Saturday, 26 July 2025

Playing with Purple

but photographing blue. What?

The Flying Home blocks look blue on the camera lenses and purple on the computer's monitor. I'm not sure which colour they will turn out to be at your place but they are purple, just believe me please.


I am still decluttering my sewing room (when I get tired of cutting fabric) and did another trip to the thrift store. To donate that is. But yes, I just had to walk to the fabric and bedsheet section. If I didn't, I knew that I would turn around and come back into the store before reaching the car so ... here's what I got. 

This panel is big enough to be a baby quilt on its own. I'll add a few pieces of green, brown, yellow and orange, and kit it just like that. Whoever grab this kit can add another border or make blocks, or not. Priced at $3.99


These were also too good to leave behind and besides, I don't have much pink in my scraps. Although these are not scraps; one meter and one and half meter for the number print. Priced at $4.99 each. I love the pink scooter. 


I think the best deal was this blue whale one. It's a little over 3 meters for $7.99. It was a "Start the car" moment. Lol. (Check IKEA ad Start the Car)


I've been cutting fabric to make kits and going through my quilt magazines. I'm saving the ideas I like from the magazines and then giving them away. Too many, waayyy too many!  

I love the flying geese in this setting. Haven't see this one before. 


They call this beautiful block in plaid, Road to Oklahoma. Funny, but all I see is Buckeye Beauty. Either way, I love it. 
 
And my usual 9-Patch blocks measuring 3.5" along with a few Rail Fence. 

I have more purple scraps under the needle, trying to finish another Stained Glass block and some crumbs. Hopefully, the purple scrap bags will be smaller for next weekend photo session. 

Have an amazing and cool week everyone. 
;^)


Want more inspiration? Check these ladies' blogs. 
Angela at So Scrappy
Frédérique at Patchwork and Quilts
Cynthia for Oh Scrap!


Saturday, 12 July 2025

It's July and It's Stinking Hot

It will be another humid, sticky, stinky 35 to 40 Celsius here (again) today. Enough, please!  

On to fun things. 
To make an April Fool block, you need a large piece of scrap. Since my purple scrap doesn't amount to much, I had to get some bigger pieces from the local quilting store (read my stash)! 
I wish I could use and finish this purple one from 2009 but, nope, too small.  

Six more were done over the weekend, three on each day. 


Then the last 2 were done during the week. Yay! All the purple blocks are made for that project. 


The pieces pulled from the stash are now part of the scraps, so instead of decreasing the scraps, I added to it. (Sounds familiar, Diann?) 

Today, I'll look for pieces for Flying Home blocks. 


Of course, I did the usual 9-Patch blocks instead of the Rail Fence that need to be done.


Nine Patch are cuter than Rail Fence in my book. Bottom left is a block for the Bonus Point quilt, all purple and orange. Mmmm! So pretty. 


I had to go to Walmart for some personal items and walked to the craft corner for some white threat. 

WELL!  Can you guess what happened? 





Oh, yep! 





These jumped into my arms. I really don't know how that happened. LOL
The black one is for the baby quilt kit "I Spy with black and white squares". So, that one is needed. The others wanted to be adopted. Sigh! What can I say? I have a sensitive heart. 


I did a new Puss in the Corner block in purple. The block used up all the diagonal purple print I had. 

The blue one has been pinned to the design wall for a while now. It's hard to read on the photo but above the sewing machine it's written: You're Sew Amazing. Awwwhhh! It came in a gifted bag. My friends give the best scrap ever. 
Anywho! It's still on the design wall because I can't find something that matches or compliments it. 



The adopted fat quarters were so happy to be rescued that they went to work right away. 





Ta-dah! 


Also did 2 Rail Fence blocks as leader-ender because I felt bad for ignoring it. 

Tonight, we are celebrating my MIL 85th birthday. It's a BBQ. Outside. I wonder how she will enjoy it in this humidity and heat, poor MIL. 

That's all from me. Have a great week. Stay cool. 
;^)

Want more inspiration? Check these ladies' blogs. 
Angela at So Scrappy
Frédérique at Patchwork and Quilts
Cynthia for Oh Scrap!


Saturday, 5 July 2025

The Purple Invasion

Last six orange blocks missing were made. Three on Sunday and 

three on the first of July. 


It was fun to just sew. I have acute "fed-up-itis" of cutting fabric. I'll take a break for a while. 

But! As I was getting the purple scraps out, two fabric begged to become April Fool's blocks. Who am I to say no? So, I cut some more.


Where did the orange scrap finished at ? 
Beginning of June. 

End of June. See the difference? Beside the little baggie getting fully stuffed, I don't see much differences. The basket looks like it was fluffed up. 


On to purple, which is a rare colour in my sewing room. 

Two regular Ziploc bags. Not much of an invasion, haha. I hope I'll have more time to sew in July than I did in June.  

Baby Quilts Kits

Some baby kits were cut, tagged and bagged. I love to look at the crate filling up. 

These are milk crate because in Canada, milk comes in bags. They are very sturdy and light (the crates, not the milk bags, lol).  

To be honest, these are not all CUT baby quilt kits. 


The ones in the crate were mentioned in the last post. 
On the deck, from the left, it's a panel with some matching fabric, not cut. The next three are just matching fabric, not cut. All these have no patterns. The ladies can do whatever they want. They are called Surprise Pattern. In the L'Oréal bag are strips for a Jelly Roll Race kind of quilt or a Surprise Pattern. As they wish. If there isn't enough fabric, we can always add border(s). 
The big bag next to the crate is full of strings. I don't know if one of them likes to make string blocks but I'll soon found out. 
Total is 9 kits done. 

Then I did this: 


Not the best lining job but it works. When we'll get together for a "Cutting Scrap Day", each crate will hold a certain size. The crates carry way more than my little boxes so it will be less trip to car to load everything up at the end of the day. They also stack up better because of the ridge they have. 
The lining fabric is almost as old as I am. It's from my mother's stash. I thought it was a good place as any to use it up. If it rips, so be it. 


Today will see me sewing some purple blocks. Maybe line another crate but will definitely grab the graph paper and plan more baby quilts. It will be an easy, lazy weekend. 🧵✂🍹

Hope you find time to do things you enjoy too. 
;^)


Visiting my stitching sisters for more inspiration. 
Angela at So Scrappy
Frédérique at Patchwork and Quilts
Cynthia for Oh Scrap!