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. 😊

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Angela at So Scrappy

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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! 

;^)

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Angela at So Scrappy

Frédérique at Patchwork and Quilts

Alycia for Finished or Not Friday

Cynthia for Oh Scrap!

What's Up in Aqua

Not much got done this week (read nothing got done this week). The little bit of sewing I did last weekend can all fit in one photo. Ain't that a shame?

One Flying Home block. I'm having difficulty finding the right aqua for this one. It's either the fabric is not big enough for the cuts I need or they don't play well together. Sigh! 

One 18 Bars block made with whatever aqua, turquoise, teal, and blue-green. And only one 9-Patch. 

However I did sort out the red fabrics. It started here ... 

and ended like this.

The basket and the bag are much lighter! Beside the plastic bag are some fabric that can go in kits already set up, just to add more variety. Maybe they'll be used and won't come back. 

On the step, behind the scrap basket, (from left to right) batik (which are usually stored separately), solid red (again stored separately), the pile of red I can cut in 3.5" square for the kit I'm working on and the last pile are scraps big enough to be cut at 6.5" also for kits. I'm very happy with the result. 

Now what I forgot to show in this picture is the bag of little scraps, big enough for crumb blocks. Oops! Also, some of these selected fabric might return to the scrap basket. Once I reached the number of squares I need for the kit, I might stop cutting ... or not. 

The reason I wasn't very productive last week is because of a book. Have you read The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins? If not, don't. Do NOT get that book. It will mess up your life. I just can't put the darn book down. One evening, I read until 11pm. Waking up at 6am was tough. I'm almost done. Hopefully my routine will return to normal after I'm done. 

Okay, I have to get back to it. Only 90-something pages to go. 

Have fun everyone! ;^)

Want more inspiration? Check these ladies' blogs. 

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

Cool Aqua During a Heat Wave

This week the temperature was like 3 degrees to cremation. Some companies closed their services in the early afternoon because of the heat. The humidity was so intense!

Some of us (like my cat, Raven) aren't bothered much by the heat. I wish I could sleep through this wave too. 

Let's leave that behind and dive into some cool aqua fabric.

I ironed this aqua forest for my April Fool block. Then I saw "it". Whoah! There's something looking back at me in the forest. Lol. How "cool" is that? (It's an abominable Yeti waving.)

Two light aqua blocks were assembled last weekend and a dark one this week. I'm not sure about the teal. Will it play nice with the others? If I remember correctly most of the blocks are light to medium. Is it the only dark one? I need to check this out. I've to search for more aqua fabric too. 

Baby Quilts Kits

I cut more fabric this week for the kits. Since I have a lot of dark blue, I'll make a kit with blue instead of black for the "I Spy with B/W" kit. 

Got the dark blue scrap basket out and from this 

I got this. (I don't know why the photo is so blue. Too hot for the camera to function properly?)  Anywho! 

The basket holds what is not right or not the right size for the kits. The plastic bag has the little bits for crumb blocks. On the left of it is the pile of the "good" dark blue for the kits, to the left of that, Surprise!, some teal was hiding in there as well. On the top step, there's a binding piece and some too-light-to-be-there blue. 

I'm so happy with this progress of scrap sorting that I got the red basket out. I can kit a red and white "I Spy" quilt, right? It would be different. We'll see what comes out of there. 

Same steps as in the previous photo. My deck is not blue. 

Then, I got bored one evening. Fed up of the heat. Too hot to cook or bake. Too hot to clean. Too hot to sleep. Too hot! Too hot! Too hot! I just didn't know what to do with myself. 

In other words, I felt like a teenager looking for trouble. 

Well, trouble was found, lol, in the form of 2.5" squares 

and some strips. Maybe sashing? Nah! 

Got the box of 1.5" squares out and started sewing. 

Still have a long way to go (boy, there's a lot of squares in that little bag), this is what they'll be. The pile of square is close to 2" high still and I got quite a few done.  Will there be enough for a baby quilt? Hopefully! If not, borders will be added. I'm having so much fun with this, instead of working on what I'm supposed to. 😝

EDITED: there are 120 blue squares. How did she packed them all in the little bag is amazing. Anywho, I have 60 done. The count-down is on! 😊

I also did these. No, I'm not starting a new project. Well, indirectly. 

The Hollow 9 blocks are examples to use when we gather for the "Build Some Kits" day at the Artisanat. Some girls in the group might not know what a Hollow 9 block looks like. I'll also bring the  Potato Chip block.

And finally, the usual little 9-Patch blocks made with whatever I get my hands on. 

Hope your weekend is amazing and cool. 

Happy sewing. 

;^)

Want more inspiration? Check these ladies' blogs. 

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

Where Was I? (photo heavy)

At our annual Craft Show/Bake Sale!

This is a Mosaic Crochet blanket. It's a technique I would love to learn. She might give a course next year. 

Another different technique. It's a kind of a manual weaving. The blanket fabric is bought and you have to weave the design. Just gorgeous! 

Someone had fun dressing up dolls in crochet dresses. 

Some of you might have done a Snow Days quilt. (I think that's the name. Let me know if I'm wrong please.) Almost all of us had seen one or two. I've seen many in blue, beige and red. It's the first one I see in black. Wow! It was awesome. 

Lise even extended the embroidery in the border. SO gorgeous! 

I baked two French Silk Pie for the bake sale. Now, the boys are asking for their share. I'll make one more this weekend. :^D

Each seller has to give a little something to add to the basket for the door prize. 

My son won! 

So many wonderful things in there; there were many sellers this year. 

I even have my own little Never-Die cactus. Whoop Whoop! 

The Red sewing didn't go as planned but then again, that's the story of my life! 

One lonely Stained Glass got assembled but it's not even finished. 

One more April Fool in red (the 5 others are waiting by the sewing machine), and one in scrap galore. 

In my last post, I mentioned being hesitant to use multi-coloured print in my RSC blocks. I got a few comments from people saying they feel the same way. It got my brain churning. As coincidence always happens this way, Cynthia at Quilting from More Fun than Housework, is also trying to use up the prints from her stash. She started a Snowball quilt with prints. See it here. She also had a quilt sent to her with giant geese. It's a great quilt. See that one on this post.

I commented that I love to do 9-Patch with prints because I can use 2 prints. The white fabrics are usually scarce around here. 

I want to make another Framed 9-Patch quilt. Unfortunately, I have miscalculated this one and don't have enough to frame it. :^(  I want to use the "dark" neutral in this one. We'll see how it goes. 

I am also doing April Fool with prints. (see photo two pictures up) I even used the instruction section from a panel. Heck! why not? Other ways to use up the prints are in the centre of stars, Puss In the Corner or a simple Barn Raising style with 5" squares or even bigger. We are only limited by our own imagination on this one. So, let's use those prints, ladies. 😉

The end of April brought a photo session with the Red Scraps. 

At the beginning of the month and ... 

the end of April. My friends are very generous people. Lol. 

Now, on to green. Do I have green? Yes, Ma'am! But I'll keep it for another post. 

Catch you then. 

Take care everyone. 

;^) 

My weekly visits at my stitching friends' place. 

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

Ready for Red and Spinners

My week didn't go as plan at all. First, we had another 6 inches of snow that was NOT planned. 

DH got the stomach flu on Tuesday and passed it on to me on Friday. Gotta love a generous guy like that, haha. I wasn't as sick as he was but it's still not pleasant. I didn't go to work Friday as prevention for my coworkers. I still feel woozy today. 

Regardless, I managed to sew this week and get this one together. 

Yesssss! Spinners is a top! Whoohoo. I got all the stained pieces out and sewed it all together. See this post to read about the misadventure. Can you believe it was way back in 2022? It's about time it gets finish. You can see in the background that the snow didn't stay very long. 

And I also did this: 

Yep! I took Elvis apart. Oh no! Poor Elvis. 

I don't like this poly-pretend-I'm-batting thing to the point that I HAD to remove it. Our annual Artisanat's exposition is coming at the end of the month and I would like to show it off. And I want it to look nice! It will get a lot of attention this weekend. 😉

On to the Red scraps, very little got done. 

3 April Fool blocks

Because I have all those bags of scraps to go through and I found some more reds. 

I love that one in the top right but not sure what to do with it. There was way more of the yellow star one. It has already been cut by the time I decided to take this picture.

My leader-ender is not progressing much. 

Yep, one of them is different. I still "bloope" every now and again. Lol. My main leader-ender lately is Rail Fence. 

These are for the 9-Patch quilt but they are very boring to photograph so I don't bother. 

I'm not done going through the Walmart bag from last post, but I got all these whites/neutrals out of it. These neutrals were the reason I bought the bag. 

I will be making more triangles for the Stained Glass Quilt. 

This is ... I don't know what this is but there's a lot it. The big piece of the left is folded 4 times. It's a rough cotton, not quite as thick as canvas but close. The white flowers are painted on like some bad whites I get now and then. The needle has much trouble going through these kinds of prints and gets dull in no time. Disappointed. Out it went. 

I believe that's it for now. I'll catch you again next weekend. 

Take care everyone. 

;^)

My weekly visits at my stitching friends' place. 

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