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New York Beauty Quilt is Finished! from Grandma's Red Needle

When the weather calls for 'no venture out', what do you do?!

SEW! EAT! Drink COFFEE! SLEEP! REPEAT!

Well, this apply to all rainy days, not only last week when 'Garance' passed close by.

My February goal was to finish the NYB quilt, and I did!

It has 48 blocks + 4 corner blocks.

It measures 74 x 58 inches / 188 x 147 cm

All batik from my stash, except the backing (batik too) I had to purchase.

Once again thank you to those of you who suggested thread color and design! (here). Much appreciated!

You may remember I'm on ...

added by Astrid 3 months, 2 weeks ago. under apq ufo challenge 2025 , finished ufos 2025 , flimsy , keep the home fires burning , new york beauty , nyb , quilt , scrap quilts

How to Quilt and Thread Color, Suggestions Please from Grandma's Red Needle

This New York Beauty was done and thread basted January 2023.

The blocks were finished March 2021, when did I start it? Let me dig some more...

Can't find anything.... most probably end 2020 or beginning 2021.

UFO #1 - UFO list 2025

Why did I put it aside, you may wonder? Because;

1) How to quilt it?

2) What tread color to use?

As you can see, it has a variety of colors; pink, yellow, teal, turquoise, grey and more.

(The photos don't do justice to the colors. It's cloudy and raining cats and dogs here right ...

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A Little Progress on This and That from Grandma's Red Needle

'Nina' returned home Monday! Nothing wrong, just a good cleaning. She's happy now, I can hear it! A lot of dust accumulated of course, after the last service, about 5 years ago. (Shame on me for not doing it earlier! Have to improve on that!)

While 'Nina' has been at the Spa, no sewing has been done of course since I don't have a spare machine. The last days I've made a couple of blue blocks, that will be for the Saturday RSC post.

I enjoy working on 'Over the River...' stitchery. It took some stitches before ...

added by Astrid 2 years, 4 months ago. under nyb , stitchery , ufo's , wips

Weekend Sewing and Updated UFO / WIP Lists from Grandma's Red Needle

Happy Wednesday!

(I started writing this post Monday, some paragraphs are updated)

After working hard on WIP's and actually finish some of them (previous post), it took me a day or so to decide what's next.

I decided to work on the tea cozies. They are quilted and ready for binding.

Update: 2 tea cozies are done, just have to fix the loop on each.

I've this one left to do. Insulated tea cozies are a bit tedious to make, especially to machine sew the binding through four layers cotton batting, 2 layers insul bright + the front ...

added by Astrid 3 years, 11 months ago. under christmas , christmas stockings , cross-stitching , double wedding ring , new york beauty , nyb , tea cozy , wips

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