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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 6 days, 2 hours 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 1 week, 6 days ago. under books , counted cross stitch , finn , folk art creatures , gardens , slow sunday stitching , thread house academy

Winter Wallhanging, and Some Slow Stitching from The Cozy Quilter

It's been a busy week with lots of commitments, which means I didn't get a lot of sewing done. My hand quilting project is coming along. After I finish the cross hatching, I will add more quilting to each block.

I found a winter 5" charm pack in my sewing room and decided to make a wall hanging with it. The white on white snowflake fabric was also in my stash and pairs nicely with the charms. I made lots of HST's and then arranged them in a barn raising pattern on the design wall. I am ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 5 months, 1 week ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , gardens , hand quilting , pineapple log cabin , rainbow scrap challenge , slow sunday stitching , wall hangings

More Trees and Placemats from The Cozy Quilter

More stitches were added to my Fall Forest cross stitch project this week. I like the transparency effect where the trees overlap. This picture is coming along quickly--luckily, I bought two Autumn themed patterns at the same time so I have something else to work on when this is done.

My goal is to make 12 placemats for Meals on Wheels and I now have 10 finished. The last two are quilted and just need to have the binding sewn on. These two placemats are the same, top and bottom. I like to make them so they can be used ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 6 months, 2 weeks ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , gardens , placemats , slow sunday stitching , vacations

Placemats, HST's and the Hooking is Done! from The Cozy Quilter

I went to the guild sewing day this week and worked on my pitcher plant rug hooking project the whole time. I managed to finish all of the hooking! The first picture below was after I steamed it and the second picture was taken before steaming. It really makes a difference, making it look much smoother afterwards!

I have started the wool edging but forget how to turn the corner and will have to consult with one of my hooking friends on how to do this. The wool for the edging is a dark purple, even though it looks black ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 7 months, 3 weeks ago. under charity quilts , crochet , finn , flowers , gardens , modern sampler , placemats , rainbow scrap challenge , rug hooking , slow sunday stitching , thread house academy

Starting a New Quilt from The Cozy Quilter

I signed up for a subscription to The Thread House Academy this year. It is a series of online classes, one per month, led by Lynne Goldsworthy, Karen Lewis and Jo Avery. One of the projects is a modern sampler quilt with three types of blocks released every four months. The first three blocks were released at the beginning of August so I have pulled my fabrics--navy, aqua, and magenta prints and a light gray on white print for the background. Everything came from my stash. Here are my first two "blocks"--this is not a traditional 12.5" block ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 8 months ago. under finn , flowers , gardens , modern sampler , rug hooking , thread house academy

On a Roll from The Cozy Quilter

I have been in the mood to finish some quilts and so I have another finished quilt to show this week. My yellow and green potato chip quilt is done. I'm calling it "Sunny Day". The striped binding was in my stash. This quilt will be donated to my MIL's nursing home to be raffled off as a fundraiser. (Another quilt is quilted and will be bound shortly--it is a gift so no pictures yet)

I spent quite a bit of time rug hooking this week and made great progress on my project. Lots of blue still and ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 8 months, 1 week ago. under charity quilts , crochet , finn , gardens , hiking , potato chip blocks , rug hooking , slow sunday stitching

Walking Foot Quilting from The Cozy Quilter

I finished off the quilting and binding of the hollow 9 patch baby quilt earlier this week and got to work on quilting my yellow and green potato chip quilt. I am using 28 wt green thread on top and white 50 wt thread in the bobbin. This is a bigger quilt so it is taking longer to quilt...more material to manage as I quilt. I will work on this again soon--I'm hoping to have it done to show on next week's blog post. This is a donation quilt.

And here is the big TaDa! The hollow ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 8 months, 2 weeks ago. under baby quilts , books , charity quilts , crochet , finn , gardens , hiking , potato chip blocks , rainbow scrap challenge , rug hooking , slow sunday stitching

Rug Hooking, Knitting and a RSC Baby Quilt in Progress from The Cozy Quilter

After making 6 purple hollow nine patch blocks last week, I took out the bag of blocks that I have made so far this year and discovered that I had enough to make a baby quilt. I took them to the guild sewing day this week and laid them out on the design wall as shown above. I sewed them together and today, pin basted it and started the quilting--diagonal lines in both directions through each square.

I'm using 28wt white thread in the top and 50 wt white in the bobbin. The backing was in my stash.

I ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 8 months, 3 weeks ago. under baby quilts , crochet , finn , gardens , knitting , potato chip blocks , rainbow scrap challenge , rug hooking , scrappy quilts , slow sunday stitching , walking foot quilting

Yellow and Green, and some Purple too. from The Cozy Quilter

Purple is the Rainbow Scrap Challenge colour this month. I was not sure if I had enough 2.5" squares to make six blocks--my purple stash is sparse, but I managed to get my blocks done without getting a friend to donate some scraps to my project. I have 48 blocks made so far--this might be enough. I will have to lay them out and see how they look.

My sewing time this week has been spent working on the yellow and green potato chip quilt. This quilt will be donated to the nursing home where my MIL lives for ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 9 months ago. under charity quilts , finn , gardens , potato chip blocks , rainbow scrap challenge , rug hooking

A Weekend at the Cottage from The Cozy Quilter

My friend, Christine, and I had a few days away at the cottage last weekend. We brought our sewing machines, projects, and handwork with us, as well as some books to read and good food to eat. It was a pretty relaxing weekend. A storm blew through and the power was off for 12 hours, but we found lots to do. We even toasted bagels and boiled water for tea on the BBQ!

I started a Tiny House quilt (online class by Jo Avery). My houses still need roofs and chimneys but I did didn't have the right colour ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 9 months, 3 weeks ago. under comfort quilts , cottage time , finn , flannel , gardens , hospice quilts , improvisational piecing , knitting , rug hooking , scraps , slow sunday stitching , tiny houses

An old UFO off the to do list from The Cozy Quilter

My 10 year old Sashiko project is finally completely done and can go out on display!

I stitched in the ditch around the navy part and then did three rows of quilting in the border. The binding is on. I didn't do any quilting in the sashiko panel--I could still add some if I decide later that it needs it.

The backing is a fat quarter I had in my stash.

I had a chance to knit several times in the last week and added another 5 inches to my scarf. It is 56" long now.

I finished the ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 10 months, 1 week ago. under baby quilts , finn , gardens , knitting , rug hooking , sashiko , scraps , selvages , slow sunday stitching

Flannel Selvages from The Cozy Quilter

I dug out my bin of flannel selvages this week, (yes--I have sorted all my selvages by colour but the flannel ones are all together.) and top stitched them onto a strip of lightweight non fusible interfacing. These two strips and two others will be used in the scrappy flannel baby quilt that I am making. No matter how hard I try, I never seem to run out of scraps.

The binding is on the quilted Advent calendar for the church bazaar. I added a ribbon to the top of each of the little ornaments and now I am adding ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 10 months, 3 weeks ago. under crochet , finn , flannel , gardens , quilt vortex , rug hooking , scraps , selvages

This week's activities from The Cozy Quilter

In a previous post, I was lamenting the thickness of the pitcher plant stem in my rug hooking project. A couple of hooking friends suggested I try hooking a single line of stitches with two strands of yarn. This looks so much better! If you look at the part at the lower end of the stem where the green leaves are hooked around the stem, it looks to be the right width now. You can see from this picture that I got almost all of the leaves done this week. I hope to move on to the flowers this week ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 10 months, 3 weeks ago. under baby quilts , books , comfort quilts , finn , flannel , gardens , hospice quilts , round robin , rug hooking , scrap vortex

Sewing Retreat Report and Gardening from The Cozy Quilter

Last weekend, my husband and I went to the Camp Kintail Crafter's Retreat--Christine, my usual accomplice at retreats, had other plans for the weekend so my husband agreed to go with me. He did some reading and worked on weathering some model train cars. We also went for several walks--it was a gorgeous sunny weekend. I finished off the last three blocks for this quilt. I have not decided what to name it yet... The blocks are not put together yet as they have to be all trimmed to the exact same size first. They are bigger than standard ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 10 months, 4 weeks ago. under crochet , drunkard's path , finn , flannel , gardens , hiking , pillow cases , quilt vortex , rainbow scrap challenge , retreats , rug hooking , scraps , slow sunday stitching

Pitcher Plant Rug Hooking from The Cozy Quilter

Our daughter arrived last weekend to stay for a few days before taking Finn home. She and I spent one evening stitching together--I worked on my rug hooking and she did some cross stitching. Unfortunately, her stitching was off by one square and she had to rip out quite a bit of what she had accomplished so that project is now in time out! I think my stem looks too thick so it may need to be ripped out and made skinnier. Maybe it would look better if some of the background was hooked around it? Any advice from the ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 11 months, 1 week ago. under finn , gardens , rug hooking , slow sunday stitching

The Guild Quilt Show from The Cozy Quilter

The biannual Oxford Quilters Guild Show in Embro, Ontario happened over the past couple of days. As you know, I spent much of my sewing time over the past couple of weeks sewing sleeves onto my quilts for the show. On Wednesday morning, I dropped off my quilts and Christine's quilts so that they could be hung for the show. I entered 11 quilts and my barn quilt into the show and took pictures of each of them at the show.

This is one of the quilts I made for the new Hospice which will be opening this summer ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 11 months, 2 weeks ago. under finn , gardens , quilt show , rope bowls , round robin , rug hooking

LOVE CHAINS and ORCHIDS from Kwilty Pleasures

I love to take my quilts to

The Franklin Park Conservatory

Columbus, OH

Especially in the winter.

This was February, 2025

See, I am catching up on all the pretties!

My friend Leslie Wood went with me

and of course, I had her bring a quilt.

Enjoy!

Leslie's Plaidish

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added by Kathy @ Kwilty Pleasures 11 months, 2 weeks ago. under gardens , quilts in the wild

Lupin Cross Stitch is Done from The Cozy Quilter

I added the last outlining stitches to my lupins cross stitch this week when Christine was over to sew one evening. I will take this to the framers soon, along with my Winter Woods project. I purchased this kit when we were in Newfoundland in June 2023. I also purchased a kit to make a pitcher plant hooked rug when I was there and hope to work on it next.

I found my bin of cotton clothesline cording and made a couple of rope bowls this week. I will probably make a few more this week to use up the ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 11 months, 3 weeks ago. under aprons , counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , gardens , knitting , rope bowls , slow sunday stitching

Happy Easter! from The Cozy Quilter

Happy Easter to all who celebrate this holiday! We had brunch with my husband's family yesterday so the rest of the weekend will be quiet. My niece helped me to make a bunny charcuterie board for the brunch yesterday and I managed to get a picture before people started to nibble. I will have to make more of these for other family gatherings.

I only have one more quilt that needs a hanging sleeve for the quilt show. I hope to get to that this weekend. I am one of those people that likes to have things done ahead ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 12 months ago. under arizona quilt , baby quilts , counted cross stitch , crochet , finn , gardens , hand quilting , quilt show , slow sunday stitching

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