Little Bits of Red and a Big Rainbow

I got my Red Personal Challenge out and assessed where I was and what was left to do to get this quilt finish. Ha! Finish! Hahahaha!

It is still very much in pieces. 

Only 11 little log-cabin-style blocks are made so far ... 

They stand at 5.5 inches and will finish at 5 inches. 

 

They use up a lot of blacks so I need a great variety of it to avoid too many repeats as I am doing now. So, if anyone out there feels like sharing their scraps of black, charcoal, or very dark greys, I'll give you my mailing address. Small pieces are welcome as the smallest piece in the block is 1.5 X 0.75 inches. That is correct. No typo here. :^D  I am having soooooo much fun!! 

Before that, I finished the blue tulips from last month. Or was that the month before? Anywho! Here they are with their little sidekicks. 

One tulip made me curse a little bit. 

See how the right leaf points to the right and the left leaf points to the left? Easy, right? 

Well, I forgot that and sewed the corner pieces with the same slant on both leaves. Since I had already cut the "bonus HST" (for the shoofly block), I had to cut another piece of white. 

Sewed it up, ironed, and cut it, then I realized that I done the SAME mistake!! Whhaaat!?? (Can someone please bring me some coffee, I gently asked in my head while the left side of my brain went #$%*&@*#^#$!) 

Okay! Let's try again. You know the third time is a charm. Well, it didn't go so well. 

Look, I got it on the right side. Yay!! But ... Wait a minute! Whhhaaaat!!! No!! You're kidding me! I didn't use the right fabric. 🙄

That's right. My second and third attempts were made with the white fabric that I pulled out for the NEXT tulip. At this point, I was starting to be smart. (Yes, just starting to be. Must have been the coffee.) I hadn't cut the bonus triangles yet, so I can use this one in another tulip.  Ha! I cut another piece from the white fabric selected for THIS tulip and then finally moved on. Talk about being the Queen of Bloopers! Hahaha! 

Now for the rainbow part of this post. 

I've set the blocks down in a random layout. Should I use a rainbow layout? Sashing? Which colour? Should I add the little Shoofly to this quilt or keep them for a quilt of their own? 

When making a quilt, the questions seem to multiply at the same rate as the blocks. 

Have a great weekend. 

;^)

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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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The Red is Marching In

So much wonderful news is coming from Mars, the red planet. My boys are following the helicopter's "voyages" interestedly. 

Me, I grabbed a bag of red and black triangles (again) and sew up a bunch of HSTs (again). The bag has been waiting for Angela to call its name. It's very happy to be in action. 

It came to me in a gifted bag. I wish I could see the quilt it came from. 

I don't know how many HSTs I can make from this bag; maybe 300? More? Less? 

We'll see. 

I have one hundred sewn already and some are even trimmed. Gosh, I am so productive tonight (Friday evening). 

I thought there were two red fabrics with one black but the back of the blocks tell another story. Both black fabrics sport wind instruments and one has musical notes added. 

Wonder what will become of these? 

Some of you already know that my computer died and I lost a lot of files, photos and so on. Do NOT save your documents on your desktop. Let it be a lesson, please. I lost my dear Excel file where everything quilting was recorded. Thank goodness that I talked about my personal RS Challenge in a previous post and published it. I went back to it and I now know that my personal challenge for Red is: 

by Judy Martin

This photo comes from Pinterest as I am not very far along with my quilt. Hopefully, more blocks will be made in May.  By the way, mine is red! And black. You can see it here. 

Have a great one! 

;^)

P.S. The suspense was killing me, lol. This morning (Saturday) I just had to sew the rest of the triangles. The bag is empty and I have . . . 

215 HSTs

It is a nice morning, so I might just bring my ironing board outside and get these press. ;^) 

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Tuesday Triangles (Edited)

It all started when I decided to empty this tub. It was full, like overflowing, with triangles of all sizes and colours. 

Little did I know it would take so long to see the bottom of it. 

Some were more "triangle" than others. 

All sizes were present. 

The beginning of the quilt. Block #1

There's still a lot of triangles in the tub. 

some are very big (and they might return in the scrap basket of their colour) or very small and some are the right size;

some are in plastic bags with the size written down. They are the leftovers from Shakespeare in the Park which you can see here.

some are just not the right kind of triangles (the blocks on the left are rejects from this table runner ) and some are sewn together.

 (not sure what I'll do with those red ones. They were surprises in a gifted bag. I have enough triangles to make six more One Block Wonder. Unfortunately, the triangles are not all cut the same size. Sigh!) 

Anywho! That's what's left in the tub. 

So, let's get back to the HST quilt. 

You see one block, you've seen them all, except for the fun of discovering new fabric or similar fabric to yours and so on. 

Yes, I did had to add some more fabric because there was WAY too many blue (Shakespeare in the Park, 365 Challenge Quilt, Jacob's Ladder) and too many green (Field of Poppies.) 

Relentlessly, the quilt grew. I made so many HST that at one point it was an addiction. (One quarter of the quilt)

I played with colours and values, trying not to have a fabric twice in one block and just had fun. (Two quarters of the quilt) 

Then I had a lot of HSTs that were just a tad too small for this quilt. 

So another HST quilt was born. 

HST Quilt #2 block 1 

Then I had a helper. (!?) 

If you know me one bit, you know that I didn't do all those blocks without a blooper. (¬_¬ )

Unfortunately, my computer died last week and I've lost a lot of photos. 😪 No, I mean a LOT of photos! 😭 Just believe me when I say I did a blooper! In my defense, it was in block #9 so I managed to make 8 blocks without a mistake!!! Shouldn't I get an Honorary Mention for that?  🤣

Anywho! With a lot of ironing (all seams are pressed open) (still not finished that stage), I am slowly putting the blocks together and my son got my wheels spinning. He said it would be nicer if it was red, white and black! That would be a stunning quilt. So, am I really gonna make another one? 🤦‍♀️ This one is even not done yet! Oh! Startitis! Once infected, we are never cured. 😂

Here's where I'm at with this project. (This is not the final layout. I just set them down on the deck to take a picture real quick before the wind blew them all away.) 

Borders ??

Made with 1024 HSTs or 2048 triangles. 

Take care, everyone! (●'◡'●)

;^)  and ᓚᘏᗢ 

P.S. Sorry for all the grammatical mistakes. I have a new motherboard and it came empty, empty of everything, dictionary included. Hahaha! 😉

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