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Two For One! from Sew Preeti Quilts

I have lots to share today.

Let's start with Positivity Grows! Some of you may have seen this finish on Instagram but here it is for the first time on my blog - the Positivity 2023 Finished Quilt. I have named her Vrinda, which is one of the names of the Holy Basil.

Vrinda

Vrinda is green and glowing.

The blocks are sometimes wonky, but you know that straight is overrated :-D

Happy Pride Month!

Speaking of happiness, I like to celebrate every finish and Paul captured that emotion perfectly.

Happiness is a Quilt

Since I will be sending Vrinda ...

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Positivity 2023 - Flower Block Tutorial from Sew Preeti Quilts

This Flower Block will finish at 12" (width) by 10" (height). It is the exact same dimension as the Leaf Block. I had made an audition/trial block earlier. Based on that experience, I updated the method, which I am sharing in the tutorial.

Flower + Leaf = Audition Block

These directions show how to make the Flower Block using 2.5" strips. You may use scraps (that can be used to cut the pieces shown under Fabric Requirements).

Flower Block Graphic

Fabric Requirements

Background - One strip 2.5" by 41"
Cut Four rectangles 2.5" by 4.5", Four squares 2 ...

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Positivity 2023 QAL - Leaf Block Tutorial from Sew Preeti Quilts

Finally, here we are! The Positivity 2023 QAL begins today.

I am so excited to share this tutorial with you.

To make two leaf blocks, we need the following:

One strip of light green - 2.5" by Width of Fabric (WOF)

One strip of dark green - 2.5" by WOF

One background strip - 4.5" by WOF

Four rectangles of background - 5" by 6"

Two rectangles of black/brown/grey (stem) - 1.5" by 10.5"

Step 1. Sew one light green strip (2.5" by WOF) to the background strip (4.5" by WOF) along the length.

Sew one ...

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Positivity QAL 2023 - Sponsors and Prizes from Sew Preeti Quilts

Happy Weekend to you!

I have added a new page - Positivity 2023 QAL. See top left of the blog page. It contains important links and these will become active/live as we move through the QAL.

I am working on the Positivity QAL blocks in preparation for the Quilt Along, beginning on May 28, 2023.

Kaffe Fassett Love!

Here are the gifts/prizes we have secured for the Positivity 2023 QAL. We appreciate the generosity of our sponsors!!! Do take a look at their stores/shops.

LEVEL 1 (Flimsy)
All QAL participants (anywhere in the world) who link up their ...

added by Preeti 1 year, 7 months ago. under charity qal , charity quilt , jelly roll quilt , leaf blocks , mercyful qal , mercyful quilts , positivity , positivity 23 , positivity quilt along , rainbow scrap challenge , rsc2023 , the positivity qal

Prizes, Prizes, Prizes!!! from Sew Preeti Quilts

Today, the Positivity QAL comes to an end with the announcement of the winners.

Thanks to the unexpected generosity of our sponsors - Art Gallery Fabrics, Benartex and Island Batik, we had enough prizes for everyone who completed a Positivity Quilt.

Here are the winners:

Mari, Lisa T, Katie May, Roseanne, Sue Hoover, Danielle, Cynthia, Sylvia, and Wendy F.

Emails have been sent to all winners. While I wait for your addresses, I am stuffing goodies in padded envelopes. So excited!!!

Sunday Update - Prizes have been sent to Katie May, Roseanne, Sylvia and Sue. Mari and Lisa have received their prizes ...

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Catching up from Sew Preeti Quilts

It has been a very busy year for me. According to Paul, all the busy-ness is self-created and self-inflicted. He is mostly correct and even if he was not, I am not going to argue with him. He is the only quilt model I have in these pandemic times. Cannot afford to irritate him.

Paul: Really, how busy have you been?
Me: So busy that I have not made a single zippered bag this year.
Paul(in mock horror): NO.
Me: Even before I finish this thing, I have the next one ready to go, with no time to play ...

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Positivity QAL - Checking in from Sew Preeti Quilts

Paul's Covid recovery has been much slower than we'd like. I noticed that the cough syrup was almost gone.

Me: I can fetch you more Nyquil, babe.
Paul: Nah, I'll just use Dayquil if I need.
Me: Oh Ok.
Paul: Or I'll mix the half dose of Nyquil in the Dayquil.
Me: What? You a pharmacist now?
Paul: Pharmacist? No. Bartender.

I burst out laughing.

Paul: It has alcohol.

Me: Yes, it does.

Picnic with Paul

Staying away from restaurants/enclosed spaces, we decided to go on a picnic. It was a beautiful day.

On the ...

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Positivity 2022 QAL - Block Tutorial from Sew Preeti Quilts

This Block Tutorial post marks the beginning of the Positivity 2022 Quilt Along. Although I shared the Sponsors & Prizes, the QAL Schedule and the Fabric Requirements earlier, this is the post where you can actually get started!!!

I am so very excited. But first - a disclaimer.

Please note that the block itself is not new. But this method of making this block is my very own.
Think of it this way - I did not discover New York, but I am the driver of this new superfast overnight train to New York (or Chicago, in case you live in New York ...

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The Positivity QAL 2022 - Sponsors and Prizes from Sew Preeti Quilts

I am thrilled to announce the generous sponsors for the Positivity 2022 Quilt Along to make Mercyful Quilts. There is a lot of information here, so you may want to bookmark this page.

If you are new to the Positivity QAL or have not heard of Mercyful Quilts, you may have some questions. Well, I have answers :-)

What is a Mercyful Quilt?
The Palliative Care Unit in the Mercy Hospital gives quilts to their terminally ill patients to bring some measure of comfort to the person and their family as they go through the difficult process of dying. The family ...

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Positivity 2022 - Schedule from Sew Preeti Quilts

Dear Quiltmakers,

Thank you for joining the Positivity QAL. Here is a suggested schedule for the QAL so that you can pace yourself and stay on track. There will be three linky parties, shown in red below.

1. May 29, 2022 - QAL Launch - Block Tutorial and Fabric Requirements

2. June 5, 2022 - Finalize your fabric picks, block and layout etc.

3. June 12, 2022 - Complete cutting fabrics

4. June 19, 2022 - Complete Blocks 1-20

5. June 26, 2022 - Complete Blocks 21 - 40. Linky Party to share your progress

6. July 3, 2022 - Complete Blocks 41 - 60

7. July 10, 2022 ...

added by Preeti 2 years, 7 months ago. under mercyful qal , positivity , positivity 2022 , positivity quilt along , quiltalong , schedule , the positivity qal

What did I miss? from Sew Preeti Quilts

Hello quiltmakers,

I am back from my trip to India. Mom's surgery went well and she is on the road to recovery. I appreciate your kind thoughts and warm wishes.

Although my visit wasn't a vacation and I stayed home (near the A/C) due to the heat, my friends (Ruby and Savita) visited me. I felt spoiled with spicy food and sweet mangoes.

Happy to see you :-)

Veggie Delight (Don't ask me the English name)

Vanilla icecream with fresh mangoes

The Indian street food that I loved would most certainly kill me now. So Meetu recreated ...

added by Preeti 2 years, 7 months ago. under bernie , india , mercyful qal , mercyful quilts , needle and foot , positivity , positivity 2022 , quiltalong , the positivity qal , travel , vacation

Think Pink from Sew Preeti Quilts

Angela announced that April is Pink. And nature got the memo :-)

Delicate Pink

Hot Pink

Reddish Pink

Pretty Blooms

It is like the sun and breeze shared a naughty joke and all flora blushed.

Looks like my fabrics are blushing too. I will be sharing with Angela's linky party.

Starting Point

Plus Background Strips

Cut and Sew

Easter Bunny?

When a pink Easter bunny hopped on to my work, I ate him up :-D

Voila!!!

I have about a dozen pink blocks. All different sizes. How will I put them together?

With a lot of mixing and matching, cutting ...

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Positively finished from The Academic Quilter

Hello everyone, and happy weekend! So, late last week I was walking across campus, along a new sidewalk, when I kind of fell off the sidewalk. There was a trench of sorts next to the concrete, where they hadn't filled in with dirt yet, and my ankle turned right to the side, exactly the wrong way. Funnily enough, it didn't hurt right away, but later it ballooned up, and it hurt like crazy. The good news is-- soft tissue injury, like a bad sprain. Not broken! The bad news is that it still hurts like crazy.

So, could ...

added by Mari 3 years, 2 months ago. under donation quilt , finished , positivity

Hallelujah!!!! from Crazy Quilter on a Bike!

I've been talking about positivity in our lives and how important it is. And it is -- we need that little glimmer of hope to get us through the bad days.

Well, this UPS business has put my positivity to the test. BIG TIME. I don't how many people I've spoken to. I was switched from department to department. Case numbers were created and then never referred to. I tried to escalate the issue and failed. My calls were transferred, and phones rang and rang with no one to answer them. Some of the agents were downright rude ...

added by Elaine 3 years, 3 months ago. under positivity , tula pink , ups

Varun from Sew Preeti Quilts

I have named him Varun, after the Hindu deity of sea and sky and rain. By now Varun has traveled the width of the country and reached Bernie on the west coast.

Varun - 60" by 80"

Varun - Green Backing

Each plus block finished at 10" square. 48 blocks were arranged 6 by 8 for a finished quilt measuring 60" by 80". Varun is my contribution to the Positivity QAL and is a Mercyful Quilt.

Thank you from Mercy Hospital

Mercyful Quilts Update

Wrapped with Kindness (may need tissues)

A Note from Mercy Hospital

Here are the pictures showing the progression ...

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A double dose of positivity from The Academic Quilter

Hi everyone! Can you feel the summer winding down? I can, and I want to hang on to it with both hands so it won't go away. Unfortunately, it's so humid that it's far too slippery to hang on to, plus I have a hard time breathing the soup that is our air right now. True fact: it has been so rainy and soupy that this week there was a full-grown frog on our deck. Or maybe it was a toad. I'm no scientist, but it was weird. He just hung out there, then literally hopped ...

added by Mari 3 years, 4 months ago. under blue , positivity , whisper quilt

Purple, Positivity and Pain from Sew Preeti Quilts

The Purple blocks for June RSC 2021 are complete. YIPPEE!!! Here they are:

Reddish Purple

Bluish Purple

True-ish Purple

Since I had purple on my mind, I saw purple everywhere and lots of it. Here are a few glimpses.

Hydrangeas

Allium something - Ornamental Onion

Purple and Hairy Leaves!!!

I saw a Purple Wall!!!

In Berlin, MD

Noticed this sign on vacation in Berlin, MD

A purple butterfly!!!

Pansies :-)

O Beautiful - Don't know thy name

One purple shell on the pathway to The Inn Berlin

Do you like Dark?

Or Light

Here are the secondary blocks, using the triangle leftovers ...

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Positive progress from The Academic Quilter

Hi everyone! Yes, it's a very rare Sunday post! I'm usually busy doing family stuff-- or scrubbing something-- on the weekends, but I took some pictures of the progress I've made on my Positivity quilts to share today, so that's what I'm doing. Always good to have a plan, isn't it?

You probably know by now that my friend Preeti of Sew Preeti Quilts is running the Positivity Quilt Along to benefit Mercyful Quilts, which is overseen by my friend Bernie. How could I not jump in and support some friends and contribute to ...

added by Mari 3 years, 5 months ago. under blue , positivity , red

A second dose of positivity from The Academic Quilter

Hi everyone! How is your week going? I am happy to tell you that the noise from the cicadas is fading. It's fading because they're all done with their life cycle and are now dying in droves. The front walk looks like the site of a massacre. We keep using the leaf blower to clear it because the crunchiness when you go out to the mailbox is really disconcerting, and using a broom is just icky.

Other than that. . .well, I started another quilt, and it turned out to be another positivity quilt for Preeti's quilt along ...

added by Mari 3 years, 6 months ago. under alternate blocks , blue , positivity

The Positivity QAL - Choosing Fabrics from Sew Preeti Quilts

Imagine a large buffet like Golden Corral (Paul's favorite). With over fifty items on the table, does it really matter if two or three items are blah? You will only taste 4-5 items, may be 10 if you are more adventurous. Ahem!!!

Now imagine a simple meal of tomato soup and grilled cheese. Everything must be fresh and tasty and well-seasoned. There is no room for blah. It could ruin the entire meal.

Such is this simple Plus Block. With only two main fabrics, it is important that they work well together.

Plus Fabrics (Background Pending)

I remember spending ...

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