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Hanging sleeve #2 from Exuberant Color

I had been dreading sewing the hanging sleeve on the second quilt for my grandson and his wife. Lots of black to deal with. I finally decided how to stitch from the front to catch the top edge and used charcoal gray thread so I could see where I had stitched. This side is going against a wall so it won't matter that it wasn't black thread.

I continued working on it and got all of the hand stitching done. Now I have to get the 2 quilts in a box and mail them to the east coast ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 week, 2 days ago. under flannel quilts , machine quilting , nature

RSC Week 5 - February is BLUE and a Squirrel popped In from Grandma's Red Needle

Happy February!

Where did January go?!

February; it means a new RSC (Rainbow Scrap Color). Angela at SuperScrappy has chosen BLUE for this month.

Three blue cups are made.

I'll make maybe two or three more.

I didn't expect the squirrel to visit! It was good in a way, I needed a short break from quilting ten place mats for a customer.

This is what the squirrel got me to do:

5 scrappy blocks using pink (January RSC color) in the center.

...and three blue.

Do you see the pink and blue cats?

I got to use a ...

added by Astrid 2 weeks, 5 days ago. under coffee with dad , eclipse , mauritius , nature , rsc2025 , rscblue , rscpink

A sewing day.......... from Exuberant Color

I started the day yesterday choosing bindings for the 2 table runners. I like this stripe with both the front and back of the red Kaffe runner.

This diagonal brush stroke fabric in rust is good for the second table runner. I cut enough for 2 because I have another similar one ready to quilt.

While in the basement I found 16 blocks I made many years ago and sewed them together into a table topper.

Jack Frost was busy on a cold day that started at -2 and got up to 9 degrees. It was 0 by bedtime and ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 month ago. under binding , kaffe fabric , nature , tablerunner

Several things......... from Exuberant Color

First in the morning yesterday I made a couple new labels for boxes of pieces and parts. These are all strips, triangles and scraps. They are on the highest shelves because I will be looking in them the least. This is the top 3 shelves of a 7 shelf bookcase.

I put the pieces for one of the 20 dark blocks in Plaid-ish up on the design wall. I have more than half of the pieces cut for those 20 blocks.

Last night's full moon is called the Wolf Moon. I took this photo before dark, not knowing if ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 month, 1 week ago. under flannel quilts , kaffe fabric , nature , stash

What is in the project boxes........ from Exuberant Color

You will have to humor me, I need to have this post to come back to later. There may be a second post like this. I'm starting to search through the boxes to see what I have in the parts department. Box 1 had these 3" batik 9 patches and 4" 16 patches. There aren't enough to make anything other than table runners at this point. I'm having discussions with myself on what I want to make more of, and what I will settle as a small project.

Box 2: I made these blocks from the Kaffe ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 month, 1 week ago. under nature , nostalgia , triangles

More flannel triangles............. from Exuberant Color

Last night's sewing yielded 58 flannel 2" finished triangle squares. There is one more light fabric that I cut that didn't get used yet. I think I need to check the flannel scrap bin one more time for light fabrics. I probably will have to go to yardage before I'm done. So now I have 54 + 58 squares sewn.

Every year I'm amazed at how fast the daylight each day is extended after the shortest day in December. I'm going to have to reset the starting time for my little trees because they are coming ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 month, 2 weeks ago. under nature , triangles

Merry Christmas! from Exuberant Color

This is a photo I took in 2009 and turned into a Christmas card in 2013. This is the white Christmas we rarely get any more so I enjoy this photo.

I have a couple cacti in bloom, technically the Thanksgiving cactus. This is my orange one but the camera likes to make it more coral. Whatever you call the color, it is pretty and I'm happy to still have some blooms.

When I buy a larger pot of Thanksgiving cactus it usually is just a big pot full of a lot of small plants.

I split my red ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 month, 4 weeks ago. under christmas , knitting , nature , stash

No progress............... from Exuberant Color

I didn't get around to sewing the floral star top, just not interested in doing it yesterday. So here is a lot of miscellaneous.

This is the leftover block that didn't get used in the layout. It will go into the orphan block box most likely.

I was cleaning off the dining room table so my birthday cards were gathered up.

My orange cactus is starting to bloom as most of the others are done. I'm happy this one waited a while.

I baked Aunt Ethel's Kringlas last night. I had to test them, over and ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 2 weeks ago. under food , nature , star quilts

30 blocks................ from Exuberant Color

One more block finished, bottom right corner. I have decided 30 blocks is enough so now I just need to decide on a final layout.

But then I decided to make one more block to replace one in the layout above, one that had a very light background.

I took out the block at the beginning of the second row and put in the extra block. There is still one more block with a very light background that I may decide to replace. I won't take that block apart, I'll just make a new one. That is why ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 2 weeks ago. under nature , star quilts

All seams sewn.......................... from Exuberant Color

I sewed the last seam at 10:30 last night. I wasn't sure I was going to get it done. I'll press it today and take it's photo. This is a great close-up quilt. There are so many pretty fabrics to look at.

My sister-in-law gave me an Amaryllis for my birthday earlier this month and it has started to grow. I'm hoping for a bloom at Christmas.

I split a pot with several small red cactus in it into 4 pots a few weeks ago. The first one is blooming now. A second one has ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 4 weeks ago. under nature , quilts made with triangles

20 additional blocks..................... from Exuberant Color

Last night was a productive time. I got 20 more blocks sewn for a total of 80 blocks now. With an 8 x 10 layout the quilt would measure 48" x 60".

Here are the other 60 blocks. I can start working on the layout of the quilt now.

We're supposed to get our first snowfall today but the temperature will probably go high enough in the afternoon to melt all of it. I brought my pots of Begonias and Geraniums into the garage. I also pulled the 2 Geraniums from the pots on the porch steps and will ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 3 months ago. under nature , triangles

15 of 60 blocks................ from Exuberant Color

Last night I sewed all of the rest of the quarter square triangle blocks that I had ready. This is one of each of four blocks alike. They are only 6" blocks so 60 blocks would only make a quilt 36" x 60".

I pressed all 60 blocks.

I had a bag of odds and ends of floral fabrics so I went through it and pulled several that are big enough to cut the quarter square triangles. All of these are pressed now so I can do some cutting today.

I have been showing photos of the cacti by the ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 3 months ago. under nature , triangles

And still cutting.................. from Exuberant Color

This is one of each of the 6" finished floral squares. There are 4 of almost all of them so I think I have 150 cut so far so I need 9 more fabrics (or duplicates) if I make 4 quilts. I'm considering dropping one of my ideas and then I would only need 5 more. No final decisions at this point.

I need 13 more sets of 3" triangles and I can get then out of some of the smaller pieces of fabric.

Meanwhile I still haven't cleaned off the cabinet top so I haven't been ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 3 months, 1 week ago. under nature , stash , triangles

Not much progress.................... from Exuberant Color

I got a few strips cut for quarter square triangles while I did a load of laundry. I didn't get any farther, too much else needed to be taken care of. Thanks to everyone who weighed in on my dotted fabric question yesterday.

It was a cloudy day yesterday with rain late in the day. I took this photo with just the daylight coming in the east picture window. The medium rose plant has some blooms and the champagne color in the striped pot should be blooming today.

84 years, didn't that used to sound old? Like ancient ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 3 months, 1 week ago. under nature , stash , triangles

Strata cut and sewn................ from Exuberant Color

I sliced the strata that was sewn into a tube and unpicked a seam in a different place on each of the 20 slices. This is the layout on the design wall before I started sewing them together.

I decided I will make 2 table runners and have sewn one together. It lost 4.5" in width with the seams sewn (compared to the layout).

Many of my cactus plants have buds and I saw the first blooms yesterday. This is a piece I saved off a dying white cactus 2 years ago.

I decided to move the other two ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 3 months, 2 weeks ago. under nature , trip around the world

Photography – Published in The Sunlight Press from Kim Hanson Quilts

Good day friends. It’s so wonderful that you’re here with me today. I really appreciate it.

Earlier this week, two photos of mine were published by The Sunlight Press. Two lovely ladies run the literary online press – Rudri and Beth. They’ve been very kind to me over the past few years, publishing some of my photographs. One of my goals is to have an essay published by them over the next 12 months.

This is the link to access the photographs –https://www.thesunlightpress.com/2024/11/04/photography-by-kim-hanson-3/ .

Of course, the photos are of nature. . . right ...

added by kimhanson 3 months, 2 weeks ago. under #alberta #rockymountains , #naturewriting , lifestyle , nature , photography , press (Comments)

October 2024 monthly recap....................... from Exuberant Color

It was all new quilt tops in October, no finishes. I still have one more finish than new tops though for the year.

Kaffe Blue Pinwheels is 60" x 72". These were the leftover triangles from the pink/blue triangle quilt. I guess I cut a few too many for one project.

The butterfly baby quilt top is 35 "x 45". I think I made those blocks about 20 years ago, maybe a couple years before that. They were probably started to promote the book that the patterns were in. It's publication date is 1993 and that is over ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 3 months, 3 weeks ago. under monthly recap , nature

Butterflies sewn................. from Exuberant Color

It turned out to not be as difficult as I thought it would be to assemble this quilt top. There were 4 partial seams. I added 3" strips all around so the butterflies would be surrounded by background fabric. It is 35" x 45". I'll check so see if I have enough of any of the bright prints for the backing.

The yellow Coneflower bloom is finally opened. We don't have any frost or freeze warnings at night for the next week so maybe another of the buds has a chance to bloom.

The plant has grown so ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 3 months, 3 weeks ago. under baby quilts , nature

Sections sewn.............................. from Exuberant Color

It was time to jump in and start piecing sections of the butterfly quilt. I'm just winging it so far and haven't pressed any sections yet.

I pieced more sections and then it came to a standstill while I stared at it and tried to decide how to sew the center section. I think there will be some partial seams to sew it all together. I need to press all of the sections that are sewn so I can accurately measure the spaces.

I went outside to check on some plants yesterday afternoon. The Lenten Rose plants are ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 3 months, 3 weeks ago. under baby quilts , nature

Autumn scenes.................. from Exuberant Color

We had an outside visit yesterday at my house. The little great-grands are growing so tall. The littlest one in this family is 5. After they left I took some photos around my yard.

I have 3 of the compact Burning Bushes on the south side of my house. This year is the most vivid color they have produced in the 4 years they have been there. The one in the middle doesn't get quite as much sun as the other 2 so it is still half green.

I had to walk all the way into my backyard neighbor ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 3 months, 4 weeks ago. under nature

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