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It's all about learning from Crazy Quilter on a Bike!

Delete, delete, delete - the number of spam comments seems to grow by the day. Today was all about license plates. Have I mentioned anything about license plates recently? NO. And digitizing - I may have mentioned that, but it's all part of our new world filled with AI and bots that are supposed to do a better job than humans. Well, not exactly. I'm reading some articles about AI, and it seems that no one can even define what it is and how it's supposed to work. So, how are we going to figure it out? We won ...

added by Elaine 2 weeks, 4 days ago. under backyard , hiking , lexi , murphy , mysewnet , neighborhood

A TaDa Moment! from The Cozy Quilter

This afternoon, I added the final stitches to my Winter Woods cross stitch! There were lots of little stars to add in the sky of several pictures and a bit of backstitching, but not very much. I love this picture and look forward to getting it framed to hang up somewhere in my house next winter. We have lots of snow right now, although not as much as many places north of us where roads have been closed for days on end as the snowplows try to clear the snow away.

I spent some time at the sewing machine this ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 month ago. under baby quilts , counted cross stitch , crochet , finn , hand quilting , hiking , knitting , rainbow scrap challenge , scrappy quilts , sewing room , slow sunday stitching

Slow Stitching Saturday! from The Cozy Quilter

Today was the annual Vice President's day at the Oxford Guild. Many quilters were working on Anita's Arrowhead blocks, a pattern chosen by our VP, but I decided to bring along some hand stitching to work on instead. Earlier in the week, I thread basted my Arizona quilt so that I could hand quilt it. I am using 28 wt grey Aurifil thread for big stitching. So far, so good!

I had several opportunities this week to add stitches to my Winter Woods cross stitch project. The deer is done and I also did the snowflake. I am ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 month, 3 weeks ago. under arizona quilt , baby quilts , binding , counted cross stitch , crochet , finn , hand quilting , hand sewing , hiking , knitting , rainbow scrap challenge , slow sunday stitching

Retreat Week from Humble Quilts

Last year all of us decided to make the Lone Cabin quilt or at least part of the quilt. You have seen mine many times but here are the girls progress on their quilt. They are looking great!

Here is Carrie's

Michelle's

Christy's. Tada! Top done!

I think Christy and Michelle said they may only make the cabin. So much for that plan. I love them all!

We have the condo for a week but every year it is a bit different as to how long everyone can stay. We got a quick photo before Michelle had ...

added by Lori 1 month, 4 weeks ago. under hiking , lone cabin , quilt retreat

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 ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 months, 1 week ago. under counted cross stitch , crochet , finn , hiking , slow sunday stitching , vacations , wall hangings

Here Comes the Sun from Humble Quilts

I started with these.

Paper pieced the arcs...

Reverse appliqueing the outer red.

Hand quilted- complete! YAY! This is a new class for 2025!

We had carolers last night! Hark the Herald!

I was able to bundle up and get out for a local hike this week.

Was great to clear the head and get fresh air!

I hope you have a lovely week of peace and joy.

added by Lori 3 months ago. under here comes the sun workshop , hiking

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 ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 4 months, 4 weeks ago. under counted cross stitch , crochet , finn , hiking , slow sunday stitching , table runners

Fun on A Friday from Humble Quilts

I put the final stitches in this years Humble Quilts sewalong last night! I plan on posting fabric choices and the antique inspiration next week. I hope you'll be joining in! It's called Homestead.

I'm trying to take advantage of summer before it is gone!

Did a nice 7 mile hike near my home in Central Oregon.

Scruffy little bunny is always fun to see!

Next, since I've been in Portland I try to find some kind of urban hike.

This tree was massive.

I ended up going through the Portland rose garden. So beautiful!

Have ...

added by Lori 6 months, 1 week ago. under 2024 quiltalong , hiking

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 ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 6 months, 2 weeks ago. under charity quilts , counted cross stitch , finn , gardens , hiking , hospice quilts , placemats , slow sunday stitching

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 ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 6 months, 2 weeks ago. under binding , counted cross stitch , crochet , finn , hiking , placemats , slow sunday stitching , tesselate textiles

Midnight Sewing and Fun on Monday! from Humble Quilts

I stacked my "Etsy" store on one side of the spare bedroom as my sister and her grandson Zack were coming for a visit. I jokingly told him, "No quilting in the middle of the night!" (Note the bag of fabric rolls in the foreground)

The next morning he came down with these two, one was a conversation print with pencils! What are these? Can I have one? haha I asked my sister later what she thought he would do with it and she replied, "probably make a parachute" He cracked me up!

He loves Elsa.

Some of what I ...

added by Lori 6 months, 4 weeks ago. under family , hiking , just for fun

Baby Quilt Done! from The Cozy Quilter

A few months ago, I dug into my flannel scraps and made a flannel vortex baby quilt top in an effort to tame the flannel scrap bin. I ended up with a quilt top and a still full to overflowing flannel scrap bin. Sigh... This week, I finished off the quilting using this nifty attachment to keep my curved lines equidistant from each other as I sewed. It worked really well! I found some red Kona to use for the binding and now this quilt is in my baby quilt storage area, ready to give away when a baby comes ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 8 months ago. under baby quilts , counted cross stitch , finn , flannel , gardens , hiking , scrap vortex

A Fun Week from The Cozy Quilter

This was a busy week, packed with fun activities and a short getaway with my husband to Niagara on the Lake. On Canada Day, we hosted a BBQ and played Bocce in our backyard before going to see the fireworks in the evening. Dessert featured ice cream, strawberries and butter tarts (a delicious Canadian invention). I spent some time on my secret project and managed to finish all of the units for the quilt top. They are on my design wall and I hope to sew them together this coming week. Sorry, no pictures for now. I did some hand ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 8 months, 3 weeks ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , gardens , hand quilting , hiking , put a ring on it , slow sunday stitching

Hand Stitching and a Secret Project from The Cozy Quilter

Another busy week! I continue to do some hand quilting on my Put a Ring on It quilt most days. I have developed a callus on my left pointer finger... the mark of a hand quilter. I think I am a little over half finished with hand quilting this wall hanging.

I cut all the pieces for a secret project this week. It seems to take me longer to pick the fabrics than it does to actually sew the quilt. I seem to hum and haw over my choices for days on end, adding and subtracting fabrics, taking pictures, thinking ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 9 months ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , gardens , hand quilting , hiking , put a ring on it , slow sunday stitching

A Quilty Week from The Cozy Quilter

Last week, I told you about the quilt that wanted to be quilted by hand, not by machine. After acquiring the thread I wanted to use (Aurifil 28 wt) last weekend, I started the quilting this week. I'm doing big stitch quilting, so far in the peel shapes and the arcs in the middle of the quilt. I have figured out a quilting design for the middle of the quilt but have not started that part yet. This is a slow stitching project, after all.

I visited our daughter and Finn last weekend. I did lots of cross stitching ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 9 months, 3 weeks ago. under counted cross stitch , crochet , finn , gardens , hand quilting , hiking , quilt show , slow sunday stitching

Almost 10 Years in the Making... from The Cozy Quilter

In October 2014, I took a class with Kaffe Fassett called "Overlapping Tiles". We spent all day cutting squares and putting them on our design walls to come up with a pleasing composition. Kaffe and Brandon came around the room to each quilter to make suggestions about colours/fabrics to add or take away and arranging the tiles. They added 5 fabrics to my quilt including the constant fabric--none of which I would have added myself. I finished the quilt top a year ago. I originally planned to make a queen sized quilt, but eventually downsized it to a lap ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 10 months ago. under binding , counted cross stitch , finn , gardens , hiking , kaffe fassett , overlapping tiles , slow sunday stitching

Lupin Stitching in the Car in the Rain from The Cozy Quilter

Today, my husband was volunteering at a special event at a local museum. I went with him so I could look at the WW2 displays around the property. Shortly after we arrived, it started to rain and so I stayed in the car and listened to an audiobook while I added more stitches to my counted cross stitch Lupins. After about an hour, the rain stopped and the sun came out. People started arriving and the day was a success.

I asked my daughter and Finn to send me a picture of her recent cross stitch finish and they sent ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 10 months, 1 week ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , gardens , hiking , overlapping tiles , quilts for survivors , slow sunday stitching , walking foot quilting

More Quilts for Survivors Blocks from The Cozy Quilter

I decided to make lots of HST's for this week's batch of blocks for Quilts for Survivors. I did not have very much of either of these two fabrics for this block--I ended up piecing the middle square from three pieces of fabric to make it big enough. You probably would not have noticed if I had not told you!

How about some flying geese?

Slanted Diamonds

Broken Dishes

Economy block variation

I actually have 14 blocks ready to donate now. Two of them are not in this picture. Only 6 more to go to meet my goal ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 10 months, 2 weeks ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , gardens , hiking , hospice quilts , hst's , quilts for survivors , slow sunday stitching

A Little White Lie from The Cozy Quilter

When my friend, Christine, asked me what I was sewing at the guild sewing day, I told her a little white lie. I told her that I had worked on my sew together bag and that I had finally finished it. She asked me to send her a picture, which I "forgot" to do, until today, when I actually finished it!

The reason why I was not working on my Sew Together bag is because I was making one for Christine for her birthday. I took her out for a birthday lunch on Friday and gave her the bag, and ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 10 months, 3 weeks ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , gardens , hiking , quilts for survivors , sew together bag , slow sunday stitching

Lupins from The Cozy Quilter

I was under the weather for a few days this past week and did not go near my sewing machine all week. I managed to add some more stitches to my Lupins cross stitch and it is finally looking like more than just a purple blob. There are still lots more purple stitches to do though...

Last week, Jill asked me what book I was reading. My daughter gave me this book for Christmas--it is about a midwife in the late 1700's in Maine. Excellent read--I highly recommend it!

I lead a monthly book club and I am currently ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 10 months, 4 weeks ago. under books , counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , hiking , slow sunday stitching

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