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Leftovers transformed from The Academic Quilter

Hello all! I hope you all are doing well and staying healthy. It's weird and stressful out there! We are now under a "stay at home" order, so we are staying home and making the best of it. I even cooked! Not brownies, actual food! So you know just how weird it really is right now.

It's weird and stressful out there, but in here we have fun and interesting fabrics, cool projects, and happiness. And orange. Today we have some oranges that were left over from the last month. I've been working like crazy, and sometimes ...

added by Mari 4 years ago. under aqua , orange , rsc20

Leaping over orange from The Academic Quilter

Hello all, and happy leap day! I know why we get an extra day in February every four years, but wouldn't you all rather have an extra day in June? We had a minor snow squall here today, so I'm going with yes on June 31 instead of February 29.

There is a *lot* going on in my life right now. I mean, a LOT. We went to my grandson's 4th birthday party and got to see all the grandkids, and as soon as we got home we both got hit with the worst colds ever, the ...

added by Mari 4 years, 1 month ago. under basket , orange , rsc20 , scraps

orange star from Making A Lather

I forgot about scraptastic stars for February. So, I have an orange to share for the last Saturday of February for the rainbow scrap challenge. I had cut the pieces, but, forgot to make the block until I thought about the link up today.

I played with bitty pumpkins in orange using 3 1/2 inch orange squares just for fun.

I am ready for another color,
My rainbow projects for 2020 with links:
Irish chain
Shine
row by row
scraptastic star
country road

I am linking to:

rsc20 super saturday

oh scrap

UFO busting - I am featured today

added by maggie fellow 4 years, 1 month ago. under bitty pumpkins , orange , quilt , rainbow scrap challenge , rsc 20 , scrappy , scraptastic stars

Two Drawstring bags from Quilting Stories

Since my first drawstring bags, shown here, I became addicted to sewing bags! For those ones I did not follow a tutorial, but I was inspired by pictures on Pinterest and by the tutorial I used previously from Threading My Way

As regards those two fabrics, I am so happy that I found a way to use them, and I think that the result is quite satisfying. They were in my stash for years, and seeing them from time to time I was wondering what was the purpose of buying such a kind of printed fabric. I find them lovely ...

added by Quilting Stories 4 years, 1 month ago. under bird , drawstring bag , green , hand made , orange , owl

orange cross block from Making A Lather

I didn't have very many orange squares, and the row x row quilt required 2 5/8 inch squares ( weird size for me). So I started cutting big chunks into 2 5/8 squares and 2 1/2 inch squares and whatever finished the scrap

The triangles called for strange sizes cut diagonally, but after doing one that way, I knew my accuquilt dies would work.

It needed a little trimming.

I only did one row this month, and will do the other orange row later, for the month of color that I don't need for the quilt ...

added by maggie fellow 4 years, 1 month ago. under orange , quilt , quilt wip , rainbow row by row , rainbow scrap challenge , rsc 20 , scrappy , wip , wips

A short dispatch from The Academic Quilter

Hi all! I'm waving wildly over here, from the significant mess that is my life right now. After six months of living in this house, it is finally time to banish the brown and gray, and I could not be happier, even though it has made a real mess around here. For those of you who don't remember, or maybe I never said, every room in our new place in Maryland is painted either brown or gray, with gray floors. Yeah, not great, and seriously depressing. But now it's being painted over in some lovely, happier colors ...

added by Mari 4 years, 1 month ago. under aqua , orange , pbj , rsc20

shine blocks from Making A Lather

I have the orange blocks finished for shine quilt. I almost missed this second orange, because it was more coral to me. But, it really is orange next to pink. It definitely looks orange on the computer.

I fell in love with cathy's at sane crazy crumbly quilts tiny houses quilt.
She has been making houses with the rainbow scrap challenge for awhile, and, I had fun searching for them on her blog. And, then, I wanted to try them too. They are fun and dandy.

I think all I have left for orange is the row x row ...

added by maggie fellow 4 years, 2 months ago. under orange , quilt , quilt wip , rainbow scrap challenge , rsc 20 , scrappy , shine , tiny houses , wips

tiny triangles and wonky stars from Making A Lather

My friend Judy gave me this little pint size bag of triangle cut offs from a project she was making. I saw orange in there, so I dumped the bag. Orange is the color of the month for the rainbow scrap challenge, and I have a few blocks that need orange. I was specifically looking for pieces for a small wonky star block. Well that started me down a rabbit hole, again. Judy has the best scraps.

The triangles were all different sizes, since, she had just cut these with scissors from the back of a flip corner. I picked ...

added by maggie fellow 4 years, 2 months ago. under bonnie hunter , ender , ender challenge , fabric , leader , orange , quilt , quilt wip , quiltville , rainbow scrap challenge , rsc 20 , scrappy , scraps , shoofly , tiny wonky stars , to do , to do tuesday , wip , wonky star

a bit of orange from Making A Lather

I am using a new ironing philosophy to see if I like the end results better. I have more twisted seams than I would like at the final stages of a quilt top. I am going to wait until I piece the top to really iron my blocks. I want to see if waiting until the end helps me nest the seams better when joining blocks. So the pictures of blocks will look a little wonky when I share. Who knows, maybe all I will learn is that I have only postponed the inevitable.

I was surprised how quickly I ...

added by maggie fellow 4 years, 2 months ago. under country roads , irish chain quilt , orange , quilt , quilt wip , rainbow scrap challenge , rsc 20 , scrappy , wip

Ohio in orange from The Academic Quilter

Hi all, and welcome to the weekend! Lately it seems that I have just as much work to do on the weekend as during the week, but at least I get to do it in yoga pants. Good news for the day-- we sold the tragic vehicle that became a doorstop! I was sad to see it go, but now I'm just happy that we got something out of it. I really liked it, and it just seems weird that it went so fast. So now the search is on for a new (used) vehicle, a process I find ...

added by Mari 4 years, 2 months ago. under orange , pbj , rsc20

Drawstring Baskets from Quilting Stories

Since some time I wish to sew drawstring baskets for my grandchildren. After searching on Pinterest and on various blogs, I was lucky to find a really great tutorial on this blog : Threading My Way. I must say that I never found such a perfect tutorial, so well explained that you cannot make any mistake. I followed step by step the explanations and had not the least problem. I sewed the orange basket first, and was so satisfied with the result that next day I did a blue one. Tomorrow a pink one! Thank you Pam for Australia!

I chose ...

added by Quilting Stories 4 years, 2 months ago. under bag , basket , blue , dots , fabrics , machine quilted , orange , organic , pouch

'Currant Pinwheels' in Simply Vintage! from Nestlings By Robin

Thank you all for sticking through

some of the boring posts this past week

and here is your reward:)

Here is the new issue of Simply Vintage,

one of my Favorite publications!!

Inside you will find a sweet

red and green treat based on

this antique quilt below.

This is Coxcombs and Currants which I own.

I thought I would try designing a

smaller piece inspired by the quilt

but in a different colorway.

These are some of my other 'go-to'

colors; red, orange, black.

I really like the small loop design within the leaves.

This one was all done ...

added by Robin 4 years, 4 months ago. under 31 day blog challenge , black , coxcombs and currants , currant pinwheels , green , hand applique , hand quilting , hand work , loops , machine quilting , orange , quiltmania , red , simply vintage , traditional , white

Stitching slowly from The Academic Quilter

Hello all! It feels like fall around here at last, and I am ready for sweaters, hot tea, and some lovely fall flowers. As it gets a bit cooler, I'm reminded that one of my big plans for this year was to make a quilt for our bed. With everything that's happened this year, I got no further than picking out a pattern and some colors. I would get on it right away but I'm so behind on everything else. Oh, well! I guess it will wait, won't it? No chance I'll freeze with all ...

added by Mari 4 years, 6 months ago. under books , orange , sewing room

Update 1 – 2019 Squares in Squares from Lotus Cove Quilting

2019 Squares in Squares completed top
I’ve completed piecing the top, measuring 72×108. The bottom two rows are tucked under – too long for my design wall!
Next step is using all the leftover fabric strips to piece the back. I’m hoping it will look like a giant square bulls-eye. Stay tuned for more!

added by Jaye 5 years ago. under commissions , courthouse steps , green , lime , machine pieced , orange , pieced , quilts and fiber arts , red , squares , squares in squares , teal (Comments)

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