It's a Funny Thing

Memory has the ability to forget. Isn't that funny? 

I forgot how many blocks I had made but I was so convinced there were 12 blocks that I didn't even count them. Ha. 

I looked all over my blog and the last picture I have of Hole in the Barn Door is a 9-blocks picture. 

More blocks were added since that picture but no group picture was taken. At this point, it makes a throw of 47 X 60 inches. I'll push on to get a 4 X 5 layout (60" X 75") for a nice twin-size quilt. I like that better. So 9 more blocks to go. Ironic! 

Do you know that Hole in the Barn Door has a white square in the middle? It didn't take me long to switch to a Shoo Fly/Churn Dash type of block, didn't it? So what now? 

Do I make one quilt with HitBD and one with SF blocks? Or just keep both in one quilt? I sure have enough scraps to make two like this. (Carole brought more scrap bags this week. Yay!) On the other hand, time is short. 

An aqua block has joined the group. 8 more to go. 

I need another red block, or two, a green one, a pale pink (maybe), a yellow-lime, a rusty one, and some blue. :^D 

The last tulip got done too. This quilt is ready to be assembled. Yay! 

My, my! I am so productive lately. Must be Fall. :^D 

Have a great one! 

;^)

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Orange Fall

WARNING - RANTING: (you may skip to the post below if you wish) 

Blogger deleted my email address AGAIN from the settings so I did not receive your comments from the last post in my inbox. I'm really fed up with this childish war they have with other Internet providers. Because we are using another internet platform, Blogger (Google) cut us off. Like F* you! This was a free country last time I looked and I can shop and use whatever provider I wish. Can you imagine a grocery store telling you: "you can't shop here anymore because I saw you go into the other grocery store last week." Like F* you! Seriously! I sent Blogger a "nice" letter with a little piece of my mind on all this stupid, ugly war of theirs. I mean, what's the point in having options if I can't use them? No other company makes it SO HARD for their clients to use their products. I asked them to contact me directly at my GMAIL account which is by GOOGLE too!!  (Deep breath in.)

P.S. Anyone who wishes to write to Blogger can do so by clicking the question mark on the top right of the screen. 

P.P.S. I did read your comments and I will reply shortly. Thank you for your patience. :^)




Sorry about that. Now, on to more pleasant things. 😊

Fall is coming our way and I have orange to play with. Two of my favourite things. 😁

Three orange tulips were made ... 

... right after the purple ones actually, as I couldn't wait any longer to see the quilt come together and to play with orange. I also thought that it was the only missing colour in my quilt. When I set the blocks together I realized the quilt would be too small hence the addition of the aqua blocks. 

This is a rough layout of what I want. I love this kind of layout and only see it in vintage quilts. Why don't we use it anymore? Or very rarely. Too bad because I like it when it is used with the right type of blocks. 

So now I am missing a block. Since I only have two pinks, one more will be assembled. Then every colour will have the same number of blocks. Hopefully, I can find what I need in my (limited) pink stash. 🤞 

Or maybe I could make a multi-coloured one. Oh! Wouldn't that be nice? 

My personal UFO Rainbow Scrap Challenge is Hole in the Barn Door. All the blocks are done back in 2017. (I know it the last post I said 2016 but it's wrong.) 

I want to add a sashing "à la Bonnie". (Bonnie K. Hunter) What do you think? 

It's gonna take a while to finish this but hey, it's not a race. The cornerstones will be white. If this doesn't diminish my scraps, nothing will. Haha. 

Just because he's the best-looking cat in all the county, here's another picture of Raven. 

Have a great week everyone. 

;^)

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Sew Much

There's so much of everything lately. So much rain, so much sickening news, so many changes, so many masks, so many holes, so much fabric, ... oh, I like that one. Let's dwell on that one. 😉

In my first layout plan for the tulip quilt, I hadn't considered Aqua as a colour to do but now that we are in the Aqua month, I'm thinking I should add it in. 

I found some remnants in the gifted bags and sewed one up. What do you think? 

I have very little aqua fabric but found these. They are either dark or light. Some kind of go together but it is a long shot. Oh well, it will have to do. 

The August Personal Rainbow UFO Challenge got together. 

I have found a back for it too. On with the pinning. Do I have the time to quilt it? 

So much fabric. The cleaning continues.

The blue basket is all done and half-filled. It holds dark blue of course and all the blue batiks. 

The neutrals were next. The container is a 40 cup Rubbermaid bin. 

I separated the white scraps from the beige ones and ended up with this. 

White and ivory in the bag, beige in the container, and the pile next to the container are all scraps with colours on them. Not sure where I should add them.  I haven't removed all the tiny little bits to make a basket from the neutrals because I am second-guessing myself on this one. Do I want one or two baskets? Or should I make another basket for neutral with colours? If I make a white basket, there won't be much left in the basket. Should I do just one neutral basket? 🤔

So many fabrics. Carole, my sweet friend, brought me more bags of scraps. Yay! Amongst other things, she brought me a gazillion of triangles. 🤣 

Each little Ziplock bag has one quilt worth of triangles except for the 1930's reproductions. It looks like 2, even 3 quilts worth of triangles. Whoohoo! 

I'll be making HSTs for the rest of my life. 🤣🤣

Talking about HSTs, I did one block in light blue...

... and one (almost done) in beige. 

I've just noticed it is spinning the wrong way ... again. Blooper averted! 😀

Let's go back at the beginning for a second and dwell a little bit on "so many holes". 

I did something that I should have done a long, long time ago. Procrastination is such a dead stop! Eventually, a time comes when you just can't ignore the problem any longer. 

There were so many holes. Then, some holes turned into a giant one. 

I saw on the Net a rapid way to make a new ironing board cover. You cut the ribbon or folded fabric that holds the twine to attach the cover, and you sew it to the new one. It didn't take 30 minutes and all was done. 

I'm so happy with the new one. The iron doesn't get stuck in the holes anymore! Should have done that a long time ago. I cut my fabric too big. I didn't take into account the amount of fabric added by the twine section. Lesson learned for next one. 😉 

Monday will find me at work in the office. I am going back full-time. I need to make more masks so I can change during the day. My days of working from home are done. No more sewing during lunch break! Gosh! I'm gonna miss that. 

Him too, I will miss. 

Have a great weekend. 

;^)

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Plums and Lilac

The RSC colour of the month is blue but since I have all the blue tulips I need for my quilt and since I didn't have a chance to sew the purple tulips last month, I played with purple this week.

Hopefully, these pictures will look purple on your monitor. It's not easy to photograph purple.  

This was the hardest one to photograph. The left side looked black in most pictures. It is very dark like eggplant purple. 

This is the lilac one. I couldn't do any better than that, sorry. 

This one is a surprise. I forgot I had this gorgeous fabric (on the left) from gifted bags a while back. So this one is half lilac half plum. I love it. 

And of course, some tiny Shoo Fly blocks. 

The blue scrap basket is beside my cutting table, like a baseball player waiting on the bench, hoping for some action. Maybe this weekend. 

That's it for now. 

Well, okay. Just one more picture, just because he's so cute. Raven is 6 months old. 

Take care everyone. 

;^) 

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A Finish In Sight

Really! I am not kidding you.

I am so close ... it's making me mad! I had the fabric for the binding of Smile. I thought to myself: "I'll put it here, so I don't use it for something else."  Do I remember where "HERE" is? Of course not!! I'm angry at myself. If I had left it where it was in the first place, the binding would be done by now! I would have a REAL finish to show you. 

All I can find now are little remnants, not enough to make a binding 218 inches long. Sigh!! 

Here's a picture of an ALMOST finished quilt. It's the best I can do at the moment. 

Even if it didn't say "Happy New Millennium", you'd know it's an old fabric. I mean, no young girl these days would be caught in a coming-out-of-a-surprise-cake pose! and where are the cellphones??? 

The last border is quilted in black and while I had the black quilting thread on the machine, I quilted this mini one. 

This one has the binding attached!!

 Yay me! So, on Sunday, I will join Kathy for Slow Sunday Stitching. What a pleasure it will be to finally finish something ... no matter how small it is! It's 13 inches square, just big enough not to be mistaken for a mug rug. :^D 

Got a little bit of time for sewing in the evenings. I manage to do the tulip blocks in red. 

The other little Shoo-fly blocks are by the sewing machine as I did that block this morning before the boys wake up and didn't have time to finish it all. 

All three red tulip blocks are done. One dark, one firetruck red, and one orange-y red. Once the blue blocks are finished, I'll take a picture of all the blocks together. That should be fun!! 

So, I believe that's all I have for you for now. 

Friday night (well here in Canada, it was Friday night), I was very sad and angry! I don't know if you were aware but Blogger was hacked and there were no blogs to be seen. Not ONE!! It made me realized to what extend I love being with you and reading about what you do. I was thrilled this morning when I saw that everything was right again. 🌞 You are very important to me. Wishing you all a wonderful day and may it overflows with goodness. 

;^)

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Red . . . and black or More Triangles!

From last week's post, all the red and black HSTs got trimmed! Most are 1.75 inches unfinished and some were trimmed at 1.5 inches. 

I did press them outside last Saturday as it was so nice. 

Clothespins to hold the little pieces down. I even got my cat to go outside. Like every child in this world, he didn't want to come back in after. 😼😸

But I digress. 

Now what to do with these?  Sorry for the dark photo. It's raining again here. 

So many possibilities; pinwheel, broken dish, shoo fly ... 

Then this happened. 

YES! My very own SuperNova Star. Yay me! 

It's not exactly the way I imagined my Super Nova Star. The fabrics make it very busy if you ask me, but the triangles were already cut ... so ... you know. 

Now, on to quilting it. With black thread, I think. What do you think? Red? 

I did finish some masks for my sister. I am delivering them this morning to her. We are meeting in a parking lot (at Tim Horton, of course) because we are still in lockdown. Sigh! 

I got 2 big bags of scraps this week. Soooo much fun going through these. Lots of beautiful flannel too.


I know. I owe you some tulip blocks. I haven't done the blue ones from April and you are patiently (I hope so anyway) for some tulip photos. But what else do I talk about these days besides triangles? Oh, that's right, there's my cat too! Haha! 

So here's a green tulip. 

and the sidekicks. 

The three green tulips are now made. On to the next colour. 

This is the red tulip I did last year. The one that started it all. 

It was a busy week with the SuperNova Star block, but this weekend, I should be able to sew some tulip blocks. I am scheduled for volunteer work next Saturday, and then again on the 29th. Hopefully, I'll be able to sew during the week. Maybe? A little bit?  

Take care. 

;^)

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