Filling up the Vault!

 The raid on the block bank was very successful. 

There are now seven more tops to go into the vault!

My storage closet of tops to quilt is getting quite crowded!

Five are children's tops (40" x 40") from wonky stars 

and 2 1/2" squares. 

The blue, red and pink ones have already 

been displayed but the yellow and orange 

are a worth a look!  

The colors are not quite as bright in the photos. 

One is made of the last of the pinks from 

April that were swirling around my sewing table. 

It is a very organic top, with the alternating columns

made from found strips from the scrap bag. 

The last is a 50" x 70" top made from my stock 

of 5 x 5 blocks. 

 It may end up with an inner frame 

and larger outer border of larger squares. It would 

also work being quilted up and 

bound with a saucy black binding. 

Next up on the schedule is pulling prints for backs. 

Then it  will be on to work on green blocks for the 

triangle rainbow quilt, 

and starting the 

borders for the big string stars quilts. 

The rainbow hourglass needs a round

of green also! 

Lots of sewing fun ahead for me!

Stay safe and sew on!

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Stash and stitching time , last week of April

 Well, holidays really cut into stitching time, 

but a break is always good for a recharge !!

So the total for April for stitching is:

First up , my sewing time.

Jan  23/31

Feb 19/28

Mar 27/31

Apr 15/30

80% success so far!

2022 STASH TOTALS

Used last week:           14 m

Used year to date:     69 m

   Added last week:            0.0 m

Added year to date:      57 m

Net added in 2022      2 m

I did get two more bags of scraps in 

so I'd better get busy stitching them up. 

Here is picture my recent finishes. 

These have been gifted so officially out the door!

Stash report!

15 Minutes To Stitch

Finish it up!!

 Sometimes, time keeps on ticking and holidays 

make it tick on by!!

A deadline flew past me so I had to buckle up 

and get things done!

The great big strings actually made it off to 

the baby shower on time! I pulled a late nite

sew a thon and completed both the large and small 

quilts for soon to be family!

The quilting was done,

binding was sewn,

and then I realized the companion quilt 

was not ready!!!

Some creative digging into the vault 

ended up with this little yellow top!

I had a back and backing ready so I layered and pinned, 

drafted my DH to unpin, re-layered, stitched , quilted , 

trimmed, bound labeled and de-threaded!!

The end result!

The strips go nicely together, stringy all around .

The cute little baby quilt even has tiny robots on the binding!

A nice pair to welcome a first child and new family!

Best of all, these two quilts are gifted!

Stay safe and keep on stitching!

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Breaking into the Block Vault!

 What a great trip we had to the warm south! 

 

We did return to snowy weather tho.

 Snow makes a great day to break into the block

bank and stitch up all these blocks

that have been waiting for way too long. 

There are enough star blocks to combine 

with 5 x 5 blocks to make a wonderful 

 bunch of  children's quilts. 

4 blocks x 4 blocks  will make a nice 40" finished quilt. 

A few of the blocks laid out really

look nice so I am excited to get

them in the works!

So, a bit of time traveling and here we are!

Three lovely little tops ready and a few

scraps into the quiltverse to fulfill their dreams!

The first top was red made from block made

in January on a super focused sew day. 

Next was a very impressive blue top . 

I trimmed my squares this time and found

there wasn't a lot to trim off. 

That is a bit of edification, yay me!

The four star squares in the red looked a little lonely 

so I added few more in this top and really like the look. 

My star pile appears to have regenerated over night tho.

 

Then, finally the pink.   

 I felt I over did last year and used more pink than

a well known makeup convention but still found 

more pink scraps in the bins/bags. 

 I did have to make up some 5 x 5 blocks 

to show off these stars.

A sewing friend even

helped out by sending me some of her pinks!

This little top turned out to be the star! The colors

flow nicely together and it is a joy to look at .

There are quite a few blocks to be liberated yet. 

Thirty red 5 x 5 blocks, twelve orange 5 x 5 s, 

and a gorgeous yellow stars & blocks is 

emerging on the design wall. 

Looks like some sew days ahead!

Great goal would be to quilt these up!

A big spring rabbit came by and dove 

down the hole of cutting and binding!

That is for the next post! 

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String time is just around the corner!

 A little pun to start off with! 

One of my two big scrap gifts

included a big tote with a lot of 

strings. Combined with some on 

hand, I've had some great string time

lately! Catching up on my RSC colors

kept me busy for a while but now 

I have a goodly collection of string stars. 

The question is, do I make 2 quilts using 

one star of each color, use multiple colors in

each quilt or make many quilts with each

using one color of star?  Decisions, decisions!

So far I have two yellow, two teal , two red

and two green stars. 

 Each quilt would need nine

24" star blocks, a 2"border and  a 6" border to 

finish at a good 88" , a nice queen size quilt. 

It is really fun to make the string stars and 

use up some scraps, so I will keep making 

string stars and hopefully end up with 

two flimsies!

 The big strings is still waiting for the more needle time. 

The threads are chosen, bobbins are wound so later today 

I can finish up the stitching. 

The little matching "Strings" needs to

done up too!  I am pulling out some strips to get started.

 I will keep the strips long and skinny. 

Making them shorter would

be a coin quilt so the baby string quilt will

about 40" x 40" and use 10" strips. 

It will give a good effect of the strings

but still have four rows for variety and 

allow color gradation!!

Sewing on !  

A squirrel ran across the table after my 

last binding session and I had to sort out the binding pile. 

I used to call it a library but that would imply

organization!  It was more like a binding heap!

I use 2 1/2" binding so I culled out anything smaller and 

of it went to a string pile.

 The shorter but lovely ones

were bundled for scrap binding and the remainder 

tied up to store.  I discarded any I didn't love to 

the " scraps for crafts and sewing" pile to donate. 

The only "nut" is this box of commercial bindings. 

Assorted sizes, lengths and colors.

I rarely use them , so.. I will search for 

someone making ditty bags for our local seniors and 

they can be used for drawstrings !  Yay a viable solution.

Off to pull strings and Sew On!

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OMG Almost finished April

Whoo hoo!

A great holiday and almost one quilt done!

This great big strings is all quilted!

It still needs binding and a small back

repair but I will count it!

 Now to get the 

matching baby quilt in the works and

April will be a glowing success!

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Round 'em up!

 We are taking a brief hiatus

so I want to get my projects 

organized a bit. Nothing feels better than 

coming back to sewing room with projects 

ready to go!!

First up my rainbow scrap projects. 

All the big star blocks are on track . 

Then I have the hourglass top . It is 

ready for the next round of blocks 

but I am unsure about the quantity of 

pink this month's  RSC will add to this quilt. 

Here is a little secret a friend and I discovered last week.

The center of my hourglass quilt is a bit smaller 

than the original design!  I left out 2 blocks!

It will be find tho, just slightly more square.  

Some lovely star surrounded blocks in 

pink are waiting in the wings so they can 

be worked on soon.

 Pink crumbs could be 

done up with the leftover bits and the larger

ones can be made into some 5  x 5 blocks 

to join their fellows on the wall. 

There are also 4 coin strips waiting for a 

fifth to be sewn up to complete a top similar 

to this one. 

 I think a deep pinky/purple would be perfect!

Good progress is being made on my next triangle

color quilt pair.  The green , red, blue and yellow

blocks halves are done so now I can work on the pinks.

If I keep tallying up my outstanding projects I may 

miss my trip and keep sewing thru the summer! 

I just wanted to share a lovely thrift shop find. 

This beautiful hand stitched table cloth 

is perfect for our family antique table!

Sometimes I get lucky!

Stay safe and sew on !

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