To do #5

 

The weather is beautiful today so 

the summer sewing room is on call 

for an afternoon of sewing !

Last week's list was well looked after !

~Finish up Blues for Baby  quilt~ Got the top done!

and the flannel back is in the laundry!

~More Cobblestone blocks and scrap taming~

Made a big pile of these .

Even filed them in the corner of leftover items!

I need to find a better plan for my Block Bank. 

Right now it is spread out everywhere! It is 

 more like a treasure hunt than a 

vault when I go looking for blocks!

Fun but inefficient!

Made  some Bit blocks too!

~Trim square dance blocks~ no progress

~Finish planning 2 bluesy quilts for the teal ladies~

Changed plan! I will keep striving for blue

quilts for them but found some florals and have 

two strip summer tops in the works. 

This week's list :

~Summer tops - finish , find backs~

~More scrap taming~

~Make back for Blues for Baby~

~Organize workroom!~

Hope this week is as fun as the last!

Stay safe and sew on !

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Out in the Garden!

We have been thru every season of weather

 in the last little while. Needing a bit of a boast ,

 I strayed away from  my regular scrappy

 projects for something floral!

 Digging thru one of my scrap bins,

 I found a wealth of floral  bricks 

already sewn in rows as well as some

free floral bricks in a larger size. 

The narrower rows were sewn together 

with a solid green strip. 

It all came together nicely , 

and it was fun to do on my little featherweight too. 

So I started on the next one with the free bricks.

 A different, wider, green  

in between is working great. 

Now they just need some edge 

finishing and they can be quilted up!

These two lap quilts should provide some 

winter reminders of spring for my BC friends. 

They certainly used up some floral scraps too!

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Distracted by Blues!

I really intended to clear off a scrap table,

but   I got distracted by blues and flowers!

 Looked in my 

Block bank and found 26 - 16 patch blocks !

They turned in to this!

and now this!

The center is together!

And now this , top done!

Then back to the scrap table and found a bunch of 

floral strips! ( see what I did there?)

Dug out some greens, enlisted the 

featherweight in the summer sewing room and ..

Voila!

Next a back for the blues and finish planning out  

the green floral.

Some goals for the coming week . 

I should add " Stay focused"!

I think this Blues for Baby is  

one of those drop everything

and make projects, I couldn't resist 

the call of the sixteen!

 

Stay safe and sew on !

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 Finally! The Aliens flimsy is finished. 

Not sure what the final name will be

but it turned out well. 

The hints of wheel colors in the border

pull it together and the grey seems to be very unifying.

The little corner spider webs couldn't be cuter!

A few learning/reminders 

during the finishing of this top. 

first reminder~ Press press press. 

The pressing on the blocks and borders 

really assisted in helping achieve a flat top 

second reminder~ measure the center to fit the borders.

Measuring and fitting the borders to 

the top makes the quilt body nice and square. 

Any additional borders go on like a

 breeze if the quilt body is all squared up. 

learning~all my flimsies have the edges 

stay stitched.  The seams open up while 

marinating if they are not secured. 

This time , the feed dogs were pulling on the 

seam edges and they were being pulled 

open and stitched down. Argh!

The solution was to stitch with the seams up 

and with the body of the quilt completely in 

the machine throat. 

The 1/4" foot blade

pressed the seam down and the stitching 

was perfect without bunching or pulling!

This was a great quilt to make and 

looks nothing like the original inspiration!

Stay safe and sew on!

Update ! 

This is now quilted and spent a month on 

the bed in celebration.  Aliens almost went 

out the door as a retirement gift but the

alien them appealed to inner space nut too 

much and it just had to become a member of my 

Cozy Collection.

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This quilt was featured!

To do #4

 My to do list from last week 

~ Chose  joining blocks for spiderweb ~X

Done and dusted! The Aliens quilt is finished!

Definitely got a good finish!

~Trim square dance blocks~

~Plan and assemble a few cobblestone blocks ~X

But I got distracted by blues. Looked in my 

Block bank and found 26 - 16 patch blocks !

They turned in to this!

and now this!

The center is together!

So this week's list is :

~Finish up Blues for Baby  quilt~

~More Cobblestone block and scrap taming~

~Trim square dance blocks~

~Finish planning 2 bluesy quilts for the teal ladies~

Sounds like I have a busy week planned!

I should add " Stay focused"!

I think this Blues for Baby is going to 

one of those drop everything

and make projects, I couldn't resist 

the call of the sixteen!

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Put your foot down!

I do love blues!

 It has been a busy week.

I've been trying to land those Aliens!.

I did find some time to work on

some blues and I have a lot of it.

Oh and did I add the blizzard?

And the batting pick up? And the airport run?

I am planning to catch up on all the months

of rainbow scraping by making a rainbow

row quilt with  crumb strips of each monthly colour.

A visit to the block bank and I hit pay dirt!!

I even found my layout plan from March 2019 ,

along with some orange parts from a Staircase quilt.

The paper used for foundation was still attached.

The meat flyer! Look at that turkey!

A white strip complementing all the colours

should make it a success.

Blue ones are in progress so that's a good start.

I really liked the look of the horizontal quilting on

Blues for Brothers so this

will be a good repeat of that plan.

I also found this great little pattern from McCall's 2006.

It definitely has potential.

A co-worker out East is  having a baby boy

in a few months so it's a perfect time

to  raid the block bank and make a

blue coloured quilt for the new arrival.

Three more blue family square and the top

will be complete.

 These little 1 ½” inch blue strip sets left over

from a long ago colour wash quilt needed a purpose.

There are so many! They should work well as 

a border around the colour blocks.

Here is a little mock-up! It really works! 

A little border of white and then 1 ½” inch blue

strip sets followed by a saucy

blue binding really does the trick!

Off we go into the wild blue yonder!

Stay safe and sew on!

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Woot woot!

 Just had to share Progress!!!!

The "Aliens quilt " is finally together!

I found a big pile of greys, 

and managed to dig out an assortment 

for the setting triangles. 

  

I have a friend who would love a teal blue

quilt, but I am not sure this one qualifies. 

It has some blues here, 

And here :

but I don't think enough for my teal addicted ladies. 

The top is almost a flimsy.  It still needs

the side frame borders. 

It will be finished off with a piano key

border in shades of gray with the occasional

wheel color thrown in for spice!

Should finish up as queen size. 

The end is in sight!

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Stay safe and Sew on !