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Still brown, but bright from The Academic Quilter

Hello all! How was your week? We had a decent week here. The weather has been more like spring than winter, though you can see from the pictures that we still have that winter landscape. I am really starting to long for spring, even though we have not had a very harsh winter. We're starting to get longer days, though, and the extra light is making me happy. I am looking forward to some serious sunshine not so long from now.

And in this still-brown winter landscape I have a very green quilt to show off! It's a ...

added by Mari 2 months, 1 week ago. under green , purple , rsc23 , scraps

Filling the borders from The Academic Quilter

[There is a small giveaway at the end of this post!]

Hello everyone, from a still-soggy Baltimore! It rained two inches today and is supposed to rain all weekend. I wouldn't mind since we planted grass seed and such, but it also got cold again. The heat is back on and the gutters are working overtime.

All of which made getting pictures of this week's project pretty difficult. Here is the best outdoor picture I got, on the covered back porch:

Not too terribly bad for a rainy day! At least you can see the borders pretty well ...

added by Mari 11 months, 3 weeks ago. under green , purple , quilt top , rsc23

Purple blocks in the rain from The Academic Quilter

Hello everyone, from a very rainy and foggy Baltimore. I could barely see outside this morning. At least it's warm. We had record highs this week, which I can't say I enjoyed, but the sunshine felt great. Everything outside seems on the verge of growing out of control, too. So now it's the weekend, and of course the rain is here to help all those plants.

I had a very busy week, and I didn't get a chance to take pictures of my purple blocks until this morning, but I did finally get a decent shot ...

added by Mari 1 year ago. under purple , rsc23 , stars

Four times the purple from The Academic Quilter

Hi all, and happy spring! It was 75 degrees and glorious here today. It's also Spring Break-- finally!-- and I finally had time to go to just about every store around in search of some Nasacort for my allergies, which are popping like crazy. I finally found some and can breathe almost normally now, thank goodness. Spring is beautiful but can really mess up the sinuses.

I have a large list of things to do this week, but I've already started playing with the purple scraps for the rainbow scrap challenge. I have been waiting for this color ...

added by Mari 1 year ago. under green , purple , rsc23

Orange and purple flock from The Academic Quilter

Hello all! So here we are at August, which means that the end of summer is coming faster than we think. In honor of that, while you are reading this, the hubster and I are off on our last summer adventure, to a place where the chances of rain are much lower than they are at home, so I'm hoping for blue skies and cool breezes.

Before we left I finished up the orange and purple birds for the rainbow scrap challenge, so here they all are together:

Yes, it is not a great picture! One of the poor ...

added by Mari 1 year, 8 months ago. under birds , orange , purple , rsc22

RSC-Purple Goal and OMG Goal Met from Sew........This Is My Blog

I was so busy sewing in July that I forgot to blog! I set my goals for the month and posted them on the 5th, forgot all about blogging, and got to work. I managed to dig up a few more purples for RSC2022 by looking through my Asian prints. There weren't many there either, but my Sawtooth Star and Windmill blocks are done as are the 60 brick blocks.

My One Monthly Goal for July was to finish the One Block Wonder that has been on my UFO list for a while. And I did it! I had ...

added by Sandy Panagos 1 year, 8 months ago. under bricks , goals , purple , rsc2022 , sawtooth star , so scrappy , windmill

Steamy stars from The Academic Quilter

Hi everyone! I would ask how you all are doing, but I'm pretty sure everyone is hot right now. Good golly, this is crazy! It's supposed to be 100 degrees (37.8 C) here on Sunday. Pretty sure I'll be staying inside, as long as the air conditioning holds out. Even the birds are not flying right now, and I haven't seen the deer all week.

It has not been a great week for me, with lots of medical appointments. You know how much time and frustration those can take! But I did manage to sew ...

added by Mari 1 year, 8 months ago. under purple , rsc22 , twinkle stars

A circle of purple houses from The Academic Quilter

Hi all, and welcome to another summer weekend. It is the weekend, isn't it? I seem to have lost track of time this week. It has been a massive migraine-style headache week, for unknown reasons. Okay, it's probably a mix of Satan's own allergens and all the weather changes. And maybe I ate a little too much sugar. Who knows? I am feeling a little better now, though.

In between headache attacks, I managed to get the purple round put on my medallion quilt. I've been looking forward to this one, though I didn't know ...

added by Mari 1 year, 9 months ago. under medallion , purple , rsc22

July Goals from Sew........This Is My Blog

Since I accomplished my June goals, after failing to do much at all in April and May, I think I might have enough mojo now to set my goals for July.

I started on a One Block Wonder in September of 2019. Yikes! That's embarrassing. Okay, it needs to come off the UFO list soon for sure! I started quilting it around then, but got discouraged shortly after that (with Covid and life, not just with quilting) and set it aside. I had quilted all the blocks in the center of the quilt but not the borders.

It is ...

added by Sandy Panagos 1 year, 9 months ago. under goals , one block wonder , one monthly goal , purple , rsc2022 , so scrappy

My Mom's 70th Birthday ~ Purple Quilt from Tea Rose Home

Before we can talk about the purple quilt, let me tell you a little bit about a red quilt I made 10 years ago... 10 years ago, when my mom turned 60 years old, to celebrate her special birthday, I made her a red quilt. There is an old tradition in Japan that when you celebrate your 60th birthday you wear a red vest and hat with your family and friends. My mom didn't want to wear them AT ALL, so I made her a red quilt instead. Even though I was born and raised in Japan, I had ...

added by Sachiko 1 year, 9 months ago. under babylock , babylock quilting , babylock sewing machine ambassador , gift , purple , purple quilt , quilt

messing around . . . from Count it *all* JOY!

I may <ahem> have mentioned before how much I enjoy playing around in EQ. This past weekend, I was doing a little work on a particular project (I'll save the details on that for another day), and I came across a photo I'd saved so I could work up the block in EQ as a potential project.

Barbara Black—My Joyful Journey—blogged about this Scrappy Plus block she was working on.

I actually saw the quilt (in progress) in person when I took one of her classes. It really caught my eye because it's so striking ...

added by Denise :) 2 years, 5 months ago. under barbara black , eq , photos , purple , quilt build , scrappy plus

Quilted violets from The Academic Quilter

Hi everyone! Has fall come to your house yet? Astoundingly, most of our trees are still green, though there do seem to be a lot of leaves on the ground. No really pretty colors, though. We're having some landscaping done, and the landscaper tells me there is still time this year to grow new grass. I'm quite skeptical, because it's almost November, for heaven's sake. How can it still be 80 degrees?

Ah, well. I suppose it will get here when it gets here, right? Kind of like quilts-- sometimes they have to age just right ...

added by Mari 2 years, 5 months ago. under finished , green , purple

A challenge in blue and purple from The Academic Quilter

Hello everyone, and welcome to another summer weekend. Aren't they great? This week I've seen people (okay, mainly fabric companies) busting out fall-themed projects, and I've wanted very much to tell them to stop it. Summer is short enough-- don't rush toward fall! I still have tons of ice cream to eat!

It's time for another check-in for my projects for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge, and I've done okay with the darker blue this month. Turns out I have a few that are actually kinda cute, which is a surprise to me. Here are ...

added by Mari 2 years, 8 months ago. under blue , purple , rsc21

Purple morning from The Academic Quilter

Hello, all, and happy weekend! How was your week? I had a really productive week, and we got our furnace and ductwork cleaned on top of that. The furnace people said that the ductwork had never been cleaned, and the house is more than 60 years old, plus we've had a bunch of work done, so I expect it to be much less dusty now. If that means less cleaning for me, I am all for it.

Last year I started making fabric baskets to hold my scraps as a Rainbow Scrap Challenge project, but I got sidetracked when ...

added by Mari 2 years, 10 months ago. under purple , rsc21

Violettes fini from The Academic Quilter

Hi everyone! By the time you read this, I should be happy dancing all around the house, because I should have finished all of the research papers I have to read and the worst semester ever will have come to an end. Yahoo! I don't know why spring was so much worse than the fall, but I think canceling Spring Break had a lot to do with it. Let's never do that again, okay?

Speaking of things never to do again. . .okay, that was meant to be funny, but maybe not too funny, because I have finally finished ...

added by Mari 2 years, 11 months ago. under purple , quilt top , scraps

Purple Scrappy Slab Cuddle Quilt For My Niece from Goer

There's a sentiment about how a first child's experience is different than a second child's. (We could talk about how my 8 year old doesn't have a baby book yet.) Apparently the same goes for niece and nephew. Within a couple months of my nephew's birth, he had a baby quilt. However, my niece just received her "baby" quilt for her 2nd birthday.

I started out with a different plan for her. My nephew's quilt had been inspired by the mural in his room and I wanted to do the same for her. But ...

added by sarah 3 years, 4 months ago. under baby quilt , finished quilt , planed improv , purple , quilting , scrappy quilt , scrappy slab (Comments)

Hello Kitty! from Magpie Quilts

Ii have a repeat customer that loves quilts and quilting but is unable to do it for herself because of chronic health issues, so every so often, I do a commission quilt for her. This time it was a Hello Kitty quilt.

I selected a few designs and adjusted the colors on the embroidery to the purple my client requested. I chose bow tie blocks because Hello Kitty is always with a bow on her head.

I had a fat quarter pack of some purple prints that I thought would work great as a piano key border, but it just ...

added by Ann Symes 3 years, 5 months ago. under purple , wallhanging

halloween hoppin day three . . . from Count it *all* JOY!

It's the last day *and* my day, YAY!

When I first read the criteria of this hop — I’m going to make this really simple this year, I’d love to see a project with “Purple” in it, but seriously I’ll be happy also if it doesn’t …What’s Halloween tho without a bit of purple? You are free to make something new, or show a past project you’ve created — I knew this was a hop for ME! Anyone that knows me, knows I love purple! All you have to do is look at a few ...

added by Denise :) 3 years, 5 months ago. under bats , blog hop , candy corn , giveaway , halloween , halloween hoppin blog hop , photo , pumpkins , purple

to do: catch up from Making A Lather

I didn't get this purple group of blocks posted last month, during purple at the rainbow scrap challenge. These blocks are part of my rainbow irish chain, that, I have been adding to each month since last year. Last year, I made the 4 patches, and, this year, I am making the bigger block. I was inspired by this quilt.

There have been several months that I did not need to work on it, as the colors for the month were not in my quilt. As we get closer to the finish ( I only need yellow), I am wondering ...

added by maggie fellow 3 years, 7 months ago. under irish chain quilt , purple , quilt , quilt wip , rainbow irish chain , rainbow scrap challenge , rsc 20 , scrappy , wip

tiny purple squares from Making A Lather

I have caught the postage stamp bug, and really can't concentrate on my other projects. I have 1 1/2 inch strips, but, very few 1 1/2 inch squares. I wasn't worried, because, I can cut squares from strips. My quilty friend was very supportive, and shared a zip lock bag of squares. It's always fun to see other quilter's fabrics. My plan was to grab a handful, and return the rest. She wouldn't take them back. haha.

My biggest challenge is having a solid strip long enough to do the whole block ...

added by maggie fellow 3 years, 7 months ago. under postage stamp block , psp blocks , purple , quilt , quilt wip , rainbow scrap challenge , rsc 20 , scrappy , wip

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