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Sunflowers Cross Stitch (Finally!) Done. from The Cozy Quilter

I spent a few evenings this past week working on my Sunflowers cross stitch. Finn likes to lie beside me on the couch while I am stitching. When I got up to get a glass of water, he moved over to my spot... very helpful!

On Thursday evening, I added the last few stitches and gave it a good press. TaDa! I love how all of the bees and sunflowers look on the blue background. I will take this in to be framed sometime in May. The stitched part is about 11.5" by 11.5".

Last Summer, my husband ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 5 days, 23 hours ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , gardens , scrap vortex , scraps , slow sunday stitching

ORCHIDS & HEARTS from Kwilty Pleasures

Columbus OH

Franklin Park Conservatory

Orchid Show, January 2024

Dale Chihuly installations

And

Infinite Hearts quilt!

My sweet friend Susan was my first

for this winter outing!

Quilts in the Wild are simply the best!

added by Kathy @ Kwilty Pleasures 1 month, 3 weeks ago. under 2024 finishes , gardens , quilts in the wild

My SOLO QUILT SHOW 2023 from Kwilty Pleasures

Welcome to Inniswood Gadens, Innishouse

Westerville OH

This exhibit is my 2nd Solo Show at this venue.

I have made many new pieces for this show with

a nature theme in mind/

Perry County Flamingo, Charley Harper Winter Birds

Wyndjammer Red Fox, Charley Harper Grove

(L to R)

ME

Christmas Tree Lot (L) and OSU GNOME (his hat is OSU) (R)

Sassy Garden (L) Ghastlies Pumpkin Patch (R)

Vintage Red Truck (top) Charlie Harper Chickadee mini (bottom)

Ocean Isle Beach Lattitude/Longitude (L)

Dreaming of Hawaii - Mystery Quilt (R)

Left, Mystery quilt, Top Hattie the Hedgehog

and bottom is a ...

added by Kathy @ Kwilty Pleasures 4 months, 2 weeks ago. under gardens , inniswood , quilt shows

TWO KATHYS AND A BUNCH OF PUMPKINS from Kwilty Pleasures

In October (2023) Kathy Guenther and I visited a couple local parks

to snap some fabulous "quilts in the wild" pics.

Here we are at Franklin Park Conservatory, Columbus, OH

Kathy's quilt is the light gray pumpkins!

Mine is the ORANGE Ghastlies churn dash quilt!

Do you ever take your "quilts in the wild".

It makes for great conversations with complete strangers

who can't believe "you made that?'

added by Kathy @ Kwilty Pleasures 5 months ago. under gardens , ghastlies , pumpkins , quilts in the wild

Guild Sewing Day from The Cozy Quilter

I have not attended the weekly Oxford Guild sewing day since before we went to Newfoundland and finally went this past Monday. I like going because I get a lot done and there are lots of friendly quilters to chat with as I sew. I usually bring a UFO that I want to move to the finish line. The last time, I worked on my Overlapping Tiles quilt that I started 9 years ago in a class with Kaffe Fassett, and since it is still not done, I brought it along again. I managed to get all of the diagonal ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 8 months, 3 weeks ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , gardens , kaffe fassett , libs elliott , overlapping tiles , slow sunday stitching , weight of love

Table Runner Done and Cross Stitch from The Cozy Quilter

I finished the lilac stars table runner binding off last weekend for slow Sunday stitching. It is now ready for gifting! I added a lilac print stripe on the back to make it long enough.

I managed to do some cross stitching most days this week so now I have two sunflowers done and parts of a few leaves. There are four more smaller sunflowers in this quadrant of the picture.

My daughter has been adding more colours to her Ottawa cityscape. Finn is a good cross stitch holder, don't you think???

I spent some time in my sewing ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 10 months, 3 weeks ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , gardens , slow sunday stitching , table runners

A Gift, Orange Blocks and a Walk in the Woods from The Cozy Quilter

On the way to sewing day on Monday, I stopped at the quilt store to pick up a gift for someone and some fabric to make a table runner for a friend who likes purple. The lilac fabric jumped out at me as there are lots of lilacs in bloom here right now. I bought three other colours that went with the lilacs and a striped fabric for the binding. When I arrived at the sewing studio, of course I cut right into the new fabric and got to work on the table runner. (I was supposed to be working ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 11 months ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , gardens , hiking , pineapple log cabin , rainbow scrap challenge , scraps , slow sunday stitching , table runners

Oxford Guild Quilt Show from The Cozy Quilter

I attended our guild quilt show on Friday and Saturday this week--our first show since before COVID. I entered 9 quilts in the show and took pictures of them in the venue. There were several of my Rainbow Scrap Challenge projects including "All the Colours" based on a pattern by Gudrun Erla called Haldora.

"Scrappy 36 Patch"

"Scrappy Drunkard's Path" and "In Formation"

I put one bed sized quilt in the show--"Memories of Iceland"--the pattern is by Gudrun Erla and is called "Lupine".

"30's Plus Sign Baby Quilt"

"Scraps on Point"

( I was very happy that ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 11 months, 1 week ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , gardens , oxford quilters guild , quilt show , slow sunday stitching

Resurrecting an Old UFO from The Cozy Quilter

Back in October of 2014, I took a class called "Overlapping Tiles" with Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Malby. At the end of the day, I rolled up my project in a piece of flannel design wall, gathered up my fabrics and put all of it in a bin, never to even look at it again until this past Monday. I knew it was in my sewing room because every so often, I would move the bin around, always thinking that I should get back to this project and get it done. The last time I moved the bin, I remembered ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 11 months, 2 weeks ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , gardens , kaffe fassett , overlapping tiles , slow sunday stitching

Slow Stitching Report from The Cozy Quilter

I spent a few hours this week hand stitching sleeves on my quilts for the upcoming Oxford Guild quilt show..5/9 are done. The three larger quilts still need their sleeves sewn on. I can get them done this week.

I only managed to work on my sunflower cross stitch once this week so there is only a small change from last week. I'm hoping to finish off this flower this week. We will see how much time there is after sewing the sleeves on the other three quilts.

Finn had a haircut this week. He was looking ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 11 months, 3 weeks ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , gardens , quilt show , slow sunday stitching

Sunflowers, Sleeves and a Quilt Show! from The Cozy Quilter

More colourful petals were added to the sunflower in the centre of my project this week. This picture will end up being a 12" circle so there is a long way to go still. I like the turquoise background--the colours in the sunflower really pop.

I may not get as much cross stitching done this week as I have entered 9 quilts into our guild quilt show in early May and I need to hand stitch the sleeves onto 8 of the quilts. (the smallest one already had a sleeve). This afternoon, I made sleeves for 6 quilts and they ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 12 months ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , gardens , quilt show , slow sunday stitching

XYLLIAN HARTZ FINISH from Kwilty Pleasures

What began as a bunch of leftover pink strips

gifted to me by Kim Hensley...

became a fun project and big surprise for me

at the end.

Sometimes the Heart(s) will surprise you!

I sent this pic to my son, Eric to show him what I was working on.

He immediately said, if I had not promised this to anyone...

HE WANTED IT!

Eric is very artistic and musically inclined.

He plays guitar, drums, and has a private radio station where

He uploads eclectic music choices

He also loves pinks and purple colors!

His musical entity name is Xyllian ...

added by Kathy @ Kwilty Pleasures 1 year ago. under 2023 finishes , 2023 projects , eric , gardens

Spinning Four Patch Top from The Cozy Quilter

The sewing group at the church got together this week to work on items for our bazaar in November. I have one more baby quilt to finish before the bazaar so I added the sashing to each block. When I got home, I sewed the blocks together. I have a piece of pale green minke which was donated to our group for the back of the quilt. These spinning 4 patch blocks were cut from a piece of Kaffe Fassett fabric. I love the patterns in each block--so different even though they all came from the same fabric.

My husband ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 5 months ago. under finn , gardens , knitting , shweshwe , slow sunday stitching , spinning 4 patch

Slow Knitting and some Zippered Pouches from The Cozy Quilter

I belong to a sewing group at church--we get together every couple of weeks for a few hours to make items for our upcoming Christmas Bazaar. This past Tuesday, 5 of us met at the church to sew. P and I made two zippered pouches each. J and M made bunting for Christmas, Valentines and Halloween. K worked on another type of pouch. The bin with our new items for this year's bazaar is filling up. We also have some stock left over from the last bazaar in 2019. Here are the pouches that I made. The pattern is ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 6 months ago. under finn , gardens , knitting , slow sunday stitching , zippered pouch

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

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

A Finished Quilt from The Cozy Quilter

Most of my sewing this past week was by hand. I finished quilting the Quilt for a Survivor of a Residential School on Monday and added the binding by machine on Tuesday, leaving the hand sewing of the binding for several car trips we made on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. It's been hot here so having a quilt on my lap was a bit warm but I directed the A/C vents towards me and managed to finish the hand sewing without melting! First, a few close ups of the quilting. I used navy thread top and bottom and ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 9 months ago. under binding , cheryl arkison , finn , flowers , gardens , hand sewing , improvisational piecing , quilts for survivors , slow sunday stitching

Alpacas! (sewing and knitting too) from The Cozy Quilter

I finished knitting the whale baby facecloth this week and wrapped it up with these other two cloths I made earlier to give to a friend's new grandson. I'm pleased the pictures show up well on each cloth. I must be getting better at making these as there was only the odd stitch to unknit...not whole rows like I used to have to do.

I finished making the rest of the heart blocks and added sashing to the blocks to make the hearts float. I am not adding an outside border as it is the perfect size ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 9 months ago. under baby quilts , finn , gardens , knitting , rainbow scrap challenge , rug hooking , slow sunday stitching

Hooking, Knitting, and I started something new... from The Cozy Quilter

I made some rug hooking progress on my class project. The sheep is now done, including the tail and the legs. The wool strips are not trimmed yet so the wonkiness in the legs and tail is due to that. Next, I will work on the flowers. Then, there will be lots of sky and grass to fill in.

I just have the last border to do on the whale baby facecloth--I had hoped to finish it today but we got busy with gardening and then doing other jobs inside so I did not sit down to knit. I should ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 10 months ago. under baby quilts , finn , gardens , knitting , rainbow scrap challenge , rug hooking , slow sunday stitching , zippered pouch

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