I Was Wrong

I thought the spool and the bobbin would finish at the same time or pretty close.

 


I was wrong. 

The bobbin ended first. There was still quite a lot on the cone. Yes, I was still sewing pink and drank coffee from my orange cup and not a Tim Horton's coffee. I rarely get a chance to have a Tim. Anywho! 

... the next day ...

... this came crawling up my machine. The cone was done too. It was very anti-climax. 

On Tuesday, I went to the Artisanat group meeting and came back home with, yes, again, more gifted bags. 

At the bottom left, I love those circles on the light blue, but all those fabric are canvas or upholstery thickness. The pile on the right is quilting quality. More Pink! Didn't look in the other two bags yet. 

I said that I would be sewing with blue and here it is. 

Aren't you surprise it's floral?? Who would have thought? Lol. 

Not much sewing happened this week, so the pink scrap basket is not finished. 

Hopefully, it will be quilted this weekend and assembled. Then I'll take pictures of the pink scraps for the end of the month comparison photos. I'm almost scared to look at that one, lol. 

Also this weekend, a lot of cutting will be happening. I'm leaving for a retreat on February 21st so I need to organize a few things. 

Start of the BLUE month photo. 

The blue baskets are overflowing. 

It kept falling off, haha. 

And then, the dark, the light and the ugly bags. (no, not really ugly.) They will follow me to the retreat in an attempt to deflate their egos. That's a mighty task. The one at the front has a hole. It kept puffing up when I flatten it out. It's not that full actually. 

I'm itching to make my RSC blocks in blue but I have to finish pink first otherwise, it will never get done. I know me. 

These were assembled as I put the crumb slab together for the pink basket. 

I don't know what is happening on at your place, but I hope it is good. So much snow everywhere, and wildfire, and earthquakes, ... I hope you are well. 

My cat is not affected by the cold, he doesn't care about the snow (he's part Main Coon), but the wind we had this week, stopped him in his track. 

That's all I have for you today. Stay safe. 🧡

;^)

I will visit these talented ladies over the weekend. Hope to catch you there. 

Angela at So Scrappy

Frédérique at Patchwork and Quilts

Cynthia for Oh Scrap

Alycia for Finished or NOT Finished Friday

Nina Marie at Creations - Quilts, Art, Whatever 

The Last Pink - Photo Heavy

It will not be the last day of sewing Pink for me as my Pink scrap basket is not finished.

But I will work with BLUE too. Yay! Blue! 💙💙💙

The little HSTs, turned into these pointy blocks, will be group together in this fashion. A blue and a purple were made from the latest scrap bags. I thought of showing my plan for these blocks. I call this project "Bonus Points". 

And of course, the ever faithful 9-Patch. I love that cat print. 

What's in the bag?

Now if you are curious to see what's in the bag, here's some pictures. (If not, just skip to the bottom.) I won't do this every time I get bags of scraps but this one was different. Let me show you what I mean. 

The bag on the right came from the BIG black bag from the first week of January. Still not done going through it. Then the bag on left showed up on my door step. Of course, I had to take a peek. 

The first thing that popped out was a bag from April Cornell. See Aprilcornell.ca (there's also an American website) for more info, as I didn't know who she was, I googled her up. Now what came out of the bag made my day. 

Black on white; 

Some fabric from every past decennials; 

Flowers in every colours; 

Flowers;

Flowers; 

Flowers; 

Flowers;

Flow... Oh Grandma! Stay away from those brownies; 

Lol. Some pink and a lovely little piece of colourful buttons. 

Back to flowers; Now this print's stack is over an inch high. Given the size of the pieces, I can sew myself a shirt off these pieces. (I have found some more of the same print in another bag this morning.) 

Flowers with... Fish?!?  And a cute notion print. 

Fish with turtle (makes more sense) ; 

Anywho! There was a WHOLE lot more than that, if you look at the size of the bag, but suffice to say it was a flower girl paradise which I am not. 

This bag was easy to empty as the pieces were mostly fat quarters. One down! 

I'm not loving this print but I have enough to back a small quilt, so I'll keep it for now. 

This is my sewing room floor this morning. 

The pile closest to the chair (bottom left) are sewn pieces that I will take apart. From this bag (bottom right), lots of small little bits and skinny strings that went into the fireplace. It's taking forever to finish this one. But I can see the bottom now! Yay! 

Back to our usual programming. 

Sewing! 

While sewing the Pink scrap basket, I did finished two 4.5" crumb blocks. Most of my sewing time this week was spent working on my Table Scrap Challenge. See it here. 

I promise my next post will be about BLUE. 

Happy sewing, whatever colour you are working with. 

;^)

I will visit these talented ladies over the weekend. Hope to catch you there. 

Angela at So Scrappy

Frédérique at Patchwork and Quilts

Cynthia for Oh Scrap

Alycia for Finished or NOT Finished Friday

Nina Marie at Creations - Quilts, Art, Whatever 

Enough Pink?

Pink is not one of my favourite colour so I'm starting to have enough of Pink. 

I sew Pink

Crumb Blocks 

and Pink 

Bonus Points units (the last one is not that dark, it's more salmon)

and Pink 

Friends' Favourite base units. 

(I had to cheat a little with the one on the right. I love this print and it's the first time I see it in pink. It was just not 3.5". The seams are just not a quarter inch. Ha! They all came from the bags.) 

and Pink 

Baby Flannel quilt 

and Pink 

Stained Glass blocks (the ones on the left are salmon, not brown.)

and Pink 

9-Patch blocks. The salmon print is truer in this picture. 

and I got Pink 

WOF and Fat Quarter

samples of the scraps and 

more samples of the scraps I got

from the BIG gifted bag of two weeks ago. I'm ready for something else. So, I sew 

Neutral

triangles for Stained Glass blocks
(Don't think I've done all these this week. They are a month's worth.)

and blue 

Shallow Pond blocks done during January

and blue

border on baby flannelette quilt with rockets

and Aqua

border on pink baby flannelette quilt 

I'm not exactly in love with the way I sew the border on this one. The corners are bothering me but then again, it's a donation. I won't see it ever again once it's done. They both need batting scraps and a backing, and to the "to be quilted" pile they will go. 

Also in the big scrap bag from 2 weeks ago, there is this Cat Elves fabric. It has glitters! 

I have a mind to use it as the backing for the crooked table runner from my last post. The colours don't match but it would be two for one, full of glitters. 😃

Fiona from BubzRugz told me she loves when I get scraps bags. She said: "it's like we all get to play with them!" (And I thought it was boring you.) Well then, here's one more from the big bag. 

Found some hexies but one is MIA. 😕 (They aren't cut perfectly but still workable.) I hope to find it so I can do something with them. Or a little piece of the print would be good too. No, I'm not done looking through all those bags. (so many) As you can see in the picture, this print is also glittery. I think I jinxed myself when I called my December post "It's Glitter Season". 😄

With all these scraps recently added to the Pink bags (and all the other colours), I'm afraid my comparison photos, at the end of the month, will not show bags with slimmer figures. I'll try to use (cut) some more this week again. Sigh! Stay tuned. 

See you in a week, God willing. 

;^)

P.S. Thank you for all of your help about the comments not coming to my email. I appreciate the help and it is now working beautifully but I had to enable the approval thingy. Sorry for that. Enjoy your sewing time. :^D 

P.P.S. My little brother passed away this week. Don't feel bad, I'm okay and he is in a much better place. Poor kiddo, he had it rough. So, all is good. Enjoy your day no matter what it brings. 💖

I will visit these talented ladies over the weekend. Hope to catch you there. 

Angela at So Scrappy

Frédérique at Patchwork and Quilts

Cynthia for Oh Scrap

Alycia for Finished or NOT Finished Friday

Nina Marie at Creations - Quilts, Art, Whatever

Painting My World Pink

More of the RSC2025 block were made last weekend. I calculated 10 blocks of each 8 colours (all colours plus Aqua) would make a good size quilt. I believe I will call this one April Fool. 

It is a very simple block. One unit repeated 4 times but one with reversed value. 

In the picture below, all 4 units are the same. This is how the quilt from Pinterest is constructed. See last post. 

Pair one 2.5" square print with a white one then sew a 2.5 X 4.5" print. For the reversed, in the monochrome blocks, just use a white rectangle. 

The monochrome blocks need a scrap of a fair size, so for the smaller pieces, I started sewing:

It only needs two 2.5" squares from the print fabric and one 2.5" square from a white and one from a solid fabric. Trim down to 2" and sew in Flying Geese position. It presently stands at 3.5", so I'll need a bazillion to make anything out of these but it gets some scrap out of the bag. 

At the Artisanat meeting, I received a big bag of scraps. 

I mean a BIG bag of scrap bags. I'm not done looking through it all. The first thing I saw when opening it was: Pink! 

The pink panel (?), cheat sheet (?), pillow (?) was on top (it's folded in two in the picture) with the pink scrap bag. At first, I thought that they were from the same project but no. 

The bag of gorgeous batik had every bit of scraps, even some of the paper foundation parts. Wish I could see that quilt of hers. It must be gorgeous! 

I laughed out loud when I saw the container. No lid, just scraps and my name. She (they?) literally just threw everything in that big bag. I'm so spoiled. 

Last weekend, I showed you this picture of little 9-Patch blocks. Now, here's the story. 

I found, in the depth of my dungeon sewing room, a little plastic bag and a squirrel came out of it. 

There was some black Friendship Star blocks with parts and fabric to make more. A little piece of black scrap was included along with glitter gold fabrics.

All the fabric used in the construction of the Friendship Stars along with the scraps, have metallic gold. So, I rummaged through my scraps to find something that would play nice with these. 

This one, with bits of gold, was hired with fingers crossed that there was enough of it. 

The black fabric was the biggest headache as I couldn't find anything that fit. I don't buy metallic fabric but I did once, and only once, and it was more than perfect. It was meant to be. 

I had fun sewing these little ones. I ran out of the middle red fabric but found another glitter one with stars. Perfect! Just enough of it to make the middle row different. 

This is the layout. I found out that the little Friendship Stars were cheerfully crooked. To the left then to the right, they dance. I wasn't about to take them apart so I just winged it. 

The result is a little (crooked) table topper or runner. Some stars lost a point or two. Well, that's what happen when you're dancing! I don't know how to quilt it. I have no metallic thread, so I'm thinking maybe a yellow thread? Or maybe cream would work better? 

The little bag is now empty but I have one more project on my "to finish" list. It never ends! (But I have one little empty bag!)

Also never ending is my quest for reducing the flannelette bags. I got these fabric ironed and cut. Now to find a layout. Fun! (I don't know why the white batting photographed pink.) 

 

Something's in the work for my Table Scrap Challenge, hosted by The Joyful Quilter. Are you playing along?  

Am I done? Yep, I think that's all I have for now. More next week. 

Have a great week, everyone. 

;^)

P.S. Your comments aren't coming to my email again. Sigh! 

I will visit these talented ladies over the weekend. Hope to catch you there too. 

Angela at So Scrappy

Frédérique at Patchwork and Quilts

Cynthia for Oh Scrap

Alycia for Finished or NOT Finished Friday

Nina Marie at Creations - Quilts, Art, Whatever