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. 

This was an easy project that only took 3 short afternoons to sew up.  I didn't use all the homespuns that I cut so they will be future seed for another someday;)

Two more pair of slippers knitted. I used three strands of sportweight yarn and a size 8 needle for these.  The pair on the left were two shades of blue and a green. The pair on the right were blue, green and aqua. It's fun to mix the colors to see what they turn out like.

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Scrappy Tumbler

 It's a scrappy tumbler finish! These tumblers were leftover from previous tumbler quilts and in an effort to cut down on UFO's I finished it up.

Trying something different to calm down the busy tumblers by adding the solid blue sashing between rows.

I love working with the bright fabric for a child's quilt. Especially on Minnesota winter days. Although the days have been kinder to us the past week with temps touching 40 some days. I won't complain much about our weather after seeing all the destruction in the south and the crazy amounts of snow out west. My heart goes out to those who have lost everything and to the families of loved ones lost.

I used a solid light blue fleece for the backing and no batting for this one. This leaves the quilt very squishy and cuddly especially since I just quilted it with an all over meander. This quilt will head to the H2H (Hands 2 Help) donation pile, that makes 2 so far.  More on the horizon:)

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Update on last week's projects

 Work continued on the Tumbler quilt and it is now a flimsy. It will join a few others in the 'to be quilted' pile until it's their turn on the longarm;) It really was a fast piecing project that will be a donation quilt sometime this year.

After that I was in the mood to piece another yellow morning star table runner. This used an Accuquilt BOB(block on board)Morning Star die.  I have made several of these in the last 4 years. They look intense to piece but really it is not, since the dog ears are cut off everything just lines up.  Start to finish in a little over a day. 

And then for some Valentine fun, another round wedge using different fabrics.  Check out the freehand quilting design I did on this one.  Its a new to me design that I just saw Christina Cameli, from A Few Scraps on Facebook, draw on video. Hearts and swirls, so perfect for this topper!

The closeup shows the colors better. I used a light pink Isacord thread on top.

There was also progress on the string snowball quilt I have been working on the last couple weeks. But no pix on that today.  The hat knitting came to a standstill this week while I wait for a part to come in a couple weeks. I was bending needles as the carriage got hung up and banged into the ends. Since I started knitting these I have bent 12 needles!  Time to see if this part helps.  

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This and That

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Projects of all kinds

Not a lot of motivation to stick with any one project so I am jumping back and forth on several. And then instead of working more on those already started I start another, LOL

A few weeks ago I acquired another Accuquilt die, the 6 1/2" tumbler and wanted to give it a try. So I went to my fabric donation cupboard and pulled a focus fabric, the black flowered one, and 4 coordinating ones. And started cutting with no real plan of how big, I can always cut more tumblers as I go. 

After subcutting a 7"x WOF of each fabric and layering them I cut several tumblers and laid them out and discovered I was only going to have enough of the coordinating ones to do a small baby size quilt. Here is the start of it. I need to cut more tumblers again. 

Progress has been made with the scrappy string snowball blocks also. I added the blue and red ones this week. I am pretty sure I will add a small neutral sashing between the columns. That will aid in keeping the bulk down as there are lots of seams in each block. 

Lots more hats have been machine knitted too! I put three strands of a skinny 2/24 weight yarn together and get lots of fun different colored hats.  This yarn had been donated to me several years ago by a person I only met twice, she was moving out of state and couldn't take it with. She gave it to me for the purpose of making items to donate. There were 3 garbage bags full of big cones of this yarn. It just feels so good to finally have time and desire to whip out these hats. At this time I have knitted 60 hats since Christmas Eve day! It takes about 20-25 minutes to make one. There are 40 in this photo.

Here is one hanging on the machine, you are looking at the back side. The part that goes around your ears is double thickness. This one is ready to take off the machine, I use a double eye needle with double the strands of yarn and then pull it up tight after I get all the stitches off the machine. 

The other night I decided I better get to finishing up my hand knitted sock so I finished the heel/gusset last night. 

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A quick baby quilt

 After purchasing this Accuquilt tumbler die I was anxious to try it out. It is the 4 1/2" tumbler and perfect for a baby quilt. For this quilt I chose the focus fabric first which is the tractor fabric and then picked solids to coordinate with it. 

What little boy wouldn't be thrilled to have a quilt with tractors!  It went together so easily using this die because the corners are cut, so you just line the fabrics and chain sew and it comes out great!

I had the perfect backing fabric in the stash, I also used it for the binding. I was just a bit short because I didn't cut quite enough binding so I added a red zinger scrap to finish it off. You can see that in the first photo and in this one.  This quilt was sent with my DIL last weekend along with the hats. This was finished up in the weeks leading up to Christmas.

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