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RSC Week 34 - Yellow / Christmas TRs from Grandma's Red Needle

The RSC (Rainbow Scrap Challenge) color chosen for August, is yellow.

After finishing BIG BLUE (Got the Blues, #8 on my UFO list), I felt for working on something smaller. What's better than piecing together some 2" squares to 9-patches

I got 8 9-patches

A mix of my own cut squares and swaps. It didn't make a dent in the box containing 2" squares, but at least 72 squares are out of that box!

I did some Christmas sewing for my DF in Norway

Placemat

Small table topper

Skinny table runner

These are made from upcycled Christmas curtains ...

added by Astrid 1 week, 4 days ago. under christmas , flora and fauna , placemats , quilt blocks , rscyellow , table toppers & runners , upcycled

Midweek: wildflowers!, all set, placemat surprise + reading from With Strings Attached

Monday: Prickly pear cactus are in bloom at Illinois Beach State Park. Each petal is tipped with a sharp spine. They like the sandy soil of the dunes.

Tuesday: I put the camera on selfie to take this from-below photo of a Turk's-cap lily. (In another section of the state park with 'regular,' not sandy, soil.) I love the turned-back petals and the freckled faces.

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In the studio:

I finished assembling the thrifted-shirt stars. The sashing is regular quilting cotton, the cornerstones are a woven plaid, and the border is a thrifted sheet. Six yards by weight.

Design adapted ...

added by Nann 1 month, 3 weeks ago. under placemats , reading , thrifted shirts , wednesday wait loss

Weekly update: finished + acquisitions from With Strings Attached

Wildflowers at Greenbelt Forest Preserve on Sunday afternoon. A good 2-mile walk.

Beardtongue foxglove, wild flag iris, oxeye daisy, feverfew, Japanese rose.

June goal #2: 10 placemats. All finished. The average fabric in each one is 3/8 yard so 3-3/4 yards for the batch.

I used up two ziploc bags of triangles. The hourglasses (top right and lower left) were made from 4-1/2" triangles cut diagonally and repieced.

Some fabric in the "used" column but more fabric in the "acquired" column.

A guild friend said that her church rummage sale (Thursday-Saturday) had gotten a quilter's estate ...

added by Nann 2 months, 3 weeks ago. under design wall monday , monday musings , oh scrap! , placemats , sew and tell , top-along , weekly update

Friday check in: the raffle that wasn't, placemats + reading from With Strings Attached

The rain forecast today will be most welcome. I planted tomatoes, beans, and lettuce earlier this week.

It was great to have lunch with Pat yesterday. She lives 60 miles from me and we don't get to visit in person often enough. We rediscovered an Indian restaurant we found by accident a couple of years ago--we'd both forgotten about it until I turned onto that road, then we both remembered. It was a good choice.

# # # # # The quilt guild's annual Raffle Mania was scheduled for Wednesday evening. Members bring quilt-related stuff they no longer love and buy raffle ...

added by Nann 3 months ago. under finished or not friday , placemats , raffle mania , reading

Friday check in: placemats and HSTs from With Strings Attached

Where has the week gone?

Zion Woman's Club board met Tuesday afternoon to allocate funds to local agencies. ($300 to six, with $200 remaining for as-yet-unknown requests. We are a small-budget operation!) AAUW met by Zoom Tuesday evening for an excellent program by the director of Reform for Illinois, an organization working for transparency and fairness in state/local election funding.

I spent an hour at the AT&T store on Wednesday resetting the Yahoo app so I can get email on my phone. It turned out that I had an old, not-used Yahoo email address that the app ...

added by Nann 3 months, 1 week ago. under finished or not friday , placemats

Weekly update: Wildflowers, Bunco, and placemats from With Strings Attached

Two walks in two days! Lake Carina on Saturday (lower left) and the south unit of Illinois Beach State Park on Sunday. Upper left: crabapple. Upper right: hoary puccoon (which sounds like a Shakespearean insult). Center; Sand cherry.

But before that: Zion Woman's Club spring Bunco was Friday evening. We've done this for 10+ years and have a group of regulars. Though fewer people came than last fall the preliminary income is $1402 (thanks to club members who aren't asking for expense reimbursement).

There are four raffles: 50/50 cash, a gift card tree ($195 value), a ...

added by Nann 4 months ago. under design wall monday , monday musings , oh scrap! , placemats , sew and tell , weekly update , zwc

Friday check in: placemats from With Strings Attached

I skipped Reflections, the AAUW book club, on Wednesday because I hadn't read the book. Instead I took a walk at the state park. I hadn't been there since early January (too cold, or too busy, or traveling). It was good to be back on the path. Now if I can get back in the habit.....

Dogwood is reddening up. Fungus looks like little flying saucers.

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The quilt guild meets by Zoom in January and February. It was nice to be back in person this Wednesday evening. One of the guild members, an art teacher (retired; with a ...

added by Nann 6 months ago. under brag about your beauties , finished or not friday , placemats

Weekly update: goal met, onto the next + reading from With Strings Attached

The last batch of placemats! The units and blocks are from the orphan box/parts department. Some are recent (the three at the lower right); some are middle-aged (the green/blue hourglasses are from Indigo Way (which itself is blocks-in-a-box); some are elderly (the hard-to-see scrappy trips that are the background for the two feathers in the upper right).

Choosing layouts and coordinating fabrics was a great design exercise.

Each is approximately 13 x 20.

All 121 in the bin. Each placemat averages 3/8 yard, so 45 yards. (With thanks to QuiltDiva Julie who sent a set of four ...

added by Nann 7 months, 3 weeks ago. under design wall monday , monday musings , oh scrap! , placemats , reading , sew and tell , weekly update

Midweek: and then there were fifteen from With Strings Attached

I spent Monday visiting my sister. After tending to some financial business we went to the Salvation Army. I did NOT buy this sewing machine--$360 was far over-priced! I got two books and my sister got a book and a small table.

Monday evening the Magpies met by Zoom. (Washington state, Missouri, Texas (2), Illinois (2), Virginia, British Columbia (2), and Western Australia (where it was 10 a.m.)) "We need to do this again soon," everyone agreed. And we will.

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In the studio: 14 placemats finished with #15 under the needle. Five to go for this month's ...

added by Nann 7 months, 4 weeks ago. under magpies , placemats , wednesday wait loss

Weekly update: first finish for 2026, placemat progress + reading from With Strings Attached

Lazy Goose, the January top-along, is finished! I quilted it in parallel lines with the serpentine stitch. The back is a print I've had since the 1990's.

5-7/8 yards used in all.

One of my January goals is to make 20 placemats. I've finished six.

Six more are underway.

They all use units from the orphan blocks box.

(The fine points of terminology: a patch is a shape cut from fabric. A unit is composed of one or more patches sewn together. A block is composed of units sew together.)

# # # # # I have a fear of running ...

added by Nann 8 months ago. under design wall monday , monday musings , oh scrap! , placemats , reading , sew and tell , weekly update

Best of 2025 from Quilting & Learning

Welcome to the Best of 2025 post. The annual linking party is hosted by Cheryl of Meadow Mist Designs. Thanks Cheryl!

I'm very ambivalent about what I accomplished this year, so I hope that you'll oblige me as I review and see how I did!

added by Andree G. Faubert 8 months ago. under baby quilt , best of 2025 , coils , cuddle quilt , embroidery , fmq , panel , phone holder , placemats , project quilting , sahrr , scrappy quilting , wall hanging , weaving

December 31, 2025

Midweek: wrapping up the year from With Strings Attached

I left for Florida (see Monday's post) with 18 9-1/2" crumb blocks on the design wall. By the time I got home on Friday I had a good idea what I'd do with them. (Surely I am not the only quilter who mentally designs quilts as a way to fall asleep.)

By the time I got home on Friday I had a good idea what I'd do with the crumbs. (Surely I am not the only quilter who mentally designs quilts as a way to fall asleep.)

I've made several crumb quilts over the years ...

added by Nann 8 months ago. under crumb blocks , placemats , scrap quilts , wednesday wait loss

December 5, 2025

The rescue! from Crazy Quilter on a Bike!

Even though yesterday was the full moon, I slept like a baby! Although, isn't that expression kind of silly since babies tend to wake up a lot! I slept well - let's just put it that way!

Yesterday was an interesting day. We had a visitor, and the Pony Express is alive and well. Actually, we had a visitor the day before as well. Both were making pick-ups and drop-offs for the Pony Express. And besides the rescue, which I'll get into in a moment, I just didn't seem to be working very fast. I'm not ...

added by Elaine 9 months ago. under full moon , knitting , lexi , placemats , quilting retreat , spring house retreat , tula pink

December 2, 2025

Circle Placemat Tutorial with Baby Lock Victory from Tea Rose Home

This Thanksgiving was extra special for our family. Both of our sons got married in the past two years and our daughter is engaged to be married next year. All eight of us were going to have Thanksgiving dinner together. We also invited a couple missionaries over to have dinner with us. I am usually a bit more casual about our Thanksgiving dining, but I wanted to set the table for this occasion. I had a few days to prepare, and I decided to make 10 placemats. Shopping and cooking for Thanksgiving sounds busy enough and sewing placemats may sound ...

added by Sachiko 9 months ago. under baby lock serger , baby lock victory , home decor , placemats , serger , sewing , tutorial

November 30, 2025

Camp Kintail Retreat Report from The Cozy Quilter

This post features my projects from last weekend's Crafters retreat at Camp Kintail, but first I want to show you my finished Fall cross stitch...TaDa! I started this project at the beginning of September and have added stitches to it steadily until this week, when I added the last few. As I have said before, I love the transparency where the trees overlap and the bright colours in this picture. I will have it framed shortly and hang it up for the Fall next year. I have a couple of embroidery kits that I would like to work ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 9 months, 1 week ago. under baby quilts , camp kintail , counted cross stitch , drunkard's path , finn , placemats , quilts of valour , retreats , slow sunday stitching , table runners , thread house academy , zippered pouch

November 10, 2025

Weekly update, part 1: placemats and more from With Strings Attached

I made time for only two walks this week, in and around meetings, when it was still warm and sunny. The front came through Saturday night. We had a dusting of snow and the Sunday high was in the mid-30's.

Left: Mr. and Mrs. Crane out for a promenade at Middlefork Forest Preserve on Wednesday afternoon. I was that close to them.

I stopped at Middlefork on my way to Lake Forest Place where the AAUW book group meets. This month we discussed Horse by Geraldine Brooks. I listened to it earlier this year when Diann/Little Penguin recommended ...

added by Nann 9 months, 3 weeks ago. under bom , design wall monday , monday musings , oh scrap! , placemats , round robin , sew and tell , weekly update

November 7, 2025

Weekly update: placemat palooza and more from With Strings Attached

There were about 20 trick-or-treaters on Friday afternoon. The little kids are the cutest. And most said "Thank you" without any coaching. Three 11-year-old boys were wide-eyed at the bags of popcorn I gave out. "You are the WINNER!!" one of them said.

Autumn colors and a wooly bear caterpillar at Illinois Beach State Park yesterday. Bottom left: two mullein sprouting new green leaves. We haven't had a frost yet.

As so often happens, it takes an obituary or a funeral to reveal all of a person's accomplishments and how many lives that person touched. Saturday afternoon I ...

added by Nann 10 months ago. under design wall monday , monday musings , oh scrap! , placemats , sew and tell , weekly update

October 12, 2025

Gift Quilt Reveal, Cross Stitch and Happy Thanksgiving! from The Cozy Quilter

Happy (Canadian) Thanksgiving! Our daughter and Finn are here for the weekend and we had a turkey dinner with my husband's family today. I put out my pumpkin decorations this week. I even raked some leaves--it really feels like fall now with cooler temperatures and the trees changing colour.

I'm adding another tree to the Forest cross stitch picture. It looks a bit odd now but will look better when it is all filled in.

Finn came with us to the farmer's market this morning and I managed to get him to pose in front of the ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 10 months, 3 weeks ago. under colour challenge , counted cross stitch , crochet , finn , placemats , potato chip blocks , vacations

October 5, 2025

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 11 months ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , gardens , placemats , slow sunday stitching , vacations

September 28, 2025

Fall Cross Stitch from The Cozy Quilter

Hello! We have been away and now we are back home. We travelled from where we live in Southern Ontario around Lakes Huron and Superior to Manitoba and back with lots of interesting stops along the way. I will share a few pictures from our trip later in this post. I started a new Fall counted cross stitch project on our trip and spent many hours working on it in the car and while relaxing in the evenings at various places where we stayed. There was not much colour on the trees on the way to Manitoba but Fall was ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 11 months, 1 week ago. under counted cross stitch , crochet , finn , hiking , placemats , slow sunday stitching

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