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Hand and Machine Sewing from The Cozy Quilter

I continued quilting my round robin quilt this week, finishing the orange and green spiky sections and starting on the next border. I am still undecided about what to quilt in the wide blue sections. I will wait until inspiration strikes to do this part.

I watched the next Moon Trees lesson on the Thread House Academy with Jo Avery and then added the. running stitch embroidery around my tree branches, as she suggested. I have fabrics picked out for 8 more blocks and will work away on them over the next while. I used pearl cotton for this stitching ...

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Hand Stitching from The Cozy Quilter

I did not touch my sewing machine this week. Not even once! I did, however, do quite a bit of hand quilting and hand appliqué. I did the first lesson of the Moon Trees Class with Jo Avery on the Threadhouse Academy and managed to get one block made. The background fabric is a piece of Essex Linen. The yellow tree is Fableism Sprout and the print is from Tilda. I plan on making more of these blocks with different variations of trees. The next online class will teach me how to do this. I'm using 80 wt thread ...

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A Week Away from The Cozy Quilter

Our family, including our daughter and Finn, just got home from a week at the cottage. We did lots of reading on the dock, and stitching in the screened porch. It was a very relaxing week. Finn loves it there and could not wait to go down to the dock every morning and evening. We had great weather although it was smoky for a couple of days from the northern Ontario forest fires.

I finished the hand quilting on my Pineapple Log Cabin quilt! I looked up when I started the hand quilting--October 2025. I must admit that I took ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 weeks, 1 day ago. under books , cottage time , counted cross stitch , crochet , finn , hand quilting , pineapple log cabin , round robin , slow sunday stitching

More Aqua and Hand Quilting from The Cozy Quilter

My blocks for Aqua month are done! Here are the shoe fly blocks and the 25 patch HST block. Lots of fun scraps in these blocks. I have ordered some more Kona white as I only have a few small scraps left and I want to make more blocks for both of these quilts.

I finished hand quilting this purple pineapple block on Monday and I'm now working on the magenta block. Only one block to go after magenta--it is yellow. Then, I can get this quilt trimmed and bound. I will have to see what I have in ...

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Aqua and Yellow from The Cozy Quilter

The Rainbow Scrap Challenge colour for July is Aqua. I just had my Aqua fabrics out last week at the cottage to complete the last block of my Sommer Sorbet sampler quilt so it was easy to cut out some squares and HST's for my blocks. This is the only one I got sewn this week but the 25 patch HST block is laid out and ready to sew this coming week. My interpretation of Aqua is blue-green, leaning towards green. Turquoise leans towards blue in the blue-green family. I think others do this the other way around. It ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 4 weeks, 1 day ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , hand quilting , nine patch , pineapple log cabin , rainbow scrap challenge , round robin , slow sunday stitching , zippered pouch

Almost a Week at the Cottage from The Cozy Quilter

Christine and I spent most of a week at her cottage and did lots of sewing, chatting, watching movies and eating good food! It was a bit buggy outside so we were mostly inside. Christine has lots of bird feeders which she kept well stocked all week so there were lots of birds and other critters to see out the window.

But first, the sewing! I added yellow binding to my colour challenge quilt and, over a few days, finished hand stitching it down. The dock was a good place to take some pictures.

I did most of the hand ...

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The Sky is Done, on to the Flowers. from The Cozy Quilter

Yahoo! The sky stitching is done on my cross stitch project. Now, I will be working on the flowers at the bottom of the picture. There are lots of colour changes in this section so it will take a while.

I quilted my colour challenge quilt this week and will be putting the binding on this weekend. Then, I get to do the hand stitching--I like this part of the project. I used 30 wt white thread on the top and light blue 50 wt thread in the bobbin to match the backing fabric. I will have a picture of ...

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Hand Stitching from The Cozy Quilter

This was a busy week with lots of activities every day, so, not much sewing happened. I did manage to add more stitches to the sky in my cross stitch project and discovered that I was going to run out of one of the colours. I purchased a skein at the local craft shop and I'm ready to keep on stitching. Someone asked last week if there are sunflowers in the picture--the answer is yes...there are several sunflowers in a combination of stitches and beads as well as a button at the bottom of the picture. I will ...

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Back to Hand Quilting from The Cozy Quilter

If you read my blog on a regular basis, you will know that I started hand quilting my pineapple log cabin quilt a while ago and then, I stopped. This week, I brought it upstairs from my sewing room and spent a few hours working on it. The gold block is quilted and I am almost finished quilting the orange block. Next up, the red block. Funny how projects don't get done if you don't work on them... I have another quilt that is begging to be hand quilted in the wings so I want to get this ...

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Colour Challenge Flimsy Done from The Cozy Quilter

I had a little less than a yard of the sashing and border fabric to set my colour challenge blocks and crossed my fingers that there would be enough to add 2.5" sashing and a 3.5" border. I cut the pieces out that I needed to do this and had just a few scraps left. Phew! I'm happy that there was enough! Now, I just have to figure out the backing--this will be pieced using fabric from my stash. I will use a solid for the binding--not sure which colour I will use yet.

I worked on ...

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Cross Stitch, Crochet and Orange from The Cozy Quilter

I must admit that adding stitches to the sky in my current cross stitch project is not that exciting...I try to break it up by adding stitches to the bottom part of the picture too. You can see from the picture that progress was made on both fronts this week. Someone asked about stitching on perforated paper--the paper is quite thick and I have not had any issues with it tearing. I have had to unstitch in a couple of spots and did not have any issues.

My daughter has been working on her crochet in the evenings this ...

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Orange and Cross Stitching the Sky from The Cozy Quilter

I got back to work on my orange Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks this week and made 6 nine patches. The next two sets of blocks need lots of HST's so that's up next at the sewing machine. I need to cut more orange triangles so I have enough. It's only half way through May but I am already wondering what the colour for next month will be...

We had a great discussion at Book Club this week about "the Berry Pickers." In June, we will be talking about "The Frozen River". I have already read this book ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 months, 2 weeks ago. under books , counted cross stitch , finn , gardens , rainbow scrap challenge , scraps , slow sunday stitching

Happy Mother's Day! from The Cozy Quilter

My daughter was here for the past week and she and Finn went home yesterday. It was nice to have her here. Finn was very excited to see her. He loves it when all of us are together. I did a little bit of cross stitch this past week, but no machine sewing. I finished the framing stitches and added more sky stitches as well. I hope to do more today.

My daughter worked on her crochet while she was here, adding this pretty periwinkle lace border. If you look at the close up, you can see flowers in it ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 months, 3 weeks ago. under books , counted cross stitch , crochet , finn , flowers , gardens , slow sunday stitching , stash building

Orange Scraps from The Cozy Quilter

I cut out some orange squares and half square triangles this week for my Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks for May. Today, I made one orange block...there are more pieces cut out for the other blocks but nothing is put together yet. I will show them in a future post when they are done. The background fabric has orange square dots instead of round ones. It has been in my stash for a while. These blocks use up most of a fat quarter of background fabric.

Here is my block collection so far. I have decided to make 9 blocks ...

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Hand Quilting and a Cross Stitch Barn from The Cozy Quilter

I added a lot of blue stitches to my cross stitch project earlier in the week, and then decided it was time to use some other colours. As you can see below, I stitched most of the green border and got a good start on the barn. Once the barn is done, I will go back to adding more blue in the sky.

I hand quilted the light green block on my pineapple log cabin quilt this week. I am working on the gold block next. 3/9 blocks are quilted now. This is a slow process. I already know ...

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A Little Doll and Some Hand Stitching from The Cozy Quilter

A couple of weeks ago, I started to make a little folk art doll for a 5 year old's birthday. This week, I finished it. It has black hair, just like the five year old. Purple is her favourite colour.

I continue to work on my Mill Hill cross stitch on perforated paper. It's coming along nicely. The green line of stitches on the right goes all the way around the picture.

I spent a couple of hours working on handquilting my pineapple log cabin quilt this week. The blocks were made a couple of years ago for ...

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Cross Stitch and Pink Scraps from The Cozy Quilter

This has been a good week for stitching and sewing in my neck of the woods! I sat down to do some cross stitching three times and to sew by machine twice. The sky part of this picture is done in blocks of colour but the farm scene at the bottom has more confetti stitching...I have not got to that part yet.

Pink is the Rainbow Scrap Challenge colour for April and I managed to get my pink blocks sewn for the four quilts I am making. I am just about out of Kona white and will need to ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 3 months, 3 weeks ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , gardens , rainbow scrap challenge , sampler quilt , slow sunday stitching , thread house academy

Daffodils, A Birthday and Cross Stitch from The Cozy Quilter

My husband and I were both under the weather earlier this week so that negatively affected how much sewing I got done this week. Hopefully, I can make up for it next week! I did manage to add some blue and brown to my cross stitch project. The brown part will be a windmill, eventually!

Finn received this Lambie toy for Christmas and, recently, almost removed Lambie's reindeer antlers. I sewed them back on by machine with a mending stitch, which was distressing to Finn and he barked at me as I sewed. He was happy to have Lambie ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 4 months ago. under books , counted cross stitch , finn , folk art creatures , gardens , slow sunday stitching , thread house academy

Chain Link top finished from The Cozy Quilter

I finished off my chain link quilt top this week. It has been trimmed now...I should have done that before this picture was taken... It should be close to single bed size but I am open to adding a border using the background fabric if it isn't. I like the way the coloured chains stand out on the dark background.

I added more stitches to my perforated paper cross stitch picture. The paper is stiff which makes it easy to hold and stitch. I find the needle will fall back through the hole when I am coming up ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 4 months, 1 week ago. under chain link quilt , counted cross stitch , finn , knitting , rainbow scrap challenge , slow sunday stitching

Assembling a Quilt Top and a New Cross Stitch Project from The Cozy Quilter

I received this cross stitch kit from a friend for Christmas...this is the first time I have cross stitched on perforated paper. I had to sort all the threads out first before starting to stitch. It doesn't look like much yet.

I have made two knitted poppies for the Remembrance Day project. Others have made dozens...don't forget I am a very slow knitter!

I have fabrics picked out for another Folk Art Doll. I hope to get this cut out this weekend and sew it next week.

I decided to add 2.5" sashing between my ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 4 months, 2 weeks ago. under books , chain link quilt , counted cross stitch , finn , knitting , piecing , slow sunday stitching

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