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Quilt Blocks Made and some Slow Stitching from The Cozy Quilter

Last weekend, I showed you some fabrics I purchased when we were in Phoenix, Arizona in the fall. I had pulled out some co-ordinating solids to go with them. This week, at the guild sewing day, I started to make some blocks.

I am making four of each block. Each quadrant of the quilt will be a mirror image of the quadrant beside and below/above it. I am using one solid and one print in each block. The blocks are 6.5" square. Here are the blocks I made early in the week, in a possible layout. I was ...

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Sewing Day with Friends from The Cozy Quilter

This has been a busy week in the sewing department! I have decided to rejoin the Rainbow Scrap Challenge again this year after a 1 year hiatus. My scraps are in bad need of being tamed! January's colour is pink so here are my two projects so far. I may add one more but I'm not sure yet. I have a pile of white 2.5" squares with small scale prints on them. I have had them for a few years and decided to use them for the centres of these hollow nine patch blocks each month. I ...

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Slow Stitching in the Car and My Daughter's Crochet from The Cozy Quilter

We spent some time in the car this past week, driving our daughter home to where she and Finn live so that gave me some time to do some cross stitching. I should be able to finish this quadrant off this week and then on to the fourth and final quadrant. This is a great winter project!

Our daughter worked on her crocheted Christmas blanket when she was home. She is working on the gingerbread border right now. There is a white wavy "Icing" line to add and then more of the gold colour. Then, there are 80 little "candies ...

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2024 Wrap-Up from The Cozy Quilter

It's December 31st already and time to look back to see what I accomplished in my sewing room this year. There are still lots of UFO's hanging on --a starter course for 2025!

January

I used some 4.5" orphan basket blocks to make some pin cushions for my friends who came to my house for a sewing day.

I took a class with David Owen Hastings and finished off this small quilt "Inspired by Dunnottar Castle".

I finished knitting a moose hat for my husband--this was a 2023 Christmas gift.

February

Katie and I participated in the ...

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Slow Sunday Stitching from The Cozy Quilter

Christmas 2024 has come and gone and we are now in that quieter time between December 25th and New Year's Day. I blogged earlier in the week about some of the gifts I made this year and you can read about them here. I have been doing some reading and cross stitching every day--ahhhh! The lower left square will eventually be a picture of an owl...

My friend, Pat, knitter extraordinaire, made me these cute Christmas sweater ornaments for our tree. I'm not sure I could manage to knit something so small!

Finn loves a squeaky toy and ...

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The Gifts of Christmas, 2025 Version from The Cozy Quilter

We have had a very laid back, relaxing Boxing Day. The last few days were very busy and we all needed some time to chill. My husband is giving Finn a belly rub and my daughter is making dinner so I thought I would do a blogpost!

A few years ago, my husband found an old quilt that originally came from his family farm. It was very dirty and unfinished--the edges were not straight and it smelled funky. There were very rusty pins holding the edges together--I think the maker intended to finish it but never got around to it ...

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Secret Sewing and Some Slow Stitching from The Cozy Quilter

I worked on the last Christmas gifts that I am making today--one is done and the other is very close to completion. Pictures to follow in a few days... The secret sewing season will soon be over for another year.

I made some progress on my winter counted cross stitch project this week. The Christmas tree is done and the next part of this quadrant is started. I did quite a bit of the framing on this quadrant too. There's a reason why they call this slow stitching... it gets done slowly, one stitch at a time. I enjoy ...

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A Finish and Cross Stitch Progress from The Cozy Quilter

TaDa! This quilt top was made at a Vice President's day quilting day at Oxford Quilter's Guild at least 3 years ago. The idea behind VP day is to work on a simple pattern chosen by the VP that can be finished in one day. I found the top in my UFO drawer and took it to one of my retreats in November where I pieced the back, pin basted it and did 3/4 of the quilting. This week, I finished the quilting and added an orange solid for the binding. This will go in the baby ...

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Christmas Events and Preparations! from The Cozy Quilter

This has been a busy week with lots of special Christmas events to attend and decorating being done at home. I added a few more stitches to my winter cross stitch picture, but not as many as I had hoped. I don't have a deadline for this project so that's ok.

Last night, the hiking club we belong to hosted a Spirit walk at a local conservation area. My husband and I were tour leaders and lead groups of visitors along a candle lit path to see a magician, a children's choir, the Grinch, a singer, a ...

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Another Secret Project Reveal and Retreat Report from The Cozy Quilter

There was no blog post last weekend as Christine and I were at a crafter's retreat at Camp Kintail. There were other people sewing, knitting, crocheting, paper crafting, card making, painting, rug hooking, etc. Lots of interesting projects to walk around to look at when I had been sitting for too long! I worked on several projects, one of which was a gift and will not be revealed until after Christmas. I quilted two baby quilts--one of which you can see in the picture below. It is not quite done yet and I hope to finish it off this ...

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A Busy Week from The Cozy Quilter

It was a busy week with lots of activities happening, but not a lot of time for sewing. I managed to make some progress on my cross stitch project, adding more trees, border stitches and starting the snow at the bottom of this section. I'm hoping to finish the mushrooms in the forest this coming week and move on to the next part.

The church bazaar was yesterday. Here are the three pillows that I made for the sewing table. We had a family wedding to attend out of town yesterday so I only had time to stop briefly ...

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Retreat Report from The Cozy Quilter

I had a very productive weekend at the guild retreat last weekend. It was glorious to have three full days to sew--meals provided and no dishes to do! I added binding to two quilts that are gifts so I can't show those yet, but they are both hand stitched now and ready to gift. I quilted the table runner I showed last week that will be for sale at our church bazaar next weekend and added the binding this week when I got home. I hope someone will like it enough to purchase it! I also worked on three ...

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Getting Ready for a Quilting Retreat from The Cozy Quilter

I am getting ready to go to the fall retreat for the Oxford Quilters Guild this weekend. I have a big bin full of projects--two just need binding, one is a pile of blocks that need to be made into a quilt top, some are Christmas gifts (secrets!), three new quilts to put together--pieces are cut already in preparation and also my last two placemats for Meals on Wheels. I will not have time to get bored! I finished the second secret project this past week and will not be able to show any pictures of it until it has ...

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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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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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Home from Vacation from The Cozy Quilter

My husband and I just got home from three weeks in the US southwest. We flew to Tucson, AZ, rented a car, visited National Parks and other sites in Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico, and then took the Amtrak Southwest Chief (train) from Albuquerque, NM to Chicago. The next train, the Pere Marquette, took us from Chicago to Grand Rapids, where we picked up our car and drove home. I will share pictures of the highlights of our trip over the next few weeks--I have not had time to go through all of my pictures (over 4000!) yet. We ...

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Secret Project Reveal! from The Cozy Quilter

For a few months now, I have been talking about a secret project. My cousin has finally received her quilt and so now I can show it to you, my blog readers! I did some sleuthing to find out my cousin's favourite colours and was told green and purple. I raided my stash to find several purples and greens that looked good together as well as a piece of gray hash dot fabric leftover from my modern sampler quilt. I had just enough of the gray fabric and even had to piece a few of the triangles to have ...

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Pin Basting and More Placemats from The Cozy Quilter

I added the binding to the placemats I made last week for Meals on Wheels. Now, I have six completed placemats and I hope to make 12 for this project of the Oxford Quilter's Guild.

This week, I started four more placemats and I have fabric pulled for a couple more. I need to piece some more batting scraps to quilt the rest of them and pick out binding fabrics. Sorry, no picture of the 4th one.

I finished off the last few stitches in the blue quadrant this week and started on the border of the green section ...

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Placemats for Meals on Wheels from The Cozy Quilter

Once again, the Oxford Quilt Guild is making placemats for Meals on Wheels recipients for distribution at Christmas. They are due at our December meeting but I decided to get going on mine right away and get them done! I dug into my fabric stash to see what I had--so many possibilities! We are to make one side Wintery and the other side to be used for the rest of the year. So far, I have put together and quilted six placemats--the binding will go on this week.

I found a few orphan blocks that I can use to make ...

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I Won Bobbin Chicken! from The Cozy Quilter

I played bobbin chicken this week while sewing the binding on one of my quilts, and I won. Only a few inches of thread left on the bobbin when I finished sewing! This quilt is completely done now as I now have the binding hand sewn to the back of the quilt.

The fox square is done (oops--just noticed the eyes are not stitched yet!) and I have started the rectangular section above. I did lots of stitching of the light blue border this week too.

I called my daughter tonight to ask for some pictures of her crochet progress ...

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