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Two Quilts Pin Basted, Navy Scrappy Blocks, Sunflowers and Visitors from The Cozy Quilter

It is so much easier on the knees and the back to pin baste quilts on a table rather than the floor. I took advantage of the tables at the Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre this past week to get two quilts ready for quilting. The first one is a pattern by Christine at Tesselate Quilts. I pieced the top over a year ago and it has been hanging out in the pile of completed tops for too long!

My Kaffe Fassett Overlapping Tiles quilt was also pin basted this week. I have a quilting plan for both of these quilts--using ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 8 months ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , kaffe fassett , overlapping tiles , rainbow scrap challenge , scraps , slow sunday stitching , tesselate quilts

Whistle Stop Top! from The Cozy Quilter

Regular readers of this blog will know that I have not been very productive in my sewing room recently. My husband and I are involved in a couple of large projects at the moment that are consuming all of our time and energy. The deadline to finish is looming, so after that, I hope to be able to spend some one on one time with my sewing machine and my knitting needles!

I did manage to finish off the Whistle Stop quilt flimsy this week--The edges of the centre section were all on the bias so I stay stitched 1 ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 7 months ago. under finn , rainbow scrap challenge , slow sunday stitching , tesselate quilts

Light Blue RSC, Knitting and some Quilt Top Progress from The Cozy Quilter

I dug into my light blue scraps this week and got a start on my drunkard's path blocks for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. Some of these fabrics have been hanging around in my sewing room for many years! I used the dog fabric in the top left block to make a quilt for a colleague's new baby in 2003.

I sewed about half of my whistle stop quilt top together one afternoon this week. It is not pressed yet...

I started a new quilt for the church Christmas bazaar as well this week. This is a stack and ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 7 months ago. under finn , gardens , knitting , lap quilts , rainbow scrap challenge , slow sunday stitching , spartan sewing machine , tesselate quilts

Orange and Light Blue, Hooking and Cutting from The Cozy Quilter

I changed the calendar to September today...I know...I was a day late but we were out all day yesterday and too tired when we got home to think about it. I finished off my orange drunkard's path blocks for the August Rainbow Scrap Challenge and got busy gathering some light blue selvages for September's selvage HST's.

HST's made! These are top stitched along the selvage edge onto a lightweight non-woven interfacing square, 9.5" by 9.5". Then, I cut them in half!

I harvested lots of grape tomatoes today after supper. This should ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 7 months ago. under drunkard's path , finn , gardens , rainbow scrap challenge , rug hooking , selvages , slow sunday stitching , tesselate quilts

More Hooking and A New Quilt Underway. from The Cozy Quilter

My friend, Christine, and I used to get together every week to sew before the pandemic. We have recently started doing this again as time allows. This past week, we cut out and sewed the HST's for the Tesselate Quilts "Whistle Stop" quilt along. Here are my HST's laid out for 1/4 of the quilt. I thought that I would easily be able to find some fabric in my stash to use as a background for this quilt...but no. I tried various shades of green, gray, blue and even white, but nothing worked.

So...off to ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 8 months ago. under baby quilts , finn , rug hooking , slow sunday stitching , tesselate quilts

Starting a New Quilt (or two!) from The Cozy Quilter

The rainbow scrap challenge colour for August is orange so I pulled out my bin of orange selvages this week and made my selvage blocks. Each selvage strip is top stitched very close to the edge and the are foundation pieced to a square of very light weight non woven interfacing. Orange is one of my favourite colours.

I will get my orange scrap bin out soon to work on my drunkard's path blocks.

In the meantime, I have started a new quilt--this one is a wedding gift. The wedding was in June, after a two year delay due ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 8 months ago. under finn , gardens , rainbow scrap challenge , rug hooking , selvages , slow sunday stitching , tesselate quilts

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