cheryl arkison

My New Projects and Knitting from The Cozy Quilter

I started these blocks at a recent guild retreat after mulling over the design for a couple of months. I made two at the retreat and one more today. I have more colours pulled to make nine blocks for this wall hanging. Here is the pink block.

And here are the three blocks I have made so far.

The centres are a cute print that I have had in my stash for a few years. I have the green and blue blocks in line to do next.

I have been knitting most days this past week and my scarf is ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 month ago. under cheryl arkison , crochet , drunkard's path , finn , knitting , slow sunday stitching , solids

A Finished Quilt from The Cozy Quilter

Most of my sewing this past week was by hand. I finished quilting the Quilt for a Survivor of a Residential School on Monday and added the binding by machine on Tuesday, leaving the hand sewing of the binding for several car trips we made on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. It's been hot here so having a quilt on my lap was a bit warm but I directed the A/C vents towards me and managed to finish the hand sewing without melting! First, a few close ups of the quilting. I used navy thread top and bottom and ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 years, 9 months ago. under binding , cheryl arkison , finn , flowers , gardens , hand sewing , improvisational piecing , quilts for survivors , slow sunday stitching

I Need to Do Some Quilting... from The Cozy Quilter

Back in February, I took a Zoom class with Cheryl Arkison called Traditional Variations. The idea was to take a traditional block and change it up in some way. I made blocks based on four traditional blocks: churn dash, pinwheel, log cabin and sawtooth star. This week, I finished my last three blocks and put the top together, except for the final border which is cut but not sewn on yet. This quilt will be donated to the Toronto Modern Quilt Guild outreach project--Quilts for Survivors of Residential Schools. My husband and I participated in a Healing Walk this morning ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 years, 9 months ago. under cheryl arkison , comfort quilts , finn , flowers , lupins , quilts for survivors , rainbow scrap challenge , rug hooking , selvages , slow sunday stitching

This Week's Sewing Adventures from The Cozy Quilter

It's been a busy week in the sewing room at my house! The log blocks really did nothing to enhance my Oxford Quilter's Guild VP day challenge quilt so I removed them and made a few more HST's. I rearranged the HST's to my liking and then started sewing the rows together. Most of the rows are sewn and the top two are sewn to each other. I will likely finish this top this week. I love the Shweshwe fabrics I have used for this project!

I finished the embroidery on my Lupine quilt label this ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 3 years, 1 month ago. under cheryl arkison , comfort quilts , elgin piecemakers , embroidery , finn , guild challenge , hst's , knitting , oxford quilters guild , quilting class , slow sunday stitching

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