Making A Lather

Sunday, July 27, 2025

stash report July 27, 2025

I am still sorting through a box of odd fat quarters. These are the pink and red fabrics. I put these in the scrap bins. I am seeing the bottom of the box.

stash report July 27, 2025

fabric added this week: 0 yards

fabric added year to date for 2025: 41 yards

fabric used: 3 yards - I donated a partially done older ufo to the guild. I am hoping someone else will finish it. + 14 yards Strip twist is finished

60 x 68

fabric used year to date for 2025: 186 1/2 yards

145 1/2 yards used more than bought in 2025

I sewed 2 days last week.

I have created a new friendship swap for my rug hooking group. It is a swap rug. Everyone wanted houses this time. It has two rows of houses, and trees, too. We each do a house on our own rug, and then, we pass it around for everyone to hook a house on our rug, When we are done, we will have a rug with our friends hooking on it. I have made 2 or 3 others and they are such a treasure.

We have a goal to trade every two weeks. This was my hooking for last week on Mary E's rug. The green in the windows are supposed to be curtains. The door looks a bit better in person.

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Saturday, July 26, 2025

last purple scrap week

This is the last week of the purple scraps for the rainbow scrap challenge. I found 70 purple 2 inch hsts for bonnie Hunter basket quilt. This is month 7 for the hsts, and, I haven't had to cut or sew 90% of them. I have had them in drawers since I have started quilting again. Most of them are bonus triangles, or leftovers from projects. I have had to trim and press. At this point I have at least 490 of the ready to go. I need 700, just a few more to go.

I had one sugar grove blocks with purple for the center. I didn't get it finished, yet.

I have my 6 windmill blocks in purple, with one lonely monkey wrench.

My older ufo in purple is a finished quilt.

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Friday, July 25, 2025

strip twist quilt finish

I have a finish, and, it isn't even an official part of my 5 quilt project. I decided to add this to my Rainbow scrap challenge projects this month as part of the purple color work. It was already a top but, needed a border and quilting. This is an older purple ufo from 2013 called strip twist jelly roll surprise.

60 x 68 =14 yards

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Monday, July 21, 2025

snowball sashing

After all the snowball blocks were finished, I laid them out, and, realized, that I would want pieced sashings to join the blocks. I am planning on a 4 x 5 setting for the quilt. I was able to make all the block sashings at open sew. Each sashing will need 7- 2 inch squares. I thought it would take forever, but, it was rather soothing to send 2 inch squares through the machine.

Yep, that is the right plan.

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Saturday, July 19, 2025

purple progress

I played with more purples for the rainbow scrap challenge.

I have begun the quilting on my older purple ufo from 2013 called strip twist jelly roll surprise. I think the pattern is a free one from quiltville.blogspot.com.

I finished a sugar grove blocks and a few monkey wrenches. I have been making monkey wrench blocks since 2023. I have 117 made, and, it might be time to make decisions and finish it up this year. I have very few left that are cut.

My 2 1/2 inch purple strips bag is beginning to empty.

I cut some purple hsts for the center of another sugar grove block and have it ready to sew.

I sewed 18 inches of 2 1/2 inch strips to my windmill neutral ( light gray). I Cut them into sets of 4 - 4 1/2 inch blocks for the windmills.

Last year, I made blocks using a white background

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Monday, July 14, 2025

border spider

Last month, I decided to grab an older ufo - 2016 called orange spiderwebs. Here is my first post about this quilt in 2016. The blocks were in twosies. I have finished the top by adding borders. I hope to quilt it soon. I made the string parts using an old people powered treadle. I used a domestic machine to finish. It is a bright happy quilt, using the smallest parts of my orange scraps. I have a fondness for halloween.

I decided to clean out under my longarm and replace the storage pieces underneath. The result was a huge mess on top of the longarm, LOL Nellie, my longarm, is very sullen that she hasn't been quilting. Slowly, but, surely, it will be made better.

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Sunday, July 13, 2025

stash report July 13, 2025

I am still sorting through a box of odd fat quarters. I found these blue ones. I have a hard time deciding how best to use them up or give them away. I really don't have any new projects coming up to plan for using them.