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Miscellaneous................. from Exuberant Color

As promised yesterday I took a photo of the lock screen on my cell phone with my Canon camera. This is the close up photo of one of my Peony blooms. Before the last update on my phone I didn't see the possibility of using one of my own photos. Now I can enjoy the Peony year round.

For several years I have been dropping photo Christmas cards, loose photos, folders from funerals, obituaries cut from the newspaper, etc. into the top drawer in the guest room. I wanted to find my grandparents' obituaries to see how old they ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 5 days, 8 hours ago. under batiks , kaffe fabric , miscellaneous

Star quilt pattern for beginners from Pieced Brain

Download this star quilt pattern for beginners now! Turn half-square triangles into a beautiful heirloom for your home or as a gift!

Autumn Sky – purchase pattern here

Today, I am launching the Autumn Sky quilt pattern! The quilt measures 54″ x 66″ and the blocks finish at 12″. It is perfect for beginners as you will only be making half-square triangles.

For this sample, I used batiks from the Fur and Forest collection by Lumin Fabrics. I love the colors of fall, leaves, and forest creatures and animal prints featured in the collection! Of course, you know I also love ...

added by Denise Russell 2 weeks, 4 days ago. under batiks , easy quilts , half square triangles , home decor , quick projects , quilt ideas , quilt pattern , quilt patterns , quilting , star blocks , star quilt (Comments)

Backing and binding chosen................. from Exuberant Color

I didn't even have this top on my list of ones to finish because I thought I was going to add a border. I made the decision yesterday to just finish it as is. I chose a gray leaf print for the back and there is a pebble or mosaic type fabric on the left edge that I'm thinking will be the binding. I need to carefully ditch quilt this one because I don't want quilting all over the top. This batik top was made 5 years ago using the Hattie's Choice die from Accuquilt. I ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 weeks, 4 days ago. under accuquilt die cutter , batiks

Thinking ahead...................... from Exuberant Color

I am thinking about making some more of the little still life projects with the 1.5" squares. I'm wondering if I want to add some triangle squares to add a few angles instead of all square pixels. It's never a loss to have pieces cut because they can easily make a different project if I don't want them in this project. Those little stacks are 4 alike of about 12 different fabrics times 6 stacks. That should give me a good variety to work from. Do any of you use a program to pixelate a photo ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 weeks, 5 days ago. under batiks , stash , triangles

That is a quilt block? from Crazy Quilter on a Bike!

It's great to be home!!!! I managed to get a bit more sorting done before we left shortly after lunch. It was another amazing retreat with great company, a new house, and a return date for next year! You can't beat that!

My hand was a bit sore this morning when I woke up, and I'm guessing that was from all the cutting I've done. I'm surprised it wasn't sore before, but then I wasn't making big swooping cuts -- most of what I did was piddly little trimming.

Once I arrived home, I ...

added by Elaine 2 months ago. under batiks , jigsaw puzzles , lexi , mini-blocks , murphy , organizing , scraps

A law-abiding citizen from Crazy Quilter on a Bike!

Not that I get around much, but there is one thing when you go to someone's house, or in this case, a retreat house, that always throws me for a loop. One thing every time, and it's in the kitchen. Can anyone guess? Almost everyone has one, and while they all look similar from the outside, they are NOT!!!! I'm talking about the microwave. The difference is the wattage? Power? I'm not sure what you would call it, but oh my --- they are totally different.

I know from cooking oatmeal in many microwaves. Yesterday I struggled ...

added by Elaine 2 months ago. under batiks , geocache , my quilt retreat , retreat , scraps

Sorting................... from Exuberant Color

This little orange basket was bugging me so I finally sorted through everything in it. In the front left is larger pieces that I'm not sure why they were in there. The pile next to the basket in the top row is pieces I will cut into squares soon. Everything in the basket is batik fabric pieces.

The pile at the top right is all trimmings from making crazy pieced blocks and some strip pieced small sections. This pile went back into the basket.

Some groups got labeled and put into zip top bags that I can keep adding ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 2 weeks ago. under batiks , marcia derse fabric , organization , strip piecing

Side by side..................... from Exuberant Color

I couldn't decide whether the strips should run horizontal or vertical so I made one of each. I was making these to use up the 1.5" and 2.5" Kaffe strips that I had cut several years ago. I did end up having to cut a few new strips to have enough for both quilts. The spacer strips in the quilt on the left are in there because I needed a little more width and I didn't want to make any more blocks. I'm not sure which quilt I like best because I like both of ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 2 weeks ago. under batiks , kaffe fabric

Social time........................... from Exuberant Color

My grandson and his wife brought lunch yesterday and then stayed long enough to help me with a couple heavy duty tasks. Afterwards I did some grocery shopping.

Last night I cut the last stratas into sections and made some more Kaffe 16 patch blocks. I love busy quilts, and I'm sure a few of you wonder why I'm not using white as every other square to "calm" it down. I love all of the patterns in the fabric running together. There are 2 of each of these blocks, so 18 total.

This group of leftover blocks has ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 3 months ago. under batiks , kaffe fabric , strip piecing

A new month, unlimited possibilities..................... from Exuberant Color

As usual at the beginning of a new month, I'm looking ahead to what I want to work on. The last 18 months have been devoted to emptying storage boxes with partial projects in them. 9 of the quilts last year came from these empty boxes. The bottom supports on my drafting table are a great place to store lots of the boxes.

As I go through more boxes, I'm finding more pieces leftover from previous projects. These 180 four and a half inch squares are left from the Double 9 patch quilt I made in 2008.

These ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 3 months, 3 weeks ago. under batiks , organization

Sewn, not pressed.......................... from Exuberant Color

The top half of the quilt is folded up so I would have room to design the bottom half. The blocks on the bottom aren't sewn in this photo. I changed one because I had a light block where a dark block was supposed to go.

I finished sewing the top at 10 last night and even though the last seams haven't been pressed, I wanted to check it out and make sure I didn't have any blocks turned wrong. Now seeing the photo I can see I have one dark block where a light one should ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 3 months, 4 weeks ago. under batiks , double 4 patch , nature

Blocks are ready.......... from Exuberant Color

I really thought I was going to have blocks up on the design wall yesterday. I pressed the final batch, sorted them into 2 piles with one light block and one dark block of each combination in it. Then I took other projects off the design wall to make enough space to design the top half of the quilt. That was it, no more ambition to get anything done. I'm going to blame the cold weather for it. We got up to 17 degrees yesterday, a couple degrees higher than they predicted. We have had sunshine for 2 days ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 4 months ago. under batiks , double 4 patch , stash

2 projects........................... from Exuberant Color

It was time to trim the little strips that I sewed a few days ago. For some of them the 2.5" ruler and the rotating mat worked well. A few of them were too narrow so I had to move the ruler.

I got all three sewn together but haven't pressed them or squared them up. They will be 3 nice little mug rugs soon.

I got one of each of the last four sets of strips sewn into blocks.

Strips were cut for 3 more stratas and they got sewn last night. I need to press them ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 7 months, 3 weeks ago. under batiks , mug rugs , strip piecing

First quilt top for October 2025............... from Exuberant Color

It took less than a half hour to finish this little quilt top. It is 34" square. It will be put with next month's pieces to be quilted.

I had to clear off my table top so I sewed the last group of tiny pieces into 4 more strips. This set isn't as colorful as the first 2 sets shown yesterday

Yesterday morning I did some more cutting for the Nancy Crow fabric 16 patch and for the purple Rosy quilt. I started sewing the stratas for the NC 16 patch. This is all 1990s fabric. I have ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 7 months, 3 weeks ago. under batiks , quilts made with triangles , strip piecing

Sidetracked, or is it derailed............................. from Exuberant Color

There is a table in my main floor studio that I have been slowly cleaning off (we're talking piles here) and when I say slowly, it is like 2 items a day. One of the items yesterday was a little 4" x 4" bag of small batik pieces.

The 7" ruler gives you an idea how small the pieces were. They were all end pieces when I was cutting some project a few years ago and I couldn't throw them in the trash.

I decided to piece them into strips, 4 of which would make a little mug ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 7 months, 3 weeks ago. under batiks , black and white , strip piecing , triangles

Not working...................... from Exuberant Color

Sometimes you have to play with some blocks to find out what isn't working. I had company yesterday so last night I just pulled out the baggie of 44 three inch 9 patches. I placed them on my sewing table edge to edge to see if they would make a nice table runner top. What I quickly realized is that there are lots of dark colors in these blocks.

I had a stack of batik squares in the same size so I just put them on every other block that was on the table. My conclusion? Neither of them ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 8 months, 1 week ago. under 9 patch , batiks , knitting

Just a little mindless sewing............... from Exuberant Color

I did my tomato plant trimming yesterday morning before it got too hot. There should be better air circulation now through the plants.

After lunch I decided to use some 1.5" batik strips in a bag that were left from a previous project. Here is that project on this post in 2009. (I quilted the quilt in 2016.) There were 170 strips originally in the bag but over the years I have used some strips out of the bag for other projects. The strips are all half width (20" approx.) and I used 60 so far for this group ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 9 months, 2 weeks ago. under batiks , strip piecing

Hot, hot, hot............................ from Exuberant Color

I know most of the US is under this heat dome and it isn't fun. It's the humidity that is the worst part.

I spent most of the day working slowly, some quilting, some knitting, a little organizing in the basement. One good thing happened; I found my missing Kaffe Quilts in Italy book which has been missing for several months. I sewed 2 pieces of batting together with the triple zig zag for a piece 48" x 58". I will check and see if that works for any of the small tops waiting in line. If not ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 11 months, 1 week ago. under batiks , knitting , machine quilting

More hand stitching................ from Exuberant Color

I have 3 more hours into the hand stitching of the binding on this Tilda Whimsy quilt so I have 2 1/2 sides done. Maybe 2 more evenings and it will be done.

I did more die cutting yesterday on the batiks strips that are between 3" and 6" wide. I'm cutting 2" x 3.5" rectangles, 2.5" x 4.5" rectangles and 2" squares. The piece that is leftover on most of the pieces is large enough to cut two 2.5" squares or 4 triangles. I'll do them later. This is the group I ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 year, 1 month ago. under batiks , binding , nature

Scrappy quilt with stars from Pieced Brain

Create this scrappy quilt with stars using fabrics you’ve been collecting over the years. It will add vibrant colors to your home decor!

Spiral Galaxies appears in the June issue of American Patchwork & Quilting magazine, hitting the stands on April 18! It measures 72-1/2″ x 81-1/2″ with 10″ star blocks and 9″ nine-patches with half-square triangles. It features bakits from my extensive collection. No single fabric was purchased for the quilt, including the (pieced) back, which I will show you soon.

One ...

added by Denise Russell 1 year, 1 month ago. under batiks , easy quilts , handmade gifts , home decor , modern decor , modern home decor , quick projects , quilt backing , quilt pattern , quilting , scrappy quilts , star quilt blocks (Comments)

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