beach sewing

SASSY GARDEN! from Kwilty Pleasures

In 2010 Jane Sassaman had a line of fabric called Sunshine and Shadows,

that I fell in love with. A collection of beautiful Garden Prints that included

Coleus, Jack in the Pulpit, Twigs and Garden Tiles.

I often purge my stash but I just couldn't give this fabric up!

It sat in my stash until last year (2022) when

I found a pattern on PINTEREST I wanted to use.

The pattern was in a 2010 International Quilt Festival magazine that

was no longer in print. I ordered a digital copy of the magazine with

The "Avalon" pattern, by Elizabeth ...

added by Kathy @ Kwilty Pleasures 12 months ago. under beach sewing , eric , garden , modern quilts , quilts in the wild

HITCHHIKER AT THE BEACH from Kwilty Pleasures

Sometimes I get so busy with life that my blog posting gets lost!

I need to keep after this albeit old fashioned, in the social media world

It’s my creative journal and I use it often to find a detail or photo about a project.

My blog will carryon and I although I have many followers on IG

I hope someone out there is still following along!

I was at the beach this past spring and I took along an easy knitting project.

The Hitchhiker Scaf by Martina Behm.

Here are the details about the yarn.

I just LOVVVVVVE ...

added by Kathy @ Kwilty Pleasures 1 year ago. under beach sewing , knitting

BACK PAIN from Kwilty Pleasures

I have back pain...its not fun.

It can range from the arthritis to disk degeneration to a

a muscle hitting a sciatica nerve.

Sometime one or the other, sometimes all at once.

However, there is a back pain in quilting that is NOT physical

but mental and it involves fabric.

I like to piece the backings for my modern quilts.

Sometimes it is painful.

This is my Beachy Showers Quilt

and this is the process I used to make the backing...

using only fabrics I had in my stash.

I hang the quilt top on my design wall to ...

added by Kathy @ Kwilty Pleasures 3 years, 5 months ago. under 2021 finishes , 2021 sew my stash , beach sewing

WHERE BEACHY SHOWERS HAPPEN from Kwilty Pleasures

When I am at the beach...

I make quilts.

When it rains at the beach...

I make quilts

The fabric in this quilt is called

April Showers

I named this quilt, Beachy Showers

for all those reasons.

And the first picture is a photo op

at the Beach Showers...how cool is that!

added by Kathy @ Kwilty Pleasures 3 years, 7 months ago. under 2021 finishes , 2021 sew my stash , beach sewing , sewcial distance

A BEACHY WONDER from Kwilty Pleasures

It was a kinda bright day at the beach,

but this baby quilt made with

Kate and Birdie ‘WONDER’

Had to be photographed at the BEACH!

The thing is the colors were totally lost

Whe I tried to lay the top on the sandy beach.

Sew this is what I did.

This is a public beach boardwalk entrance.

A shadier close up

A private park along the Intercostal Waterway.

And yep...I am a true trespasser!

Bit I want the pictures I want

I WONDER if you would bail me out if I am

ever arrested for BEACHY trespassing?

added by Kathy @ Kwilty Pleasures 3 years, 7 months ago. under 2021 sew my stash , baby quilts , beach sewing , sewcial distance

CHARITY SEWING 2021 from Kwilty Pleasures

I kicked off 2021 by sewing lots of quilts tops from my stash.

2020 gave me lots of time to rethink where and how

I will spend my volunteer time in 2021!

The Stitching Sisters is a local Columbus OH group that

I have been involved with, on and off, for many, many years.

My best friend who fought breast cancer in 2020 (now in remission)

received one of their quilts. I decided it was time for me to

get back and give back to them.

You can read about the Stitching Sister's efforts here.

I had lots of ...

added by Kathy @ Kwilty Pleasures 3 years, 7 months ago. under 2021 finishes , 2021 sew my stash , beach sewing , charity quilting

FLAG QUILT from Kwilty Pleasures

Before July has slipped by...I wanted to share

my finished Stars and Stripes quilt,

pattern by Thimbleblossoms.

I started this in 2019, making the blocks at a quilt retreat.

It is quick and easy but it sat in a pile of "to quilt" projects.

My friend, Coleen Rains, offered to quilt this one

'on the house' as she learned about how to use

her new longarm machine.

We played with a wave design

and decided a long soft wave was perfect.

Like a flag, gently waving in the wind.

Binding was blue/white and perfect to frame this ...

added by Kathy @ Kwilty Pleasures 4 years, 3 months ago. under 2020 finishes , beach sewing , sew my stash 2020

OUR 2020 SENIOR from Kwilty Pleasures

Our grandson, Daevaughn Chatman,

is a Senior in the Class of 2020

That means many heartbreaking things...

Missing the prom, graduation ceremony.

The longest ‘Senior Skip Day’ ever.

For me, it meant a graduation quilt!

I have a ga-zillion precuts and I found some

by Amy Ellis that read masculine.

I decided to use Charm Pack Cherry pattern.

Its quick and easy using charm packs!

Not too much fabric to pack for my winter snowbird adventure

The pattern is free over at the FQ Shop.

Click here to get your copy!

I began working on the quilt, in the small ...

added by Kathy @ Kwilty Pleasures 4 years, 5 months ago. under 2020 finishes , beach sewing , graduation quilt , stash

2019 MYSTERIOUS SEWING from Kwilty Pleasures

Sew here's the MYSTERY!

Leigh Morgan was the coordinator for the Columbus Modern Quilters

2019 Mystery Quilt Challenge

Every other month we received a CLUE or directions

to make a part of the Mystery Quilt.

Clue 1 was to pick fabrics

I decided to pull from my stash and used 4 tones in each color way!

Clue 2 was to cut the fabrics

I made an index card that showed the colors and their labels.

This makes it easy to figure out what goes where

when sewing pieces together.

Clue 3

Sew this block, using specific fabrics

and a ...

added by Kathy @ Kwilty Pleasures 4 years, 9 months ago. under 2019 finishes , beach sewing , mystery quilt

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