slow sunday stitching

Hand Stitching from The Cozy Quilter

I did not touch my sewing machine this week. Not even once! I did, however, do quite a bit of hand quilting and hand appliqué. I did the first lesson of the Moon Trees Class with Jo Avery on the Threadhouse Academy and managed to get one block made. The background fabric is a piece of Essex Linen. The yellow tree is Fableism Sprout and the print is from Tilda. I plan on making more of these blocks with different variations of trees. The next online class will teach me how to do this. I'm using 80 wt thread ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 5 days, 6 hours ago. under applique , crochet , finn , flowers , hand quilting , jo avery , moon trees , slow sunday stitching , thread house academy

A Week Away from The Cozy Quilter

Our family, including our daughter and Finn, just got home from a week at the cottage. We did lots of reading on the dock, and stitching in the screened porch. It was a very relaxing week. Finn loves it there and could not wait to go down to the dock every morning and evening. We had great weather although it was smoky for a couple of days from the northern Ontario forest fires.

I finished the hand quilting on my Pineapple Log Cabin quilt! I looked up when I started the hand quilting--October 2025. I must admit that I took ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 week, 3 days ago. under books , cottage time , counted cross stitch , crochet , finn , hand quilting , pineapple log cabin , round robin , slow sunday stitching

More Aqua and Hand Quilting from The Cozy Quilter

My blocks for Aqua month are done! Here are the shoe fly blocks and the 25 patch HST block. Lots of fun scraps in these blocks. I have ordered some more Kona white as I only have a few small scraps left and I want to make more blocks for both of these quilts.

I finished hand quilting this purple pineapple block on Monday and I'm now working on the magenta block. Only one block to go after magenta--it is yellow. Then, I can get this quilt trimmed and bound. I will have to see what I have in ...

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Aqua and Yellow from The Cozy Quilter

The Rainbow Scrap Challenge colour for July is Aqua. I just had my Aqua fabrics out last week at the cottage to complete the last block of my Sommer Sorbet sampler quilt so it was easy to cut out some squares and HST's for my blocks. This is the only one I got sewn this week but the 25 patch HST block is laid out and ready to sew this coming week. My interpretation of Aqua is blue-green, leaning towards green. Turquoise leans towards blue in the blue-green family. I think others do this the other way around. It ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 3 weeks, 3 days ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , hand quilting , nine patch , pineapple log cabin , rainbow scrap challenge , round robin , slow sunday stitching , zippered pouch

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 month, 1 week ago. under barn quilts , colour challenge , counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , hand quilting , pineapple log cabin , slow sunday stitching

Hand Stitching from The Cozy Quilter

This was a busy week with lots of activities every day, so, not much sewing happened. I did manage to add more stitches to the sky in my cross stitch project and discovered that I was going to run out of one of the colours. I purchased a skein at the local craft shop and I'm ready to keep on stitching. Someone asked last week if there are sunflowers in the picture--the answer is yes...there are several sunflowers in a combination of stitches and beads as well as a button at the bottom of the picture. I will ...

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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 month, 2 weeks ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , hand quilting , pineapple log cabin , rainbow scrap challenge , slow sunday stitching , zippered pouch

A Good Day Ends Badly from ... Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. It's the last day of May. We're onto June tomorrow. Are you ready? On June 4, 1944, my mom and dad were married. They were married 52 years when she passed away in 1997. Also, my grandfather's birthday was June 14th...Flag Day. (Also the same day as...you know...he who shall not be named.) My grandfather always told me they put the flags out on Flag Day for him. He was a WWI veteran, and so it made complete sense to me.

As you're reading along this morning, you can ...

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A Good Day Ends Badly from Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. It's the last day of May. We're onto June tomorrow. Are you ready? On June 4, 1944, my mom and dad were married. They were married 52 years when she passed away in 1997. Also, my grandfather's birthday was June 14th...Flag Day. (Also the same day as...you know...he who shall not be named.) My grandfather always told me they put the flags out on Flag Day for him. He was a WWI veteran, and so it made complete sense to me.

As you're reading along this morning, you can ...

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Colour Challenge Flimsy Done from The Cozy Quilter

I had a little less than a yard of the sashing and border fabric to set my colour challenge blocks and crossed my fingers that there would be enough to add 2.5" sashing and a 3.5" border. I cut the pieces out that I needed to do this and had just a few scraps left. Phew! I'm happy that there was enough! Now, I just have to figure out the backing--this will be pieced using fabric from my stash. I will use a solid for the binding--not sure which colour I will use yet.

I worked on ...

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Sitting and Stitching from ... Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. It's probably our last day of good weather here. We're told it will rain tomorrow. I have plenty of slow-stitching to keep me busy for the next several days. Yesterday, I stitched far enough on the Santa Quartet to decide to move my hoop to encompass the last of it.

Probably I have a couple of days left on the Santas, but I decided to trace the next 12 Tiny Treasures. I'm drawing lines to designate 2-1/2 squares for this, and then I center the design within the square.

It's hard ...

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Sitting and Stitching from Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. It's probably our last day of good weather here. We're told it will rain tomorrow. I have plenty of slow-stitching to keep me busy for the next several days. Yesterday, I stitched far enough on the Santa Quartet to decide to move my hoop to encompass the last of it.

Probably I have a couple of days left on the Santas, but I decided to trace the next 12 Tiny Treasures. I'm drawing lines to designate 2-1/2 squares for this, and then I center the design within the square.

It's hard ...

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Cross Stitch, Crochet and Orange from The Cozy Quilter

I must admit that adding stitches to the sky in my current cross stitch project is not that exciting...I try to break it up by adding stitches to the bottom part of the picture too. You can see from the picture that progress was made on both fronts this week. Someone asked about stitching on perforated paper--the paper is quite thick and I have not had any issues with it tearing. I have had to unstitch in a couple of spots and did not have any issues.

My daughter has been working on her crochet in the evenings this ...

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Orange and Cross Stitching the Sky from The Cozy Quilter

I got back to work on my orange Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks this week and made 6 nine patches. The next two sets of blocks need lots of HST's so that's up next at the sewing machine. I need to cut more orange triangles so I have enough. It's only half way through May but I am already wondering what the colour for next month will be...

We had a great discussion at Book Club this week about "the Berry Pickers." In June, we will be talking about "The Frozen River". I have already read this book ...

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Big Quilt, Little Quilt from ... Cat Patches

It was a good quilting day yesterday. Of course, I didn't get to the quilting right away. First, I finished stitching the first Santa from the Santa Quartet. With him finished, I moved my hoop to the right.

When I finished with the stitching, I took a little walk around outside. The bird feeders needed filling, and I needed to check the watering. And wow...look at this lithodora. So pretty.

Here's our red azalea.

The fourth of five rhododendrons is starting to bloom. We have another dark purple one that is still in tight buds.

I noticed ...

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Big Quilt, Little Quilt from Cat Patches

It was a good quilting day yesterday. Of course, I didn't get to the quilting right away. First, I finished stitching the first Santa from the Santa Quartet. With him finished, I moved my hoop to the right.

When I finished with the stitching, I took a little walk around outside. The bird feeders needed filling, and I needed to check the watering. And wow...look at this lithodora. So pretty.

Here's our red azalea.

The fourth of five rhododendrons is starting to bloom. We have another dark purple one that is still in tight buds.

I noticed ...

added by Barbara 2 months, 2 weeks ago. under cats , embroidery , every blooming thing , family , free-motion quilting , gardening , photography , quilts , slow sunday stitching , small quilts

Happy Mother's Day! from The Cozy Quilter

My daughter was here for the past week and she and Finn went home yesterday. It was nice to have her here. Finn was very excited to see her. He loves it when all of us are together. I did a little bit of cross stitch this past week, but no machine sewing. I finished the framing stitches and added more sky stitches as well. I hope to do more today.

My daughter worked on her crochet while she was here, adding this pretty periwinkle lace border. If you look at the close up, you can see flowers in it ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 months, 2 weeks ago. under books , counted cross stitch , crochet , finn , flowers , gardens , slow sunday stitching , stash building

Orange Scraps from The Cozy Quilter

I cut out some orange squares and half square triangles this week for my Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks for May. Today, I made one orange block...there are more pieces cut out for the other blocks but nothing is put together yet. I will show them in a future post when they are done. The background fabric has orange square dots instead of round ones. It has been in my stash for a while. These blocks use up most of a fat quarter of background fabric.

Here is my block collection so far. I have decided to make 9 blocks ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 months, 4 weeks ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , gardens , rainbow scrap challenge , slow sunday stitching

Hand Quilting and a Cross Stitch Barn from The Cozy Quilter

I added a lot of blue stitches to my cross stitch project earlier in the week, and then decided it was time to use some other colours. As you can see below, I stitched most of the green border and got a good start on the barn. Once the barn is done, I will go back to adding more blue in the sky.

I hand quilted the light green block on my pineapple log cabin quilt this week. I am working on the gold block next. 3/9 blocks are quilted now. This is a slow process. I already know ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 3 months ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , hand quilting , slow sunday stitching

A Little Doll and Some Hand Stitching from The Cozy Quilter

A couple of weeks ago, I started to make a little folk art doll for a 5 year old's birthday. This week, I finished it. It has black hair, just like the five year old. Purple is her favourite colour.

I continue to work on my Mill Hill cross stitch on perforated paper. It's coming along nicely. The green line of stitches on the right goes all the way around the picture.

I spent a couple of hours working on handquilting my pineapple log cabin quilt this week. The blocks were made a couple of years ago for ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 3 months, 1 week ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , gardens , hand quilting , slow sunday stitching , thread house academy

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