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December 12, 2024
Comfort packages continue to roll out from Art In Search

      Over the past months, I continue to receive referrals for quilt packages. It was good that I had them ready.

     This one, the strips from Quiltdiva Julie, went to a young man with 2 small children that has Stage 4 Pancreatic cancer.

     The Scrap Jar Stars went to a young woman battling nasty Stage 4 cancer.

     This Branches quilt went to a woman from my church with Stage 4 Lung Cancer. It went out so fast, I did not get to take a picture of the bag and contents. It is not as big as I like to give, but ...

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October 26, 2024
Moving Right Along from The Cozy Quilter

This has been a productive week in the sewing department!  I finished quilting the potato chip quilt I made for the local hospice.  I used the cut offs from the backing to make the binding, remembering after I had machine stitched it to the front of the quilt that it needed to be machine stitched down, not hand stitched as I usually do.  Oops! This is because the quilts for the hospice will be washed and dried by machine often and the binding will stay on better if machine stitched.  I did not want to un-sew all of the binding ...

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October 20, 2024
Getting Back to Normal from The Cozy Quilter


I have been reacquainting myself with my sewing machine over the past few days.  I decided to get going on quilting the potato chip quilt top I made for our new hospice (opening in the Spring of 2025).  First I quilted two lines in the sashing to get everything stabilized and ready for quilting the blocks. I also added a row of stitching around the entire quilt the width of the walking foot into the beige border and then a 1/8th of an inch from the edge of the border to keep it flat.  I hummed and hawed over ...

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August 9, 2024
Flowers for Auntie... from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

 

It is time to get this comfort quilt

under the needle...



This measures 72 inches square

so I am machine quilting it on my

Handi Quilter Sweet Sixteen...





The quilting is complete and I am

squaring up the quilt...





I used a clam shell ruler to

quilt the center...

I kept the design simple so it would

not complete with this large floral fabric.





Swirls and plume quilting design

in the pink border...





Feather quilting in the white border...





I matched the thread colors so they

would not stand out and complete with these

gorgeous, large floral fabrics...





It is ...

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July 22, 2024
Quilt Power! from Art In Search

      Two comfort quilt packages went out recently. I had not had any requests for a while, so I was glad to move these out! Pixel Chain and Wanda's Butterfly Quilt were bagged up and delivered to the people who had requested them for someone they knew. Both were for women with sudden stage 4 cancers.

    A year ago, I received an email request from an unknown woman stricken with multiple cancers and other horrible physical issues who somehow found my name online. I took a chance on sending her a quilt. I sent some photos to choose from, and ...

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July 14, 2024
On a Roll! from The Cozy Quilter

 For some reason, I was really in the mood to sew this week.  It was too hot or rainy outside so I spent my time in my sewing room, playing with fabric.  I finished hand quilting my Put a Ring On It wall hanging, trimmed it and added the binding by machine.  I will work on hand stitching the binding tomorrow. I can't believe how much I enjoyed hand quilting this project...maybe I will have to do some more hand quilting again soon. 


I also finished the cross stitching on my Lupins project and I have started the ...

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November 30, 2023
My Second November Quilting Retreat from The Cozy Quilter


Christine and I attended the annual November Crafter's retreat at Camp Kintail this past weekend.  We both love these weekends away to get lots done on our current and new projects.  I just noticed that a lot of my projects are green in this post...  I made this I Spy HRT quilt top at the Oxford Guild retreat early in November and managed to get it quilted and bound at the retreat.  I finished off the hand stitching on the binding at home this week. 


I found this fun green and white striped fabric in my stash for the ...

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November 1, 2023
Comfort times three from Art In Search

       Sort of a record- three comfort quilts went out the door in one week to three different people. The quilts were all quilted, but needed to be washed (I wait until I get a recipient before I wash, dry and immediately bag), sew pockets on the bags, make pocket quilts and complete labels. I had been praying for recipients for those quilts, but was surprised by so many requests at once. Unfortunately, all were cancer situations.
     I am very privileged to be a quilter and grateful to secure the resources to make comfort quilt kits. Every quilt is needed and ...

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August 13, 2023
Special fabric delivery! from Art In Search

      One of the joys of life is receiving fabric in the mail. Knowing someone trusts you enough to make comfort quilts with it and sends it to you is an awesome humbling position that I have blessed with. Gwen has sent me fabric, especially backing fabric, before and it has so helped me to complete quilts to give away.
     Her latest box had all kinds of goodies in it. How exciting! I sorted by size and type, color. It got my brain thinking.

      An absolutely gorgeous group of batik colors were in the box also. However, they are flannel and ...

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February 21, 2023
Unexpected Treasures Part 2 from Art In Search

      In making comfort quilts, there are times that, I hate to say, I worry about having the resources to keep making them and the bags to give away. For a number of years, I repaired and gave spa days to vintage sewing machines people needed help with. I only asked for a donation so I could purchase what I needed for the quilts and it was totally up to the machine owner to give as they wanted. I was able to finance buying batting, fabric, thread, the bags and books, etc. to keep providing comfort quilts on referral. During the ...

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January 29, 2023
A Little of This and A Little of That from The Cozy Quilter

Regular readers of my blog may remember that I took an introductory class in rug hooking last summer.  The hooking has all been done for a while and I finally finished off my project last weekend.  A friend who describes herself as a "hooker" and "addicted to fibre" showed me how to do the outer edge of my sheep project.  I hope to hang this little rug on the wall in my sewing room.  I would be quite willing to try another rug hooking project. 


For the Rainbow Scrap Challenge, this week I used up some tiny scraps to make ...

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January 20, 2023
Back to the Sewing Machine from The Cozy Quilter

I spent some quality time with my sewing machine this week.  The Elgin Piecemakers Guild makes comfort quilts for adult chemo patients at our local hospital so each month, we each have to make a block in a certain colour scheme.  I have my first four blocks for 2023 made.  Here they are:

January:  Blue and white.

February: Red, white and blue

March:  Purple, pink and white


April: Blue and purple churn dash. 


I worked on the last three houses for my Coming Home Quilt.  I did not have any light turquoise thread with me at the sewing day this ...

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January 8, 2023
Slow Sunday Stitching 2023 from The Cozy Quilter

 I have been missing in action the last couple of Sundays for my weekly blogpost.  Our Christmas took some unexpected turns this year ---as the saying goes, life happens when you are making other plans.  Our daughter's dog, Finn, had surgery on Dec 19th to remove a broken tooth. After the surgery, he went into kidney failure and was in the animal hospital for 10 days in intensive care to receive treatments to improve his kidney function.  Thankfully, his kidneys are now working normally again and he is home and feeling much better.  The vets at the hospital called ...

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December 7, 2022
What was I thinking? Or how to overload your life... from Art In Search

      Sometimes, a great idea is only as good as how well thought out it is- how to accomplish it and what it will actually entail. I get great ideas, foreseeing how to make them work is where I get into trouble.
     My dear friend was diagnosed with ALS in August. Went to lunch in September, she drove. She is the one who chose the Blue Bargello. By October, she had to sell her car and had to be helped to her feet and supported walking. By November, she is in a wheelchair, unable to move or reposition herself sitting. And ...

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November 13, 2022
Finishing Other People's UFO's from The Cozy Quilter

Sometimes, we quilters have UFO's--unfinished projects that seem to just take up space in our sewing rooms that we just don't feel motivated to get them to the finish line.  The quilt below was given to me by another quilter along with the backing fabric, probably over a year ago...long enough for me to forget who gave it to me to finish! I was asked to quilt and bind it and then give it to the Chemo Unit at the hospital for an adult chemo patient.  Just before last weekend's Oxford Quilt Guild retreat, I found ...

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November 4, 2022
Secret Sewing Season and a Retreat from The Cozy Quilter

 I have been working on some secret Christmas sewing all week.  It is a hand stitching project and I just love how it is turning out!  Unfortunately, I can't show any pictures until after December 25th. 

This weekend, Christine and I are going on a retreat with the Oxford Quilter's Guild.  I spent a couple of hours Wednesday evening gathering projects to take with me.  I like to bring a variety of things with me so I have a choice. Of course, I have a couple of projects to work on by hand, including this cute sheep ornament ...

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September 27, 2022
Fast Flower Quilt... from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

 I was in need of a comfort quilt 

for a dear friend...


I spent the weekend in the Thread Shed

and stitched up this floral quilt:


I pawed through the fabric cupboards

and found lots of large floral fabrics

leftover from previous quilts...it's a start !



The center of the quilt is a square

with very large pink iris:


These were only scraps of fabrics so I had

to use what I had.  I had just enough of the 

yellow to frame the center.

Then I built around the center like a log cabin

block until the quilt was ...

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August 21, 2022
Working on the Sky from The Cozy Quilter

Earlier this week, my husband and I went glamping for three days--this means we stayed in a fancy tent on a platform with furniture (including a king sized bed) and a bathroom, a deck out front and a barbecue to cook our meals.  The property was lovely and had lots of trails for walking as well as a pond with a paddle boat, a canoe and a row boat.  The deck in front of our tent was in the shade most of the time so it was a great place to sit and read a book (I managed to finish ...

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July 2, 2022
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 ...

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February 28, 2022
Hands 2 Help 2022 & Mercyful Quilts from Needle and Foot

I am guessing this isn’t news to all quilters who happily participate in Hands 2 Help each year but the event is being coordinated by Mari of Academic Quilter this year. Sarah has a lot going on right now and rather than having to skip a year of making quilts for deserving people and organizations, Mari has stepped in and is hosting the whole event! We are all grateful to Mari for taking this on but most especially grateful are the staff and families at Mercy Hospital in Sacramento, California. To read the details about this year’s Hand ...

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