week 4 -rainbow scrap challenge November

  My red and brown pfeffernuesse quilt. for the rainbow scrap challenge is a top. I started the string blocks in 2016. It deserved to be finished. I was great at starting projects many years ago. I guess, I was making retirement projects. Pulling out an older ufo, is so much fun, if, I don't go down the " what was I thinking" rabbit hole.

 I was diligent about sewing sugar grove blocks this past week. I now have 50 of the 72 I need for the quilt. Making them is part of my muscle memory by now.

 I ironed the last of the zig zag quilt blocks. I used up many 1 1/12 inch strips, but, it still doesn't look like a whole quilt in the drawer.

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week 3 -rainbow scrap challenge November

After ironing the red and brown pfeffernuesse quilt. for the rainbow scrap challenge this month. I searched for the inner border and attached the final choice for the quilt. I have also been searching for the outer border. I planned for brown. My selection of browns were lackluster. But, buried amid the browns, was a lovely burgundy red that I think is "the one". on the right

it is deeper than the picture

I have actually pressed the zig zag quilt blocks every day this past week. I have less to go than I have done.

it doesn't look like a whole quilt

I am still sewing the sugar grove blocks. I have all the  premade kits I have made over the year done, but I still have partial kits and more hsts that were made but not in kits, yet. 

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week 2 - rainbow scrap challenge November

 I have the top ready for borders for my red and brown pfeffernuesse quilt. I am excited to finish this older bonnie hunter ufo. I worked on it, in the red and the brown months, for the rainbow scrap challenge. I am pleased with my progress this week.

I took single pictures this week, not sure if I would get more done than just one. I fell behind on  sugar grove blocks. I really want to catch up by the end of the year.

I have all the blocks made for  a zig zag quilt I want to make using 1 1/2 inch scrap strips. I made them, but, did not iron them and the drawer looked intimidating. I decided I would iron as many as I could until the end of the year. Maybe, I can sew them together next year for each color of the month.

My fingers are not as nimble anymore, so I pulled out my finger cots to open them as I was ironing. They worked great.

monkey wrench

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finishing rainbow scrap challenge projects

 I have all the big blocks for my red and brown pfeffernuesse quilt. 

I made the last of the windmill blocks in black and gray for the rainbow scrap challenge.

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I found over 100 odd colors of 2 inch hsts for my bonnie Hunter basket quilt. This should finish up the year with more than the 700 I need for the quilt. I need to cut and make the bigger hsts for the basket in November.

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progress on rainbow scrap challenge

 It is time to start making big blocks for the red and brown pfeffernuesse quilt. All the blocks are either done or redone. I began by sewing twosies and webbing them together with their mates. I am excited to get this ufo this far. I did the red parts during red month for the rainbow scrap challenge. This month is brown, so, I pulled the project out again, since, the string blocks are brown.

I cut my windmill blocks in gray. I haven't counted to see if I have a enough for a good size donation quilt, yet.  

I am scraping the bottom of the barrel for monkey wrench pieces that match. I either need to cut and do more next year, or say enough is enough.

I set up 4 more sugar grove blocks on flannel boards for easy grab and go sewing. I haven't done as many as I had planned this year. I think I am over half way. I am expecting to carry this on to next year's projects.

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pfeffernuuse and zigzags

 When I opened the box of an older ufo for the rainbow scrap challenge. I discovered that many of the hourglass blocks were turned the wrong way..... sigh  I unstitched them, and, resewed them correctly. It was an easy fix. I had flipped the top and bottom row of  2. One new seam, and, it was made to right.

I used smaller strips in odd colors to make for the zig zag quilt. I think I have about 500 little units. I've made them over the year, but, I didn't iron them open. I am guessing that was a big mistake. I started ironing this month, and it took forever. haha

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pfeffernusse progress

Red was the color of the month in April for the rainbow scrap challenge. I worked on an older ufo from 2016 to move it along called pfeffernuuse. By the end of the month, I had all the large HSTS made. I noticed when I put it away, at the end of the month, that all the red hourglass blocks were not the same. This month is brown or black. That means I can revisit this ufo. I am really glad to restart the project in October to correct the problem, and maybe make a top.

I started making the hourglass blocks in 2017.

This note was in the box. I must have sewn all willy nilly, when I started making them years ago.

I started the string blocks in 2016. 

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Moving Forward

Thanks to the quiltathon weekend, all my border units for midnight flight are finished.

as a matter of fact, all my units are pieced. hooray. There are a gobzillion pieces I have put together a little at a time as an away from home sewing project.

Now it is time to retire this quilt from active duty and find another no brain sewing project to take to my small quilt groups. But I have 576 bonus triangles from midnight flight in purple or blue and neutral  that will be the seeds for scrap crystals. I need 684. that shouldn't take long.
I came up 5 units short for piecing the hourglass blocks for pfeffernuese. on the plus side, at this point, there is no stress over what to do with the leftover units haha.

My En Provence  bright is all ready to start assembly

My civil war version needs the 4 patches and both hour glass units.

There is a final link up at Quiltville for En Provence. There will be so many wonderful, inspiring places to visit and see here

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Moving ahead

I had a successful canning batch of vegetable soup. The house smelled soooo good. And there was some leftover enough to eat.

As punishment for buying fabric last week, I was forced to sew some more hourglass blocks.

I have managed to cut all the big pieces of fabric for my one monthly goal American Beauty Rose, in to the strips sizes needed for sewing. When I was done, I was a little disturbed by how much fabric was left over, surely a more efficient way to use the fabric could have been used. Then I realized, the center blocks of background are 17 inches square, and that would have been the best size to use in the 20s when fabric was 36 in wide. So Marie Webster was a quilt genius of her time. LOL

I have done something each day so far, to move this quilt along. Some days I do more than other days, but I haven't missed a day yet in February.

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American Beauty Rose

An actual blue sky. I haven't seen that in weeks. Hooray

Judy of Patchwork times has drawn a new UFO number # 9  and mine is American Beauty Rose, a Marie Webster reproduction quilt. I am very excited to get started on this. I bought it last summer.
It uses quiltsmart interfacing. Which made it look doable for me. But I am sure it will still be a challenge. All I have done is buy the fabric, but I put it on the ufo list because I didn't want it to become lost forever in the black hole project closet.

My One monthly goal is to begin the quilt, working on it everyday in February. At which time, I will decide if it stays as an "in the background project" or gets put away until I can devote another chunk of concentrated time. I think that once I get it to the applique stage, I can work on it in the evenings as my hand project.
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Yesterday was small quilt group and I worked on my red/ neutral hourglasses for pfefferneuse. If I have counted right, I have all the hourglasses finished, and I have started putting them together in groups of 4.

I am pinwheel challenged and wonder what would be an acceptable percent of failures in the center- 10% 20%? I am only showing the ones that are great. But we shall forge ahead.

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Lockerbie street

I had a fun, busy weekend. I traveled to Indianapolis to see the James Whitcomb Riley Museum on Lockerbie street. I have such a sentimental place in my heart for this Indiana poet. My Grandfather had many of his poems memorized, and would entertain me reciting the best ones to me as a child, Lil Orphan Annie, the raggedy Man, The Bar. Still, the fondest memory is of the poem "An Old Sweetheart of Mine" Granddad would say this to my Grandmother, and they would look like young lovers for a moment even after 60 + years of marriage. I had it memorized by the time I was a teenager, but can only quote parts of it now.

Everything in the museum, is preserved and original. It was an incredible home in it's time and even more amazing now. They would not allow pictures, which I can respect, except for an amazing quilt in one of the bedrooms. It was made in 1890 and gifted to the housekeeper. Made with red and white squares finishing at 1 1/2 inches and the white squares had redwork embroidery in each tiny square. And in the center was a label with the date. This is an incredible piece of history and I asked if a picture of it could be purchased - no. I asked if it had been documented in any quilt book or organization - again no. I sure wish I had bucked the system to get a picture of this quilted treasure.sigh...

My son took me to dinner at Olive Garden, and gave me flowers. He said he tried to get the ones with the most yellow since that was my favorite. Aw shucks, he remembered. My oldest son with my oldest Grandchildren turned up in church Sunday morning as a surprise all the way from Martinsville.

My Grandchildren loved the polar bears for hot chocolate and other stuff, and I loved having them to hug on and enjoy. so cute

All I have sewn all weekend was a few red and neutral hourglasses for Pfefferneuse

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