Not Very Productive

Does un-stitching count as productivity? I did more of that than sewing itself. My back is acting up this week and I did what I could instead of what I wanted. 😑

Helene gave me lots of flannelette (see this post) along with receiving blankets she had made by zigzagging the folded edges of the fabric …

… I decided to undo one. I want to use it for the backing of this top. 

It's not a perfect match but it is much better than what I could come up with from my stash. Bonus, it is big enough so no pieced-backing for this one. So, un-stitching happened. 

While I put my things from the retreat back in the sewing room, I found a mysterious (read forgot I had) box. Old string blocks were hiding in there. 

They were made with my mother's white sheets instead of paper. It makes the seams very thick. Not gonna do that again, so no blocks will be added. It's 24 X 37 inches. 

Oops! Let's try again. 

Ta-dah! It is now a top and one box is in the recycling bin. Whoop Whoop for decluttering. Thanks, Joy, for putting me back on track. 😊

March is called Yellow this year. These are my yellow bags. 

One bag is yellow with lively colours, one I call "gold", and the regular yellow is the biggest one. That's all. No scrap basket for this colour ... yet. Two FQs were found in a gifted bag. I added these to the "big" yellow scraps pile. 

Carole will come by today with 2 more bags of fabric. I'll try to hunt the yellow out of them. Will see how that goes. 

Like I said, not very productive but some forward motion was accomplished. So, YAY for that. 

Hope you are well and sew happily. 

Have a great week. Enjoy! 

;^)

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

It's Glitter Season!

 

The office is all decorated for the Holidays. It is my first year with this company and I find it funny that their Christmas tree sports the logo's colours. White, black and lime green. 

This one stands in the lunchroom and 

this one is in the employees space. I forgot to take a picture of the one at the front desk where I work. Next time. 

My backyard was also in glitter this morning but it doesn't show well in the photo. 

In the sewing room ... no glitters but some finishes. Yay! 

Back in October, during a quilting retreat, I assembled two little baby quilts from flannelette scraps. 

The first one is sunny, happy and Spring calling... and done! 

Stitch in the ditch in both direction. The backing is another piece of flannelette that has the same print as one of the patch on the front. I found this cute orange floral on yellow for the binding. Just what this quilt needed; more flowers. Finish at 28 X 34

The second one was quite small and needed a larger border. 

This one is 5" wide. I decided to use up all of the red fabric. Unfortunately, I didn't have enough to make 4 9-patch blocks so I did this. It stayed on the design wall for a few evenings before I was convinced that, yep, I hate it. So I changed it. 

Much happier with this. It's not because you have little bits left, it means you have to find a place for them in this quilt. They can got in the next one. So, now, it is quilted. I don't have any red flannelette that looked good with the snowflake one. Dark blue would have been nice but not one of those on hands played well with this quilt. I have two huge bins (and then some) of flannelette and I can't find a suitable binding for this quilt. Really? Hmm. Go look again. 

What I found is not exactly flannelette. It's more of a brush cotton but not the bottom weight kind. 

Hey, it works so go for it. I like stripes for bindings. It measures 28.5" square. 

In this picture, you can see the soft blue print on the large border. The backing is an old flannelette piece left over from a pajamas I did when DS1 was 2yo. When I finished sewing the binding, I noticed that my machine had a heartburn and just spit all over the corner. Argh!! 

It just came back from a spa day! What else does it want? A Christmas present? Sheesh!! Sigh! 

I have one more little flannel quilt to finish. Last week, I received a large bag of scraps .. and some more flannel. There might be another baby quilt in there. These are fun to do and fast too. Eventually, this blog will be back to its regular programming. 

That's all for this week. 

Stay warm, drive safely. 

Take care, everyone. 

;^)

Planning on joining these talented ladies this week;

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