A Blue Twin Granny

 This lovely twin quilt was made following the instructions from 

MSQ.  The first step is making a pile of colored 16 patches. 

Cutting them diagonally and then sewing the quarters 

together yields an on-point style 

block quickly and easily with out triangle corners or set ins. 

Two of these were made up during a wild sewing 

zoom retreat last winter. One each in blue and yellow. 

The blue top was pinned and next in line for quilting. 

The binding was even ready!! Who said quilting fairies never visit!

Actually, I like to make binding, and had done four 

quilts worth one day! 

Never following my own advice of  "make it easy", I chose a 

quilting design with lots of starts and stops. 

 

My cutting button got a real workout!  

Then long serpentine stitch on the sashing finished it up nicely.

A soft flannel back in blue strips makes this very cuddly.  

I put in a 5 0z high loft batt, but experience has taught me that it will 

collapse after half a dozen washings, 

so I put in a 80/20 Hobbs to give it 

structure after the poly compacts. 

The variety of blue fabrics really make it fun 

to browse!

A scrappy blue binding for the granny and it is complete 

and ready for labeling when it gets called to be loved. 

It may have found a permanent home in the blue wing chair!

Stay safe and sew on!

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Busy Quilty Weekend!

The weekend started off with a bang!

I have some fun new items!

First I was gifted with a box of beautiful scraps!

She'd saved them just for me!  

Even more  fun is I had a visiting friend!  Yay! 

We spent a lovely quilty afternoon looking at 

projects, organizing them, sewing a chatting, 

so great. Then off to hang a quilt show!  It was a 

great way to get up close and personal with some 

beautiful work and get inspired. So many talented

quilters willing to share their work.

To our delight, our friend of many years,

 got to hang her Dutch Treat.

Many, many finely hand pieced blocks, 

a real  "Treat" to see!

The vendors market was another stop on the day and I found this

lovely case for my traveling feather weight! 

I have tried many generic bags and I always

 ended up holding both the 

case and the bag as I didn't trust the straps. Now I can go off 

to classes and sew days safely and confident 

nothing will crash to the ground!

 The small but mighty scrap ruler was 

my second purchase and really handy for trimming. 

As for the stash, it was well served also! 

1 box of scraps in for 2 meters, (lots of chunks) 

but I had finished up 

a twin sized binding so that is 6m out so 

I am still on the good side for now!

2023 STASH TOTALS

            Used last week:     6 m 1 quilt softer granny squares

Used year to date:       29  m

                                      Scraps out               0 m    

                                   (1 bag=/.5 k=.5m)  

                                      Scraps In                  2  m chunky box full

Added last week:          2 m

                                  Year to date:            43 m bolt 27m bucket batiks 15m

Net added in 2023          19.5 meter

Will I get to net zero this year ?  We shall see!

Till then stay safe and sew on!

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To Do Here Already!?

Tuesday again!  So soon!

I got a bit done over the week and 

had a lot of fun when I wasn't getting things done!

Great big quilt show with shopping, 

lots of ideas cooking, guild wind up and 

visiting friends!  Last week's plan was here, 

let's see what I completed!

~Finish up the green log blocks Done!

    ~ Assemble 2 green log cabin tops To Do

              ~Trim out the work box of orange scraps To do

               ~ Make up 2 - 5x5 blocks: 1 orange 1 green To do

            ~ Plant the last pumpkins in the big tub Done!

I did get a few off the list!  

Here are some beautiful pumpkin plants. I don't do

a garden since my yard is over shadowed by pines and they 

produce too much acid for good veggie gardening.  The pumpkins 

are an experiment. We will see if or what we get!

They certainly love the sunlight!

Here is my big stack of greens!

Enough to stitch up into 2 nice twin sized tops,

130 blocks total . 

Lots of catch up for this week and lots of new

ideas to try!  Summer sewing room is going into play

too so up to the kitchen  I sew!

Oh look , an extra, green log cabin block!

Stay safe and sew on !

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Collections!

 Wow, it has been a while since I had a OMG 

and even longer since I finished one!

This month I am finishing up ( or attempting)

my RSC queen sized stars!! 

Here they were just getting their borders sorted. 

Look how tidy they come from the quilter!

Unlike how they look after I open them 

like a five year old on Christmas morning!

 I did miss the drop off

date prior to holiday so that put me a month behind. 

Now they are waiting patiently for their scrappy 

binding. I can't wait to add one to my cozy 12 

quilts.  My plan is to have a quilt a month for 

my bed.  I think that is a great number for a 

personal collection of full sized quilts for my bed. 

Did you notice all those qualifiers I put in there? 

I do have other "collections" too, perfectly acceptable I think. 

There are the "Oh that looks great on that couch" collection, 

and the wow "that short railing looks great with a seasonal quilt"

collection and of course the "blanket box wall hanging, 

table runner" collection. The Smithsonian does it so I 

think I should too. 

Happy collecting!

Stay safe and sew on! 

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To Do Tuesday

 Today is clean up sewing room day with finishing off items and 

choosing some new projects. 

I went way off campus this month with my RSC and 

ended up working on a wealth of green log cabins!

I have lots of log cabin tops ready and the two greens

will bring the total up nicely. Lots of scraps were used up 

and the bag is empty.

 All that remains outside of the drawer,

 is a popcorn box of scraps and the chunk portion of the stash!

These little popcorn boxes are great for using as work boxes instead

of letting the desk or floor overflow with bits of fabric!

  My retreat friends would be happy I am controlling my mess!

The chunk section is large but orderly so that is all good. 

Time wise, I have been having lots of sewing time for the last few 

weeks. The smoke last week keep everyone in and certainly created 

good reasons to stay in and stitch!

This weeks plan is to :

~Finish up the green log blocks

    ~ Assemble 2 green log cabin tops

              ~Trim out the work box of orange scraps

               ~ Make up 2 5x5 blocks 1 orange 1 green

            ~ Plant the last pumpkins in the big tub

Looks like a nice plan to work on for a sunny day!

Must finish off with someone else having a great day!

Yes, three pelicans and two moose right

in the middle of our small town!

Stay safe and sew on !

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Log Cabin Bonanza

  The Zebra coordinator had 

suggested some larger sizes would be well used so 

these will do nicely.  The log cabins are such fun 

to make that there are still a few left in the vault 

to sandwich.  Last review saw a blue one,

a purple one,

and two multicolored twin tops are hiding in the back ! 

  There are almost enough

 blocks done for a green twin sized quilt. 

There are already two pink quilts complete and waiting 

in the closet so I can't wait to do some more  quilting

 

and photograph a log cabin tower!

A real log cabin bonanza! 

Stay safe and sew on!

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Pretty in Pink 2

 More results from the batting cutting frenzy

a while ago are finally getting stitched. 

First on the table was the red  " Not Quite Postage  Stamps".

Next,  the pink log cabins were getting a turn. 

They each have a single batt of Hobbs 80/20 inside. 

Quilting a line down the diagonal of the colorful 

pink strips seems to be accenting the colors and is 

very pleasing to the eye.  I was going to add echo line, since

the light colored strips were getting left out of the quilting,

but the large cross hatch worked so well, it wasn't necessary! 

These two plentiful pink beauties are destined for 

the children's charity, Zebra. Here they are ready for binding.

Once again here in the blog verse, a few days time slip and...

   

Ta da!  They are complete!

This one measures 45" 56" and, as seen during binding,

 

has cute up-cycled flannel on the back to make it cozy.

Thank you to DH for holding services on a beautiful sunny day!

The next, larger one got the same treatment and measures

64" x 72" with the wonderful multicolored back that 

was also shown off in and earlier post.

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Yes these are the ones with the kicking corners,

 I was certainly on a roll that day!

Now the questions of the moment, okay you from the Times.

"How many pink quilts in all?"

Four , count'em four!

And from the Journal?   

 "Do you have any pink scraps left?"

Yes, yes I do. 

Pink is not even my favorite colour!

Yikes!  The rest will be waiting for next year's scrap tamer.

Can you guess what I am working on now?!

Stay safe and sew on !

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