i spy

Midweek: I spy a finished quilt from With Strings Attached

Yesterday the Zion Woman's Club enjoyed a program about Quilts of Valor presented by my guild friend Sharon. ZWC learned a lot and I did, too!

There are two veterans in our club and I'm going to propose a QOV award for them.

This week's start-and-finish.

Our P.E.O. chapter is having a baby shower this coming Sunday. One of our chapter sisters is expecting her first child in December. Though the shower theme is books, and I have those to give, I couldn't NOT make a quilt! Linda W., another chapter sister, is also ...

added by Nann 2 years, 7 months ago. under i spy , midweek makers , quilts of valor , wednesday wait loss

Second finish for August 2023.....and a border........... from Exuberant Color

It was a lot of fun searching my stash for all of the pastel fabrics in this quilt. It finished at 48" x 72".

I used Hobbs 80/20 batting, white cotton thread on top, white polyester in the bobbin.

I bought the backing with dragonflies for a different quilt but it leaned a little too much toward lavender for that quilt. It was perfect for this one. The color is more accurate in the first photo.

In the early afternoon I mowed the grass in the backyard. With all of the shade the grass keeps growing back there. We ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 years, 9 months ago. under i spy , machine quilting , stash

I Spy quilt top finish.................. from Exuberant Color

The I Spy quilt top just looks like checkerboard from a distance but what fun there is when you get close.

It is 56.5" x 72.5" so I'm considering a border but it won't happen today or tomorrow. The squares are 4" finished.

Every I Spy novelty print is different, no repeats, 124 unique squares. There were a few times when I could cut different areas in the same fabric. I know there are 3 from the Snoopy baseball fabric and another was a zoo animals print where I cut several different squares.

I took 6 ...

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Assembly done, not pressed................ from Exuberant Color

There were 2 sewing sessions yesterday and I got the I Spy quilt top sewn together. It was 10 p.m. when I took the last stitch so I saved the pressing for today.

I was out watering gardens early yesterday morning. The Zinfin Doll Hydrangea is changing color rather quickly this year. I wish I had a place for a whole row of these.

The little 4" tall Coneflower is in full bloom now. I think it should be moved to a safer location but I'm not sure it would survive a move. Indecision here.

The yellow Nasturtium ...

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Final layout for I Spy............ from Exuberant Color

The only thing I had to decide was where the red/orange/hot pink I Spy prints would be. I could have just sewn this together without a layout ahead of time but I didn't want those colors clumped together in one area.

Good news! My tomatoes are finally turning red. There are about 5 more that probably can be picked today.

Yesterday got up to 90 with a feel like temperature of 103 at 2 p.m. yesterday. Today is supposed to be a few degrees cooler but still high humidity and then back to mid to high ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 years, 9 months ago. under food , i spy , nature

Almost there................... from Exuberant Color

All of the I Spy blocks are sewn and I only need 5 more of the black and white print blocks. I need to sew one more strip of the neon stars and white print and cut them into segments to piece with the segments of the other combination. I thought I had sewn the same number of each combination but I guess I didn't. After those 5 blocks are sewn I need to turn on the iron and press all of the blocks and then go to the design wall.

I mowed the remaining portion of the front ...

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22 out of 63................ from Exuberant Color

All of these blocks need pressing so this isn't a final layout start. I just keep putting them up on the wall to clear space on my sewing cabinet. I changed my mind on this quilt and the new size will be 56" x 72". I may put a border on it. I'm a third of the way through sewing the blocks.

I showed this tiny yellow plant before. It came up earlier in the summer and something came along and had it for lunch. It was stubborn and sent up some new leaves and a teeny tiny ...

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Sorting and testing............ from Exuberant Color

I sorted all of the I Spy novelty prints into 2 piles, lights and darks. Then I chose 4 fabrics for the blocks. I haven't sewn any of the 4 patches yet but might get to it today.

There are some that the parents may have to explain to the little ones, like the luggage labels.

The fabric at the bottom right is a Catfish Calhoun print. I'm not familiar with the name but I have a couple other fabrics with his signature on them.

Here is a close up of th bottom right edge of the fabric ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 years, 10 months ago. under i spy , scraps

I Spy Quilt................ from Exuberant Color

My plan is that every other block will be this 4 patch. I didn't have enough of either one of the black with neon designs so I used them both.

Then I plan on sewing 4 I Spy squares to fill in between those 4 patches.

I started a mock-up on the design wall so I can see if it will work. The next thing I will do is choose the groups of 4 of the I Spy squares to make sure I have enough for 40 blocks. As planned this quilt would be 64" x 80". These I ...

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Pinwheel progress........... from Exuberant Color

It was a good day for pinwheels yesterday. I cut some more triangles while I was in the basement doing laundry. Then last night I paired some more pieces and sewed for 3 hours.

None of the pinwheels have been pressed yet so I grouped them all in columns for a photo before they come off the design wall. I have enough made for one double row border. There are 3 more of those borders plus 4 shorter single row borders so there is a long way to go. (About 90 more needed.)

I have spent the last 10 years ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 years, 12 months ago. under i spy , triangles

New Challenges from Elaine Adair Pieces

Wow - trying to find where my photos got downloaded is a new trial!

G'daughter asked me to make her a Hawaiian quilt - a new kind of quilt project, so I found this book of patterns, altho these are not the colors she is wanting, it's a beginning. She lives 6 hours from me, so that's another challenge and she is not familiar with sewing. I'm going to start in June when we have a Guild class for this project, and then I'll make simply one block for a pillow. and see how it goes. The ...

added by Elaine Adair 3 years, 3 months ago. under hawaiian quilt , i spy , weston's quilt

Weekly update: pink and a lot more! from With Strings Attached

Friday, 6:30 a.m.: I shoveled the driveway and front walk before I'd had any coffee! We got about 3" from the storm. (Milwaukee, 45 miles north, got 9".)

Saturday evening we enjoyed the Lake County Symphony Orchestra's performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 1.

I enjoyed a long, albeit muddy walk on Sunday afternoon. Upper left: beaver lodge. Lower right: horsetails greening up and dogwood reddening up.

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Friday afternoon I delivered the I Spy baby quilt to Eva, the baby's great-great-grandmother. Eva is 92 and still lives on her own! We had a lovely visit ...

added by Nann 3 years, 3 months ago. under design wall monday , i spy , lake county forest preserves , lcso , oh scrap! , rsc 2023 , weekly update

Midweek: the joy of giving, and I Spy progress from With Strings Attached

On Tuesday I gave ten of my quilts to CTCA in Zion.

The concierge and I took our masks off for the photo op. (I keep a mask in a ziploc bag in a pocket of my purse and had tor rummage around to find it.)

This is the tag that I pinned to each quilt.

I've donated 25 quilts this month. I will take the wheelchair quilts I've finished (7 out of 13) to the March 1 guild meeting. I have reduced the mountain of finished quilts to a hill.

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In the studio: I added a row ...

added by Nann 3 years, 3 months ago. under charity quilts , i spy , midweek makers , wednesday wait loss

Weekly update: bits and pieces from With Strings Attached

On Friday we had lunch with our friends Ann and John at Hackney's in Glenview. Stevens and Ann were kindergarten classmates in Summit, NJ, in 1945. Ann is a wonderful keeper-in-touch and found us through Rotary several years ago. I hadn't been to Hackney's since I was in high school.

AAUW-Waukegan Area Branch met in person (yay!) on Saturday. The program was about the African-American Museum at the England Manor in Waukegan. After her presentation we all look forward to touring it.

I stopped at three thrift shops on my way home from the AAUW meeting and ...

added by Nann 3 years, 4 months ago. under design wall monday , i spy , oh scrap! , qov , weekly update

Another "I Spy" quilt, ready for gifting from Elaine Adair Pieces

Many of these cutsies are from many of YOU! Thank you Jody, Carol, Candace, Elsie, Alice, Anita, and others! 8-))) Also, Thank You Janet for the 4.5 in ruler which meant I didn't have any trouble quickly recutting fabric bits to exact measurement needed. Oops, forgot to photo the back, that I enlarged a little bit past 42 in. in width.

This layout is copied from https://mangobeans.wordpress.com/2014/05/30/i-spy-quilt/. Thank You Wendy! Her description even included the tricky layout.

added by Elaine Adair 3 years, 9 months ago. under i spy

"I Spy ...... from Applique 'n Patch Quilting

..... with my little eye" ...... a finished quilt! Yeah!

This quilt is heading out to a wee cousin (three times removed for those who follow genealogy).

There are all kinds of theme fabrics and I can just see her playing the game with her parents and herself alone as well.

It's not often that I show backings, so here is what I did with this one.

I'll have to make up more of these for donation quilts.

Quilt Details:

Started: November 2021

Finished: May 2022

Source: saw a photo or something similar on Pinterest and off I went cutting ...

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"Mo-Jo" found again!!!!!!!!!! from Elaine Adair Pieces

I'm still heeeeere!!!!!!!!!!!

Remember a previous post where I was sorting my ever-increasing pile of boring light and dark scraps? This is what happened -- 16 blocks, on point. More strips had to be cut for this WIP!

I've been working on the border and faux flange binding of our group Raffle Quilt. Here are some teaser photos - not allowed to show the full project. We chose to feature "low volume" and "taupe". There were some doubts as each block maker checked their stash and wondered "what were they thinking?" Never fear ... the planners had faith!

I still remember ...

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Still Here - Making "I Spy" quilts from Elaine Adair Pieces

Another "I Spy" quilt - the back - I finally can use that wild stripe!

Some of you kindly sent me "cutsies" - I'm using them. They are so bright and colorful - again, thank you to all. More kid/toddler quilts to come - this one will be ready when needed. I only quilted little curvy loops in the white borders and left the cutsies unquilted. The white was quilted from left side across the jaggedy line to the right side - simple. As simple as these little squares were, I blanked when it came to their assembly.

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My days have been filled with ...

added by Elaine Adair 4 years, 3 months ago. under i spy

Checkered Spy Quilt from Expect Moore

I love so many things about this quilt. It is simple to make. You can customize it to the favorite colors of the recipient. And it uses FUSSY CUTTING. Which is basically my favorite. This is the perfect time to go through your stash and justify all the adorable prints you’ve been collecting (not that […]

added by Carolina 5 years, 1 month ago. under fussy cut , i spy , quilt pattern , ruler of the month , video (Comments)

I Spy Blog Hop from The Cloth Parcel

We have something fun to share with you today! Kimie and Missy from On Williams Street sent us a copy of their brand new I Spy book, which is full of 100 foundation paper pieced block patterns. We love this fresh take on the I Spy quilt, plus you can just use the blocks for […]

added by The Cloth Parcel 5 years, 6 months ago. under blog tour , book , book tour , books , i spy , projects , quilts (Comments)

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