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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 ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 week, 2 days ago. under baby quilts , counted cross stitch , crochet , finn , oxford quilters guild , slow sunday stitching , zippered pouch

Oxford Guild Quilt Show from The Cozy Quilter

I attended our guild quilt show on Friday and Saturday this week--our first show since before COVID. I entered 9 quilts in the show and took pictures of them in the venue. There were several of my Rainbow Scrap Challenge projects including "All the Colours" based on a pattern by Gudrun Erla called Haldora.

"Scrappy 36 Patch"

"Scrappy Drunkard's Path" and "In Formation"

I put one bed sized quilt in the show--"Memories of Iceland"--the pattern is by Gudrun Erla and is called "Lupine".

"30's Plus Sign Baby Quilt"

"Scraps on Point"

( I was very happy that ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 7 months ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , gardens , oxford quilters guild , quilt show , slow sunday stitching

Cross Stitch Rabbit and a New Project from The Cozy Quilter

I spent a little time each day this past week adding stitches to my Spring cross stitch picture. The rabbit is coming along nicely. Finn is here for his annual visit while my daughter is busy at work and he doesn't mind lying beside me as I stitch. He is used to doing that while my daughter works on her cross stitch when he is home with her.

My daughter's picture of the city of Ottawa is coming into focus as she adds more colours. The giant spider is a statue called "Maman" in from the the National ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 10 months ago. under counted cross stitch , elgin piecemakers , finn , oxford quilters guild , slow sunday stitching

This Week's Sewing Adventures from The Cozy Quilter

It's been a busy week in the sewing room at my house! The log blocks really did nothing to enhance my Oxford Quilter's Guild VP day challenge quilt so I removed them and made a few more HST's. I rearranged the HST's to my liking and then started sewing the rows together. Most of the rows are sewn and the top two are sewn to each other. I will likely finish this top this week. I love the Shweshwe fabrics I have used for this project!

I finished the embroidery on my Lupine quilt label this ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 years, 10 months ago. under cheryl arkison , comfort quilts , elgin piecemakers , embroidery , finn , guild challenge , hst's , knitting , oxford quilters guild , quilting class , slow sunday stitching

Embroidery, Binding and What's on my Design Wall from The Cozy Quilter

For my slow stitching this week, I spent some time working on my embroidered quilt label for my Lupine quilt. I removed the blue pen marks from the parts that I have done already. I had to do some unstitching when I used only two strands of floss instead of three when I started stitching the black letters this week. Oops! I must say it is harder to unstitch embroidery than machine stitching!

I added the binding to another comfort quilt this week and started hand stitching it on the back. This is a biggish square quilt so I anticipate ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 years, 10 months ago. under baking , binding , embroidery , finn , hst's , lupins , oxford quilters guild , quilt labels , slow sunday stitching

Prepping for Guild Sewing Day and some Hand stitching. from The Cozy Quilter

I'm not one of those quilters who cuts everything out before starting to sew a quilt. I like to cut a little, sew a little, press a little and then repeat until I have enough blocks. This week, I started getting ready for the Vice President's Challenge day at the Oxford Quilters Guild next Saturday. This event, usually in person, will be on Zoom again this year. I needed several fat quarters and some yardage for background for this project. We are to prepare a whole bunch of HST's before the sewing day. I am using some ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 years, 10 months ago. under binding , comfort quilts , embroidery , finn , hiking , hst's , lupins , oxford quilters guild , puzzles , quilt labels , slow sunday stitching

Challenge Quilt Done from The Cozy Quilter

I have never used more than one or two colours of thread to quilt one of my projects before this week. Last year, the Oxford Quilt Guild issues a challenge to make a quilt using blocks with 15 2.5" squares and 5 flying geese. I proceeded to make 16 blocks, each a different colour, without repeating any of the fabrics in the blocks. Each block contains 25 unique fabrics. The blocks have been sitting in a bin in my sewing room for a couple of months while I thought about how I might set them to make my quilt ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 3 years, 10 months ago. under binding , counted cross stitch , embroidery , finn , guild challenge , modern bom , oxford quilters guild , rainbow scrap challenge , slow sunday stitching

Gift Making from The Cozy Quilter

This has been a busy week with not very much time spent in my sewing room. I did manage to make a zippered pouch as a gift for a swap with one of my guilds. I need to get this in the mail this week so it had a deadline! The pattern is from Noodlehead...I have made several of these pouches as gifts over the last few years. I don't even need to look at the instructions anymore!

I have a stash of zippers in various colours for these pouches so I am always ready to make a ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 4 years ago. under blackwork , christmas gifts , counted cross stitch , elgin piecemakers , facecloths , finn , knitting , oxford quilters guild , zippered pouch

Vice-President's Day at the Oxford Guild from The Cozy Quilter

This past Saturday was the annual VP day at the Oxford Quilter's Guild and I arrived bright and early with all of my fabrics cut and ready to sew for the morning. There were about 20 people at the event and many were working on the challenge quilt.

Pretty soon, I had one block done.

The plan is to make 30 blocks for a baby quilt in waiting--no baby in mind. I like to have a baby quilt or two on hand in case I need one in a hurry as a gift.

Stripes are fun!

So are the ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 4 years, 10 months ago. under baby quilts , coming home , oxford quilters guild

Sewing Escapades from The Cozy Quilter

It's been a busy sewing week with lots of progress on several projects. I also received some squishy packages in the mail today. The first package contained my Modern Guild Make a Mini, Make a Friend swap quilt from Anne L in Texas. When I signed up for the swap, I said that I liked Frank Lloyd Wright and orange...I think she nailed it! Thanks for a wonderful mini, Anne!

I made my block for the March comfort quilt for the Elgin Piecemakers this week too. It is a wonky quarter log cabin block in gray and white ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 4 years, 10 months ago. under charity quilts. comfort quilts , elgin piecemakers , embroidery , fun with barb , improvisational piecing , libs elliott , london modern quilt guild , oxford quilters guild , swaps , weight of love

Slow Stitching and some Blocks from The Cozy Quilter

Since I finished my Tula Pink 100 Modern blocks sampler quilt top earlier this week, I needed to find something to sew this week. I am trying to work on my UFO's for a challenge for the Oxford Quilt Guild so I pulled out the UFO bin and chose my spinning 4 patches, made at least two years ago. Earlier in the week, I posted some pictures of colour options for a checkerboard layout and several people voted for the blue fabric over the other choices.

I got looking at the gray and blue fabrics again, and decided to ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 4 years, 11 months ago. under comfort quilts , elgin piecemakers , embroidery , hand sewing , london modern quilt guild , oxford quilters guild , slow sunday stitching , spinning 4 patch

Sneeze Challenge from The Cozy Quilter

The Oxford Quilt Guild issued a challenge at the September meeting...we were each to chose a Kleenex box and made a quilted item using either the colour scheme or the pictures on the box as our inspiration. They called it the "Sneeze Challenge". Today, all of the projects were revealed and we had to match the boxes with their respective projects. There were 30 challenge projects completed and it was fun to figure out the inspiration for each quilt.

The flattened Kleenex boxes were on display above the quilts, but not necessarily near the quilt that they matched.

My ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 5 years ago. under guild challenge , machine quilting , oxford quilters guild , pillows

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