little bits
from Making A Lather
I am just making bits and bobbles while I work on my spools quilt.
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| 9 patch on point - top monkey wrench - bottom |
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| lil beauty baskets - top 4 patches for strip tease - bottom |
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September 6, 2023
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July 20, 2023
The floral 4 patch finally quilted
from Art In Search
This quilt has been a long time coming. It started inspired by a quilt I saw at a quilt show years ago. When I finished piecing it, it did not match what I saw in my mind. I was looking for some floating feeling from the floral 4 patches. I found a great border, but it still sat. Finally, I forced myself to quilt it. It was a lot of work as it is a big quilt and there was a lot of quilting.
It is finished, but it still does not live up to what I had seen in ...
May 10, 2023
floor mess
from Making A Lather
My strip bins overfloweth. The big problem is the floor around them is collecting strips as well. I don't like the mess of sorting into colors, so, I wait until the situation is urgent. I am trying to clean the floor in my sewing room. It has to be done.
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This is the 1 1/2 inch strip drawer unleashed. Hard to believe all this was in one drawer.
February 22, 2023
Two quilt tops...........
from Exuberant Color
Pink Hearts is sewn together and measures 60" x 77". When I made the 3 pink quilts 2 years ago I thought I was low on pink fabric. Only about 5 of these fabrics are new. I used batiks and Kaffe fabrics in with my other pink quilting fabrics so I would have a good variety. I think there are 44 different fabrics in this one.
Weather Report Snail's Trail is 60" x 84". I have a large piece of the lighter blue fabric for the back of the quilt.
I need to do the staystitching around the edge ...
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Layouts confirmed...........
from Exuberant Color
This Snail's Trail ended up with a scrappy multicolor look. I put up all of the blocks and only changed 3 of them before taking down the rows and clipping them for sewing today or tomorrow.
I didn't take a final photo of the heart quilt and just took it down column by column as I was ready to add them for webbing the top. I have all of the seams sewn in one direction and 2 seams sewn the other direction. 9 more seams to sew.
If you read my post yesterday I mentioned making another scrappy ... read more
March 25, 2022
Some completions
from Art In Search
I love to sew. Sew quilts. I hate to write, it is like giving blood. I have all kinds of photos taken, labelled and ready to post, but it is tough for me to do.
So, let me start with two quilt finishes. They are comfort quilts and not claimed yet. The first has blocks of 30s fabric that were given to me about half done. I thought about putting them on point and adding lots of neutrals- cream, white and then a muted periwinkle blue. I wanted it longer, so I added the white strip top and bottom. The ...
October 21, 2021
Working on the "other" projects............
from Exuberant Color
I wasn't ready to take the Bear Paw blocks off the design wall yet so I got out the dust mop and cleaned up all of the dust bunnies so I could use the floor for photos. This older project is sewn together now and is in the 40" x 64" range right now. I have lots of the fabrics that are in it so I could add borders. I'll think about this for awhile.
Here are the true colors in that one. It looks like a fall quilt and it does have rust and beige in it ... read more
October 8, 2021
Block number 3.............
from Exuberant Color
Bear Paw block number three is sewn. I love the leaf print in the large squares. I think I have a little piece of every color that it came in.
Then I switched to working on the older project. There was one panel sewn about 20 years ago so I'm continuing to piece panels the same size. There are 4 of them on the design wall.
I moved the left panel to the top right in this photo.
This is all of the rest of the parts that are sewn. There are lots more of the triangle fabrics already ... read more
September 29, 2021
Finally focused................
from Exuberant Color
In the morning I went to the back garden and checked on the Sedums that I transplanted out there in May. The blooms ... read more
August 4, 2021
No energy............
from Exuberant Color
It was another beautiful day yesterday but I just couldn't get going on much. I did sew 16 more 4 patches for an older project that I showed around a week ago. I can see why I stalled on the project...no variety, just the same thing over and over.
I moved the lighter peach block in from the top left corner (as it was on yesterday's post) and moved a few other blocks and thought I was ready to sew. I decided to give it one more day to be sure.
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October 2, 2020
project box
from Making A Lather
Last week was a workshop with our quilt guild. Our resident quilt queen had agreed to teach her 2 nd last time 4 patch posey class. I needed to find the two I had already started, to take and finish at the workshop. I, certainly, did not need to start another one with the class, but, it was a committed time to work on finishing. I went through every ufo bucket twice and no luck finding it. I gave it one more try Friday night, and found the bucket. All my buckets are labeled, why was it so hard to ...
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The Plan B X & + Quilt
from Jan's Quilts
About 10 days ago, I made these sashing blocks, ↑. They were for another project that I decided to forego. But, I had all of these blocks and I decided I needed to come up with a Plan B
Plan B involved some X and + blocks, 12 to be exact. Then I made some 4-patch cornerstones.
Today, I assembled the first four 20" blocks that will be part of the Plan B quilt. I discovered that I don't have enough of the sashing blocks, so that will be my next step. Many of my quilts are "organic" and this one ...
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April 17, 2020
old world mystery 2
from Making A Lather
Today, Quilted Twins. released clue 4 for the old world country fantasy mystery. I have finished clue 2, so, I am a little behind. But, I am still feeling confident that I can keep with the schedule. So far, the clues have not seemed overwhelming or difficult. I chose this colorway, but there is a gray and royal blue colorway as well.
The light squares were made using pieces I had cut wrong for my Lucy's basket quilt. They were the right size.
This was clue one
I'm linking to:
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April 13, 2020
Old world mystery
from Making A Lather
I cut the strips I would need for the first step of the old world country fantasy mystery from Quilted Twins.
We spent the evening in the living room watching television and I didn't want to go upstairs to my sewing room, so, I decided to treadle the seams. It isn't as fast but, it gets the job done.
It didn't take long before I had the first clue done.
This is Becky's first mystery, and I was really looking forward to making it. I like her quilts and wanted to try something new. I had ... read more
January 15, 2020
Partially pieced
from The Academic Quilter
Hi everyone! How is your week going? I don't mind telling you that it's been fairly good here for the past little while. It has been unseasonably warm and mostly just lovely outside. I spent last weekend at an academic conference in Washington DC without a coat. In January. It was so nice that a couple of us skipped out on the afternoon session and went sightseeing-- and we walked. It was awesome. The conference might have been okay, too. At least my paper was!
So now I'm home and I have a ton of work to ...
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