A Great Scrap Burner!

 A very wet week here!

What a wonderful time to 

put the worries behind and escape 

to the sewing room!!

Great progress is happening on 

my big string collection. 

 I can't wait to show this first top complete!

I have enough center, colored blocks for 

3 more tops, cream corners for 2 and 

1/2 square white and color for 1 top. 

The best thing happening are the 

crumb borders.

 They are real scrap 

busters. The beige/white borders

 enhance the contrast and 

definition between the scrap stars and crumb border.

 My big bin of white/cream 

bits is really shrinking! I don't think

I will refill this bin with scraps although it 

is a great storage unit.  Maybe a good place 

for folded fat quarters and chunks. 

Another project for this rainy day is the 

Triangle string quilt. Lots of purple

strings were added to existing half color blocks.   

Still lots more to do since 

this quilt take 132 blocks to get it up 

to a finished  83" x 90".

I check off the blocks complete on this 

weird little pattern.  I put it in a plastic sleeve

so it can be reused for making baby quilts or 

shared with friends. 

This is one of my go-to 

quilt blocks as you know from A Colorful Couple.

Hopefully, this one will make it to my bed !  

Often this one get pressed into wedding quilt 

gifts as the recipients always love the bright colors. 

It is almost time to remove my temporary work space!

It is made up of cases of drinks for  an upcoming, 

much delayed and anticipated wedding celebration!

I'd better move out all my block parts. 

Stay safe and sew on !

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Canada Day and Lots of Everything!

What a great day!

Canada Day!

It started out with a lovely

lie in followed by not the 

best pancakes but tasty!  

( I made them so I can criticize)

Then it was off to zoo for  a great 

and relaxing time with GKs .

We even discovered a new to us 

animal. So great to share a discovery 

with your child. It is a takin. At a distance, 

it looked like a crouching bear. Has hinged 

back legs and can climb like a goat . Not too

bad for an animal that weighs 180 kgs. 

Then off home to wait for fireworks and...

clean the sewing room!  

After a Very full week it needed attention. 

It was so relaxing!  I helped the fellas at 

Midsummer Murders solve a mystery and 

sorted the pins, 

put away the sorted black strips from the 

Color Around the block top I'd finished Thursday,

sorted a lovely bunch of gifted 

 squares and project parts from a friend,

and sewed up and pressed a whole bunch of 

white/cream  strip blocks to make corners for star strings.

 Then we finished the nite with 

the whole town gathering in the park for fireworks.

Thank you for letting me share a fun Friday nite !

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A Very Full Week

 Busy week with lots of stitching, 

visiting and dining!

Lovely dinner last nite with our chemist, 

back from presenting his project to 

corporate bosses in California. 

We visited local BBQ shop, 

and oh there was  so much meat!

A nearby church had a quilt show of their members' quilts. 

Some they had made, some were gifted and some were 

historical heirlooms. Looking thru the fabrics 

and reading the wonderful stories of these

cloth works was a delightful afternoon, well spent!

I was even gifted some gorgeous mini

blocks by a friend. They are adorable!

I've made great progress on my string 

stars and even prophetically stitched up 

enough strings for four purple ones!  Yay

(Rainbow scrap challenge for July is purple!)

The deep blues from June really make an impact too!

My block bank has enough center colored blocks for 

four quilts. After quizzing the family quilters, they all 

agreed they would not be making string 

star quilts themselves.  I still need more solid cream string 

blocks and 1/2 blocks but already I've  made enough

large stars for one top! 

This is one of my block bank boxes. 

The date on the box is 2021.  Yes, I do color code the 

dates on my UFOs so I can tell when I last touched them!

It is so much fun to pull out the fixings 

and make up blocks/quilts.

The lattices were also sewn on the color sashed quilt 

this morning.

 A better name for this quilt is ......

Color Around the Block. 

It was fun to do and will be displayed on 

the railing for a while.

Stay safe and sew on !

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Getting things done.

Lots of things to do this week!

Lots of things are moving forward too!

The hourglass quilt is off to the long armer's. 

I usually quilt my own but that top has so many seams,

I thought I'd let them have the fun. 

Thanks to my sew friend for a consult, the 

final setting for my sashed color squares is set too.

I can start getting the lattices on. 

I spent a lovely evening last nite,

 listening to some old classic feel good TV shows and working 

on cream and white lattice blocks for the color string 

star quilts. I have blocks started for 3 quilts and

they need lots of cream and white corners. 

The string stars RSC quilt needs a dark blue star , 

so blues are stringing up too. 

My goal for next month is definitely going to be

getting these tops together.  I used my last back so 

I need to have an evening of stitching blocks together 

for back so I can do some layering. I do have lots of 

batting now so that wont stop me from getting them layered. 

We are having a few rainy days so I will have 

lots of time in my cozy sewing room.

The drizzle will keep my perennials safe 

from my shovel.  I always keep moving 

the plants around when they outgrow their locations.

 

I wish everyone a great week ahead!

Stay safe and sew on !

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Ta Da!

 A gloomy day here in Alberta, but we are 

getting some much needed moisture so a 

good day to get things done. 

First, we had to go save a newly planted tree. 

Rain and wind pelted us as we strung up supports

so it was a morning adventure. 

Yesterday, was a beautiful, bright day and perfect for

photographing my finished top!  

Here it is, my hourglass top complete!

I did go with the second round of darker 

blues and it has finished to a lovely 87 x 89 flimsy.

The photograph was taken right outside 

my summer sewing room. 

The planting of Morgenrote Berginia, ferns

and 2 colors of Bleeding Heart have 

really flourished with the replacement of 

the solid fence with chain link!

This quilt may be a wedding quilt for my great nephew!  

Possibly a family quilt since I seem to have

enough extra hourglasses to build a lighthouse!

I was an Auntie at 12 years old so it is 

kind of cool to have a great nephew!!

Next up is another couples quilt, the 

sashed color square.  I need 25 blocks 

and have 20 at the finish line so it is really coming along!

 Dark blue blocks are finished up and 

most recent addition of yellow makes it 

sparkle and enhances the other colors . 

Right now, I am working on the black squares. 

Then on to at least  one orange and a few browns. 

I may have a few left over for the next one but 

I do have to optimize the color combination. 

Each color square is made up of 4 diagonal 

stripped 8 1/2" colored blocks . 80 inches of 

color and sashing at 1 1/2" should let me 

finished it up at a nice 87" square.

This morning's Sew Social with a friend 

should see more progress.

Stay safe and sew on!

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Blue on Blue!

 June is sure whizzing by!

Warm weather and a friend's 75 party 

make for an almost normal summertime!

This month's RSC color is blue so I get to share a cute picture. 

This adorable model is wearing a zippered back

sweater made by a family friend. It is generously 

sized so will be wearable for a least 2 years. 

The summer sewing room is seeing lots of 

blues lately as the hourglass top is nearing completion!

It will finish at a nice 84 x 87 inches. 

I may relent and make it just a bit larger. 

It will then go into the vault to wait for quilting. 

I will need to get busy and pick up some batting !

The blue round is ready to go on but the zen 

quilting and a bit of miscounting, has left me with a lot 

of extra 1/2 squares.  It is a good thing my guild lotto

block can use them !

First tho, I have to do some repair on my featherweight foot. 

 It started  sewing all by itself.

That wouldn't be too bad but it doesn't know the pattern! 

I want to finish off this post with a few quilts

my friends have completed.

Surrounded by so much talent is very inspirational!

(Pattern by Barbara Lavallee )

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May goal! Just chased UFOs!!

Once again , I came late to the party. 

So this post is a finished up and goal for June combined.

  A great trip and star obsession lead me 

far away from my goals. Not only that, 

I sold the end of my batting bolt to a friend as 

I knew I wouldn't need it!!!

So here is what I did get done!

Four little star tops done up and ready to store. 

One lovely semi postage stamp top is

complete, (the squares are larger, finish at 2").

2 lovely blues blocks done for the family 

color square quilt, and

enjoyed an amazing train ride thru the Canadian Rockies ,

Did you notice my blue blocks are the same color 

as the train's glass ceiling, and the Colombia River?!?

I even got the green round for the rainbow hourglass

just about done. 

We returned just in time for all the flowering trees 

in town to bloom. This large one in our yard is really 

fragrant as the sun begins to set. 

I will still count this as win since my vault of 

tops is full up!!!

June will be finish up month , lots of 

tops coming out of the closet for quilting!

 Stay safe and sew on!

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