Blue donation quilt

 Work on the blue donation quilt continued, all the blocks were previously cut except for four. Each block finishes at six inches. The first row was stitched together and then I decided to snap a photo in case any fell off the design wall so I would still know the order I wanted them in.

None fell so all was good:)  I love that I could just swivel my chair and slap another row on the design wall:0  This is as far as this quilt will go for now. But I do think I will do a small cark blue border and then perhaps a scrappy piano key type border since I have lots of blue left.

I added some fun scrap booking plastic ghosts, candycorn, pumpkins, moon and stars. A little glue holds them in place.  The hat now hangs in my foyer by the other Halloween items. 

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Happy Halloween!

Hope you all have a great weekend.

This, That and the other thing!

 You know those days when you just want to sew and can't put your finger on what?  Sunday was that for me. First off we had our Covid/flu shots, DH on Thursday and me on Friday. He got hit harder than me in the reaction stage. He spent all day Friday in Bed and still a lot of Saturday. I took a couple naps and just plan felt unenergized all weekend. But I felt like Sunday I wanted to sew.  I dug out a previously cut one from last year and started sewing it. All cut using the 12" Accuquilt cube signature block on blue prints. I might work on it a bit more later this week. 

Monday I was in the mood to start Valentine hearts for a runner. These are paper pieced. I sew beside the paper so I don't have to waste paper nor tear it off! Before long I had 5 blocks done. A few years ago I bought this pattern from PieceByNumberQuilts2 on Etsy.

By the end of Monday I had it all pieced. Tuesday I quilted it and bound it. 

In the evenings I wanted something to keep my hands busy while watching TV. So I figured I could get this witch hat done before Halloween. Almost there! It's all felt. The pattern is from PastThymeQuilts.  It was tricky getting the wording transferred to black felt! I ended up mostly free handing it with a white pencil after checking each letter on the pattern and trying to print like that. I think it is meant to hang on the wall. It needed a bit of stiffness to it so I put fusible interfacing on it cut a bit smaller so it wouldn't show at the edge. The edge is all blanket stitching by hand. 

That's been my week so far. How is yours going, I would love to hear!

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A few things

Things of all sorts taken care of this week. First up was stitching up a Valentine runner that I had kitted a couple months ago. It is so nice to have things all cut and ready to sew when I need just a little more to sew and not enough time to decide what and then cut!

Next I received an email from a friend I hadn't talked to in a long while, she remembered I had knitting machines and was looking for a bulky one(knits heavier yarn). She had inherited one and bought one knitting machine but would like to find a bulky. I told her I had one I would sell her. After several back and forth emails I sold it to her. Shipped it UPS on Wednesday morning and she received it on Thursday afternoon!  I still have machines left and plan to do some knitting this winter. 

I was in the mood to sew up another Valentine one I had kitted up. 

Back in September we picked our concord grapes and after taking them off the vines we ended up with six gallon bags full, five went into the freezer. We only make juice from them. We used one of the bags of grapes right away. Three weeks ago I made juice with another gallon bag of them. Thursday night I cooked up two of the bags full, this time we froze the concentrate for later consumption. It's great to have a treat in the winter time. 

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Strings, Bunnies, Cross stitch

 Several things were on the top of my list to cross the finish line. First up a UFO that was started in June of 2025. It made it to a flimsy stage, perhaps you remember seeing it before. This past week it got it's turn on the longarm with a quick and easy stipple.

It all began innocently by piecing scrap strings last year...

And quickly cut using my 12" Accuquilt signature die.

This is what it looks like when putting four of those six inch blocks together. And 2 weeks later it was a flimsy.

I pieced the backing with fabric that was donated to me. This quilt is a donation quilt, I believe this is my seventh one for this year. There is still at least one more in the closet that needs quilting, I hope I get time to do it.

A tan muslin was used for the triangles. 

It is never too early to make seasonal items when you sell them! Four Easter bunny table runners completed. 

And their fun backings.

In between all that I kitted up a few projects for winter sewing and knitting! I hope to use one of my knitting machines to make hats for donation.

This has been my evening stitching while watching TV for the last two weeks. It's one of Melisa's houses. I hope to add the finishing stitches on Sunday so I will link to Slow Stitching Sunday

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The weeks finishes

 Another busy week in the quilt studio. Saturday I worked with blocks from another panel. This panel had eight of these blocks, I picked the ones I wanted for this runner. Then added my flying geese trees on the red background.  

I've been kitting up a few things for my winter sewing. These two runners are part of those items. However I needed to quilt these so I could applique them soon. I am sure you might guess what holiday they are for.  The quilting and binding happened on Sunday. 

I had yet another order for a Cinderella pumpkin wall hanging. So Monday I decided to make two again since I had the fabric out. The quilting/binding happened Tuesday. My customer took the brighter orange one, the other is in the shop now. 

Wednesday I quilted the Christmas table runner.

All ruler work except for the tree.

The metallic on these blocks make it very festive for the holidays.

A little piecing of fabric for the backing. 

And made my own jelly roll from my stash of black and whites. These are for winter sewing of a Missouri Star quilt.

Thursday I didn't accomplish much of anything, ran an errand in the morning.  And a friend came over in the mid afternoon. In between that all I did was prep a backing for another runner.  Right after supper I ran to the basement and gathered a few Halloween decorations for the entry way. Some of the fall things stayed as I wasn't ready to pack them away yet.

This is on the other wall in the Entry.

I have plans of what to make/finish this week and more things to kit up, we will see if that happens or I get derailed, LOL. 

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Goodbye September

I don't think I showed my little seasonal decorating corner in our foyer. You might have seen some of the items as I do use them for props for my Etsy shots. But what I have there now is all for us. Yes I have lots more fall decor I could put out but these days I am liking simpler so I get it decorated instead of doing nothing.

There are two new things I just finished this week, do you spot them? 

It's the little pumpkin sunflower pillow in the truck bed. The design is one of our friend Melissa's free patterns. So fun and quick to stitch up. I started another of Melissa's designs this week too. The other new item is the Hello Autumn from Primrose Cottage. 

Here is the cream color background Cinderella pumpkin wall hanging before quilting. I used Karen Walkers pattern for my inspiration. Find her at Laugh Yourself Into Stitches.

And this is after quilting, all finished and off to the customer. 

One more project done before it became a UFO. It's been waiting in the wings to get quilted.

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Lots of finishes

After I left you on Monday I scurried off to the quilt room and sewed like crazy most of the day. First two Cinderella Pumpkin wall quilts were pieced. Tuesday I quilted the first one that was for an order.

Wednesday morning I got the binding on it. Proceeded to quilt and bind the second one that was going in my Etsy shop. Listed the first one for the order and she paid right away. Listed the second one and within 3 hours it sold to a different repeat customer!  And the first lady wants another one but with a cream background.

Also on Wednesday I grabbed one of the three snowman small wall quilts and quilted and bound it.

 

Thursday morning another snowman small wall quilt was finished up. 

Thursday afternoon this one got passed the finish line. All three of these were started from scraps leftover from other snowman quilts. So I will link up to Oh Scrap! on Sunday.

All all three had their photography session and I am tired!!  The listings will happen tomorrow or Saturday.

I am really glad there are leftovers from last nights dinner for tonight!!

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Festive Fir

 I am excited to have something new to share with you!  Thursday I received an email from Kate Colleran Designs saying she had patterns on sale for a short time. So I had to go look and I decided to get her Festive Fir wall hanging one. I read it over that night, it looked easy so Friday morning I cut, sewed and after lunch quilted it. 

Cute isn't it! Perfect for a small wall, a door hanger, in a camper or how about someone in an apartment or assisted living. 

With a little more free time the last few days I dug out my black/gray leftover parts from other projects, otherwise know as scraps;)  and pieced three snowman wall hangings. Maybe they will get quilted later this week but first I need to make two cinderella pumpkin wall hangings. One of those for an order and the other to keep in the shop.

As always thank you for checking out my projects. I try to respond via email however there are some who are no reply blogger or come in as unknown and I have no way of contacting you. 

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Snowman x2

Finally I made time to get a few snowman runners done. It felt like it was time to take a short break from fall quilting. This first topper is pretty easy. 

First I draw a 25" circle on my background fabric. I use this circle drawing device I bought many years ago at a longarm seminar, Renae's Amazing Mini Rays tool, designed by Renae Haddadin. There are many size circles you can draw with it.  Load the backing on the longarm and layer batting and the top and baste on the circle line all the way around. Quilt as desired and then applique the snowmen, hats, noses and I even sew the buttons on with the sewing machine. Binding comes last. 

 Binding comes last. This is my Around and Around pattern.

I got lucky and discovered two of my Snow Dudes table runners partially done, I just needed to quilt, add hats, noses and button eyes and bind.

 

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