The Bluest Saturday

(I know it is now Pink month but this was to be posted two weeks ago.)

Lots of projects to choose from but I'm stuck on this one.

Irish Star blocks: love making these little stars. 

I need to make a few alternate blocks too otherwise there will be too many to do at the end and I might get bored. 

Someone commented that I have a lot of projects with solid-coloured fabric. It made me look at my projects differently and an idea popped up. 

The only project that I have with only solid-coloured fabrics is the Buckeye Beauty variant. 

The idea is to add a border of tone-on-tone blocks. It might just bring it to a decent size. Thanks, Linda for the inspiration. 

I don't seem to have a lot of tone-on-tone blues but managed to make four. 

The bright blue one might not get into the quilt but I'll see how it plays once I have more blocks done. 

Most of my sewing time was spent cutting squares for Twinkling Scrap Star (Galaxy Star). Should I sew them into HSTs now or do it at the retreat? 

9-Patch, anyone? 

On to Pink. 

Have a great scrappy week. 

;^)

More wonderful projects are linked on these blogs:

Angela at So Scrappy 

Frédérique for Patchwork and Quilts

Cynthia for Oh Scrap! 

Sarah for Can I Get a Whoop Whoop? 

Pondering and Planning

It is time to think about the new year. Looking at my projects, I realized that many will cross over to the new year as only one got finished. Sigh! What was done and was is left? Let's see.


I tried to push a few quilts forward this year and will continue my focus next year. A few quilts saw progress but nothing major, well, except for Field of Poppies. 

Framed 9-Patch got assembled but then I decided to add a border made of light-coloured Framed 9-Patch blocks, so it is still a WIP (Work In Progress). 

This variant of Buckeye Beauty isn't assembled. Does it need more blocks? I hope the answer comes to me next year.  

Scrap Jar Star definitely needs more blocks and I have a plan for this one. I'm looking forward to it as I love making this block. 

The Crumb block quilt "Chaser" needs a few more blocks too. I have enough of the grey border fabric to do the missing blocks and only those. It will finish on the small size but that's okay. Look at all the little bits of fabric that didn't end up in the trash. Yay! 

Jericho Wall is being assembled this month. Will it be a top before the end of the year? 

Star Bloom will continue next year as it doesn't have enough blocks to be a quilt. I'm still debating if I should make the block with one colour or have a mix of colours in each block. What would you do? 

Since Field of Poppies (aka Good Fortune) is finished, I pinned another one to quilt on my DSM. This is Jacob's Summer (aka Jacob's Ladder). 

Unfortunately, I ran out of pins. Where are all my pins? Someone needs to go shopping, or else, clean up the sewing room. Talking about that ... 

The reorganization of the sewing room is also important. With all the scrap bags I receive from friends, I need to stay on top of the game, or drown! 

Remember this "contribution" to my stash? 

I'm still amazed by it and I also remember this mess. Sigh! 

The group Artisanat de Ste-Félicité did a sewing bee. We made 84 adult bibs for our local residences. What a great day that was. Thank you girls for welcoming me into your group. You are wonderful!💓

One friend got me a Go cutter and another friend gave me some dies. I'm blessed. What more can I say? 

I'm slowly learning curve sewing. Perfection is still far away, lol, but I'm willing to try again. 

The year 2022 saw me playing with my paintbrush again. This little bird was made for my MIL who is living in a residence. I wish you good health and lots of laughter in the new year, sweet MIL. 

Raven got a rough year. He had to visit the vet a few times before he got better. Now that he's neutered, he doesn't fight other cats anymore and he's so much better for it. He put on quite a bit of weight too. Those eyes! His gaze is always so intense! 

If you made it this far, I'm grateful for that. I wish you all good health and peace in the New Year. May you be safe and happy always. I appreciate each and every one of you. 💟 and quilt on! 

;^)

P.S. I'll talk about my projects for 2023 in the next post. 

Spending time with 

Angela at So Scrappy

Frédérique at Patchwork and Quilts

Cynthia for Oh Scrap! 

Colour Me Orange and Call Me Pumpkin!

The morning found me playing with orange... and rust.

For the solid fabric challenge, I used my mother's stash. She obviously wasn't the type to love orange. I could only find three, so I added the rust-coloured one.

It's truly a rich rust colour in person. That brings the total to 35 blocks. Want to see them all together? 

It needs more reds and yellows too, I think. There are too many purple and blue blocks but I still like it.  

Did you see it? One of the blocks is upside down. It's all right as this is in no way the final layout because I want to add more blocks. 

I didn't see it in the first photo but I see it now and I love it. The bottom left diamond is wonderful to my eyes. I'm a sucker for blue and brown and although these blocks are rust and dark purple, the effect is almost the same. Love it. 

Speaking of purple, I did finish two purple crumb blocks this week. I'm always behind with the crumb blocks. Maybe I have too many RSC projects this year. What do you think? 

1- crumb blocks

2- 9-Patch blocks

3- Solid fabric blocks

4- Scrap Jar Star 

5- Jericho Wall

6- Placemat

I'm tempted to add another one but I will refrain from doing so... for now. Want to know what it is? Lynn did a lovely quilt with some darker neutral colours. You know, those darker lights that I have and don't know what to do with? See her quilt here. It got me thinking. I could do a Framed 9-Patch (also inspired by one of her quilts) with the darker neutrals. What do you think? Maybe I'll do a few blocks and see if I like it. Oh! it will be fun! 

Hope you have fun sewing too. Enjoy! 

Joining my sewing sisters 

Angela at So Scrappy 

Frédérique at Patchwork and Quilts 

Cynthia for Oh Scrap!