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Table Runner Done and Cross Stitch from The Cozy Quilter

I finished the lilac stars table runner binding off last weekend for slow Sunday stitching. It is now ready for gifting! I added a lilac print stripe on the back to make it long enough.

I managed to do some cross stitching most days this week so now I have two sunflowers done and parts of a few leaves. There are four more smaller sunflowers in this quadrant of the picture.

My daughter has been adding more colours to her Ottawa cityscape. Finn is a good cross stitch holder, don't you think???

I spent some time in my sewing ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 days, 12 hours ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , gardens , slow sunday stitching , table runners

A Gift, Orange Blocks and a Walk in the Woods from The Cozy Quilter

On the way to sewing day on Monday, I stopped at the quilt store to pick up a gift for someone and some fabric to make a table runner for a friend who likes purple. The lilac fabric jumped out at me as there are lots of lilacs in bloom here right now. I bought three other colours that went with the lilacs and a striped fabric for the binding. When I arrived at the sewing studio, of course I cut right into the new fabric and got to work on the table runner. (I was supposed to be working ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 week, 3 days ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , gardens , hiking , pineapple log cabin , rainbow scrap challenge , scraps , slow sunday stitching , table runners

Oxford Guild Quilt Show from The Cozy Quilter

I attended our guild quilt show on Friday and Saturday this week--our first show since before COVID. I entered 9 quilts in the show and took pictures of them in the venue. There were several of my Rainbow Scrap Challenge projects including "All the Colours" based on a pattern by Gudrun Erla called Haldora.

"Scrappy 36 Patch"

"Scrappy Drunkard's Path" and "In Formation"

I put one bed sized quilt in the show--"Memories of Iceland"--the pattern is by Gudrun Erla and is called "Lupine".

"30's Plus Sign Baby Quilt"

"Scraps on Point"

( I was very happy that ...

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Resurrecting an Old UFO from The Cozy Quilter

Back in October of 2014, I took a class called "Overlapping Tiles" with Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Malby. At the end of the day, I rolled up my project in a piece of flannel design wall, gathered up my fabrics and put all of it in a bin, never to even look at it again until this past Monday. I knew it was in my sewing room because every so often, I would move the bin around, always thinking that I should get back to this project and get it done. The last time I moved the bin, I remembered ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 3 weeks, 2 days ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , gardens , kaffe fassett , overlapping tiles , slow sunday stitching

Slow Stitching Report from The Cozy Quilter

I spent a few hours this week hand stitching sleeves on my quilts for the upcoming Oxford Guild quilt show..5/9 are done. The three larger quilts still need their sleeves sewn on. I can get them done this week.

I only managed to work on my sunflower cross stitch once this week so there is only a small change from last week. I'm hoping to finish off this flower this week. We will see how much time there is after sewing the sleeves on the other three quilts.

Finn had a haircut this week. He was looking ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 month ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , gardens , quilt show , slow sunday stitching

Sunflowers, Sleeves and a Quilt Show! from The Cozy Quilter

More colourful petals were added to the sunflower in the centre of my project this week. This picture will end up being a 12" circle so there is a long way to go still. I like the turquoise background--the colours in the sunflower really pop.

I may not get as much cross stitching done this week as I have entered 9 quilts into our guild quilt show in early May and I need to hand stitch the sleeves onto 8 of the quilts. (the smallest one already had a sleeve). This afternoon, I made sleeves for 6 quilts and they ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 month, 1 week ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , gardens , quilt show , slow sunday stitching

Purple Scrap Blocks and a Sunflower in the Making from The Cozy Quilter

I got to work on my Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks this week using my purple and red-violet (magenta) scraps. These squares are 6.5" square. I still have lots of purple scraps but my red-violet collection is almost non-existent now.

I made another pineapple log cabin to add to my collection.

We had summer-like weather this week and the garden has burst into bloom. These red-violet hellebores came from my MIL's garden.

The daffodils in my garden also put on a great show this week.

The grape hyacinths are so pretty!

Ladybugs and bees are making an appearance as ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 month, 1 week ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , hand sewing , rainbow scrap challenge , slow sunday stitching

Pineapple Log Cabin and a New Cross Stitch Project from The Cozy Quilter

The Rainbow Scrap Challenge colour for April is purple so I dug into my purple scrap bin and made my pineapple log cabin block. I don't repeat any of the scraps in each block. Someone had asked if I was paper piecing these blocks...I purchased 2 panels of muslin with the pineapple blocks printed onto it years ago and I am using them for these blocks. I have enough for 24 blocks but will only do 12 for this project and save the rest for another quilt. No paper to pull off after sewing. I laid out the ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 month, 3 weeks ago. under finn , flowers , hand sewing , knitting , pineapple log cabin , rainbow scrap challenge , slow sunday stitching

Spring Rabbit Done! from The Cozy Quilter

I finished off the last of the stitches on the Spring Rabbit counted cross stitch this week. Then, I added the butterfly antennae, the bunny's whiskers, the lines in the ears and the stitches to make the tail "fluffy". I love the bright colours! I will wash it this week and give it a good press before taking it to the framer. I hope it won't take too long to frame so I can hang it up soon.

In the meantime, I have organized the thread and cut the Aida cloth for my next counted cross stitch project ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 month, 3 weeks ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , hrt's , hurty ruler , pj's , rainbow scrap challenge , slow sunday stitching

Slow Stitching and Trying Out a New Ruler from The Cozy Quilter

I added lots of stitches to my cross stitch picture this week. I just love the colours in this project...so bright and cheerful. One friend said this pattern looks almost Scandinavian to her and I would have to agree. There is a butterfly to sew next, once the large pink flower and the beet are done.

I bought myself a HuRTy ruler (designed by Latifah Saafir) at QuiltCon and wanted to try it out on a small project before tackling a bigger quilt. Here are my first few Half Rectangle Triangles on my design wall. I am not sure ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 months ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , hrt's , hurty ruler , slow sunday stitching

My Favourite Quilts at QuiltCon and some Slow Stitching. from The Cozy Quilter

The week got away from me and I did not show my favourite quilts from QuiltCon so I will show them to you in this post along with my stitching efforts from this past week. I'll start with my stitching...

I have finished the flowers to the right of the rabbit in my Spring cross stitch picture and I'm now working on the carrots and beets under the rabbit and the flowers on the left side. I'm surprised all these flowers and vegetables have not been eaten by the bunny--that's what happened in our backyard when ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 months, 1 week ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , hand sewing , quiltcon 2023 , rope bowls , slow sunday stitching

Two Finished Quilts! from The Cozy Quilter

I have two finished quilts to share with you this week. They are both Rainbow Scrap Challenge finishes, the first from 2021 and the second one from 2022. This pattern is by Gudrun Erla from her "Quilts of Iceland" book. I used a turquoise Kona solid for the binding which co-ordinates nicely with the bicycles fabric on the back of the quilt.

I used my drunkard's path rulers and lots of my colourful scraps to make this circles quilt. I quilted in the ditch between each quarter circle block as well as a diagonal cross hatch through the circles ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 months, 2 weeks ago. under binding , counted cross stitch , drunkard's path , finn , halldora , hand sewing , rainbow scrap challenge , rope bowls , scraps , slow sunday stitching

Meags and Me New Patterns from Mama Spark's World

I had the opportunity to work on 2 of the new patterns coming our for Meags and Me. I love pattern testing for these guys! Patterns I did were Tweet Tweet and Bird Brain. Tweet Tweet is at the quilter's and I just finished Bird Brain last night.Here are pics from Bird Brain.I did a machine free motion straight stitch around the applique.I used the same for the legs, beak and ( ) on the birds.I

added by Mama Spark 2 months, 2 weeks ago. under binding , bird brain , finn , meags and me patterns , pattern testing

Retreat Report from The Cozy Quilter

Christine and I left early for our quilting retreat with the Oxford Guild this past Friday because there was a winter storm coming and we wanted to get there and be set up before the snow started to fall. The snow started in the afternoon and kept going all night. In the morning there was almost a foot of snow (30cm for the metric folks). We were all snowed in and loving it. We did not lose power and we had our sewing machines and lots of fabric and projects on hand to work on. It was a great weekend ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 months, 3 weeks ago. under baby quilts , counted cross stitch , drunkard's path , finn , lap quilts , pineapple log cabin , rainbow scrap challenge , retreat , rope bowls , scraps

Cross Stitch Rabbit and a New Project from The Cozy Quilter

I spent a little time each day this past week adding stitches to my Spring cross stitch picture. The rabbit is coming along nicely. Finn is here for his annual visit while my daughter is busy at work and he doesn't mind lying beside me as I stitch. He is used to doing that while my daughter works on her cross stitch when he is home with her.

My daughter's picture of the city of Ottawa is coming into focus as she adds more colours. The giant spider is a statue called "Maman" in from the the National ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 3 months, 1 week ago. under counted cross stitch , elgin piecemakers , finn , oxford quilters guild , slow sunday stitching

A Finished Quilt and A New Start from The Cozy Quilter

Almost all of my sewing time this week was devoted to finishing the turquoise and gray wedding quilt. Several hours were spent at the sewing machine, adding lines of quilting with turquoise thread using my walking foot. The herringbone part of the quilt was quilted with diagonal lines following the pattern of angles of the turquoise strip piecing.

The backing of this quilt is turquoise flannel--so soft and warm!

I did the hand stitching of the binding in the car. I had some solid turquoise in my stash which was used for the binding. I just noticed the thread formed ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 3 months, 2 weeks ago. under binding , counted cross stitch , finn , gifts , hand sewing , slow sunday stitching

Quilting, Knitting and some New Projects in the Wings from The Cozy Quilter

I spent a little time each day this week working on quilting this wedding gift quilt. It is much bigger than the quilts I usually do using the walking foot on my domestic sewing machine so I decided to keep it simple with horizontal lines on the background fabric. The scrappy herringbone section is shown below. It involves a lot more manipulation the quilt I have finished three sections and will work on getting the rest done this week. Then, on to the binding!

I started another knitted cloth this week. I am using the same pattern as the last ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 3 months, 3 weeks ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , knitting , slow sunday stitching , walking foot quilting

A Little of This and A Little of That from The Cozy Quilter

Regular readers of my blog may remember that I took an introductory class in rug hooking last summer. The hooking has all been done for a while and I finally finished off my project last weekend. A friend who describes herself as a "hooker" and "addicted to fibre" showed me how to do the outer edge of my sheep project. I hope to hang this little rug on the wall in my sewing room. I would be quite willing to try another rug hooking project.

For the Rainbow Scrap Challenge, this week I used up some tiny scraps to make ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 4 months ago. under applique , comfort quilts , counted cross stitch , drunkard's path , elgin piecemakers , finn , rainbow scrap challenge , rug hooking , scraps , slow sunday stitching , walking foot quilting

Back to the Sewing Machine from The Cozy Quilter

I spent some quality time with my sewing machine this week. The Elgin Piecemakers Guild makes comfort quilts for adult chemo patients at our local hospital so each month, we each have to make a block in a certain colour scheme. I have my first four blocks for 2023 made. Here they are:

January: Blue and white.

February: Red, white and blue

March: Purple, pink and white

April: Blue and purple churn dash.

I worked on the last three houses for my Coming Home Quilt. I did not have any light turquoise thread with me at the sewing day this ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 4 months, 1 week ago. under applique , comfort quilts , coming home , elgin piecemakers , finn , pineapple log cabin , rainbow scrap challenge , slow sunday stitching , wall hangings

Finding my Rotary Cutter from The Cozy Quilter

The condition of my sewing room has deteriorated over the last month or so to the point where I could not find my rotary cutter... it was time for a clean up. I spent over an hour putting things away, folding fabric, sorting through piles, etc. and still no rotary cutter. I tried to think of the last time I used it...then, I remembered I used it at a recent guild sewing day---it was in the bag I took to the sewing day. Oh well, the sewing room is looking much better and I had a new project planned ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 4 months, 2 weeks ago. under binding , bom , coming home , finn , hand sewing , knitting , pouches , sarah fielke , scraps , slow sunday stitching , wall hangings

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