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April 14, 2024

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, 8 hours ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , gardens , scrap vortex , scraps , slow sunday stitching

April 13, 2024

Scrappy Saturday from Urban Quilter

Heart block and alternate in yellow

I finished the heart block in this month's RSC24 color and have gotten a good start on the log-cabin blocks. I decided they needed to be a little bit bigger so I am adding another round to the previous month's blocks as well as doing the yellow ones.

I am linking up with Scrappy Saturday at So Scrappy and Oh Scrap!

added by Mary R. 5 days, 22 hours ago. under rsc24 , scraps

RSC Week #15 Yellow continues from Grandma's Red Needle

First of all, as Chantal pointed out in my previous post, that I sewed three of the four bowtie blocks the wrong way! I was a bit cross-eyed after making all those blocks that day! lol Mistakes happen when we are tired.

I had to make them the right way, or else it had haunted me forever!

Here they are! Redone!

Thank you Chantal for pointing it out!

Yellow Scrap Jar blocks done

...and finally; Zipper blocks

The small yellow table topper has got a black border. I used a piece of ... well, not really 'ugly' fabric, but... a bit ...

added by Astrid 5 days, 22 hours ago. under garden , keep the home fires burning , quilt blocks , rsc2024 , rscyellow , scraps

Eye Spy + Quilt COMPLETE from Wedding Dress Blue

I KNOW I saw a tutorial for this, but now I can’t find it. If you know of it, please tell me and I will update the post.

So, the point is that I had this pile of novelty fabric squares that needed a job. An Eye Spy quilt is the obvious solution, but I felt that there was something more possible.

I love the way this turned out. I had yardage of this interesting green, and it seems to highlight without overwhelming. (More of it will be featured in another upcoming quilt.) If you squint, you might recognize ...

added by weddingdressblue 6 days ago. under baby quilt , eye spy quilt , quilt , quilts , scrap quilt , scraps (Comments)

April 12, 2024

Second Chances Quilt: Friendship Stars from Wedding Dress Blue

I really like hand-me-down projects. They introduce an element of mystery and challenge my skills and assumptions.

The bag held a pile of friendship stars. Some had names written on the seam allowance, leading me to believe they were part of a long-ago block exchange. Some spin one way, and some another. Maybe that is what held the original maker back?

They finish at 6″ square, so, to make something of a usable size, something would need to be added. Sashing is an easy go-to. But, what color? Not white. Not cream. Not black. None of them worked. Oddly, as ...

added by weddingdressblue 6 days, 23 hours ago. under #secondchancequilt , #secondchancequilts , baby quilt , quilt , quilts , scrap quilt , scraps , second chance quilts (Comments)

April 9, 2024

March Table Scraps Challenge finish and April's OMG from Quilting & Learning

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added by Andree G. Faubert 1 week, 2 days ago. under improvisational piecing , omg , one monthly goal , placemats , scrappy quilting , scraps , table scraps challenge

Spring Intensive: Sewing Again! from Wedding Dress Blue

Spring Intensives are coming up in May. What are Intensives? At the school where I teach, the week before Christmas and the last week of school in the Spring, students don’t attend regular classes. (Honestly, what really gets done in classes at that time?) Rather, each student selects from a menu of classes and attends that one course for the entire week. After the success of last year, I am offering SEWING once again. How does an English Teacher get to teach sewing. Well, it is officially “Non-Fiction Reading Comprehension.” Doesn’t that sound like sewing to you?!

If ...

added by weddingdressblue 1 week, 2 days ago. under charitable works , scraps , sewing , small projects , teaching children to sew (Comments)

April 7, 2024

Ice Cream Sandwich Quilt COMPLETE (And Mini Tutorial) from Wedding Dress Blue

This quilt started as an experiment with fat quarters. I had seen a few similar quilts and wanted to give it a try.

This version uses 9 fat quarters. Three prints and 6 solids. The quilt finishes at 40″ x 48″. Each block has a center cut at 4-1/2″ x 4-1/2″, some plain squares, and some created as hourglass blocks made of two squares starting at 5-1/2″ x 5-1/2″. The outside of the blocks is two rectangles 2-1/2″ x 4-1/2″ and two rectangles 2-1/2″ x 8-1/2″.

It went together quickly and is ...

added by weddingdressblue 1 week, 4 days ago. under fat quarter friendly , quilt , quilting , quilts , scrap quilt , scraps , tutorial , tutorials (Comments)

April 6, 2024

Scrappy Saturday from Urban Quilter

ALL my yellow scraps

I knew it would happen eventually, and now it has. The RSC24 color for this month is yellow. Decidedly NOT my favorite color.

This week I went through my orange/yellow bin and pulled out all the yellows. Most of them were in a jumbled-up bag of very little pieces (what my ex-husband called scrippy-scraps). Now all the yellows I have are cut into usable pieces (or thrown into the dog-bed-bag). I have a few pieces of yellow yardage (most pieces are 1/2-yard-ish), but mostly just squares and strips now.

I will make the heart ...

added by Mary R. 1 week, 5 days ago. under rsc24 , scraps

April 2, 2024

Celebrating 12 Years of Blogging from Quilting & Learning

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added by Andree G. Faubert 2 weeks, 2 days ago. under blogging anniversary , fmq , free motion mavericks , free motion quilting , linking party , placemats , scraps , table scraps challenge

March 31, 2024

Still Binding and Progress on the Sunflowers from The Cozy Quilter

Easter Greetings from Finn! We had our family Easter Dinner on Friday afternoon and Finn dressed up for the occasion!

Snack time featured a chick cheese ball surrounded by a cracker nest.

I spend some time doing cross stitch this week and just about finished the lower left flower in this last quadrant. I have a couple of new projects waiting in the wings when this is done.

I picked up my modern sampler quilt from the long armer's house this week and trimmed it up so I could sew on the binding. I don't usually measure the ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 weeks, 5 days ago. under baby quilts , binding , counted cross stitch , finn , hand sewing , modern sampler , scraps , slow sunday stitching

March 25, 2024

Mad Dash Quilt COMPLETE from Wedding Dress Blue

Any quilt with 100 blocks is going to take a while, and this one did.

But, it was worth it! Every block uses a unique fabric for the “dash” and a unique fabric for the center. The backgrounds and sashings have some duplication, but all came from the scrap boxes. These blocks are based on 2-1/2″ squares, and the borders started at 1-1/2″, giving 7″( finished) blocks.

I love the alternating borders around each block.

And the pieced (not perfectly, but fun) sashing.

A tutorial for the block, in ANY SIZE coming soon. So, dust off that box ...

added by weddingdressblue 3 weeks, 4 days ago. under mad dash quilt , quilt , quilting , quilts , scrap quilt , scraps (Comments)

March 24, 2024

Scrappy Play on Free Motion Mavericks from Quilting & Learning

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added by Andree G. Faubert 3 weeks, 4 days ago. under cuddle quilt , free motion mavericks , hand-made journal , linking party , placemats , project quilting , scrappy quilting , scraps , table scraps challenge , vintage paper designs

March 23, 2024

Scrappy Saturday from Urban Quilter

Purple Pickle Dish Blocks

This week I finished my 4 purple pickle-dish blocks. These went together easier than the red ones did. I discovered that it works better for me to sew with the background pieces on the top when I attach them to the curves. The directions I am using (from a 1998 issue of American Patchwork and Quilting Magazine) say to do this the other way, but I found that led me to a lot of unsewing when the background pieces got caught in the seams. I made notes on the directions so when I get back to ...

added by Mary R. 3 weeks, 5 days ago. under ongoing projects , rsc24 , scraps

March 22, 2024

Charming: Phesant Hill from Becca's Crazy Projects

This is my second post about one of my charm pack quilts. Check out the first post from last week to see the cutting tools.

When I say I didn't plan this layout you will just have to believe me. I just grabbed contrasting colors and stitched them into pairs. Then stitched the pairs into sets of four, and so one until I had a row of 16 tumblers. Then I added one more to the end for a total of 17 per row.

I tried to get them to line up so there weren't too many of ...

added by Becca 3 weeks, 6 days ago. under 2024 , charm , quilt , quilter , quilting , scrappy , scraps , sew my stash

March 18, 2024

Recap: National Quilting Day from Wedding Dress Blue

Saturday the weather here was not out-doorsy type weather…high, gusty wind all day. Oh, YAY! I don’t even need to make up an excuse to spend a little more time than usual indoors quilting.

First, I finished the top of a new Second Chances quilt I call “Have a (Few) Hearts.” Yes, it was inspired by the three applique heart blocks that were gifted to me. More information coming on that one soon.

And, there were tiny pieces left that didn’t want to be trashed. They became this improv log cabin-ish pin cushion.

And, another Windspinner block ...

added by weddingdressblue 1 month ago. under national quilting day , quilt , quilts , scrap quilt , scraps , work in progress (Comments)

March 16, 2024

Scrappy Saturday from Urban Quilter

Scrappy purple blocks

I finished my 6 log cabin blocks in purple, I still need to put together the 4 pickle dish blocks I have cut pieces for.

Last week I visited Little Penguin Quilts, another RSC participant, and was inspired by the adorable heart blocks she is making with her rainbow scraps to do the same. Several years ago I started cutting scraps into standard sizes when I am cutting fabric for projects and I have a box full of 2" squares. I am going to start making heart blocks and filler blocks with my squares in each month ...

added by Mary R. 1 month ago. under rsc24 , scraps

March 15, 2024

Spring has Sprung! from The Cozy Quilter

Warm, sunny weather was with us most of this past week. (We won't discuss the snow that we had last weekend!) I have put away all of our winter decorations and have pulled out the Spring things! I want to sew with Spring colours too. My MIL likes to have her room decorated for the season so I am working on a Spring wall hanging for her. The rabbit and flowers are attached to the background with fusible appliqué and I used a narrow zigzag stitch around the shapes to hold everything down. I plan on getting this quilted ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 month ago. under baby quilts , counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , scraps , slow sunday stitching , wall hangings

March 13, 2024

Scrappy Saturday from Urban Quilter

Purple scraps ready to sew

The March color for the RSC is purple. I sorted through my purple basket and cut the pieces for 4 pickle-dish blocks. I also pulled out all the purple 1" strips in my basket to do 6 log-cabin blocks this month.

I had expected to make a purple pieced border for the round-robin quilt I did with my bee, but when I pulled it out and looked at it again I decided it needed a simple purple border so that is what it got. I didn't have quite enough of the fabric I had ...

added by Mary R. 1 month ago. under rsc24 , scraps

Charming: Pheasant Hill from Becca's Crazy Projects

Continuing my series of quilts made with charm packs, I bring you Pheasant Hill. I have six charm backs and two one-yard cuts of coordinating fabric. This time we're going with tumblers cut using the Missouri Star template.

I also used my rotating 14" by 14" cutting mat. This is great if you don't want to have to reposition the template when cutting. You just rotate the mat. Easy! You can also get a smaller 8" by 8" cutting mat.

This tumbler lets you quickly cut your charm packs into the right shape.

Neatly cut and stacked!

I ...

added by Becca 1 month ago. under 2024 , charm , quilt , quilter , quilting , scrappy , scraps , sew my stash

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