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Oh Scrap! : Very Little Sewing from Quilting Is More Fun Than Housework

This last week was very busy for me, so there was very little sewing in my schedule.

When I did find a few minutes to spend in my sewing room, I worked on turning some gifted scrap triangles into some 4.5" HSTs. When I am making blocks, a trick I use is to count a stack of 10 and then slightly turn the stack before I add the next ten. This way they are easy to count once you need a final tally - you can just count by tens!

I decided to use some Shadow Kona cotton from my ...

added by Cynthia Brunz Designs 4 years, 3 months ago. under hsts , oh scrap! , scrap quilting

More HSTs in the bag from Art In Search

Another HSTs bag was found marinating and these had black, white and greys. These also were parts of 2 layer cakes that were sewn all four sides and made into HSTs. I used the perfect slotted ruler to trim the HSTs befor ironing them open, so there were just 2 sides to trim. Much easier.
I thought the black and whites had a lot of energy, so that gave me the idea to do zigzags. I used all the HSTs for this quilt. All numbered, clipped, and ready to web piece.

added by Linda Swanekamp 4 years, 4 months ago. under hsts

Assembly required from Art In Search

In trying to get a handle on the new year and kick the can farther down the road, I gathered the bags containing all the pieces for a comfort quilt, but were not arranged and clipped for web construction piecing. There were more than a few. Yikes.
My mother can sew small straight seams and is bored a lot. I try and give her pieces to sew that I can trim later or don't have to match. Making kits for her is time consuming and then I need to trim, arrange and finish- a reason the pieces get bagged ...

added by Linda Swanekamp 4 years, 4 months ago. under hsts

Spirit Song Blocks Nearly Completed, Only 38 Blocks to Go from Cheeky Cognoscenti

So, in the midst of my sadness over losing my dog to cancer, I have not yet loaded the Jingle quilt that I was planning to start quilting between Christmas and New Year's. That is a challenge that requires more positive energy than I could muster right now. Instead, I've been piecing more of those Birds In the Air blocks for my Spirit Song Dress Code quilt, which is a total tangent (squirrel) from the projects I'd intended to be working on and finishing right now, but it's cathartic. I had intended to use these HST ...

added by Rebecca Grace 4 years, 4 months ago. under accuquilt go , airplane block , birds in the air , design , eq8 , hsts , quilting , spirit song quilt

Rainy Day from Sew Preeti Quilts

Once upon a time...when I was still new to this country, I went shopping in WalMart.
I came across a pair of orange flip-flops with nylon mesh fibers. When I slipped my foot into them the fibers were pressed and I felt like I stepped on a cushion. It was cloud heaven for my feet at a bargain price of $3.99. Naturally I bought a second pair and took it to my mom on my next visit to India.

Oh yes, I have a finish!

Several months later when I asked her if she liked her new flip-flops ...

added by Preeti 4 years, 5 months ago. under boundless fq bundle , bright quilt , hidden note , hsts , lap quilt , leaves , rainy day , rainy day quilt , secret love letter , snowball , stitch and flip , tulips , zippered pouch

Tentative Quilting Plan for Jingle and More Spirit Song Birds In the Air from Cheeky Cognoscenti

Alright, you guys -- my #1 priority quilting goal for the month of December is to get as much of this Christmas themed Jingle project quilted as I can. It's not loaded on my frame yet, but here's what I've accomplished since I posted about it a few days ago:

Located a package of Hobbs 80/20 Cotton/Poly batting in my stash that can be cut down for this quilt
Ordered and received a package of Quilter's Dream Wool batting to layer over the 80/20
Located the 108" wide backing fabric and prewashed it in ...

added by Rebecca Grace 4 years, 5 months ago. under birds in the air , design , hsts , ipad , jingle bom , notes plus , patchwork , quilting , spirit song quilt , technology

I May Have a Scrap Problem... Using Up The Scraps! from Confessions of a Fabric Addict

Hi, all!

Drum roll please......

I actually did some scrappy sewing this week!!

You may remember this quilt that I made earlier this year...

This was a memory quilt for a customer, made from a well-loved comforter for her daughter. Well, she decided she wanted one for her other daughter...

...so this quilt, also made using fabric from a well-loved comforter, went on the frame today. I'll share more pictures of it Friday!

But making a quilt like this - a snowball design - results in bonus half-square triangles when you make the snowball corners. And I just can't let ...

added by Sarah Craig 4 years, 5 months ago. under bonus hsts , hsts , i may have a scrap problem , pillow covers , pillows , scraps

Spirit Song Dress Code Is Growing On the Design Wall! from Cheeky Cognoscenti

Good morning! I finally got caught up with everything else in life that needed doing last week -- whew! -- so I rewarded myself with several hours in the sewing room, chopping up fabric with my Accuquilt GO! cutter and then sewing the triangles together. Here's what I've got up on my design wall so far:

Spirit Song Blocks In Progress On My Design Wall

I felt like what I had at the beginning of yesterday was getting too bright and juvenile-looking, so I deliberately added some caramels to the peach/orange/coral fabrics and started mixing in some darker ...

added by Rebecca Grace 4 years, 6 months ago. under hsts , patchwork , spirit song quilt

Accuquilt Spirit Song Quilt is Now In Progress. Want to Make One of Your Own? from Cheeky Cognoscenti

Good morning! I finally got some sewing time in last night, giving me something to post about today. I've been busy with some travel lately, and the recent migration of my old Bernina 7 Series Yahoo group to the new Groups.io platform has been taking up a lot of my time as well. If you own or are interested in learning more about Bernina sewing machines or software products, consider this my personal invitation to join me and 7,000 of my dearest friends over at the new BerninaLand forum on Groups.io, which you can find here ...

added by Rebecca Grace 4 years, 6 months ago. under accuquilt go , hsts , patchwork , spirit song quilt

Design Wall Monday from Quilting Is More Fun Than Housework

I seem to have finally gotten over my impulsive quilt starting phase and am now feeling motivated to finish up some projects. So that means a lot of my design walls are empty right now. So I spent a bit of time moving around some blocks on my design walls.

I thought I would share some photos.

In my sewing room, I have all of the blocks completed for this Kaffe quilt finished. I just need to work on the final layout and sew it up.

On the other wall, is the RSC color block quilt. I was hoping to ...

added by Cynthia Brunz Designs 4 years, 7 months ago. under color block quilt , connecting threads , design wall , garlic knots , hsts

Too Tempting! from Quilting Is More Fun Than Housework

A few days ago, a client of mine brought me some leftover bits from a house quilt I quilted for her.

There were a bunch of triangles I think she trimmed for the roofs. And then some 1.5" x 10" strips that had some crimped edges so I am thinking her pattern used a layer cake.

I tried very hard to just put these bits in a bag for later. I have SO MANY quilts going on right now, I really need to focus on getting some finished.

But we all know where this is heading....

I sewed the ...

added by Cynthia Brunz Designs 4 years, 7 months ago. under hsts , scrap quilting

Oh Scrap! : Slowly Moving Along from Quilting Is More Fun Than Housework

I really didn't feel like I spent too much time in my sewing room this week.

So there is not a lot to share today!

I have been continuing to make blocks for this quilt.

(Sorry about the poor photo but these colors do not photograph well with no natural light.)

I am pretty close to having all my blocks finished - then I will just need to work on the final layout and sew them up!

The other thing I did this week was to get out the final stack of orphan blocks to make a quilt from. This ...

added by Cynthia Brunz Designs 4 years, 7 months ago. under hsts , log cabin blocks , oh scrap! , scrap quilting

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