Weave some dreams

 

Can a UFO be called a squirrel?

This little block is called the Hatchet block but

I have always called it Weave, since the strings

seem  to weave in and out of each other. 

It was one of my go to blocks as a beginning, 

timid quilter.  I would do it at retreats as it 

was nice to do while visiting. I must add

that there is nothing more encouraging than

when others quilters want to use a 

design you've chosen. 

It seems even as a beginner I didn't stick 

with instructions. I started by  making a 

template and cutting the center of the block 

out of a set of foundation pieced strings. 

Soon, I left the foundation piecing and made 

scrap string sets and cut the template shape. 

When my retreat-mates asked for the pattern, 

I gave them one of the newsprint foundations

and they could make their blocks! 

One even used it as a guild friendship block! 

My project box still has enough to 

start another top!

I first found this in Relax and Quilt , a Leisure

arts publication. Such a favorite book, I had 

the covers laminated and got it coil bound at

an office supply store! 

This top was caught up in the last crazy layering 

day and when the need came up, it was ready to quilt! 

On that snowy Tuesday, I was able to layer two

queen sized quilts, one crib sized and the 

twin sized weave quilt. I even managed to

puzzle together 2 crib sized batts!

I think I have used up my super powers!

 

One lovely blogger mentioned how 

difficult it is at times to stitch 

right in the ditch. I stitched 

beside the ditch by resetting my needle position. 

I got out my ditch foot, reset the needle position and 

got most of the quilting done in one afternoon. 

I left the corner swoop to do on the center squares until the end. 

The most rewarding part of this quilt and 

the most stressful was cutting the wavy border edge. 

The first time I made this quilt, 

my inner fortitude failed me and I left the border complete. 

This time, I used the template to mark

and stitch the wave and secure the edges of

piano key border. Then I cut, ta da!

I think it is pretty adorable!

Of course these curvy edges will

need some bias binding so that is up next .

Two big triangles later and 

this lovely pile of burgundy speckled binding appeared!

Applying the binding was not too bad even with 

the bias and the curves.  I used lots of clips.

It looks pretty good!! 

The white squares were a quick quilt.

I used a lock stitch and the cutting feature

so I made sure to snip each little eyelash 

thread on the back as I went. 

The binding looks great and the curves are so interesting. 

 It is a very rewarding feeling to complete a project isn't it!

Now this little top is ready to be gifted. 

This quilt finished up at 56"  x  72". 

The delicate blue print on the back is charming too!

Stay safe and sew on !

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Curvy Log Cabin Pair.

 Here is a lovely pair of quilts for a 

family friend. 

The wedding quilt is a large, king sized

log cabin. 

 

Oddly enough, they had purchased the painting

for their new house before I made the quilt. 

I had not seen the painting!! What wonderful serendipity!

I made a matching baby quilt for the 

family baby. It measures  43" x 43" and has a 

lovely fuzzy back. 

 Both of these quilts 

were made using a specialty ruler by 

Creative Grids. 

You can see some of the progress in this 

post.

A Colorful couple!

 Finally a quilt  or two for TGIFF

and OMG ( one monthly goal)!

I just wrapped up the binding on 

this Rainbow framed string quilt. 

It measures up at 78" x 88".

The companion baby quilt is flannel backed

and finished at a nice 41" x 44". 

It looks like our rental dog was really 

 wanting me to finish up this top!

A good amount of scraps go into the making but of 

course the supply is not running out any time soon. 

Scrap whites were used for the central 

white strips as well. 

I use all varieties of print fabrics

 but I make sure to use those with 

minimal white background. 

A 80-20 Hobbs batt is inside so it will 

be warm but not too heavy. 

This quilt is graced with my first ever

monogramed/ signature binding. 

I forced myself to sit still long enough 

to program my name and date on the binding!  

Once I figured it out, I added three 

variations to the machine memory. 

 I will still add a label but the

binding accent was fun to do and will 

be a nice surprise when found.  I will also 

start putting other encouraging thoughts 

on my quilt bindings. Who knows when 

words of encouragement may make a difference. 

Stay safe and sew on !

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Sew baby, Sew!!

 Well, my Wednesday Scrap delivery arrived!   

Two great big containers of beautiful scraps. 

I always love receiving scraps. They are 

interesting since they are someone else's 

choice and always exciting and much 

different than self produced scraps.   

Of course I had to dig right in. 

I have other bins waiting but the last in 

hasn't been explored yet so here we go! 

One bin contained lots of lengths of yardage strips.

 This quilter uses the length of the yardage for all 

her quilt borders, so this pile is wonderful to behold.

 A few are actually the same as fabrics I 

have!  I found some real surprises!

A two toned length cut from a 

border print will lend my blue squares lots of interest. 

A nice pile of black strips can be trimmed up

for sashing for a 4 patch scrap quilt I have 

on the go. It will be similar to this one. 

A few super hero and children's prints

will get added into my growing stack for 

a wild weekend of  I spy quilts I have been 

planning, and oh those strips !  

I can string all summer on the wealth of strips 

I am pulling out of this box!!

The second bunch of scraps came via 

another city from a mutual friend. 

(Thank you for being my enabler!)

They decontaminated in her garage 

for a month to ensure they were virus 

free. There is a cute little zippered rice bag,

stuffed with patterned goodness,

and look at all this chunky wonder!

Christmas in March for me!  A great birthday month. 

The phone rang while I was writing up this post, 

and ... more scraps! Of course I accepted the offer

and here is what arrived. 

Some lovely quilt edge cut-offs in the smaller  bag

and Ziplocs full of projects ends for me to 

delight in! These two great pieces were right on top!

I find the sayings on this fabric are just for me! 

Sew I should get to the machine!  First up is the 

binding on this beauty. 

The flannel back for the matching baby quilt is in the wash,

so the set should be complete before Adalyn gets too big.

Stay safe and sew on!

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Birthday Bonus and Lots of stitching!

 Well , a birthday week, 

lots of stitching, organization

and sorting!  Busy time all around!

Beautiful flowers, tasty homemade cupcakes and 

lots of visits made it a wonderful weekend. 

First off, my zen quilting technique, 

(quilt everything that falls off the shelf), 

got me this week and a stack actually 

fell down while I was on a zoom meeting!

The pile was yellow tho so, at least it was 

this month's color!!

The scrap piles were getting out of hand, 

so organization and some good music

took over. I rearranged, putting the fat

quarter-sized piece stacks closer to where 

they can be used. This of course, just means

lower shelves! I think I have a few more cycles

of  Rainbow Scrapping here. Each cubby has

four stacks of chunk piles! Sew on!

 Large backing pieces that 

were taking up shelf space, were measured, refolded, 

put in a bin and a snippet put onto a reference sheet. 

I can easily choose backing fabric with out unpacking

and remeasuring, yay!

Some droopy wood shelves were flipped and 

mixed color yardages stacks were reorganized. 

All in all a rewarding afternoon of organization and sorting!

Then I got to stitching up some yellow crumbs blocks. 

That lead to a resort and count of my block bank crumb blocks. 

I seem to have accumulated 55 -12 1/2" crumbs squares

 of various colors! Forty nine squares will make a nice

84" square queen sized quilt.  

Hmm an new top may come into being soon!

My RSC top got a mellow yellow row with the 

neutral border added. All ready for next 

months color there!

Getting on to my OMG  -one monthly goal, 

I pulled out batting and backs

and got two large quilts pinned up.  Some large pieces 

of batting got stitched up and two more twin quilts

were ready to get pinned up!! 

Woot woot! Now for 

some intense time quilting up those sandwiched quilts!

A birthday visit from the pipeline couple got me inspired

 to clear off that layered bulletin board.  Wow, there 

were surprises under those layers! I removed 4 quilt tops and 

found this! It is interesting how some items are 

no longer important after aging a few years!

I found this cute little Hawaiian shirt.

The buttons are so tiny! I don't think I will make another of these!

This paper pieced pattern might be great for a 

weekly project to get ready for the holidays! Such 

cute little blocks!

 

I even found a bag of western shirt accents that 

I planned to use for geocache prizes one summer. 

I need to get into that to explore the countryside!

 

Now I can go back to using my bulletin board as 

design wall without too many treasures behind.

I want to finish this post with a few pictures of a 

support quilt made by my daily walking partner. 

She put this together in support of the Ukraine 

and it is off to raise relief funds. 

Her Thursday group was doing a kaleidoscope/stack

 and wack with a beautifully colored fabric. 

                                          She created this star,  

 

surrounded by pieced arcs of color.

Even the corners use the starter fabric

 and have tiny pieced units. 

Definitely a work of art. 

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