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Mardi Gras Magic from Sew Preeti Quilts

Mardi Gras Magic was published in McCall’s Quilting March/April 2023.

Mardi Gras Magic

I used the Island Batik Fabric Line, Wild Blooms. Designed by Kathy Engle, it should be available in stores in May 2023.

I used Hobbs Black Batting, quilted using my walking foot and used a medium purple binding.

Mardi Gras Magic finished at about 60" by 80".

My favorite picture

Island Batik Fabrics - Inspired by Nature

These colors are so wild and vibrant and they really pop on a black (Island Batik Solid) background.

Bright Yellows, Shimmering Greens

The backing is Chameleon, available all year ...

added by Preeti 1 year, 1 month ago. under hobbs batting , island batik , island batik designer , kathy engle , lap quilt , mardi gras magic , mccall's quilting , quilt pattern , rainbow scrap challenge , rsc , st. patrick's day , wild blooms

My Creative week includes... peeps, pineapple pinks, birds and hexies! (and a painting) from Not Afraid of Color

Welcome to this week's creativity round-up! Let's get started with a wee chickadee...

I have several items to share today. The Stay-at-home-round-robin (SAHRR) is coming along... and that's what the bird is for... a "square-in-a-square block" but I will start with my rainbow scrap challenge blocks in the scrap color of the month, PINK!

I'm still trying to learn to easily use the Gylene Fitzgerald pineapple scrappy ruler. I decided to stop trying to only use 1.5" strips, wasting too much for my taste, and instead cutting squares into fourths to add each new row ...

added by LA Paylor 1 year, 2 months ago. under painting , rsc , sahrr

May and June from Sew Preeti Quilts

May's car is parked in June's driveway.

It is May's mess that has led to June's stress. I am not thrilled about it but the sad truth is this - unless we move May's car out of June's driveway, June cannot go anywhere or do anything.

Angela said that May RSC colors were Sage and Forest Green. With all that was happening in May (international travel, recovering from international travel, catching up with work due to travel, Covid, recovering from Covid, nursing Paul as he recovered from Covid, the Positivity QAL set up and launch ...

added by Preeti 1 year, 11 months ago. under hunter green , improv blocks , improv patchwork , improv piecing , improvisational piecing , positivity 2022 , rainbow scrap challenge , rsc , rsc2022 , scrappy improv

sewing round up "Table Scraps" for March from Not Afraid of Color

For this month's Table Scraps challenge to use our scraps to make something with flowers on it, I made a small table topper 12" x 12" using scraps from making a bed quilt of flowering snowball blocks.

Yep I keep it all... all scraps! I layered them on stabilizer, then couldn't pick a background, so I made one with green scraps.

I just layed them on the peltex batting, overlapping, and started quilting

Cotton threads in a wide variety of colors, gold metallic around the center dots.

no binding, just a double layer of zig zag stitch

I ...

added by LA Paylor 2 years, 1 month ago. under rsc , sahrr

Sewing Round up " Summer Breeze" from Not Afraid of Color

Summer Breeze 17" X 21"

My project quilting challenge piece for this week is finished! The challenge was to use pieced flying geese, start and finish the piece within one week. I made my improvisational flying geese with white sparkly fabrics and surrounded them with blue scraps

I used improv curvy strip piecing to form the sky,

I had to include the tiny sun scrap between the clouds

and put a hoarded pond fabric at the base

I cut out some components of that fabric to have taller grasses, embroidered then free motion with multicolored cotton thread, and stitched in ...

added by LA Paylor 2 years, 1 month ago. under project quilting , rsc

some weeks you finish art some weeks you nudge it along with your nose from Not Afraid of Color

Some weeks you finish art some weeks you nudge it along with your nose.

Welcome to this week's sewing round up!

RSC color of the month is yellow/gold

When I start a new month's color, I pull out my scrap box (usually an overstuffed plastic shoe box) of collected bits and bobs of that color. When I start an improv scrap color piece I start by making lots of components to use later in the design process.

This time I made lots of improvisational geese units that look ragged til they are pieced in. Then I made ...

added by LA Paylor 2 years, 1 month ago. under rsc , sahrr

end of rainbow finish from Making A Lather

I have another finish for January from my rainbow scrap challenge at so scrappy projects. I sewed the crumb blocks here - during 2019 by color of the month. I found this in a -book here by Melissa Corey

it is 82x82 and used 20 yards

I used a cotton sheet for the back and a scrappy binding.

I did free motion swirls for the quilting. I really like swirls and may just do all of my quilts like that. Quick and easy is best.

wednesday wait loss

I am linking to:

TGIFF

TG IFF different here and here

Whoop Whoop ...

added by maggie fellow 2 years, 3 months ago. under crumbs , end of the rainbow , finish , friday finish , phd 2022. , quilt , rainbow scrap challenge , rsc , scrappy , strings , ufo , ufo 22

sewing saturday from Not Afraid of Color

welcome to this week's sewing round up... I sewed a lot, but not much to share right now as I want to wait til the quilted piece has binding, and the basted piece has quilting and binding!

Some week's are like that... lots done but nothing finished. I did a post on paintings yesterday and am taking another free 30 day workshop with Joanna Basford, which takes painting into a priority.

The color of the month at rainbow scrap challenge is "neutral". I am choosing to do light neutrals this month and dark neutrals next month since I ...

added by LA Paylor 2 years, 5 months ago. under rsc

sewing saturday table scraps autumn from Not Afraid of Color

Welcome to this week's Sewing Round up!

Remember all the scraps from making the kaleidoscope quilt a while back, and I made all I could into 60 degree triangle blocks like this one...

then tried to arrange them into a new to me configuration

about 21" X 50"

Here it is quilted, and ready to use!

I would show you some of the other configurations but I'm afraid I liked one of them better (in hindsight which is 20/20)

I like the strong but interrupted vertical lines of scraps and the triangle lines that show up as ...

added by LA Paylor 2 years, 6 months ago. under rsc

sewing saturday from Not Afraid of Color

welcome to this week's sewing round up! Lots of finishing going on this week and some RSC lime green scraps used too. The picture above is the Purple Mountains finish..

I'll show some close ups while telling you about it. I started it a few months ago and got inspired to quilt and finish it this week. Lots of metallic sparkling threads, free motion quilting and some flowers...

I combined two fabrics for the binding, sewing the one color along the bottom, a special batik with green and purple on lime... love it... and leaving long tails to ...

added by LA Paylor 2 years, 6 months ago. under improv log cabins , rsc

sewing saturday... hexi blocks plus improv work from Not Afraid of Color

For sewing this week, I made the hexi kaleidoscope blocks in light/lime greens the color of the month at the RSC. I went ahead and took a pic of the ones already done, and noticed by setting them this way you see kind of a light shadow around the outside... I'll have to take care when I have finished all the blocks. I think it might be a possible twin size with the blocks from the next two months.

The newest blocks in light greens

I also spent some time with the scraps from making the Ricky Tims ...

added by LA Paylor 2 years, 6 months ago. under pile o'scraps , rsc

sewing Saturday.... peach wine and ghosties from Not Afraid of Color

to start this week, I finished the Bats and Boos quilt (pattern fatquartershop) complete with binding, sleeve and label. It's on the wall now. Earliest I've ever finished a halloween quilt!

Along with quilting straight lines to stabilize the quilt, the free motion quilting was leaves, vines and spirals

then some ghost buttons were added for fun texture

can you find 6 of them?

the backing was older holiday fabric, another to make a sleeve, and as it finishes at 40 1/4" square, was just a bit too large for my backing fabric

I pulled the back ...

added by LA Paylor 2 years, 7 months ago. under halloween , rsc

sewing saturday orange rules! from Not Afraid of Color

For this week's sewing round up I have a lot of orange...

the bats and boos quilt is in process of being quilted now

love a scrappy pin cushion

remember back to the 70's?? I do... The colors were earthy harvest gold, avocado green , chocolate brown, and hanging on was 60's orange. I didn't like it then but now that I mix my own orange paint,

and have so many pretty orange fabrics I realize the sparkle it can give artwork.

I did the large hexie kaleidoscope blocks in orange

and looked at them with the ...

added by LA Paylor 2 years, 7 months ago. under rsc

Sewing Saturday from turquoise to orange, goddesses to pumpkins from Not Afraid of Color

For this week's sewing discussion I have three small finishes. The photo above shows the transition in color of the month at RSC from turquoise to orange.

The calendar says we are getting into Fall even if our temps remain nearly 100 F and the wildfire smoke is choking us when we go outside. We are having record breaking heat when it traditionally was cooling off.

My three finishes also show the transition from turquoise to orange and don't they compliment each other?

I love Fall. I grew up in Florida where we had two seasons, hot and ...

added by LA Paylor 2 years, 7 months ago. under pile o'scraps , rsc

sewing saturday scraps, and table scraps from Not Afraid of Color


47 half square triangle blocks!! The coaster is 6.5" square

It is small but it goes on a table, it's a coaster. I made it from the cut away triangles after making the bats and boos block, so when the tiny sparkly triangles are sewn they make a 1.25" square block to use.

tried lots of concepts with them...

this is my table scraps offering this month... two finished coasters and two runners for fall in progress

I used a turquoise scrap as accent. Turquoise/teal/aqua is the color of the month at rainbow Scrap Challenge ...

added by LA Paylor 2 years, 8 months ago. under rsc , table scraps

Sewing Saturday from Not Afraid of Color

this week in sewing... lots of sewing going on this week amid finishing the creativity course, and the writing/meditation course.

Let's start with the rainbow scrap challenge color of the month, teal/turquoise/aqua. I made two more large hexi/kaleidoscope blocks.

I have finally this many months in corrected the original instructions I saw on a tv show.

When you are dealing with angles that must come back together just right, even a 1/16th of an inch can make a difference.

The teacher said to take two 5" squares, face to face, mark one and 3 ...

added by LA Paylor 2 years, 8 months ago. under rsc

Sewing Saturday from bottles to bats from Not Afraid of Color

would you like some wine? This pattern is free from Hoffman Fabrics, and I used that turquoise in the upper right corner this month for the RSC color of the month. All from the scrap bin too.

Senor Flamingo Rose and Moonbeam Winery gewurztraminer

I have made them in all the RSC colors of the month since January and will eventually make them into a table runner

I looked at my Kaleidoscope this week and finally chose this fabric as my favorite border

However I only have a half yard and it's directional. So. Sew... it will be pieced ...

added by LA Paylor 2 years, 8 months ago. under pile o'scraps , rsc

Sewing Saturday from Not Afraid of Color

I have been mostly sewing on the kaleidoscope quilt this week and would rather wait to show you the top finished. So.... these are two little sweaters in the color of the month, sort of since it's hard to identify. I think Angela at rainbow scrap challenge said turquoise or aqua or something between blue and green.

When I looked it up, I read the color cyan is a mix of blue and green and there is talk of it here

https://colorpsychologymeaning.com/color-turquoise/

My favorite shirt falls in this color range, and I love turquoise in general ...

added by LA Paylor 2 years, 8 months ago. under kaleidoscope , rsc

Sewing Saturday... Summer Blues from Not Afraid of Color

Welcome to this week's sewing round up!

I worked on scrap challenge blocks in dark blue, made a whole new piece, and finished borders on last week's piece. Let's get this party started, shall we??

the design wall was exciting this week!

I'll start with the wine bottles in dark blue scraps... here is the mock up, supply gather...

pattern free from Hoffman Fabrics

They are a bit close in value to the "bright blue" month at rainbow scrap challenge but that's okay, at least I got the labels different.

Lesson learned

1. fabrics look ...

added by LA Paylor 2 years, 9 months ago. under my art , rsc

sewing saturday from trash to treasure from Not Afraid of Color

Here we are at Saturday again and that means, let's talk SEWING! I LOVE to sew, handle fabric, buy fabric, choose fabrics to use and see color next to color. It's like hands on painting!

This month the color of the month at RSC is darker blues, urging us to use our scraps. I'm lucky enough to have a stash of scraps in many colors and organize them into bins. This is my blue bin. I made two projects from blues this week, plus made another cool usable object from my painted piece from two weeks ago ...

added by LA Paylor 2 years, 9 months ago. under rsc , sewing round up

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