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November Stash User Challenge from Patchwork Sampler Blog

Each month I like to give a little stash user challenge to inspire you to make some progress on using your stash or finishing a UFO. For many of us, the days leading up to the November and December holidays are a flurry of activity. I know I won’t have as much time to spend in the sewing room as usual, but I still like to be productive. Time in my sewing room is also time to relax and make something pretty.

November’s challenge is to make a small item you wish to gift or keep for your ...

added by Rhonda R 6 months ago. under liberty runner , monthly challenge , quilting , scrap quilt , stash quilt , stash user challenge (Comments)

Friday Finish: Barbed Wire from Patchwork Sampler Blog

Just one little quilt finished this week. This is the Barbed Wire quilt; a pattern from one of my all-time favorite books, Scrap-Basket Surprises by Kim Brackett. It is made entirely from homespuns, another category of fabric I am trying to eliminate from my stash. It is slow-going though because I’ve used homespuns for about 30 years and have collected a lot of them.

This book is such a classic but unfortunately is out of print since Martingale/That Patchwork Place went out of business. It is available at a very reasonable price from several used booksellers though. I ...

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Friday Finish: Nine-Patch Challenge from Patchwork Sampler Blog

March challenge: nine patch

Do you remember the Nine-Patch Challenge post from March 1 (click here if you missed it)? In a nutshell, I am trying to whittle down my flannel stash and wanted to add an element of fun. Nine-patch quilts are quick and easy and versatile enough to use whatever fabric you have on hand. Unfortunately, I will have to finish more than one baby quilt to make much of a dent in my flannel.

This is the ONE little quilt I finished.

This fox fabric is so cute, but now it is gone. I just barely had ...

added by Rhonda R 1 year, 1 month ago. under baby quilt , donation quilt , friday finish , nine patch , nine patch quilt , quilting , scrap quilt , stash quilt (Comments)

New Pattern - Branching Out Quilt from Baby Boomer Quilting Bee

Introducing - Branching Out

The art of trying something new, or expanding on what you know. I am so in love with this pattern. It is very unique and fun to put together ... and did I mention quick? The best way to use up your Fat Quarter stash or bundles. Although no longer available, some of the fat quarters came from a favorite line called "Frippery" by Thomas Knauer for Andover Fabrics (dated 2012). Thank goodness I still have some left over!

How Branching Out started ... I have several overflowing Fat Quarter baskets. I wanted to make a quick quilt for ...

added by Jamie Janow Elfert 1 year, 6 months ago. under black cat creations , branching out quilt , fat quarter friendly quilt , modern quilt. , stash quilt

Christmas Time QAL from Baby Boomer Quilting Bee

The Christmas Time Quilt, from the mystery quilt-a-long hosted by the Fat Quarter Shop is done and delivered to my sister for her birthday. This time I used my miscellaneous Christmas Stash - some from many years gone by. The machine quilting was a simple swirl pattern and was hand bound.

A Big Thank You to Kimberly and her staff for a quick little pre-holiday project!

added by Jamie Janow Elfert 1 year, 6 months ago. under christmas quilt , fat quarter shop , mystery quilt , quilt a long , stash quilt

Friday Finish: Homespun Tumbler Quilt from Patchwork Sampler Blog

This Homespun Tumbler quilt is certainly an example of the sum being greater than the parts.

This quilt began simply as a way to use my stash of brushed homespuns. I wanted an easy pattern that could be cut and sewn quickly and these tumblers fit the bill. The fabrics were not coordinated and I used any brushed homespun in my stash that was over 5″. There was no planning of which fabric went where either. I kept it super simple by sewing 18 rows with 17 tumblers in each row. The finished quilt is about 60″ x 80″, which ...

added by Rhonda R 3 years, 1 month ago. under brushed homespun tumbler , homespun tumbler , quilting , scrap quilt , stash quilt , tumbler quilt (Comments)

Sunday Meditation: 1 Peter 4:8-11 from Patchwork Sampler Blog

8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. 9 Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. 10 Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. 11 If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 4:8-11

What better day than Valentine’s Day ...

added by Rhonda R 3 years, 2 months ago. under quilting , sampler quilt , scrap quilt , stash quilt , sunday meditation , women of the bible quilt (Comments)

Current WIP: Violet Quilt A Long from Patchwork Sampler Blog

Oh, how I love a quilt-a-long. Maybe it’s because I want to make every quilt in the world, maybe I need the motivation of a schedule or maybe it’s just FOMO, I have a hard time scrolling past a QAL. A few weeks ago, Erica Jackman of Kitchen Table Quilting announced the Violet Quilt as her next QAL. I wasn’t going to join, but remembered a bag of scraps that would be perfect for this quilt.

These fabrics are from the Basic Grey’s Blush line by Moda. The original quilt I made from this line was ...

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Turquoise and Red Lone Star Quilt Finished from Fret Not Yourself

Ninety-nine percent of failure comes from people who have the habit of making excuses.
~George Washington Carver

Quilting

This quilt was a surprise for my newest grandchild. The turquoise/aqua colors match {or at least blend with} the mint in his older sister's quilt while the red is a stronger version of peach. Hopefully they will look well together like the beloved family they are.

This variation looks amazingly like a kaleidoscope. A real one, not the quilt. ;-)

Main star in red, turquoise, black and green with smaller red and aqua stars around the sides

Lone Star quilt in Turquoise and Red

The easiest design for the central small diamonds was Orange Peel. It feels very ...

added by Ann 3 years, 8 months ago. under book recommendation , lone star , madeleine miller , stash quilt

Why Do I Ever Think Construction will be Easy? from Fret Not Yourself

"Opportunity's favorite disguise is trouble."

~Frank Tyger

Quilting

Another baby quilt will be needed next month and even though there are ten previous stars, I thought up another Lone Star variation. Small stars in the corners and partial stars on the sides means it won't need as much of a single fabric for the background.

Last time the mother wanted mint and coral. This time I'm not asking. There's several mints in my stash, one red, and a couple of red diamonds leftover from previous Lone Stars. Using those as a start, I added some greens ...

added by Ann 3 years, 9 months ago. under lone star , stash quilt

Heading for the Border from Fret Not Yourself

Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it comes. If you seek truth, you will not seek victory by dishonorable means; and if you find truth, you will become invincible.
~Epictetus

Quilting

I used a dark brown to post the stripe at the corners of the wheel blocks. The value is quite a bit darker but the pieces are so small they don't overpower the softness of the rest of the top. Well, soft for me.

Wheel composed of four fan blocks with alternating pale red and green blades sashed with tan are in turn sashed with red and white stripe in this low volume quilt

Center of the wheel quilt sewn

Now for the border. My original plan was to ...

added by Ann 3 years, 12 months ago. under designing a quilt , fan quilt block , stash quilt , wheel quilt block

Choosing Backgrounds from Fret Not Yourself

Blessedness is what can be snatched out of the passing day, and put away to think of afterwards.

~Ellis Peters in The Leper of St. Giles

Quilting

I collaged some photos of different fabric pulls for the next step in the fan quilt. The top shows choices for posts and possibly a secondary sashing. Bottom left is background and more sashing ideas. Although a bunch of reds and greens were pulled for the wedges, the pile mysteriously decreased over time as other projects took precedence. When the wheels restarted, there were not enough soft reds. The crab prints on the ...

added by Ann 4 years ago. under book recommendation , ellis peters , fan quilt block , stash quilt , wheel quilt block

Helping from Fret Not Yourself

The most precious thing you can give someone is your time because you can never get it back.
When you don't think about getting it back, you've given it in love.
~Mitch Alborn in Finding Chika

Quilting

Just a bit of quilting this week. Sort of. No sewing, only arranging the arcs. They required lots of moving/adjusting. Because the values occupy a narrow band, the colors blend into grey-ness. {That's not a word but you can see what I mean. The greens and reds seem to blend rather than contrast.}

Fan blocks set as wheels are arranged on the design wall in two ways

Arranging the wheel blocks into a ...

added by Ann 4 years ago. under book recommendation , fan quilt block , phillip pullman , stash quilt , wheel quilt block

Taking the Wheel from Fret Not Yourself

"You may not lie idly expecting the second coming of anybody now,
because the world is yours and it is up to you.
Now especially since man has the strength to destroy this world,
it is the responsibility of man to keep it alive, in all its beauty and marvelous joy."

~Susan Cooper in The Silver on the Tree

Quilting

Combining regular spring cleaning with the deep cleaning pushed me to sort and cull. Clothing, dishes, books, cleaning supplies. Everything is getting a second look. Is it being used? Is it needed? Does it need replacing? Of course, cleaning also ...

added by Ann 4 years ago. under #uanduqal , book recommendation , fan quilt block , stash quilt , susan cooper , wheel quilt block

A Done Deal from Fret Not Yourself

"Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose."

~Frank Tyger

When looking ahead there seem to be so many long, time-consuming steps to finish a quilt. Between that and anxiety about our quilting, it's no wonder we set tops aside. This one is finally finished. It's a perfect size to snuggle under during this cold weather. I'm keeping it.

The Square Deal quilt

As I mentioned earlier I divided the quilt into three sections: the Square Deal center, the sashing, and the outer border. After simple SID around the sashing, each section was quilted with its own designs. The ...

added by Ann 4 years, 2 months ago. under alexander calder , designing a quilt , free motion quilting , lattice , scrap quilt , square deal , stash quilt , travel

Hourglass Reprise from Fret Not Yourself

"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be."

~ Paul Valéry

This quilt went together more easily if only because most of the parts were already sewn and ended up a repeat of the previous one. I thought about making something very different but... all the hourglasses with polka dots were already sewn and it needed to be gifted this week so time was of the essence. Time; hourglass. Somehow appropriate. Plus, it uses up all these specific pinks, aquas, and the second black print in my stash {which has been lurking for ...

added by Ann 4 years, 3 months ago. under #ahiqhourglass , stash quilt

Working the Border from Fret Not Yourself

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard a work worth doing."

~Theodore Roosevelt

Last week the black border didn't add anything to the conversation but the quilt still needed more contrast. I pieced more hourglasses with some black added to the pink and blues for the border then spent a while laying them out. This arrangement makes a striking zig zag but is much too strong for the weak center. {I'll have to remember it for another time.}

Zig zag border arrangement

Black to the outside and pink ...

added by Ann 4 years, 3 months ago. under #ahiqhourglass , apron , book recommendation , designing a border , hourglass block , improv quilt , stash quilt

Using the Hourglass Prompt from Fret Not Yourself

"Green is not simply a new form of generating electric power; it is a new form of generating national power - period."
~ David Rothkopf

For a change I'm starting the AHIQ prompt right away. {Although I should be finishing the Square Deal or Tethys Waves, they were put away when company came and you know how that breaks the rhythm. A new project pushed its way to the front of the line.} The previous hourglass quilt was rotary cut; this time I wanted to try an improv variation from Cultural Fusion. It seemed like a relaxing and quick{er} solution ...

added by Ann 4 years, 3 months ago. under #ahiqhourglass , book recommendation , hourglass block , stash quilt

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