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 ...

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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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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 ...

added by Barbara 1 week, 5 days ago. under cats , cooking , embroidery , every blooming thing , every little thing , free-motion quilting , gardening , photography , quilts , slow sunday stitching

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Cross Stitch and Pink Scraps from The Cozy Quilter

This has been a good week for stitching and sewing in my neck of the woods! I sat down to do some cross stitching three times and to sew by machine twice. The sky part of this picture is done in blocks of colour but the farm scene at the bottom has more confetti stitching...I have not got to that part yet.

Pink is the Rainbow Scrap Challenge colour for April and I managed to get my pink blocks sewn for the four quilts I am making. I am just about out of Kona white and will need to ...

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Daffodils, A Birthday and Cross Stitch from The Cozy Quilter

My husband and I were both under the weather earlier this week so that negatively affected how much sewing I got done this week. Hopefully, I can make up for it next week! I did manage to add some blue and brown to my cross stitch project. The brown part will be a windmill, eventually!

Finn received this Lambie toy for Christmas and, recently, almost removed Lambie's reindeer antlers. I sewed them back on by machine with a mending stitch, which was distressing to Finn and he barked at me as I sewed. He was happy to have Lambie ...

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Chain Link top finished from The Cozy Quilter

I finished off my chain link quilt top this week. It has been trimmed now...I should have done that before this picture was taken... It should be close to single bed size but I am open to adding a border using the background fabric if it isn't. I like the way the coloured chains stand out on the dark background.

I added more stitches to my perforated paper cross stitch picture. The paper is stiff which makes it easy to hold and stitch. I find the needle will fall back through the hole when I am coming up ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 months, 2 weeks ago. under chain link quilt , counted cross stitch , finn , knitting , rainbow scrap challenge , slow sunday stitching

Assembling a Quilt Top and a New Cross Stitch Project from The Cozy Quilter

I received this cross stitch kit from a friend for Christmas...this is the first time I have cross stitched on perforated paper. I had to sort all the threads out first before starting to stitch. It doesn't look like much yet.

I have made two knitted poppies for the Remembrance Day project. Others have made dozens...don't forget I am a very slow knitter!

I have fabrics picked out for another Folk Art Doll. I hope to get this cut out this weekend and sew it next week.

I decided to add 2.5" sashing between my ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 months, 3 weeks ago. under books , chain link quilt , counted cross stitch , finn , knitting , piecing , slow sunday stitching

Two Retreats in a Row from The Cozy Quilter

Yes... Christine and I were at quilting retreats two weekends in a row! I had a second set of projects lined up to take to our annual Spring Oxford Guild retreat before the Camp Kintail retreat. The truth is that I could go on even more retreats and still come up with projects to work on. Christine is in the same boat!

I finished up my chain link blocks for the vice president's challenge--I have decided to set them on point but have not decided if I want to add sashing or not before sewing them together. I will ...

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My Bluebird of Happiness! from The Cozy Quilter

As I have said previously, I signed up for a year of Threadhouse Academy classes this year and have been working away at several, but not all of the projects. This month's project is Folk Art Dolls taught by Jo Avery. They are too cute to resist so I decided to make a bird first. I used a piece of felted wool for the beak and hand stitched it down with pearl cotton blanket stitches. I embroidered the eyes and the X's as well as the fly stitches on the body. The legs, feet, and wings also have ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 3 months, 3 weeks ago. under counted cross stitch , embroidery , finn , folk art creatures , hand stitching , jo avery , slow sunday stitching , thread house academy

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