Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Strippy UFO finish and a birthday

 Another UFO has crossed the finish line. This one is a spin off of something I saw on Pinterest. 


I pieced this one in November and quilted and bound it this past week.  The quilting is freehand all over swirl flower design, that will keep this quilt soft for a donation quilt. 


Since I used a pink fleece, that was given to me, I didn't use batting in this one and wow is it ever cuddly.  It finished at 39 x 48. 


It's my birthday today so hubby brought me flowers, hmmmm they smell so good!


I'll be linking with Wednesday Wait Loss and NTT. 


Sunday, June 1, 2025

Scrappy D4P

 My scrappy green disappearing four patch (also known as D4P) has crossed the finished line and is ready for donation. I posted about the beginning of this quilt here. Since I started it this year and we are only into June(how did we get here so quickly!) I will say it was a WIP not a UFO;)


I had time and the desire to find a backing for this 40 x 50" top and before long it was finished. The backing is a flannel that was given to me. Flannel is a great backing as it gives a cozy feeling to the quilt. 


A quick stipple and a green binding completes this quilt and gives it great texture. 


There were also two other tops made into quilts but I will save those for another post.  This is what I will be working on this week.


Our Spirea was just loaded with blossoms this year.


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Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Braided table runner

Another UFO worked on and finished! This was a fun project that started a long time ago, we are talking years and I have no idea exactly, but more than  four I am sure.   One and a half inch strips and the little braid template from Kate Colleran was used for this project. 


One length of braid was made and then all set aside until this past weekend. Why do we do this to ourselves, all sorts of reasons I guess! I am pretty sure I started it on one of our camping outings and wasn't sure how it would end up.  


I had no pattern for it, but I sure love how it came out. An Etsy customer thought so too and she bought it shortly after I listed it! I am thinking I might need to do another.


The front is all Island Batik fabrics while the backing, which I think went perfectly, is a batik from Marshall Dry Goods.


I did a little custom quilting on this one. Stitch in the ditch along each side of the dark teal sashing and then a feather type of quilting in each braid. The light teal borders received ribbon candy quilting. The first time I used Kate's little template was when I did a purse using her pattern and these same fabrics back in 2019. Kate now has a book out on braids

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Sunday, May 25, 2025

UFO moved to a flimsy

I am feeling the satisfaction of bringing a UFO to the flimsy stage.  It all began by cutting bricks from scraps last November. Such satisfaction, don't you agree?

For the neutral squares I did end up using a bit of yardage. And soon I had two strips pieced. Shortly after that I put it aside...

Until a few days ago when I wanted it off my design wall. I had a little conversation with myself that I should just sew up more strips first. I only needed three more strips and I could end up with a UFO crossing the flimsy finish line. But wait that would be a smaller top than I wanted. So into the stash for some solid blue for sashing strips and a little outer border. Ahhh satisfaction! Quilting will ensue at a later date as I am just in a piecing mood right now. 

Linking up with:

Oh Scrap!

Design Wall Monday

Sew and Tell Monday

Monday Musings


Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Sweetness

A few of you were wondering what I was going to applique on this table runner. 

Well you don't have to wait long as I finished it up yesterday! 


I designed this in EQ8 a few years ago and have made it a few times since. But this is a very recent make and now listed in my Etsy shop.


After piecing this I quilt it, then bind and applique it.


Browsing my stash for a backing and I found the perfect one!


We went to the Amish greenhouse again this year and planted this basket for the front porch. Such  pretty ruffles on this begonia. 


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Monday, May 19, 2025

Tulips

My tulips are up and blooming-well they are in this runner not in my flower bed! The tulip block is from Center Street Quilts and is a freebie. While I have made this block before this is a new runner I pieced over the winter, in fact I pieced two identical runners but only quilted this one for now.


And the back.


On Saturday I hosted my local long arm group here, I had fifteen gals come. It was nice to see them all again as I hadn't seen them since November. We discuss things such as new designs we may have quilted, sharing things we learn along the way, quilt shows we might have been to and of course we have show and tell. I showed this tulip runner and a couple of patriotic runners from previous post. For a light lunch I served pulled pork sandwiches, chips and this cherry dessert... ok so hubby and I had eaten a couple pieces after they left:)


Also, after they left, I cut and pieced this table runner. It now needs quilting and applique so that is on my agenda this week along with quilting a few more.




Hope you all have a great week! Here are the linky parties I will join in today. 




Wednesday, May 14, 2025

A little patriotic

It's no secret I like work with red, white and blue fabrics especially at this time of year.  I pieced three of these carpenter wheel toppers over the winter, they are all identical. This is the first one to the finish line. The Accuquilt carpenter wheel die was used to make this.


Quilted with my favorite freehand design called hook swirl.


The backing is from a bolt I bought at Marshall Dry Goods.  I really need to use up some scraps(maybe next time) and piece my backings but this was quick to finish with yardage.



The 10 degree wedge round topper is a favorite to piece and looks great in lots of fabrics. I have a tutorial for this under my tutorial link at the top of this page.


Also quilted with the hook swirl design.


The backing.


We took an ATV trail to this mining town,no longer in service, and took a tour.  Years ago there were 5000 people living here.  Henry Wickenburg discovered gold here in 1863. If you are curious you can read more HEREAt Vulture City mining town we saw several sewing machines(I am sure they had to patch those miners clothes). 


A look of the room it was in. You can see the same sewing machine in the left side.


Another machine. 


A fun surprise to see quilts on the beds.


This one looks pretty white yet!










Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Where do I begin

I don't even know where to start, taking one week off of blogging led to two and then three and before I know it two plus months have went by.  Thank you to those of you that asked if I was okay, the answer was yes I am fine just in need of a break! Plus I didn't really have anything knew to show you. I took three weeks off from sewing during that time, pretty much unheard of for me!



Since getting back home I have fired up the longarm and she purred like a kitten so I have a couple of finishes.  This is made with the Accuquilt BOB die called Morning Star.



And since it's getting close to summer I have been thinking of strawberries.



We definitely had some yummy strawberries while in Arizona. 



A couple of sites we discovered while ATVing in AZ.  



An old mine🠟



The remains of a long ago house. Can you imagine living in a small one room house! 🠟



And of course gotta love some  prickly pear cactus blooms.



Our wild plum trees are in full blossom and oh they are so fragrant!!


Linking up with these linky parties: Wednesday Wait LossNTTTGIFFFinished or Not Friday








Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Tulips for Spring

 What is prettier than red tulips, I think they make all of us think of Spring. So this past week I worked on piecing two table runners. 


The pattern for the tulip block is from Center Street Quilts.  I chose to make each runner with 5 tulips and then I added sashing in red gingham. After quilting them I will add a red binding. 

For this last Week of February I am checking out these linky parties...



Monday, February 17, 2025

Starting another scrappy string quilt

This is the start of yet another scrappy string quilt using greens, blues and a tad of neutral. I need lots more blocks, these are 9.5".


The pattern is Two Bits by Cynthia from Quilting is more fun than Housework blog. It's a fun pattern but I wish I would have had a lighter neutral available for the pinwheel. They don't stand out as much as I wished. I am going to take a little break from it. 


Here are the slippers I have knit in the last couple months. 


And here is what we saw the other day while ATVing. These big horn sheep were actually on the golf course lawn!  We saw a couple others in the mountains but didn't get their photo as they disappeared too quickly and were farther away.