What Are Quilters Blogging About Today?

 It's silent in the quilting blogiverse these days. I have a "reading list" on blogger that I began curating many years ago. Decades now, if you can believe that! So many people have stopped posting that it consists of only about five active blogs that regularly post. I feel like I have returned to my hometown to find no one still living there anymore. I think I'm a little disappointed by that. The quilting landscape is different, and I'm going to have to adjust. I suppose this also presents an opportunity to start anew.

I stopped into ...

 Why, yes, I can write a blog post on Saturday!

I'm making it easy on myself with RSC this year.  15" x 5" Chinese coins blocks in each monthly color.   The pattern that you can see in the photo is from an old issue of Quiltmaker.  

I used some orange batik to make a fabric box  to hold the mug rugs for next weekend's P.E.O. convention.   The box, or is it a bowl?, uses fusible Peltex to make it flexible but firm.  The exterior fabric is also batik.  

I used to have the Fast Fun Fabric ...

 Thank you for all of your very kind comments lately. I don't know what's going on but I stayed up late Thursday night and replied back to all of them individually and then I had a long influx of emails telling me they were undeliverable.

Good morning, my friends. Another one bites the dust. I'm happy to say the quilting is finished for the Homestead quilt. When I sat down at the machine yesterday, just the outer border remained. As I've said before, I try to learn something from every quilt. From this one, I learned that choosing a dark color thread on light fabrics probably isn't a good idea. As I quilted some of the blocks for this quilt, I thought the dark blue thread overwhelmed the design of the quilt block. Originally, I had in mind to do something traditional ...

Good morning, my friends. Another one bites the dust. I'm happy to say the quilting is finished for the Homestead quilt. When I sat down at the machine yesterday, just the outer border remained. As I've said before, I try to learn something from every quilt. From this one, I learned that choosing a dark color thread on light fabrics probably isn't a good idea. As I quilted some of the blocks for this quilt, I thought the dark blue thread overwhelmed the design of the quilt block. Originally, I had in mind to do something traditional ...

 Most days I watch the video of the day from Patchwork Plus, a quilt shop in Virginia ( or maybe West VA, I forget) where she'll show things available in the store. I fell in love with Shark Attack.

It's going to be a rainy holiday weekend, and chilly. A good time to stay in and read, sew and cross stitch.

Our dear friend Karen Gillespie has graciously worked up a new Patriotic Free Cross Stitch Pattern for us!!

She is planning on doing a series of these quilt square patterns over the next year so be sure to come back to download them.

In the meantime, here is the pattern:

 

While visiting h+h earlier this month, Kimberly had the wonderful opportunity to have a guided tour through the 15-quilt retrospective called Legendary: The Quilts of Tula Pink by the amazing Tula herself. The exhibit was a celebration of 20 years of bold vision, unmistakable color, and fearless creativity from one of quilting’s most influential voices. Keep reading to see an up close look at the quilts on display, and watch Kimberly’s tour of the quilts recorded directly from the show floor!  

Legendary: The Quilts of Tula Pink

Butterfly Quilt 2.0

Made from an assortment of fabrics ...

 Finally got the blocks done and squared up. I know I will need to move some of these around…hard to get a straight on photo as this is in a hallway

It's Memorial Day weekend and for us, a family wedding weekend.  One of our nieces is getting married this afternoon and I'm really looking forward to gathering with extended family to celebrate the occasion.

This was the 3rd full week of orange sewing, and there is something to show for it in spite of most of my focus this week being on other projects.

The Who Found the Catnip block was made in orange early in the week.  These whimsical blocks just make me smile every single time.

Some string blocks happened this week. 

Two orange Give It ...

 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 ...

 OH MY GOODNESS --- Someone mentioned in the comments that Southern California is already in fire season. Our thoughts are with you, and we hope there are no serious fires. We are so at the mercy of the weather in all we do and how we live our lives. 

I could go down that slippery slope of climate change, but I won't. All I have to do is think back on my short life to see that the weather is NOT the same as it was when I was a kid! 

Well, what a day it was yesterday. It was ...

 Orange is the colour of the month for RSC stitching, not my favourite colour by any means.  I'm not too keen on bright red either, wonder what that says about me?  I'm still working on my baby quilt and found a scrap of yellow with orangey coloured flowers - just enough for a corner block.  I was looking for something more apricot, but nothing was to be found.

That will do

I laid the blocks out on my design bed, to see what else I needed.  Yes, there were a couple of spaces that needed filling, so I stitched ...