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Time has slipped past me while playing with our new dog and having a fun trip to the Houston show, but I have two new quilts to post here, neither of which is my usual “stuff”. First of all, while I absolutely love free-motion quilting, I’ve been wondering what it is about quilting in the […]

Over the past 10 months, I have been making 36 patch blocks in the colour of the month for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  This past week, I quilted, bound and labelled my quilt--that's two quilts finished in two weeks!  I'm on a roll!  I used my walking foot to sew straight lines diagonally through all of the white squares with 28wt thread.  The backing is a wide back called Sea Glass.  It has lots of colours in it to match all of the squares on the front.  There are no repeats of any of the coloured squares on ...

Oh my gosh the heat has been horrible here – I know I told myself to not whine about a hot summer – but it isn’t just hot it is dry too – we need some rain – I really don’t recall when it rained last – must have been early June or end of […]

I tackled a UFO this week--they will not get done unless I work on them!  I participated in a round robin with some members of the Toronto Modern Guild last summer and made a wall hanging out of my centre block with a spool border made by Terri. The other borders/blocks will be used in future projects. I found some appropriate backing fabric and pieced some batting scraps before pin basting and quilting it with my walking foot. My slow stitching project this week was sewing the binding down. It is the same fabric as the background gray around ...

Interesting.

Wow!

PS Ooops … didn’t hit the publish button yesterday! Sorry!

I did, however, have enough gold and yellow squares to create two 36 patch blocks. 

The red scraps were flying in my sewing room this week.  I have decided to do three rainbow scrap challenge quilts this year. When I made the selvage hot pads as Christmas gifts, it quickly became apparent that my selvage collection is out of control!  I had sorted some of my selvages into bags by colour so I grabbed the red bag and some light-weight non-fusible interfacing and made two squares. 

Finally all washed and dried, I forgot to measure but I know it is about 95 x 105 inches.  Hand quilted, machine pieced using pieces cut from accuquilt 12 inch Drunkard Path dies.  I started the quilting on Oct. 6 2021 and finished it 2 months and 3 weeks later – taking 86.5 hours!  I […]

Yesterday I took a break from the sewing machine, listened to music and got the binding done on the Drunkard’s Path – we are now to get rain (maybe a little ice first) for two days so getting a photo outside will not be done this weekend – maybe next week after I get it […]

I really like this method of cranking quilts out month by month going by the colors selected.  Not all of my quilts this year will be made this way – but I am enjoying it right now. After much consideration and looking at various designs for the Carpenter’s Wheel I decided on one setting and […]

I had meant to get one block sewed yesterday but Melanie stopped by for a visit and before you know it the afternoon was about gone – nice to get caught up before she gets back to her regular routine at work after having quite a few days off over the holidays – must say […]

I do believe as I get older the days and years go by faster – is it the clock ticking away reminding us we are getting older (some of us anyhow)?  Well I have a lot of quilts left in me to make so I will keep on making as long as I can.  The […]

I have not determined in advance how many quilts I will try to make in 2022 – I know a lot of quilters make out a list and try to stick to it.  I have “want to” make but “will I make?” is another question.  I bought a lot of Accuquilt dies this year while […]

I have a lot of finishes right here at the end of the month/year and it is too many to post today so today will be the Drunkard’s Path – it needs to be  binded but we are going to have a spell of bad weather – wet and cold so I won’t be taking […]

Yesterday was a stay home day and I got busy on the borders for Love Letters.  All four made and one attached.  This is my last RSC quilt top of 2021 to finish – this is the third.  I’m not sure what all I will make next year (next week!) – I have ideas for […]

We spent Christmas Eve with our daughter and family in NW Arkansas and then drove home late in the day and had Christmas morning and early afternoon with our daughter down the road from us a ways.  By mid afternoon it was the two of us and we were doing things outside enjoying the weather […]

If I have time before Christmas I will cut the border strips and get to work – otherwise I will wait until after Christmas and try to finish it up in the last week of the year.  I decided the border strips will be the same size as the sashing – that will give me […]

Thanks for all the replies on the cookies yesterday – it was interesting to hear what you all do for your holiday in the line of baking. A little more work was done on the Love Letters quilt – just couldn’t get into sewing machine work yesterday I will try to do more progress today.  […]