Making A Lather

Saturday, September 9, 2023

rsc hollow

Not much aqua sewing for the rainbow scrap challenge. I injured my finger over labor day ( no doctors available), and, we have spent a week without the internet. And, I may or may not have had a grumpy cat attitude. But, I have been thinking about next year.

I have 5 ideas and only 1 that I am sure I want to make. Of course, as soon as I see everyone else's projects I will be inspired. I think I want to do bonnie Hunter's sugar grove for my rsc project. As part of the 5 quilt project, the next ufo is my 3 inch churn dash blocks. I might add that to the rsc instead to build up the number of blocks. They are so cute.

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wednesday wait loss

Friday, September 8, 2023

wrangled a finish

Rectangle wrangle is finished. I brought it out of the ufo closet in May 2023. I made progress through out the year. I started assembly in July. It was a top in August. I love how it looks and feels. Shirt fabrics are very forgiving, and, so fun to use. Only a few of hubby's old shirts are in this one. The rest are recycled form thrift stores. I see more light than I was expecting while I was making this. I guess that is the magic of using shirt fabrics.

90 x 102 = 27 yards

Rectangle wrangle is a Bonnie hunter quilt from her book scraps and shirttails 2. There are 4726 pieces in this quilt, and they all needed matching seams haha

I used a gray for the backing and light black for the binding. I did a free motion swirl on the long arm for the quilting in medium gray. This is my 19th UFO finish for the year.

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Wednesday, September 6, 2023

little bits

I am just making bits and bobbles while I work on my spools quilt.

9 patch on point - top
monkey wrench - bottom

lil beauty baskets - top
4 patches for strip tease - bottom

wednesday wait loss

midweek makers

My quilt infatuation

Monday, September 4, 2023

uneven 9 patch progress

I have the main part of the uneven nine patch leftovers sewn together.

( blocks from a swap and quilt here ) I am ready for borders.

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Sunday, September 3, 2023

stash report September 3, 2023

At our open sew last week, there was some fabric brought in from other quilters for the free table. I snagged these pieces.

top 2 are flannel

stash report September 3, 2023

fabric added: 3 1/2 yards

fabric added year to date: 123 yards

fabric used: 3 yards

fabric used year to date: 346 1/2 yards

219 1/2 yards used more than bought

I sewed 3 days last week.

The rug pattern is called Christmas in new England by Old tattered flag. It is meant to be a tree skirt, but I am changing it to just a circular rug. SO, on dasher and dancer.

These little guys are fiddley, but, fun. I am using scrappy pieces of wool for them. There is a LOT of background on this rug, so, I am digging through my wool stash for any dark blue, and, starting to cut. I don't think I will have to dye any blue, but, I might 'marry' some together to get some variation.

I have most of the reindeer finished. I did injure my finger, and, haven't felt like hooking.

george and fred

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Slow Sunday Stitching

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sunday stash at quiltpaintcreate
patchwork and quilts

wednesday wait loss

15 min to stitch at life in pieces

Saturday, September 2, 2023

lucky star

I have not had the internet for three days - blah and I ran the longarm through my finger... on my anniversry. yes it hurt. sigh

I used aqua scraps for lucky star blocks.

I don't have as many aqua scraps this year. hmmm

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rsc23 super saturday
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wednesday wait loss

Friday, September 1, 2023

wensleydale top one monthly goal

This has been a long time project. Well, it seems that way. It became part of my 5 quilt UFO project in March. I had 10 cut in April. I had 5 made in May. I made more blocks in June. All the blocks were made in July And the top is made in August. Jen didn't border hers, but, I am worried if I don't do something, it will be hard to have the binding meet the points on the edges. decisions..decisions...decisions