 Great night watching the 

Aurora borealis dance over

our small Alberta town tonight!

Got some great advice to

 use the night setting 

on the camera to get

 stunning pictures even

if the view is muted 

due to city lights. 

Spent some time stitching lots

 of string squares,

 cleaning up scraps and

 finding yet another

project that has to be made!

A large bin of scraps

 is almost used up!!

I went from this bin, 3/4 full,

                                down to 3 small boxes , sorted!

Feeling pretty happy about that!

It is also a great fall day here, 

woke up to ...snow! 

It didn't last, but Mother Nature 

seems to be changing the season 

slowly for us. 

                      Now here is planning for the week ahead!

                      

                        1. Packing up 4 quilts for health care 

                           workers.  

                        2. Prep a new project or 2 just for fun

                      

  Last week's leftovers are  getting added 

 to this week's plan:

                        3. Finish up the last floral

                        4. This small top will get a scallop border after 

                            quilting and already has three places to be!

                             It is making me fall back in love with 

                            scrape white backgrounds!🎃

                        5.  The corners did get mitered! This baby 

                            quilt from left over blocks will get 

                            a fuzzy blanket back and no scalloped edge.

                               

                        6. Get that block chain pieced !

                              1. My walking buddy brought 

over 2 gorgeous quilts 

for donation to Health care workers. 

Both classic patterns.

She has a fantastic eye for 

color and design. 

2. I found a wonderful pattern 

at Andover fabrics, thanks to

The Objects of Design.

It is bright 5" squares with 

 white and black backgrounds.

Mine will be done with

scrap sashing . 

       3. The last floral is under the needle 

today and the binding is ready. 

4 & 5. These two scrap quilts are

ready and waiting to be layered.

6. That poor block chain has got 

to come off the wall! It is 

crypto currency themed 

so it should be moving!!

Have a great week !

Stay safe and sew on!

Linking up to :

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So on and sew on!

 So on and sew on!

What a marvelous time 

this sewing adventure is !

It seems to run the whole course 

of joy and sorrow. Got a call 

for quilts for health care heroes

in this time of trial, (the sorrow)

but the creative outlet and pleasure

from stitching is so great! 

Now on to the stitching!

Cleaned off my sewing desk 

yesterday by spending the whole 

evening crumbing up this pile of 

scraps! Notice the new verb there!

Then, since I seemed to be on a roll 

and my featherweight was humming, 

I worked on emptying a basket of 

strings and pieces! Yay! 

I clip these together in groups of 10. 

It saves a lot of counting time later. 

My daily phone friend 

and I, even looked up the birthdates 

of our featherweights! Mine is 

a 1950 machine and hers is 

two years older!

May continue stringing today after a bit of 

house and yard work. We have 

a visit from the family Drs. too, 

( Phd chemists) so busy day for me!

Finishing up the quilting on 

the last of the florals too!

Have a great week ,

 and Happy Thanksgiving

to all my Canadian family and friends!

Stay safe and sew on !

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