A long time ago I cut charm squares of greens and neutrals using my 5" die. Their time has come to be used(at least some of them). As you can see I will need to be trimming those strings as I go.
Monday, January 13, 2025
Friday, January 10, 2025
Homespun Tumblers
Remember me talking about kitting up projects to work on this winter? This is one of them. I have a lot of homespuns in browns, golds, greens, reds, and blues. This particular set is all browns/golds. I used the larger tumbler Accuquilt die to make fast work of cutting. The alternate is muslin I had setting around also.
Thursday, January 2, 2025
Stars and Stripes and Slippers
It's here, it's here...the New Year, 2025!!
I know it might be early to start working on patriotic projects, but hey I was in the mood;) My original stars and stripes design has been a popular one for me so I hope to have 8 pieced over the winter. These are the first two. These were started on Dec 30th 2024 and finished on January 1st.
Sunday, December 29, 2024
Pineapple progression
My blue and green pineapple blocks progressed a bit today. I was going to use this many blocks and then add borders. But after getting it this far I decided I didn't want borders. So I will make a few more blocks to add two more rows.
Wednesday, December 25, 2024
Christmas quick gifts
Merry Christmas everyone!!
I needed a couple of quick gifts so I whipped up these two Christmas tree decorations for a couple of neighbor ladies. They seemed thrilled. I found the free tutorial for them HERE. I did add one more flying geese to each tree, which of course meant longer borders. I did a little stitch in the ditch(SID) around the white and across the bottom of each of the geese and down the middle of the red borders. I braided 4ply red yarn for the hanger. Easy peasy and pretty quick.
Friday, December 20, 2024
Kite blocks
Yesterday I took a break from the pineapple blocks and started something new. These kite blocks are made using the 12" cube from Accuquilt. Each kite makes a six inch block and when you put four together it makes a twelve inch block. This makes a fast quilt.
The die has the dog ears cut off which makes for very accurate sewing.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Knitting again
Just a quick pop in for today. In the evenings while watching TV I have gotten back to hand knitting more of these slippers. Once in a while during the night when I wake up and can't get back to sleep I will knit for a while to calm my mind. They are called Grandma's slipper from favecrafts. I am using a strand of 4ply Red Heart yarn with a strand of sport weight cone yarn from my knitting machine yarns. It's fun to try different color combinations.
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Twelve pineapple blocks
My pineapples have really piled up in the last few days. I now have 12 green blocks done. Here is the first batch that you saw me working on in a previous post.
And below is the second batch I finished yesterday. I only had a small batch of my green strings with me so there are repeats but I am ok with that as they will be scattered with blue pineapples. Yes I have 10 blue ones made from the summertime sewing. I worked up a design in EQ8 and I only need 10 of each color for a lap size. So I will have 2 green ones for seed for a future quilt;) Not sure if I will go ahead and get these to flimsy stage or take a little break from these and do something else.
Sunday, December 15, 2024
Criss Cross
I have a flimsy! That is what I call a pieced quilt top, it doesn't have batting, backing, quilting or binding yet. The colors are not showing quite right, I tried and tried and it just wasn't getting any better. This will be a donation quilt for next year, finishing will be later on. The pattern used is called Criss Cross 3 yard quilt by Wood Valley Designs, a freebie! It measures 41"x 52".
Green pineapples
Green pineapple quilt blocks that is. They need a couple more rounds to finish them off. I am using the Creative Grids pineapple trim tool. When I went to trim the third round I thought for sure I wasn't using the right size trim tool, I have the small and large. I only brought the large with me and it didn't look the same as ones I finished this summer. Back to You Tube, after watching a bit more I discovered I had the right size but wasn't lining it up correctly, whew!! Not the first time this tool had me puzzled but after watching the video it's easy and fun! I plan to piece lots of blocks over the next few months!
Friday, December 13, 2024
Strings and progress with things
Monday, December 9, 2024
Green for St. Patty's Day
It was a green day in my sewing room lately. I believe it is not to early to think ahead to coming seasons or holidays. Plus it is always fun to pull out fabrics I haven't worked with for quite a while. Here is what I whipped up...
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Hearts take two
Two more heart table runners have been taken over the finish line. First up a reversed S swirl.
Monday, November 25, 2024
Love is in the air
You guessed it I have been working on some Valentine runners. I have done this style before but I changed it up a bit. This time I used a rectangle and flippy corners for the top of the heart. The checkerboards are cut at 2", the hearts got a little larger than I wanted so next time I will try cutting them 1.75"