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This Week's Sewing Adventures from The Cozy Quilter

It's been a busy week in the sewing room at my house! The log blocks really did nothing to enhance my Oxford Quilter's Guild VP day challenge quilt so I removed them and made a few more HST's. I rearranged the HST's to my liking and then started sewing the rows together. Most of the rows are sewn and the top two are sewn to each other. I will likely finish this top this week. I love the Shweshwe fabrics I have used for this project!

I finished the embroidery on my Lupine quilt label this ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 years, 2 months ago. under cheryl arkison , comfort quilts , elgin piecemakers , embroidery , finn , guild challenge , hst's , knitting , oxford quilters guild , quilting class , slow sunday stitching

Kitchen Scraps Challenge and Another UFO Done. from The Cozy Quilter

Each year, the Elgin Piecemakers Guild issues a challenge to their members. This past year, we were given a piece of insulbrite thermal batting and asked to make something for our kitchens using scraps. On Thursday night, we met in person for the first time in ages and revealed our projects. There were oven mitts, hot pads, a casserole carrier, tea cosies, etc. Many in the group used selvages in their projects. I decided to raid my denim stash (from old jeans) for my lasagna pan hot pad. I have a large orange lasagna pan and always have to use ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 years, 6 months ago. under binding , charm packs , counted cross stitch , elgin piecemakers , finn , guild challenge , knitting , slow sunday stitching , snowflake quilt , ufo's

Challenge Quilt Done from The Cozy Quilter

I have never used more than one or two colours of thread to quilt one of my projects before this week. Last year, the Oxford Quilt Guild issues a challenge to make a quilt using blocks with 15 2.5" squares and 5 flying geese. I proceeded to make 16 blocks, each a different colour, without repeating any of the fabrics in the blocks. Each block contains 25 unique fabrics. The blocks have been sitting in a bin in my sewing room for a couple of months while I thought about how I might set them to make my quilt ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 3 years, 3 months ago. under binding , counted cross stitch , embroidery , finn , guild challenge , modern bom , oxford quilters guild , rainbow scrap challenge , slow sunday stitching

20th Anniversary Challenge for the Elgin Piecemakers from The Cozy Quilter

I belong to a small quilt guild--the Elgin Piecemakers--that recently celebrated 20 years of getting together to share our love of all things quilting. We have 20 members and we meet in each others homes. There is always a wonderful social/snack time at every meeting. In late 2019, we decided that we should celebrate our 20 years as a guild in a significant way. Someone proposed an anniversary quilt challenge--we would each make our own centre block and then each month for several months, we would be given instructions on what to add to the centre block to make ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 3 years, 6 months ago. under elgin piecemakers , guild challenge , rainbow scrap challenge

Thank You for the Music (Music Challenge Quilt) from The Cozy Quilter

About a year ago, the Elgin Piecemakers Guild issued a challenge: create a quilt that depicts a song. We were given a piece of fabric with musical notes on it that we were to use in our quilts. The quilts were to be revealed last Spring but we were unable to meet at that time so there was an extension on the deadline. We have now shown our quilts to each other so I can finally do a blogpost on my music challenge quilt.

When I think of music, my first thoughts turn to my dad. He played the fiddle ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 3 years, 6 months ago. under elgin piecemakers , guild challenge , shirt quilts

Hand Appliqué, Knitting and Y-seams from The Cozy Quilter

I have been working on a secret project this week which cannot be revealed until October. It involved some hand appliqué so here is a sneak peak:

I will continue to work on this project behind the scenes for several weeks. I am waiting for inspiration to hit before I do the next step.

In the knitting department, I made a simple dishcloth out of some leftover yarn from one of the facecloths. I thought there would be enough left in the ball to make the dishcloth, but I ran out before finishing so I just cast off. This left ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 3 years, 9 months ago. under applique , bom , counted cross stitch , dish cloths , flowers , gardens , guild challenge , knitting , libs elliott , slow sunday stitching

Challenge Met and UFO done! from The Cozy Quilter

Back in January, the program committee at the Oxford Quilt Guild issued a challenge. Each person that wanted to participate was asked to bring in a yard of batik material and a pair of scissors. We stood in a big circle and listened for instructions... Fold the fabric in half, snip it at the fold, rip it in half, drop half in front of us and pass the other half to the person on our right. "Fold it, snip it, rip it, drop it, pass it!" This was repeated with until each of us had 7 pieces of batik fabric ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 3 years, 9 months ago. under flowers , gardens , guild challenge , knitting , machine quilting , modern quilts , slow sunday stitching

Weekly Sewing Report from The Cozy Quilter

True Confessions: I started a new project this week. As I have been cleaning out my sewing storage area, I discovered that I have a large collection of batiks. They had not all been stored together so I put them in their own (large) bin as I found them here and there around the room. I decided that I needed to make a batik quilt or two in an effort to use them up. Pulling out an assortment of blues, greens, golds, oranges, reds and purples, I decided to make Bonnie Hunter's Scrappy Trips pattern. Here is one of ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 4 years, 1 month ago. under bonnie hunter , counted cross stitch , finn , guild challenge , hand sewing , knitting , scrappy trips , slow sunday stitching

Sneeze Challenge from The Cozy Quilter

The Oxford Quilt Guild issued a challenge at the September meeting...we were each to chose a Kleenex box and made a quilted item using either the colour scheme or the pictures on the box as our inspiration. They called it the "Sneeze Challenge". Today, all of the projects were revealed and we had to match the boxes with their respective projects. There were 30 challenge projects completed and it was fun to figure out the inspiration for each quilt.

The flattened Kleenex boxes were on display above the quilts, but not necessarily near the quilt that they matched.

My ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 4 years, 4 months ago. under guild challenge , machine quilting , oxford quilters guild , pillows

ANOTHER MISSED PROJECT! from The Proficient Needle

During our June meeting, our out-going guild president announced a challenge. Those who chose to participate, pulled a box front from a large brown envelope, and had to complete a project of their choice, using all the colours on the box.

Of course, I forgot all about it until a couple of days before our meeting in September. They only work I had done towards the project, was to pull one piece of fabric from my stash.

I spent some time planning the project using EQ8, and I even printed two parts so I could paper piece them.

My quilt ...

added by Susan Torrens 4 years, 6 months ago. under free motion machine quilting , guild challenge , paper piecing

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