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Wedding Gift Finished! from The Cozy Quilter

I have been working on two wedding gifts for couples who are already married. The first couple got married in June and were told that they would receive their quilt by the end of the year. This week, I finally finished their quilt! I sewed straight lines about an inch apart across the quilt with my walking foot. Would you believe that this took three bobbins of thread to complete??? I like the texture that the quilting added.

I used some leftover purple fabric for the binding and hand sewed it down a couple of days this week as I ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 4 months ago. under finn , gifts , hand sewing , slow sunday stitching

Another Retreat from The Cozy Quilter

You may have noticed that I was missing in action last weekend...no blog post! Christine and I were away for the weekend at Camp Kintail. The camp hosts two crafter's retreats every year and we try to attend both. We both made great progress on the projects we brought with us and the meals and accommodations were fabulous! The camp was decorated for Christmas, inside and out. The other retreaters were sewing, knitting, crocheting, doing paper crafts, making cards, making blankets, etc. It was fun to see what everyone was up to and to visit with friends, old ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 4 months ago. under camp kintail , drunkard's path , embroidery , finn , gifts , rainbow scrap challenge , retreat , scraps , slow sunday stitching

A Busy Week from The Cozy Quilter

For many reasons, this has been a very busy week! Today was our church Christmas Bazaar so I was adding some quilting to some placemats every time I had a bit of time to sew this week. For this set, I quilted along the red stripes both vertically and horizontally, creating a grid.

Wavy lines were sewn in the boat and house sections of these placemats. I though they might be nice for a cottage.

These red and white placemats had a few rows of wavy lines added.

Organic wavy lines were quilted onto these paisley placemats.

Lots of people ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 5 months ago. under christmas , finn , placemats , slow sunday stitching , walking foot quilting

Cats and Things from Mama Spark's World

Finny was posing so nicely that I just had to get his pic today.Last night before bed these 2 were co-opting my sewing space.We were at Avery's the other day and he was taking the scooper off his lego truck.He would say "help me".Then Papa asked him if he was going to take it off again and this series of photos says it all.Clearly the answer was YESSilly papa!I got a good photo of Cole showing

added by Mama Spark 1 year, 5 months ago. under cole avery , finn

Finishing Other People's UFO's from The Cozy Quilter

Sometimes, we quilters have UFO's--unfinished projects that seem to just take up space in our sewing rooms that we just don't feel motivated to get them to the finish line. The quilt below was given to me by another quilter along with the backing fabric, probably over a year ago...long enough for me to forget who gave it to me to finish! I was asked to quilt and bind it and then give it to the Chemo Unit at the hospital for an adult chemo patient. Just before last weekend's Oxford Quilt Guild retreat, I found ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 5 months ago. under binding , comfort quilts , counted cross stitch , finn , slow sunday stitching , table toppers , ufo's

Secret Sewing Season and a Retreat from The Cozy Quilter

I have been working on some secret Christmas sewing all week. It is a hand stitching project and I just love how it is turning out! Unfortunately, I can't show any pictures until after December 25th.

This weekend, Christine and I are going on a retreat with the Oxford Quilter's Guild. I spent a couple of hours Wednesday evening gathering projects to take with me. I like to bring a variety of things with me so I have a choice. Of course, I have a couple of projects to work on by hand, including this cute sheep ornament ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 5 months ago. under comfort quilts , finn , hiking , retreat , slow sunday stitching , wool applique

Two Finishes for the Bazaar! from The Cozy Quilter

I have not one but two finishes to share this week! I quilted the baby quilt that I made for the church bazaar this week using light yellow thread and my walking foot to create a rectangular grid. The backing is donated minke in light green which goes perfectly with the colours on the front of the quilt. The binding is made from the same Kaffe fabric that was used to make the spinning four patch blocks.

Excuse my squinting...the sun was in my eyes!

I had 8 spinning four patches leftover after making the quilt so I decided ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 5 months ago. under baby quilts , binding , finn , hand sewing , hiking , slow sunday stitching , spinning 4 patch , table toppers

Spinning Four Patch Top from The Cozy Quilter

The sewing group at the church got together this week to work on items for our bazaar in November. I have one more baby quilt to finish before the bazaar so I added the sashing to each block. When I got home, I sewed the blocks together. I have a piece of pale green minke which was donated to our group for the back of the quilt. These spinning 4 patch blocks were cut from a piece of Kaffe Fassett fabric. I love the patterns in each block--so different even though they all came from the same fabric.

My husband ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 6 months ago. under finn , gardens , knitting , shweshwe , slow sunday stitching , spinning 4 patch

36 Patch Quilt Done! from The Cozy Quilter

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 ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 6 months ago. under binding , drunkard's path , finn , hand sewing , knitting , puzzles , rainbow scrap challenge , scraps , selvages , slow sunday stitching

After 2 Years, Lupines is done! from The Cozy Quilter

I have been working on my Lupines quilt off and on for over two years. The pattern is from the book "Quilts of Iceland" by Gudrun Erla. I bought the book at QuiltCon in Nashville in 2019. My husband and I went to Iceland for two weeks in 2014 to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary and the lupines were in bloom while we were there. Apparently, they are not a flower which is native to Iceland but were introduced from somewhere else. They now grow all over Iceland and when in bloom, everything is purple! Fast forward to our 30th ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 6 months ago. under binding , drunkard's path , finn , hiking , lupins , rainbow scrap challenge , slow sunday stitching

Finally Stitching the Binding Down from The Cozy Quilter

I have had my lupine quilt back from the long arm quilter for a couple of months now. Finally, this past week, I had the time and energy to get the binding made and sewn on by machine. I don't usually measure my quilts before I cut the binding. I tend to just cut the number of strips that looks like the right amount--usually, I am pretty accurate doing it this way. This week was no exception and I had 7" of binding to spare when it was all on.

The binding is made from leftover backing fabric. The ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 6 months ago. under binding , finn , hand sewing , lupins , rainbow scrap challenge , slow sunday stitching

Slow Knitting and some Zippered Pouches from The Cozy Quilter

I belong to a sewing group at church--we get together every couple of weeks for a few hours to make items for our upcoming Christmas Bazaar. This past Tuesday, 5 of us met at the church to sew. P and I made two zippered pouches each. J and M made bunting for Christmas, Valentines and Halloween. K worked on another type of pouch. The bin with our new items for this year's bazaar is filling up. We also have some stock left over from the last bazaar in 2019. Here are the pouches that I made. The pattern is ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 7 months ago. under finn , gardens , knitting , slow sunday stitching , zippered pouch

Whistle Stop Top! from The Cozy Quilter

Regular readers of this blog will know that I have not been very productive in my sewing room recently. My husband and I are involved in a couple of large projects at the moment that are consuming all of our time and energy. The deadline to finish is looming, so after that, I hope to be able to spend some one on one time with my sewing machine and my knitting needles!

I did manage to finish off the Whistle Stop quilt flimsy this week--The edges of the centre section were all on the bias so I stay stitched 1 ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 7 months ago. under finn , rainbow scrap challenge , slow sunday stitching , tesselate quilts

Light Blue RSC, Knitting and some Quilt Top Progress from The Cozy Quilter

I dug into my light blue scraps this week and got a start on my drunkard's path blocks for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. Some of these fabrics have been hanging around in my sewing room for many years! I used the dog fabric in the top left block to make a quilt for a colleague's new baby in 2003.

I sewed about half of my whistle stop quilt top together one afternoon this week. It is not pressed yet...

I started a new quilt for the church Christmas bazaar as well this week. This is a stack and ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 7 months ago. under finn , gardens , knitting , lap quilts , rainbow scrap challenge , slow sunday stitching , spartan sewing machine , tesselate quilts

Orange and Light Blue, Hooking and Cutting from The Cozy Quilter

I changed the calendar to September today...I know...I was a day late but we were out all day yesterday and too tired when we got home to think about it. I finished off my orange drunkard's path blocks for the August Rainbow Scrap Challenge and got busy gathering some light blue selvages for September's selvage HST's.

HST's made! These are top stitched along the selvage edge onto a lightweight non-woven interfacing square, 9.5" by 9.5". Then, I cut them in half!

I harvested lots of grape tomatoes today after supper. This should ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 7 months ago. under drunkard's path , finn , gardens , rainbow scrap challenge , rug hooking , selvages , slow sunday stitching , tesselate quilts

More Hooking and A New Quilt Underway. from The Cozy Quilter

My friend, Christine, and I used to get together every week to sew before the pandemic. We have recently started doing this again as time allows. This past week, we cut out and sewed the HST's for the Tesselate Quilts "Whistle Stop" quilt along. Here are my HST's laid out for 1/4 of the quilt. I thought that I would easily be able to find some fabric in my stash to use as a background for this quilt...but no. I tried various shades of green, gray, blue and even white, but nothing worked.

So...off to ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 8 months ago. under baby quilts , finn , rug hooking , slow sunday stitching , tesselate quilts

Working on the Sky from The Cozy Quilter

Earlier this week, my husband and I went glamping for three days--this means we stayed in a fancy tent on a platform with furniture (including a king sized bed) and a bathroom, a deck out front and a barbecue to cook our meals. The property was lovely and had lots of trails for walking as well as a pond with a paddle boat, a canoe and a row boat. The deck in front of our tent was in the shade most of the time so it was a great place to sit and read a book (I managed to finish ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 8 months ago. under comfort quilts , elgin piecemakers , finn , knitting , rainbow scrap challenge , rug hooking , slow sunday stitching

Hooking, Knitting and Piecing from The Cozy Quilter

Life is busy in my neck of the woods. This is not going to change any time soon so I will just share my little bits of progress each week as usual. I worked on my sheep rug hooking project earlier this week. The green grass is just about done now. Next, I will finish that last bit of green on the right side of the picture before working on the blue sky and the yellow sun.

I was in the mood to do some knitting earlier today. I dug out some yarn, needles and a pattern for a lattice ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 8 months ago. under dish cloths , finn , flowers , knitting , rug hooking , slow sunday stitching

Starting a New Quilt (or two!) from The Cozy Quilter

The rainbow scrap challenge colour for August is orange so I pulled out my bin of orange selvages this week and made my selvage blocks. Each selvage strip is top stitched very close to the edge and the are foundation pieced to a square of very light weight non woven interfacing. Orange is one of my favourite colours.

I will get my orange scrap bin out soon to work on my drunkard's path blocks.

In the meantime, I have started a new quilt--this one is a wedding gift. The wedding was in June, after a two year delay due ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 8 months ago. under finn , gardens , rainbow scrap challenge , rug hooking , selvages , slow sunday stitching , tesselate quilts

Wedding Shower Gift and RSC purple Drunkard's path blocks from The Cozy Quilter

We were away visiting our daughter last weekend and did not get home until Wednesday night which meant that there was not a lot of sewing time this week. Since the end of July is quickly approaching, I needed to get my purple Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks finished up. The colour for August is orange so I will dig out my orange scrap bin and my orange selvages this coming week.

Our daughter is in her friend's wedding party this fall. I decided to make the bride some hot pads as a wedding shower gift. These are the colours ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 9 months ago. under binding , finn , hot pad , hst's , rainbow scrap challenge , selvages , slow sunday stitching

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