Flowering again

She's back - I was afraid she was dying.

On my design wall - I am using Elizabeth Hartman's chart for the placement. Right now, I don't like it. But, maybe I am not holding my mouth right.

New yarn purchase for a pair of socks.

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stash report March 5 2017

I won a wonderful fat quarter bundle from Molli Sparkles  Thank you so much!
7 fat quarters from Jennifer Sampou shimmer line #2  

I am really excited with the beautiful colors and textures.

And I love anything with writing on it. I'm not sure I can cut into it. sigh,,,

I have some flowers to attach to American Beauty Rose quilt on a Sunday afternoon with Spring giving hints, it's almost time

Stash report

Fabric Used this Week: 0 yards
Fabric Used year to Date: 133 1/2 yards
Fabric Added this Week: 1 3/4 yards
Fabric Added Year to Date: 38 3/4 yards

Net Fabric for 2017: 95 .5 yards more used than added

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A new color

The March  rainbow scrap challenge color is RED.

 I didn't have much time to work with red since the announcement.
I did make 2 maple leaves

My original intention with the maple leaves was pastel colors like these on my inspiration board

My reds are a bit dark, so I will probably add a few pink leaves this month during "red"
While looking in my 2 1/2 in square box, I noticed there are not many reds at all. I use a lot of red in quilt making, I wonder why there are not any squares of leftovers in the box?


 SewCan She

rsc17 super saturday

bunny ears treat bag

I am ready for Spring. Obviously, jumping the gun a bit. But I thought these Easter treat bags are so cute! They are also very fun to make from just 4 charm squares and a giggle. I found the idea here on Patchwork Times, and she had a link to the tutorial here.

Here are some of mine

I didn't want to do buttonholes, so I have been experimenting with one side of a snap and an eyelet.
I bought these, but they look too big for the bunnies and they were 1/4 inch eyelets.

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I have started a pair of socks with all the leftover bits of yarn from other socks. I absolutely love how they are looking so far.

A New monthly Goal

One monthly goal and March UFo 2017 at Patchwork Times is Fancy Forest quilt by Elizabeth Hartman. I have completed all the blocks. I need to cut all the sashing and border pieces, and assemble the top, and quilt it.
I used a cotton and steel fat quarter bundle. I am really excited to work on this and finish it.

I found a small batch of 2 inch 1/2 square triangles left over from another project and added them to my Grandpas star quilt project. This is a Bonnie Hunter pattern in her Addicted to scraps column in quiltmaker magazine. I work on these from time to time as rogue squares surface. If I cleaned more, I would find more, but who does that!

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One Monthly Goal

marie webster

My February One monthly Goal was to spend some time every day, to work on my American Beauty Rose quilt designed by Marie Webster in the early 1900s. 

I was able to cut, and sew  most of the quilt and have completed 2 blocks and one more will be finished by the end of the month. I am very happy with the results. At this point, I plan to  prepare a few blocks for the hand stitching and leave it by my chair in the living room. Then, I can just put in a few stitches when time allows. 

"Marie Webster's quilts have been favorites of quilt makers ever since they were published over 80 years ago, and all quilt makers owe her a debt. Her designs... sparked a revolution in quilt design on the heels of the arts and crafts movement and the colonial revival, which emphasized the return to simpler traditions and handmade objects. Webster's quilts, the first to be published in color in Ladies Home Journal, were based on floral patterns which 'revitalized the art of applique with fresh new forms and a palette of pastel colors that would become the hallmark of American quilts in the 1920s and '30s.'

 Marie Webster was born in 1859 in a small town in rural northern Indiana..She married a successful businessman, George Webster, in 1884, and following an extended honeymoon the couple settled in Chicago. A few years later, the Webster’s moved to George’s home town of Marion, Indiana, a manufacturing center.  She had been embroidering household linens since she was a child, but did not make her first quilt until 1909, when she was 50 years old. Becoming a quilt enthusiast, she found the popular geometric pieced quilts not to her liking, and so applied her own patterns.  In the January 1, 1911 issue, Editor Edward Bok featured four full-color quilt designs of the amateur Marie Webster. With a circulation of over 1.5 million readers, the magazine made Marie Webster a household name. Readers wrote her for patterns. Within one month of the Ladies Home Journal publication, Webster was selling her quilt patterns for 50 cents. Her fame spreading, the New York publisher Doubleday, page & Co. invited Marie Webster to write a book on the history of quilting. Tracing the history back to ancient Egypt and up to America, Webster completed the book, which was published in 1915 as Quilts: Their Story and How to Make Them.

In 1921 she formed, with two friends, The Practical Patchwork Company, and her manufacture of quilt patterns evolved into a true cottage industry. "

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 and One monthly Goal

stash report Feb 26, 2017

These fabric finds were kits i found at Goodwill. I'm not interested in the patterns, but there was 5.5 yards of lovely fabric for 5 dollars.

Stash report

Fabric Used this Week: 0 yards
Fabric Used year to Date: 133 1/2 yards
Fabric Added this Week: 5.5 yards
Fabric Added Year to Date: 37 yards

Net Fabric for 2017: 97 1/4 yards more used than added

I finished this block for last year's guild president for her president's quilt. She requested this block in reproduction fabrics. It's called "Milton's musket ball". it uses 2 inch squares and finishes at 7 1/2 x 7 1/2. odd size?

after our success at canning baked beans last week, I decided I wanted to can some more in quart jars. The tattler lids ( reuseable) worked a second time around. I am so excited to add this to my 'fix in a hurry' list, when I don't want to cook. The recipe is yummy and tastes like Bush's baked beans. I doubled it and only got 6 quarts from it. Then I did 3 pounds of beans, and it was just a bit short.

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