Halfway thru!

 Well October is zipping by and 

I have been busy with the last of the 

retreats with some charity sew days ahead. 

This week I managed to assemble the .....

drum roll please... RSC Star string quilts!

Two of each color each month and a few colors

 of my own choosing and two tops are

ready to go! 

( Except for the small boo boo in the lower right on the 

second one. Did you catch it?)

A small strip to finesse the center

stars, and the in progress zigzag borders will 

be ready to add. I was able to make a large portion

of the zig zag border with pre existing blocks in 

parts department so that is good.  

The  missing yellow square was resewn 

and 5 more each of blue and yellow softer 

granny squares got stitched up during a come 

and go retreat weekend. The missing 

yellow block has yet to turn up!

The blue square quilt was even finished 

up into a nice twin size. 

Its yellow mate

will get upsized this week and then to decide quilting!

No borders for these two since they been upsized!

The RSC hourglass was finally labeled and 

paired up with it's fellow hourglass baby quilt. 

I sure hope the happy couple and babe love it!

The little elephant lovies I found are so cute!

I even made great progress on these pineapple

pieces!  Yum yum they are colorful!!

Still 2 more week of sewing ahead before it is 

time to think of our favorite winter season 

holiday!  

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Great finds !

Fall is in full swing with lots of quilting 

goodness happening with in person meetings!

A fantastic time for socializing and sharing.

I was gifted a pattern and wow is it a good one. 

Borrowing this was on the horizon, but now

I can not get it finished from my own book! Haha!

Paper piecing should help me be successful and 

I found the perfect frame for 6 little blocks. 

Can't wait to get started, but another UFO?

For sure!  

Enjoy your week, stay safe and sew on !

Hello To Twilight!

 Fall has descended here in Alberta

and morning sun comes up much later.

Time to readjust to less daylight! The 

bonus is we do have a beautiful twilight,

just enough light to see hovering over 

everything just before night arrives. 

Great time of year!!!

Anyhoo, second retreat done and dusted!

I got some things done, some not but had

a great time replenishing the soul with old and 

new friends!!

I got my Softer Granny Squares together. 

One block decided to stay home for the 

weekend so this will be finished assembly 

when that is located. 

Stitched up a bunch of scrap 16s with some 

good conversation while we were all setting up. 

I will try to use this as a stop and go project, usually 

those projects always end up as a rabbit hole and I 

jump in and sew most of it up in a weekend. 

 I just can't help it! 

    Also made some great progress on my pineapple blocks.

So bright and colorful that I may set a goal for spring time 

finish just so I can brighten up the bedroom!!

Of course on late retreat evening, the stars came out. 

Cute little scrap blocks got sewed up from my new scrap bag. 

Never short on scraps when quilters are around!

 I came home with this! Thank you Buddies!

 My walking buddy rescued some cut-offs, 

made white center wonky stars and created this little beauty! 

These stars are so much fun and so versatile!

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Getting into October

 Woot woot , got two more string stars

off to the longarm shop!!

My goal for this month is to get 

number four string quilt in for quilting

and bind the other two if they get returned before 

month end!! I do have a pile of fabric

cut for the #4 back. 

#1 star is back home, quilted and ready for finishing! 

 If all goes as planned, 

four lovely gifts will be ready before 

December is even close !  Wish me luck!

One more item for this month is the little 

matching hourglass for the new baby. 

It should be quilted up this weekend. 

We will see if the Canadian Turkey day interfering with 

my stitching, or maybe  .... vice versa!!

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Well, the first retreat post pan went 

wonderfully and we are almost to 

time!

Here is what I managed to sew up!

The red postage stamp has a bright zinger

of a border and needs only 8 more squares to 

be  a complete flimsy!

The yellow granny square blocks were stitched up 

with borders added to two sides. That makes them 

almost ready for assembly. 

Really fun but confusing were my lovely pineapple blocks. 

After misreading the ruler, it seems my daughter's wedding

quilt was more of a reverse pineapple with the white looking

more like the pineapple portion. So they turned out like this:

They were supposed to be this:

Thank you to my Dr. DIL for the samples. She is doing a 

wonderful pineapple with a dark grey background and may blend the two types of squares. 

After some rework, 

I successfully created quite a few pineapple blocks!

Yay!

Another retreat is coming up so I am packing up projects.  Two tops 

managed to find their way to the longarmer yesterday so I am really 

moving through September with flying fall colours!

Colours mean RSC and my final two colours were 

stitched up over the weekend. 

These will be joining their fellows and be ready for 

a unique border of some sort.  One will definitely 

be remaining in residence. The other is as yet, without a home!?

I am fairly certain an occasion will arise! 

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Retreat , Retreat!

 First retreat season after 2 1/2 years 

and I am getting ready to go. 

I found my book, or actually a new book

since the other is MIA. It is just a little notebook to

write down my projects so I don't forget them or what

needs doing! Then, I pulled out my first project!

First up is the zinger and border for the postage stamp red top. 

 

It will have a 2" cut border of blue with a final border

of pairs of red squares. Then it will be on  a pineapple quilt 

using the Creative grids ruler .

 I made one for my DD's (Darling Daughter)

wedding but I would like one for our bed. 

They are so much quicker using the ruler!  

The final one is a two parter. I have two stacks

 of softer granny squares and enough blocks

 to make 2 quilts. 

Each stack will have a same color sashing

 and then a unique border using same color squares.

I did draw out a few sample borders so it should work?

A few more scrap half squares made it into the box too! 

The rainbow scrap string stars is lacking 2 large 

squares so an old work calendar was pressed into service 

for laying out the pieces.  It was something to do during a zoom

meeting.  Hopefully, the pieces stay in place for travel!

My project boxes got a snazzy side label.

Now I can pull out one at a time instead of unpacking 

all of them!

 It looks like I will have 

enough to keep me busy for the weekend!

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A whole stack of quilts to be quilted! 

Lots of progress this week!

Woot Woot to me. 

I have been very busy  churning backs out and of course my 

area is bordering on a disaster but wow am I having fun!

A few more quilts basted and I even condensed my batting

scraps by cutting strips for a jelly roll rug. 

I will be using a box of 2 1/2 " strips I already have for the rug!!

Unless, of course I have a look and think they are too pretty 

to end up as a bath mat. I feel that might happen. 

Just looked and yes, I will save them for a pineapple quilt I have

 started. I do have a seasoned pile of fabric 

I can certainly use without too

much trouble so that will cut up tonight. 

I received a wonderful package yesterday with these inside.

No, not a glitch in the matrix but much anticipated bobbin

cases to repair my sewing machine.  It seems that I tend to pull

a bit when free motion quilting and damage the bobbin case 

causing the thread to ball up and seize the sewing mechanism 

 causing worrisome error messages. 

A quickie clean, a break for tea and a bit more patience and I can 

get back to work.  The local store was out of stock, (maybe more 

sewers have this problem), so a shop 2 hours away had some

and mailed them to me inexpensively and quickly.  Yay! 

I also I found a new-to-me website that lists 

topical blogs as they are published. 

So much fun!  You can add your own 

blog to increase numbers if that is your goal, 

(I was thinking about adding an amazon link so 

my kids can buy thru my site and we would get our own

commission?) or just make more connections ( that is my goal, 

I do love the support I get from the blogverse!!). 

It is called www.quilterblogs.com  and wow, so much fun!

Finishing up this post with a look at the current 

bedcover in our house.  It is the "Aliens Have Landed " 

from last year and it is certainly appropriate for 

the beautiful night skies and moon views we have 

been having recently. 

Stay safe and sew on !  

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