slow sunday stitching

Happy Easter! from The Cozy Quilter

Happy Easter to all who celebrate this holiday! We had brunch with my husband's family yesterday so the rest of the weekend will be quiet. My niece helped me to make a bunny charcuterie board for the brunch yesterday and I managed to get a picture before people started to nibble. I will have to make more of these for other family gatherings.

I only have one more quilt that needs a hanging sleeve for the quilt show. I hope to get to that this weekend. I am one of those people that likes to have things done ahead ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 5 days, 3 hours ago. under arizona quilt , baby quilts , counted cross stitch , crochet , finn , gardens , hand quilting , quilt show , slow sunday stitching

A Busy Two Weeks from The Cozy Quilter

I was away last weekend and did not have time to blog before I left so today's post is a catch up on what I have been up to for the last couple of weeks. I am happy to report that I have finished hand quilting my Arizona quilt and I am now working on getting the binding hand stitched and adding a sleeve and label.

The Oxford Quilter's Guild show is the coming up very soon and I have registered 12 quilts in the show. Most of them do not have hanging sleeves yet so that will ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 week, 1 day ago. under aprons , arizona quilt , binding , drunkard's path , finn , gardens , hand quilting , oxford quilters guild , quilt show , slow sunday stitching

Second Wind from ... Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. It's been less than 24 hours since my last post, and so I don't have much to tell you this morning. When I left you yesterday afternoon, I was surprisingly tired after our trek to the farmer's market. I was gearing up...or maybe I was winding down...to take a nap. When I woke up, I felt quite a bit refreshed.

Heading into the sewing room, I spent some time finishing off the top border for The Story of My Day. Sadie kept me company.

The border was about half finished. I ...

added by Barbara 1 week, 4 days ago. under cats , embroidery , mindless musings , quilts , slow sunday stitching

Second Wind from Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. It's been less than 24 hours since my last post, and so I don't have much to tell you this morning. When I left you yesterday afternoon, I was surprisingly tired after our trek to the farmer's market. I was gearing up...or maybe I was winding down...to take a nap. When I woke up, I felt quite a bit refreshed.

Heading into the sewing room, I spent some time finishing off the top border for The Story of My Day. Sadie kept me company.

The border was about half finished. I ...

added by Barbara 1 week, 4 days ago. under cats , embroidery , mindless musings , quilts , slow sunday stitching

Good Trouble from ... Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. Well. What a day we had yesterday. By day's end, Smitty was channeling our combined energy.

A lot has happened since we last chatted. Let's start with the sewing, shall we? I have some things to tell you about our day on Saturday, but I'll save that for the end. If you're not interested in hearing about the protest, please feel free to opt out when you see me climb up on my soapbox. For now...the sewing, and nothing but the sewing. And cats. Of course, there will be cats.

I ...

added by Barbara 2 weeks, 4 days ago. under baking on friday , cats , embroidery , every blooming thing , gardening , photography , quilts , slow sunday stitching , soapbox

Good Trouble from Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. Well. What a day we had yesterday. By day's end, Smitty was channeling our combined energy.

A lot has happened since we last chatted. Let's start with the sewing, shall we? I have some things to tell you about our day on Saturday, but I'll save that for the end. If you're not interested in hearing about the protest, please feel free to opt out when you see me climb up on my soapbox. For now...the sewing, and nothing but the sewing. And cats. Of course, there will be cats.

I ...

added by Barbara 2 weeks, 4 days ago. under baking on friday , cats , embroidery , every blooming thing , gardening , photography , quilts , slow sunday stitching , soapbox

Four Projects from ... Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. It was a busy day in my sewing room yesterday. Progress was made on four projects. First off, I finished quilting the right side of Jericho Walls, including the row of setting triangles.

Now I've rotated the quilt 180° where there are two more rows of blocks and another row of setting triangles. If all goes as expected, I should be ready to quilt the outer border by Wednesday.

Next, I traced out two more blocks for Raggedy & Friends.

That would have been the day's quota, but I had a piece of fabric just ...

added by Barbara 3 weeks, 4 days ago. under cats , cooking , embroidery , free-motion quilting , quilts , rainbow scrap challenge , slow sunday stitching

Four Projects from Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. It was a busy day in my sewing room yesterday. Progress was made on four projects. First off, I finished quilting the right side of Jericho Walls, including the row of setting triangles.

Now I've rotated the quilt 180° where there are two more rows of blocks and another row of setting triangles. If all goes as expected, I should be ready to quilt the outer border by Wednesday.

Next, I traced out two more blocks for Raggedy & Friends.

That would have been the day's quota, but I had a piece of fabric just ...

added by Barbara 3 weeks, 4 days ago. under cats , cooking , embroidery , free-motion quilting , quilts , rainbow scrap challenge , slow sunday stitching

Hand Stitching from The Cozy Quilter

This was another week of hand stitching projects. I finished off the outlining of the dark purple lupin and moved on to the lupin to the left. It was partly done before and I am almost finished it. There is more outlining to do on the leaves at the bottom of the picture.

Finn laid beside me today while I knitted and listened to an audiobook.

I attempted to sew another block together on my drunkard's path project but my sewing machine was not co-operating. Usually, a good cleaning will fix the issues but not this time. I think ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 3 weeks, 4 days ago. under arizona quilt , counted cross stitch , drunkard's path , finn , hand quilting , knitting , puzzles , slow sunday stitching

Lots of Hand Stitching and Another Block from The Cozy Quilter

A few years ago, I stitched "Let it Bee". I was cleaning up the top of my cutting table and found it in a pile, waiting to be framed. I went to Stitch It Central this past week to buy some backing for the secret gift quilt that I have been working on and purchased a 5" hoop for my bee while I was there. It was well overdue for being framed!

I went to the weekly guild sewing day earlier this week and spent my time hand quilting the four HST blocks in my Arizona quilt. The centre part ...

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Sewing the Day Away from ... Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. It was a very good Sewturday yesterday. I got a lot done in the sewing room. You might recall that when I left the sewing room Friday afternoon, I was in the process of making two "Rosebud" blocks for the Girls' Getaway quilt.

I'd never made this block before. It looked complicated, but it actually went together pretty easily. When I had them all sewn together, they looked like this.

The pieced blocks for this quilt will be placed around the outer edge of the quilt. Some require a "spacer" to make them fit. The ...

added by Barbara 1 month, 1 week ago. under cats , embroidery , mindless musings , quilt shops , quilts , slow sunday stitching , travel

Sewing the Day Away from Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. It was a very good Sewturday yesterday. I got a lot done in the sewing room. You might recall that when I left the sewing room Friday afternoon, I was in the process of making two "Rosebud" blocks for the Girls' Getaway quilt.

I'd never made this block before. It looked complicated, but it actually went together pretty easily. When I had them all sewn together, they looked like this.

The pieced blocks for this quilt will be placed around the outer edge of the quilt. Some require a "spacer" to make them fit. The ...

added by Barbara 1 month, 1 week ago. under cats , embroidery , mindless musings , quilt shops , quilts , slow sunday stitching , travel

My New Projects and Knitting from The Cozy Quilter

I started these blocks at a recent guild retreat after mulling over the design for a couple of months. I made two at the retreat and one more today. I have more colours pulled to make nine blocks for this wall hanging. Here is the pink block.

And here are the three blocks I have made so far.

The centres are a cute print that I have had in my stash for a few years. I have the green and blue blocks in line to do next.

I have been knitting most days this past week and my scarf is ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 month, 1 week ago. under cheryl arkison , crochet , drunkard's path , finn , knitting , slow sunday stitching , solids

Binding and Finn's Approval from The Cozy Quilter

It's been a busy week and I have not had much time to sew but I did manage to hand sew the bindings on the two quilts I showed in my last post. The shadow box quilt has gray binding, the same as the shadows on the quilt.

Finn approves of the potato chip baby quilt.

Here is a close up of the backing fabric--I love the paper boats print!

My daughter's book blanket is coming along with nine new squares added in February.

These squares represent two books read in March so far.

Here are the books ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 month, 2 weeks ago. under baby quilts , binding , books , crochet , finn , potato chip blocks , rainbow scrap challenge , scraps , slow sunday stitching

Just Got Home from a Quilting Retreat! from The Cozy Quilter

Three days and two nights of quilting! I always bring more with me than I can possibly do while I am at a retreat but I like to have options in case I feel like changing projects. However, by the time I left today, I only had one project that I did not touch. Much was accomplished! I started out slowly with a warm up projects. I am making nine patch blocks for my Rainbow Scrap Challenge project this year. March's colour is yellow. They are a bit brighter than they appear in this picture. The lighting in the ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 month, 3 weeks ago. under binding , charity sewing , crochet , drunkard's path , finn , hand quilting , potato chip blocks , rainbow scrap challenge , retreat , serging , slow sunday stitching , walking foot quilting

Fresh Start from ... Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. It was a good day of sewing yesterday. I was able to finish off the Circus piece. It just needs the binding hand-sewn now. Today's sewing will probably be mostly hand-sewing, although I'm going to make good on my threat to sew the Kittens blocks into a finished quilt top.

There still is no plan for these. I've been mulling it over, and I have a couple of ideas. We'll all just have to wait and see what my hands do with them. It's unlikely that I can finish it today ...

added by Barbara 2 months ago. under cats , challenge quilts , embroidery , family , free-motion quilting , quilts , slow sunday stitching

Fresh Start from Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. It was a good day of sewing yesterday. I was able to finish off the Circus piece. It just needs the binding hand-sewn now. Today's sewing will probably be mostly hand-sewing, although I'm going to make good on my threat to sew the Kittens blocks into a finished quilt top.

There still is no plan for these. I've been mulling it over, and I have a couple of ideas. We'll all just have to wait and see what my hands do with them. It's unlikely that I can finish it today ...

added by Barbara 2 months ago. under cats , challenge quilts , embroidery , family , free-motion quilting , quilts , slow sunday stitching

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 2 months ago. under baby quilts , counted cross stitch , crochet , finn , hand quilting , hiking , knitting , rainbow scrap challenge , scrappy quilts , sewing room , slow sunday stitching

In a Bind from ... Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. It's a second Valentine's Day here. Mike and I have an evening out tonight to celebrate Friday's Valentine's Day. There's a special three-course meal at one of our favorite restaurants in downtown Portland. We wanted to avoid the Friday night holiday crowd, and so we waited until tonight for our celebratory dinner. I'm glad because I doubt we could have gotten out of our driveway on Friday. Tonight, it'll be smooth sailing...but no sailing...and no slipping, just because it's smooth. Sailing and slipping are to be ...

added by Barbara 2 months, 1 week ago. under cats , challenge quilts , embroidery , every little thing , exercise , free-motion quilting , mindless musings , quilts , slow sunday stitching

In a Bind from Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. It's a second Valentine's Day here. Mike and I have an evening out tonight to celebrate Friday's Valentine's Day. There's a special three-course meal at one of our favorite restaurants in downtown Portland. We wanted to avoid the Friday night holiday crowd, and so we waited until tonight for our celebratory dinner. I'm glad because I doubt we could have gotten out of our driveway on Friday. Tonight, it'll be smooth sailing...but no sailing...and no slipping, just because it's smooth. Sailing and slipping are to be ...

added by Barbara 2 months, 1 week ago. under cats , challenge quilts , embroidery , every little thing , exercise , free-motion quilting , mindless musings , quilts , slow sunday stitching

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