Happy International Quilting Day

Hope you are all finding some time to sew today, or quilt, or bind, or ... you get the picture. 

Friends' Favourite is growing rapidly. Mostly due to the sick days I had to take last week from work.

I sew my quilts in quadrants in an effort to eliminate long rows of stitching. So, this morning I had quadrants A, B, C and D. 


As I was assembling the quadrants C and D, this happened.

There are 15 blocks per row. My first thought was that I had sewed only 7 blocks in the Quadrant B's rows. The latter is to be sewed to Quadrant A and added to the left of this picture. Thus, leaving Quadrant D to have 8 blocks per row. These 2 quadrants were almost all sewed up before I realized there are a few blocks missing. I was not happy about undoing all these stitches with so many intersections to watch for. 

So I decided to add more blocks. It was an easier task and beside, it's not like I'm gonna run out of fabric tomorrow, right? Lol. I probably have enough squares cut already to add another 5 rows, lolll.  

Have I just jinxed myself?!?? 

Anywho! Here is where I'm at. 

 

Half of Friends' Favourite is a flimsy. 

As you can see, in the battle of the seasons, Winter has the upper hand this morning. 

Now that my goal for March is done (getting half of FF done), I will enjoy some slow stitching on this Quilting Day. 

Once these stitches are done, I will quilt the floral border on my machine. This mini quilt was given to me. She had started to hand quilt it and to honor her, I decided to finish the quilting by hand. Since it is not my colour nor my aesthetic, I can't wait to finish it now and donate it.

old picture of the entire mini quilt

Enjoy your quilty day. ;^)

Check these ladies' link-party for more inspirations

Kathy for Slow Sunday Stitching

Angela at So Scrappy

Frédérique at Patchwork and Quilts

Alycia for Finished or Not Friday

Cynthia for Oh Scrap!

Red and White (Edited)

A long time ago, I started to put little bits of scraps red on white or white on red in a plastic bag. 

By themselves. Not with the rest of the reds. 

Why? I do not know. I haven't done that with blue on white, or any other colour. I guess red is more attracting, maybe? Or because of that exposition of all the gorgeous red and white quilts, hanging from the ceiling a few years back. Remember that? 

Anywho! 

I thought one day I would have enough to make a crumb block with only the red and white bits. 

This week, I found the little bag.

It isn't a big bag at all but I managed to get two blocks out of it. 

Okay, okay, you are right, the blocks are not very big but they are cute!

The first one was the 18 Bricks. I also finished a second green one this week. They need pieces cut at 1.5 X 2.5". 

Then I did a Hollow 9 with some 2" squares. 

The one one the right comes from the little bag. The left one is made with "regular" reds.

 

Also assembled some of the blue that were kit previously. All these blocks were my leader-ender while I work on Friends' Favourite. 

I was coughing so much this week that I took 2 days off from work to rest and survive. And sew. 

Some sewing time was spend attaching labels to the baby quilts. I decided to use some fancy stitches.

 Artisanat Sainte-Trinité (Holy Trinity Craft). 

It's the battle of the seasons here. Winter and Spring are at it like Tom cats. I will sit by the window this weekend and watch them argue over my front lawn while I sew. ❄🌻⛄🌷

Enjoy! ;^)

P.S. Someone called Shell wrote on my previous posts regarding one of the baby quilts pattern. Shell, I don't mind sharing the information of my pattern but I don't have a valid email to reach you. Please, leave your email address. 😊

Check these ladies' link-party for more inspirations

Angela at So Scrappy

Frédérique at Patchwork and Quilts

Alycia for Finished or Not Friday

Cynthia for Oh Scrap!

UFO Sighting

The UFO Friends' Favourite is coming along very slowly. I was able to get Row 1 to 4 sewed into quadrants this past week. I'm happy with that progress.

Row 5 and 6 are progressing well too. Many centres were audition for the next rows. I believe there's a certain Mr. Cat who came by and "realigned" the last rows. 

I love when I have a print in more than one colourways. Sometimes, I love the print more in one colour than the other and sometimes, I love the print in either colours. I know the seashells print is not the same but close enough for a photo. 😉



I got to play with RED too . . . a little bit. I found this plastic bags, gifted a while back. It was fun going through these "new to me" prints.

A bag in a bag. Goodies! 

Reds, salmon, dark dusty rose, watermelon, maroon, school brick, etc. 

The smaller bag had reds, greens and browns strips as seen here. I don't know why they were cut at a different length like that. Yes, I will find a way to use them regardless, lol. 

Some (1.5 X 2.5" rectangles) were already put to good use and were turned into a 18 Bricks block. 

March 7th was the Artisanat's game night. I bought some tickets and then told the boys they were coming along, lol. We had a fun evening playing social games and socializing with REAL people. The cherry on top is that I won 2 prizes. One is a gift card to a popular restaurant in my "hometown" and the other one is this gorgeous, handmade, table topper with placemats and napkins.

Great presentation. 

The green plaid fabric is also used for the backing on these and the table topper. 

Sylvie, the maker of this wonderful gift, turned the napkins into cute little butterflies. She even tied tiny knots at the end of the ribbons to make it look like antennas. I hope you can see it on your monitor. It's so CUTE!!! Sylvie is an amazing crafter and I'm so happy I won her creation. 

Yes, you are right, I don't want to undo the little butterflies, lol. 

Please ignore the burnt stains on the table. (The table is not dirty, lol) I put a butterfly on the bigger stain but the smaller ones show. :^(  ANYWHO!!! 

On Friday the 13th, we got rain, sleet and snow. Scary combination!

Needless to say, after getting the groceries done, today will turned into a sew day. Maybe a baking day too. We'll see. 

Hope you get to sew too. Enjoy! 

;^)

Check these ladies' link-party for more inspirations

Angela at So Scrappy

Frédérique at Patchwork and Quilts

Alycia for Finished or Not Friday

Cynthia for Oh Scrap!

Show and Tell (part 3)

The baby quilts drive is coming along so well. I'm the one who's slowing it down with this stupid flu. No, I am totally out of the woods yet but still surviving it. 😁

Let's have a look at the latest finished baby quilts that came back to me. 

I love this Trip Around the World. Line did such a great job assembling it and Yvonne did the quilting last week. 

And the back. 

When I snapped the photo of the back, I didn't realized that the hockey team was upside down. I spun the photo around so you can see it better. 

They are mostly 36 X 42 inches. 

The goal is 50 quilts

The total to date: 16 quilts

So much more to come. ;^) 

Joining Alycia because I have finishes to share on Finished or NOT Friday! 

It's a Friendly Thing

What is Friendship? Friendship is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it but only you can feel the warmth of it. 

(BwaaaHahaHa! 🤣 Sorry, but sometimes I crack myself.)

Friends' Favourite was started in January 2023. I "stole" the pattern from Fiona's blog who got it from a friend, who was inspired by another friend's quilt, hence the name Friends' Favourite. 

I worked at it here and there. I wanted to use prints that I like, that talk to me because it will be my quilt. We all know that working on quilts in this fashion takes forever to get them finish.  It was brought to the retreat to get it moving forward. 

The retreat didn't go so well. I got sick. So sick that I called DH to pick me up. What was supposed to be a four day retreat ended after 30 hours. I'm happy to say that none of the ladies got sick . . . yet. 

Anywho! 

While I complained about feeling like a road kill, I managed to sew! And cut! 

There were 133 centres missing to make the 240 blocks needed. I cut those. I framed (25 centres at a time) most of them before it occurred to me that I should lay them out to see if there's a colour I need more of.  

It didn't take long to see that GREEN was in short supply. It's was an easy fix. 

Other colours were added too because they talk to me. 

Needless to say that there are waaayyy too many centres now. I'm sure I can use them in one of the baby quilts. 

This weekend, I shall continue to frame the centres and hopefully get this one together before the end of the year. 

The baby quilt drive is moving along very well. My previous post shows a few finishes if you care to see. I'll try to get better pictures once the snow stops and we get some GOOD lighting for photos. 

Dr. Seam Ripper was called for an emergency surgery this week. He did an excellent job as always. 

Happy ending. 

Hope you are well and sewing to your heart's content. I should be back at work on Monday if this flu skedaddles out of here. So far none of the boys (husband included) are sick. 

Take care! ;^) 

Check these ladies' linky-party for more inspirations

Angela at So Scrappy

Frédérique at Patchwork and Quilts

Alycia for Finished or Not Friday

Cynthia for Oh Scrap!