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I dug into my scrap bins this week to made my Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks for February in Turquoise. I am working on three RSC projects for this year. The first one is a 36 patch.
The red scraps were flying in my sewing room this week. I have decided to do three rainbow scrap challenge quilts this year. When I made the selvage hot pads as Christmas gifts, it quickly became apparent that my selvage collection is out of control! I had sorted some of my selvages into bags by colour so I grabbed the red bag and some light-weight non-fusible interfacing and made two squares.
Last year, I made a couple of RSC quilts using the monthly colours at Angela's blog. This year, in an effort to use up even more scraps, I will be working on three projects. I managed to get one block for the first quilt done this week using leftover red 2.5" squares from last year's projects. The white solid squares were cut from my solid scrap bin.
I assembled ...
read moreMy friend, Christine, and I are off to another quilting retreat this weekend! The weather looks good and won't interfere with our plans. I have packed several projects to take with me including the Lupin Quilt (all of the blocks are made and the sashing and borders are cut out and ready to go):
Wow, I received 2 quilts in the mail from Quiltdiva Julie to use for comfort quilts. The first was the Plaid HSTs. I knew I wanted to make it bigger to be a better comfort size. When I buy fabric I think I may want to use for borders, I buy a half yard. Not a good plan. If I need it wider, it is not enough. Note to self- buy a yard or more, it will get used.
As done by Julie |
I found the perfect light green with white dots design, but only had enough for a finished ...
read moreMy husband and I both had our second vaccines this past week. Happy Dance! I'm looking forward to getting out more but am also feeling cautious about it at the same time. Baby steps...
I managed to get back into my sewing room this week and get some projects moving along. First up, I made two Blue blocks for my Rainbow Scrap Challenge quilt...one in turquoise and one in navy. Great way to revisit my scraps and use some of them up.
At a Zoom sew-in on Tuesday, I made a block for the September Comfort quilt for the Elgin Piecemakers. The ... read more
With the Pandemic, I have a feeling this will be the largest collection yet. Visit the Hands2Help 2021 page on Confessions of a Fabric Addict for a parade of beautiful quilts.
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The six (6) quilts I donated this year, went to Emily, with Aunt Ems Quilts; for her charity Quilty Hugs for Happy Chemo. A side note, Emily ...
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Yvonne J. is sending these colorful quilts to Little Lambs and Covered In Love! |
And here are quilts with a theme - made by Paula D., they are going to some Hometown Hero teachers, a guidance counselor, and an after-school care worker! |
Kathy L. made this beautiful quilt for Quilty Hugs |
Kathryn S. sent these two to Quilty Hugs! |
Jean W. donated ... |
Well, winter did not rear its head this week, thankfully, even though it was a bit chilly for a couple of days.
I managed a few hours in the sewing room this week and completed two more placemats for Meals on Wheels. I have three more tops made and they will be quilted and bound this coming week. I have fabric picked out for the rest of the dozen placemats I will be making and hope to finish them soon as well. I am the type of person who likes to get things done ahead of time so I don ...
read moreLucky for me, the colour of the month at the Rainbow Scrap Challenge is Blue for April. I had already started making blue blocks for my Colour Block Challenge quilt for April so these two challenges will be met together. I ended up making 12 medium/dark blue blocks and then found I had a stack of light blue squares as well. I made 4 light blue blocks and put them all up on the design wall to consider my next steps. I looked at my stash and found some red solid fabric which I will use for ... read more
There are some leftover ... read more
This morning, I took a pineapple log cabin class through the Oxford Quilt Guild with Barb V. at Fun With Barb. She was our Zoom speaker back in November and several members of the guild admired her pineapple log cabin quilt made with 1/2" logs. Someone on the executive suggested a class and so we invited Barb to return today for a Zoom class. I contemplated fabric options for the quilt all week and, finally, just before class this morning, decided on orange and bright green scraps with a white solid background. Soon, I had enough scraps pressed and ...
read moreI have had a productive week in the sewing room! I think those scrappy colour blocks that I was making last week got me going again and this week I was on a roll. First, I quilted and bound my January Colour Blocks quilt. I considered a cross hatch but ended up with diagonal lines of quilting using light gray thread.
Green solid fabric was used for the binding.
I will add a label shortly.
I made a pink block for my Rainbow Scrap Quilt for this year.
I noticed after it was on the design wall that I made ...
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