And We Had Fun, Fun, Fun

 ♪ ♫ 'Til her Daddy took the T-Ford away. ♫ ♪ ♪ (Beach Boys)

Or in my case, "Til I come home and realize what I've done! 😲

First Tuesday of the month sees us gathering at the church for our crafters meeting. (I forgot to bring the camera. 😔) It was SO nice to see everyone after a 2-month hiatus. Some had wonderful news to share, some not so good, but all were happy to be there and enjoyed the evening. 😊

I brought things to give away and I brought back more! Lol. And the cycle continues. 

The ladies were happy to continue the baby quilt drive with me. Some of the kits I brought were happily taken home to be assembled. I'm happy. 😊

Then some ladies did some cleaning during the summer and I came home with their stash, lol. I grabbed all the cross-stitch patterns from the take-away table and brought them to Nicole at the office. She's a young lady who loves to do needle point. So, I feed her, lol. 

I also grabbed the quilting magazines. I'm going through these today and will pass them along as soon as possible. 

Now, let's see what's in the bag. 

Françoise brought me this huge bag full of flannelettes. 

All of it cut at 9 inches. Some piles are over 3.5" tall even when I squished it as best I can! That's a lot of squares. 

Some are sewn together and the rest of the squares are laid one solid with one print, ready to be sewn. 

Others are sewn with a big X. 

To make a rag quilt? There's nothing in between the 2 layers. 

I'm thinking of using these for baby quilts' backings. 

I'm thinking of undoing these stitches. 😁

She brought me more than just one bag. Here's the second one. 

So many goodies. 

And the third bag holds, as best as it can, 

many HSTs, 

some scraps and some yardage.  These are more bags that I will eventually go through and cut to manageable sizes. Françoise is keeping me busy and out of trouble for sure, lol. 

Then Lucie brought me this. 

She said it was on the take-away table at her guild. Such a beautiful picture. We said, in unison, "I want to sit there!" Lol. It makes me think of our retreat place, by the lake . . . 

which, btw, is in October. Getting close. So, I started to get some things ready for the retreat. 

One thing we do every time is a FQ Potluck. Each one has to bring 2 FQs and the theme this time is 

So, I went shopping!

 

Got the dots. 

So, here's the thing. Fabricland does not have pre-cut Fat Quarters (or very little whenever they do) so I had to buy half a meter of the green one (to be cut in half). I took all of the grey one since there was only 80 cm left on the bolt. The black one is for an I Spy (not sure which one yet, but for an I Spy quilt for sure) so, I got a whole meter. 

Then I "spotted" (hehe) this panel. 

Well, my son LOVES train! The colours are weird in this panel (even in person) like it's very purple-ish and pinkish. Not sure how I'll make it look more masculine but I'll figure it out.

So, I got 2. One for the centre of the quilt and the other one to cut up and add all around. Or something like that. They were on sale for $3.50 each. At that price, how can I go wrong? 

And by the way, what's with this store to have a sale whenever I walk in??!!! 

Anywho! 

Flannelette was on sale too. 

Well . . . 

I got these (2 meters each) for the backing of the baby quilts. Dots! Again! Lol

At the cash, the lady told me that the Polka-Dot fabric were at 50% off today. Oh my! Should have gotten 2 meters of the black one. 

So, I turned around and grabbed these. 

Note that they were also on sale. When I first saw them I thought, "nah, I don't need it". After the conversation with the cashier, I was like "yep, I need these!" A polypropylene bag and a blank card depicting a quilt. Do these blocks have names? I don't recognize any of these, do you? 

With all this, have I sewn something? I did. 

I fixed this quilt. Some how the lady who sewed this kit added a row too many and missed out on a column making the quilt too long and narrow. So, I took the bottom row out and added one column on the right. Now, it is at a good baby quilt size. . . and it's MIA. 

Yep! Worked on it, took pictures and then . . . I can't find it. 😕 Nothing is lost in the universe, they say. So, I say; it's somewhere on this planet! 👀

I do have a few more picture of the baby quilts but since this post is long enough as it is, I'll save it for another day.  

Hope all is well in your neck of the wood and that some happy sewing is happening. 

(BTW, Blogger won't let me comment on your blogs this morning. Sigh! Okay, not going there. This day is too beautiful for this shit. 😏)

See you all soon. 

;^)

Will catch up with these talented ladies' link-party at some point. See you there.
Angela at So Scrappy
Frédérique at Patchwork and Quilts
Alycia for Finished or Not Friday

Cynthia for Oh Scrap!

Another Week; Another Bag.

I've returned to work this week so not as much sewing as I would have liked but still a few things got done.


I challenged myself again this week. I'm starting to like this kicking-my-own-butt-into-action attitude, lol. Let's have a look. 

Crumb stars were quickly done because the centres were already assembled. One aqua and the other is whatever-came-out-of-the-bag. 

A yellow 18 Brick block was also assembled with little 1.5 X 2.5 " bits. As I looked around for the yellow rectangles for it, I found quite a few of yellow with pink, so 

Challenge #1 was to make another block with only yellow and pink print. 

Ta-dah!  I know some are more red than pink but I worked with what I had. The batik one doesn't show up very well in the picture but it's yellow and pink. Then, when all was sewn and pressed, I found some more pink on yellow bits, lol. It never fails! 

Last weekend when I visited her, Pink gave me a bag of scraps. This week, I went through it to put the scraps away as my new morning routine permits to. 

There were many fabric in the bag. 

Challenge #2: empty Pink's bag. 

After putting all the bigger pieces away, this is all that was left. 

Look! Pink on yellow, lol. These were cut in useable sizes and put away too. 

This purple one is so beautiful and there was enough to make a Buckeye Beauty block so, in the kit bag it went. 

Okay, so, that wasn't much of a challenge. How about another bag? My right brain said : yes please. 

Out came another bag of gifted scraps for Challenge #3. Nann asked me how many bags do I have. More than fingers and toes. Lol. 

I grabbed this one. It doesn't look like much but I had some big surprises out of that one. Let's see. 

First thing I saw was a little bag of rectangles about 2 X 3.5". Set them aside to measure them properly later. 

Then this beautiful purple came out. I had this print in so many colourways but it's my first in lilac. Love it. Set it down in the purple scrap box. Also two brown HSTs came out to play. Sent those to the HST box. 

More brown pieces followed. They joined the others in the brown scrap basket. The strings close to the rotary cutter went in the string bags I sorted two weeks ago. 

Next, what I thought were strings of lovely prints turned out to be blocks.  Lots of blocks. 

Then some more . . . 

. . . and some more . . . 

They are obviously from different projects so, what am I to do with these?? (The brown geese are prettier in person. Just saying.)

For now, they are sitting on the bench. Something will come up, I'm sure. 

But wait, the bag is not empty yet. These were the next ones to come out. 

I believe they are part of *Disappearing 4 Patch* or maybe 9 Patch? I'm not very good at figuring which block becomes what when you cut them over and over. Anywho! These are all the blocks I have and no scraps from the bag matched this batik. They too shall become something . . . someday. 

At the end, the bag surrendered and gave up the last of its treasures. 

A 2.5" strip in leafy green, a strip of 2" in dark blue, 70" of blue binding and pink strings. The red and the little pile of scraps on the right were cut to useable sizes. 

Well, this bag is finally empty. Such a generous one. I believe it was from Françoise. The same lady who bind some of the baby quilts for me. 

On Wednesday, I went to Lucie's place again for some garage sewing. I went directly to her house from work to deliver an office chair with wheels. She could use one more in her garage she said and we had one we didn't use, so, win-win. I took some pictures but that will be for another post. This one is long enough as it is. 

Although I didn't take a picture, Friends' Favourite is slowly progressing. 

As always, I hope you can find some time to sew. 

Have an AMAzing weekend. ;^)

And I'll try to catch these talented ladies' link-party. See you there.
Angela at So Scrappy
Frédérique at Patchwork and Quilts
Alycia for Finished or Not Friday
Cynthia for Oh Scrap!

Look At My Bag!

Well, it didn't diminish as much as I thought it would but still . . .

this week (June 26)

when first started (June15)

It's smaller. I'll keep working on it as I have other ideas floating around my head. Always ideas. Lol.
BTW, Sara, you have a lovely sense of humour. I might have steer you into thinking this was my only bag of bits, but I assure you I have more, lol. Not only are there other bags but the containers in this photo are also holding some bits; those that are properly cut like 1.5" squares, 1.5 X 2.5" rectangles, and 2" triangles. Do not worry for me, please, I have plenty of scraps to play with. Thanks.😁

I goofed on one block. Of course, it was the last block in the making. 😒 The blue fabric is cut in a 9.5 X 8.5 inches "square". Then I cut once at an angle, any angle, don't measure from the left or the right side, just go at an angle and slash! After the rectangle of bits is added, it gets trimmed to a proper 9.5 square. I cut the last blue "square" on the 8.5"! Sigh! 

See what I mean? 

Yes, the block was completely sewn and ironed before I realized my mistake. Just leave it, girl. At this point, I went to bed. Too tired to stir some sh*t. 

Next sewing session started with the hunt for more of that print. Thank goodness my stash is STILL extensive. Ha! 

I'm losing the cow print but what can I do? I'm not unstitching that log with all those seams! No! Just sew up another one. Much simpler and more fun too. 😃

I looked at this one for a while and thought: why not make another quilt with 8.5 squares instead of 9.5"? Here we go again! Straight into another project, lol. 

EVENTUally, the bits turned into a top. This is the fastest quilt I've ever made. It stands at 37 X 46. 

I really like it. It will be added to be the baby quilt drive. Do I have enough red chunks to make a second one? LOL !! (please, stop me someone. Anyone!!) 

I managed to piece 3 backings from flannelette scraps for the baby quilt drive. The fourth is almost big enough; just one more long strip to add. Only 16 more to go. 😶

Now back to the bag: I continued working on the bits and bobs. Sorry but some HSTs didn't want to behave this morning. They kept curling up. 

Crumbs blocks standing at 4.5" and a new project.  OF COURSE a new project, because you know I needed a new one, lol. 

Some blocks are monochrome-ish while others are whatever-comes-out-of-the-bag. (yes that is a blue trimming from the top.)

This tiny little rainbow piece in the centre of the block (rainbow lines on aqua background) is finishing at 1/2 by 3/4" long. Don't ask me why. Please, don't. Lol. 

The first goal is to use up the bits in the bag: the second "goal" is to make Crumb Stars. (Wait. What? Who decided that?) 😆

The idea isn't very far along here but I'm sure you'll get my drift. The pink point will stay in this one but the other points will all be red. If I keep all the star points in one colour I think it will unify it a little bit. What do you think? 

Well, that's all I have for now. Next Wednesday is Canada Day, meaning, finally, a day off work. Hopefully, more sewing will happened. 

One more picture because why not?  

P.S. this is the link for the original pattern: tilkkunen.com/products/scilla-quilt-pattern?

Enjoy! ;^)

As always, I'll try to catch these talented ladies' link-party. See you there. 

Angela at So Scrappy

Frédérique at Patchwork and Quilts

Alycia for Finished or Not Friday

Cynthia for Oh Scrap!

What's in the Bag?

Angela announced June as Pastel month. I don't do pastel much. Whatever I have is stashed away with its own colour. (The blue with the blue.) Then, I found this bag given to me a while back (probably longer than I remember) with metal blue, icy blue, grey, etc.

So, I opened it. 

This is what came out. I'm not very good with Y seams and all these pieces are triangles and angular trapezoid shapes. I'm stuck. 

It would be easy to use this piece in a crazy quilt or in a pieced backing but 

what about this one? 😦

Maybe if I add more pieces to shape it into a rectangle it could be used in the same backing as the first one. 😶 ?? There are lots of pieces left. 

These are in pairs. They can be easily sewn into blocks. . . 

or together, into rectangles. 

Decluttering continues! The centres for Friends' Favourite last rows weren't framed in white. Last weekend I worked on that and then put all the white leftovers away. 

Oh look! a clean place. Wow! 

All the blocks are done and assembled into quadrants formation. This weekend, I shall get this space behind the sewing machine cleared so I can sew the long rows of Friends' Favourite without pushing everything off the desk. 

It will be nice to have this one turned into a complete top. 

Good news: next week, at work, I am going back to my regular hours of 8:30 to 4:30. It will be nice to have a regular schedule again. And some energy left for some sewing in the evenings. 😀

On the other hand, your comments are not good news. I still don't receive them in my email inbox even with Joy's help. Here's what I'm thinking: I'm in Canada and Joy is in the States. We all know that Google (producer of Blogger) is International but each country has it's own Google Motherboard (lol). Even more, I believe that Canada and the States have more than one each. I'm pretty sure Joy and I don't have updates at the same time nor for the same issues/reasons, nor are the updates coming from the same main office. I'm sure what she has suggested works for some of you. Lucky you. Just not for me. So, I shall continue to reply to you here. 

There were many comments about the new blocks. Thank you. 

- Frédérique asked if the newest block is made with a partial seam. Yes, it is. The long rectangles are sew to the little yellow square in the middle, starting with a partial seam. 

Do you know what I'm thinking now? Only 11 more blocks to do for a baby quilt for my quilt drive. Lol. 

There were also comments about my garden in containers. So far so good. It's still growing and green, not brown like dead weeds, lol. We have rain today that will continue for the next few days. I shall bring my garden indoor so it doesn't drown. Gardening is so much work! 😁

As always, I'll try to catch these talented ladies' link-party. See you there. 

Angela at So Scrappy

Frédérique at Patchwork and Quilts

Alycia for Finished or Not Friday

Cynthia for Oh Scrap!