pineapple log cabin

The Sky is Done, on to the Flowers. from The Cozy Quilter

Yahoo! The sky stitching is done on my cross stitch project. Now, I will be working on the flowers at the bottom of the picture. There are lots of colour changes in this section so it will take a while.

I quilted my colour challenge quilt this week and will be putting the binding on this weekend. Then, I get to do the hand stitching--I like this part of the project. I used 30 wt white thread on the top and light blue 50 wt thread in the bobbin to match the backing fabric. I will have a picture of ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 day ago. under barn quilts , colour challenge , counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , hand quilting , pineapple log cabin , slow sunday stitching

Back to Hand Quilting from The Cozy Quilter

If you read my blog on a regular basis, you will know that I started hand quilting my pineapple log cabin quilt a while ago and then, I stopped. This week, I brought it upstairs from my sewing room and spent a few hours working on it. The gold block is quilted and I am almost finished quilting the orange block. Next up, the red block. Funny how projects don't get done if you don't work on them... I have another quilt that is begging to be hand quilted in the wings so I want to get this ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 week, 5 days ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , hand quilting , pineapple log cabin , rainbow scrap challenge , slow sunday stitching , zippered pouch

Kintail Retreat Report from The Cozy Quilter

Christine and I spent last weekend at Camp Kintail at the crafter's retreat. Others were making paper crafts, scrapbooks, knitting and painting. Four participants were quilting. It's always fun to see what everyone is making. The food and snacks were plentiful and tasty too.

My first project was an open wide zipper pouch that I had started at home. This one may just stay here for me to use. This project was a good place to use the large scale print that I loved but would not be good to cut up into smaller pieces

Next, I made ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 3 months, 2 weeks ago. under baby quilts , embroidery , finn , folk art creatures , hand quilting , jo avery , knitting , oxford quilters guild , pineapple log cabin , rainbow scrap challenge , thread house academy , walking foot quilting , zippered pouch

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 7 months, 2 weeks ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , gardens , hand quilting , pineapple log cabin , rainbow scrap challenge , slow sunday stitching , wall hangings

Stitching Everyday! from The Cozy Quilter

Kathy, our Slow Sunday Stitching organizer and cheerleader, keeps a journal/calendar where she documents what she sews/knits etc. each day. I decided I would track my stitching activities each day this year on a wall calendar which I will keep in my sewing room. So far, I have stitched and/or knitted every day this year! We will see how this goes. I don't have a goal of how many days each week I want to stitch--I'm just going to track my activities.

I added more stitches to my counted cross stitch Christmas project. This will ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 years, 5 months ago. under binding , counted cross stitch , finn , hats , improvisational piecing , knitting , maria shell , pineapple log cabin , rainbow scrap challenge , slow sunday stitching , university quilt

My Second November Quilting Retreat from The Cozy Quilter

Christine and I attended the annual November Crafter's retreat at Camp Kintail this past weekend. We both love these weekends away to get lots done on our current and new projects. I just noticed that a lot of my projects are green in this post... I made this I Spy HRT quilt top at the Oxford Guild retreat early in November and managed to get it quilted and bound at the retreat. I finished off the hand stitching on the binding at home this week.

I found this fun green and white striped fabric in my stash for the ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 years, 6 months ago. under binding , comfort quilts , counted cross stitch , finn , hand sewing , hrt's , knitting , pineapple log cabin , rainbow scrap challenge , retreat , slow sunday stitching , walking foot quilting

Making Gifts from The Cozy Quilter

My next door neighbour is an excellent knitter. Last week, she helped me to fix a booboo in my knitted dishcloth. She showed me some socks that she was knitting and I noticed that her knitting bag was a reusable grocery bag. I decided she needed a wide open zipper pouch for her sock knitting projects. I purchased the knitting fabric when on a mini shop hop with friends (we visited two shops and went out for lunch). The other two fabrics and the zipper were in my stash. Can you tell I like dots? My neighbour was thrilled with ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 years, 9 months ago. under canning , counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , pineapple log cabin , rainbow scrap challenge , slow sunday stitching

Rainbow Scrap Challenge, Sunflowers and Battle Harbour, Labrador from The Cozy Quilter

This week, for the first time in a long time, I spent some time sewing every day! In the sewing room, I worked on my light blue (June) and red (July) blocks for my Rainbow Scrap Challenge projects. I now have 8 pineapple log cabin blocks completed. I am aiming for 12 blocks for a wall hanging. I really like working on these scrappy blocks...the fabrics bring back all sorts of memories of other things I have made for us as well as gifts given to and received from friends and family alike.

These 6.5" square slabs are ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 years, 11 months ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , newfoundland , pineapple log cabin , rainbow scrap challenge , scraps , slow sunday stitching

Local Tourists and Back to the Sewing Machine from The Cozy Quilter

I did not have a lot of sewing time in the last 10 days...you see, my cousin and her husband came to visit us for a week. They live in Scotland and we had not seen each other since 2019. Since it was their first visit to Canada, they wanted to see all the famous tourist sites including the CN tower in Toronto and Niagara Falls. So, my husband and I planned an itinerary full of fun and interesting things to see and do...our days were full of chatting and laughing and doing activities together. Before I share ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 years, 11 months ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , pineapple log cabin , rainbow scrap challenge , slow sunday stitching , toronto modern quilt guild

A Gift, Orange Blocks and a Walk in the Woods from The Cozy Quilter

On the way to sewing day on Monday, I stopped at the quilt store to pick up a gift for someone and some fabric to make a table runner for a friend who likes purple. The lilac fabric jumped out at me as there are lots of lilacs in bloom here right now. I bought three other colours that went with the lilacs and a striped fabric for the binding. When I arrived at the sewing studio, of course I cut right into the new fabric and got to work on the table runner. (I was supposed to be working ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 3 years, 1 month ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , gardens , hiking , pineapple log cabin , rainbow scrap challenge , scraps , slow sunday stitching , table runners

Pineapple Log Cabin and a New Cross Stitch Project from The Cozy Quilter

The Rainbow Scrap Challenge colour for April is purple so I dug into my purple scrap bin and made my pineapple log cabin block. I don't repeat any of the scraps in each block. Someone had asked if I was paper piecing these blocks...I purchased 2 panels of muslin with the pineapple blocks printed onto it years ago and I am using them for these blocks. I have enough for 24 blocks but will only do 12 for this project and save the rest for another quilt. No paper to pull off after sewing. I laid out the ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 3 years, 2 months ago. under finn , flowers , hand sewing , knitting , pineapple log cabin , rainbow scrap challenge , slow sunday stitching

Retreat Report from The Cozy Quilter

Christine and I left early for our quilting retreat with the Oxford Guild this past Friday because there was a winter storm coming and we wanted to get there and be set up before the snow started to fall. The snow started in the afternoon and kept going all night. In the morning there was almost a foot of snow (30cm for the metric folks). We were all snowed in and loving it. We did not lose power and we had our sewing machines and lots of fabric and projects on hand to work on. It was a great weekend ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 3 years, 3 months ago. under baby quilts , counted cross stitch , drunkard's path , finn , lap quilts , pineapple log cabin , rainbow scrap challenge , retreat , rope bowls , scraps

Back to the Sewing Machine from The Cozy Quilter

I spent some quality time with my sewing machine this week. The Elgin Piecemakers Guild makes comfort quilts for adult chemo patients at our local hospital so each month, we each have to make a block in a certain colour scheme. I have my first four blocks for 2023 made. Here they are:

January: Blue and white.

February: Red, white and blue

March: Purple, pink and white

April: Blue and purple churn dash.

I worked on the last three houses for my Coming Home Quilt. I did not have any light turquoise thread with me at the sewing day this ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 3 years, 5 months ago. under applique , comfort quilts , coming home , elgin piecemakers , finn , pineapple log cabin , rainbow scrap challenge , slow sunday stitching , wall hangings

Love Birds Ready to be Framed from The Cozy Quilter

And just like that, Love Birds is done! I took a picture of me making the last stitch in the Bride bird's hat.

The fabric is white but the lighting in my sewing room tonight was not the best for taking a picture of the entire wreath with the Love Birds in the middle. This project was stitched on 14 count white Aida cloth and took 6 months to complete. I will be washing it and then taking it to the framers sometime in the next couple of weeks. I am going to take pictures of the framing options ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 4 years, 12 months ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , modern bom , pineapple log cabin , slow sunday stitching

So Close to the Finish Line from The Cozy Quilter

The annual Quilt Canada conference took place online over the past few days and while I have been watching the presentations and quilt shows, I have been stitching away on Love Birds. I finished off the green leaves, both dark and light, and I have started on the bride bird.

I am very close to being finished all the stitching on this project...a wedding gift for a friend's daughter and her husband. (They got married in November 2020.) I have been working on Love Birds since Christmas.

The pineapple blocks are all done! Each block will finish at ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 5 years ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , knitting , love birds , pineapple log cabin , slow sunday stitching

Yellow and Gray Churn Dash, Pineapples, etc. from The Cozy Quilter

Despite some sewing machine challenges (it's in for repair now), I managed to finish the yellow and gray scrappy churn dash quilt this past week. I love this colour combination! The backing is a Libs Elliott print which I had in my stash---but only one yard so I had to add a yellow strip to make it big enough for the backing. The binding is a yellow Kona solid. The quilting was done with bright yellow Aurifil 50wt thread.

At a Zoom sew-in on Tuesday, I made a block for the September Comfort quilt for the Elgin Piecemakers. The ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 5 years ago. under colour blocks , comfort quilts , counted cross stitch , elgin piecemakers , embroidery , finn , flowers , knitting , pineapple log cabin , slow sunday stitching

Spring to Winter and Back to Spring Again from The Cozy Quilter

We had weird weather this week...Spring and then Winter and then Spring again! Finn not too keen to go outside on Wednesday morning but did eventually do what he needed to do. Then he stuck his face in the snow before coming back inside to snuggle with me on the couch while I hand stitched some binding on the placemats I made for Meals on Wheels.

It melted right away on the driveway and sidewalks so at least we did not have to shovel it! By Friday, it had all melted and we were in our spring jackets again ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 5 years, 1 month ago. under colour blocks , counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , knitting , pineapple log cabin , placemats , round robin , scraps , slow sunday stitching

Sewing My Scraps and some Slow Stitching from The Cozy Quilter

The colours for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge this month are light and medium/bright blue so I made two more blocks for my RSC challenge quilt for 2021. I used 17 different blues in each block.

Here are the five blocks I have made so far this year.

One of the guilds I belong to, the Elgin Piecemakers, has taken on a new charity project this year. We have 20 members and we have each agreed to make 12 placemats before November to be distributed to all of the Meals on Wheels recipients in our county. I got started on ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 5 years, 2 months ago. under charity quilts , colour blocks , counted cross stitch , elgin piecemakers , embroidery , finn , flowers , i spy quilts , love birds , pineapple log cabin , placemats , rainbow scrap challenge , scraps , slow sunday stitching

Slow Sunday Stitching and a Couple of Blocks from The Cozy Quilter

I finally got back to working on my Modern Sampler BOM blocks this week. I was four blocks behind before this week and now I just have three more to do to catch up! I have a bin with my fabrics and block patterns in it so it is out on the sewing table now so I can get them done! My focus fabric has glasses on it and then I am using orange and blue stripes and dots for the other fabrics with the gray hash dots for the background.

I put another blue colour block together as a ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 5 years, 2 months ago. under colour blocks , counted cross stitch , finn , knitting , love birds , modern bom , pineapple log cabin , slow sunday stitching

Table Runner Finish and Pineapples from The Cozy Quilter

I remember saying last week that I thought the project using the leftovers from my recent quilt top finish would be made into a finished project before the quilt...I was right. These HST blocks called my name early last week. I tried several different ways of laying them out for the runner, but this one was the one I liked the best.

I hand sewed the binding on in the car on Wednesday while we were on our way to pick up Finn for his annual stay at our house while our daughter is busy at work. The backing ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 5 years, 3 months ago. under colour blocks , counted cross stitch , embroidery , finn , flowers , knitting , pineapple log cabin , slow sunday stitching , table runners

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