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Quick Gift Jar Openers
because I needed a couple of simple gifts for friends.



5 inch squares - 1 -2 -3
I had my walking foot on my machine which is what I like to use for these
and I decided the thread for my quilt
matched the gold in the fabrics just right.


I trim these after I sew and turn and use my
Clover 2 Point Turner
to push out the pints and smooth the edge ...

Last week for 

I celebrated

Since it is still Pumpkin Spice season, I enjoyed my annual cup of

Green Mountain Pumpkin Spice coffee  this week.

As I said ...

"Good Morning, Quilters!
Quilty Kitty Nutmeg here helping Mommy choose the quilting thread for our project today."

"Quilty Kitty Maestro is helping me with this thready selection."

"Maestro really likes to try to hog the quilts, but she I love her.

She is very warm and snuggly ... like Mommy's quilts."

"We Quilty Kitties have made our important decision for the day.

Which thread do you think we chose?

What are your quilty kitty helpers working on today?"

"Happy Quilting" ... Nutmeg

This is a cute block and it was easy to sew.

I am sewing the sampler quilt so I only had to make four of these 9" blocks.

I like the fabrics I chose, four colors of the same print.

They will look nice in the sampler quilt.

That said ...

The throw size quilt in the book calls for thirty two of these blocks.

The first sewing instruction says to

This is a good ...

I have decided that I love the ruler.

It has wonderfully easy to read marks for 2.5 and 4.5

and other cuts needed for these blocks.

As I am vision impaired I am always looking for rulers that are easy to see.

These blocks were fun to sew.

The large block on the top is called "Animal Crackers"  and would

be a good block for using up scrap strips.

The cute house block is called "Gingerbread" and may be my favorite in the book.

These blocks are from the 

which is designed for using 5" charm squares.

This is the Cutting Guide PDF from Fat Quarter Shop

that is also needed to sew these sampler blocks.

Perfect 5 Quilts Book
"It's Sew Emma" , the pattern design team at  Fat Quarter Shop
created a companion book with 16 different block patterns
using charm packs for this ruler

They also sell a combo if you want to purchase the book and ruler together.

Perfect 5 Book and Ruler Combo ...

Me Texting to Hubby at work at 12:15am 

"Please pick a number between 1 and 82"

Hubby to me: 

"63"

Me to Hubby:

"Thanks ... The winner on my blog will be happy" 

Tomorrow I will announce the winner for my 

Dear Readers, 

if you have not already done so.

I love these magnetic pin bowls and hope you will, too.

:-) 

which means stitching without a hoop or frame.

I learned this method from
Kimberly Jolly @ Fat Quarter Shop Flosstube
which I watch every week
whether I am actively working on a cross stitch project or not.

Then

I last worked on this project, 

 Vintage Christmas Sampler HERE.

and was using this heavy wooden frame.
It worked well, but I want my project to be easier to carry with me
to stitch wherever I happen to be.

Of course there is fabric! 

This is 

I bought my "have to have it"  fat quarter bundle 

The threads are to be an experiment with hand quilting a pillow.

They are 

where I learned "Hidamari" means "Sunny Spot." 

How perfect for my sunny scrapatch spot today! 

I also bought these 

my favorite online quilt shop. 

In ...

In truth, I am thankful every day of every month.

Time to treasure the last blooms of summer.

It is chilly and rainy and winter is coming soon.

My nastursiums, planted by seed along the garden wall,

are still colorful.

My cosmos, also planted by seed, have been blown over by the strong winds

but they are still waving the feathery greens and pretty pink blooms. 

My Arizona Sun Gaillardia have spread and this new plant is still blooming.

I love the puff balls that form when the flowers are gone. 

The lavender is still putting out fragrant little purple ends.

Wherever I look I see the reminders that life ...

My "Oh My Gourd" quilt

for the

I have been working on this project off and on all month

These pretty fabric are

on my Janome

Oh, my ... that quilting!!!!! 

I will visiting
Tilda's World
online often in anticipation of this pattern release.
Maybe it will be a free one. 
If it is in a book, no problem.


I buy Tilda books just to read and look at the pictures
with a cup of tea.

This comes as no surprise as I do love everything Tilda, but there were so many 
interesting sites in all the photos ...

I started this humble blog as a personal journal of my quilting Life in the Scrapatch.

As you can see,  my first efforts were small.

For many years I had about 25 followers, all friends from the online forums
where I learned much about quilting.

In a small way, the blog was also my efforts to "give back" or "pay forward" to others
how they helped me on my quilting journey.
So I have offered free patterns and tutorials and tips in my posts
that I ...

Avast Ye!

Hand over those quilty treasures or prepare to walk the plank! 

Arrrgggggg!  

:-)

Want some more quilty fun ... and maybe win a prize?

I am enjoying being a "stay-at-home-quilter" and following the 

Fall Quilt Market in Houston at places like