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November 19, 2024
4 more.................. from Exuberant Color


There are 16 more blocks sewn, 4 alike of 4 different combinations of fabric.  I searched for more fabrics to cut while I did laundry yesterday morning.









I also cut more of the 2" finished triangles from the waste fabric.  Now I wish I knew what I did with the first stack.  I know I had them upstairs when I took a photo of them a few days ago and then I carried them to the basement to look for a small storage box.  I didn't find a box but.....where did I put the triangles?

Rain most of ...

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November 18, 2024
Finally.......some sewing............... from Exuberant Color


There are 4 blocks alike of each combination of 4 quarter square triangles.






I put one of each of the combinations that are already sewn up on the design wall.  I was sure I was going to get more sewn in 2 hours but just 24 blocks are done.  

I spent the morning yesterday outside finishing the tomato plant clean up.  It took a long time to cut all of the long branches off the SunGold tomato plant.  They were about 6-8 feet long and tangled with each other.  I couldn't believe the size of the roots on that ...

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November 17, 2024
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 ...

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November 16, 2024
Still cutting................. from Exuberant Color


I had a stack of fabrics to press before I could continue cutting 6.5" squares.  I got 13 more cut with a pile waiting to go to the die cutter.  There are 4 squares of each of most of these fabrics.  There are 2 or 3 quilts in the future to use all of them.  I will need 177 squares if I make all 3 quilts and I have 96 cut so far.


I'm also cutting 3" finished half square triangles for one of the quilts.  Lots more strips are also waiting to be die cut for this ...

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November 14, 2024
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 ...

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November 13, 2024
Adding dots?................... from Exuberant Color

I have purchased Kaffe Fassett "Spot" fabric over the years as he keeps adding new colors.  I thought maybe they might work with the floral fabrics.





I guess I won't know unless I try it.  I pressed the fabrics and cut some triangles.











I changed out some of the florals with dotted fabric.  I have lots more cutting to do so I can think about this.  Any opinions?


There was a waste triangle at each end when I cut the quarter square triangles and it was the right size to cut a 2" half square triangle.  I will start ...

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November 12, 2024
Still searching and cutting................ from Exuberant Color


I thought maybe I should add more light triangles for this quilt so I added a Philip Jacobs floral.




Here are the rest of the triangles that wouldn't fit on the table.  I only have enough triangles cut to make into 48 blocks so far.  That would only make a quilt 36" x 48" so I have a long way to go.



I went though more Philip Jacobs fabric and the group of Lille which Kaffe did the coloration for.  I think these 5 are going to work.



I spent about 3 hours outside yesterday picking the rest of ...

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November 11, 2024
Busy, busy..................... from Exuberant Color


Back in mid-June I was sorting my floral fabrics to prepare some for a de-stash sale.  I had 2 stacks that I was keeping and I finally got around to cutting them.  First I cut an 11" strip off every piece that was large enough.






There is enough length in this group to cut another strip if necessary.






This group was shorter lengths or had squares cut out of them from the time I was making my Kaffe Seed Packet quilt.  I can still get cuts from them, just not as many as I will get from the larger pieces ...

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October 28, 2024
Little butterflies................... from Exuberant Color


It took 2 hours to sew 30 Broken Dishes Hourglass blocks, 2" finished size.  This is a possible layout.  I'll know more after I start assembling parts of it.  There will be spacers of the same background fabric between the 'little butterflies'.

I spent an hour with garden clean up yesterday.  It was cool enough that I needed a jacket.  There were quite a few branches to pick up as well as pulling out the spreading bellflowers and goldenrod.  I think I'll go out and clip the dead flower stalks on the hostas this year.  I read you ...

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October 7, 2024
Pinwheels................ from Exuberant Color


It looks just like yesterday's photo but this is the sewn top.  Right now it is 60" x 72" which falls into the size quilts I prefer to make now.  If I add borders (to please someone who would like a larger quilt) it will be in the size range that I no longer want to do the quilting on.  I have the fabric that would work for a border, I just don't know that I want to push myself to do it.  This will hang on the design wall for a few days.


Meanwhile I was putting ...

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October 5, 2024
A layout, maybe not the final......................... from Exuberant Color


I had a plan....since there are 10 different combinations of fabrics and there are 5 blocks in each row, all I had to do is design the top 2 rows and then offset the next set of 2 rows 2 blocks to the right, and repeat for the third set of 10 blocks. Now when I see the photo I can see I have a diagonal path of the plainer prints and the busier prints are also grouped together.  I could say I did that on purpose to give it a focal point....but I didn't.  I have ...

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October 4, 2024
3 blocks and quilts gifted..................... from Exuberant Color

Yesterday turned into kind of a social day so I only got 3 blocks sewn.  The 2 light fabrics on the left haven't been used in the previous 27 blocks but the one on the right is a repeat.  I now have 30 blocks.


A friend in town has lost several family members in the last year so I told her to come over and pick out a quilt.  I asked what her favorite color was and she said green.  I pulled out the one on the left and she loved it.  Then I pulled out the one on ...

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October 2, 2024
9 of 27 blocks.................. from Exuberant Color


I turned on the iron yesterday and pressed the rest of the pinwheel blocks that were sewn a couple nights ago.  There are 3 alike of each of these on the design wall.  I have 3 more blocks ready to sew.  I still haven't decided whether it will be a 30 block quilt or a 36 block quilt.



Phone shopping was on my list yesterday.  I have an app on my cellphone that sends transmissions to the doctor's office from my new pacemaker.  The phone I currently had is 6 years old and the operating system (OS) would ...

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September 30, 2024
Pinwheels and vintage cookware.................. from Exuberant Color


I turned on the iron on my little ironing station in my main floor studio.  First I pressed the 12 pinwheel blocks I had sewn the night before.




Next I pressed all of the squares I had sewn a couple nights ago.  I went ahead and sewed the pinwheel blocks too but didn't turn the iron back on to press them yet.  Now I have 28 twelve inch pinwheel blocks and it is time to decide what size quilt I am making.  5 x 5 isn't an option because I don't make square throw quilts.  That leaves ...

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September 29, 2024
A few pinwheels................... from Exuberant Color


I sewed a few of the pinwheel blocks yesterday (12") but mostly was reading yesterday.

I'm officially done mowing my grass, forever.  I had a battery powered mower and the charger got caught on the rope on my garage door and was yanked out of the socket and cracked when it hit the cement floor in the garage.  The mower was 25 years old and the company no longer stocks parts for their mowers of that age.  I had intended to quit at the end of this year anyway.  A neighbor on the street behind me mowed my grass ...

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September 28, 2024
Triangles......................... from Exuberant Color


Starting with the end of the day yesterday, last night I sewed 60 triangle squares, 12 each of 5 combinations.  The first group sewn last week have been pressed so I can start making the pinwheel blocks with them.


This is the same pile flipped over.  Whenever I feel like turning on the iron I will press these for more pinwheels.





Also last night I finished the dishcloth currently on the needles.  I used 3 small leftover pieces of yarn and then finished with a partial ball of yarn which has now created one more small leftover.






Sometime in the ...

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September 18, 2024
Blue..................... from Exuberant Color



 

While I was in the basement doing laundry I cut some of the dark blue fabrics for my pinwheel quilt.

After that I mailed packages from my destash sale on WandafulQuilts.  The grocery store is across from the post office so I made a stop there too.  
I spent some time trimming leaves off the tomato plants so there would be better airflow and hopefully sunlight hitting the green tomatoes.  After what I thought was a lot of trimming I could hardly see any difference in the plants.

Last night I paired the dark blues with the leftover light blue ...

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September 12, 2024
Some things I found.................. from Exuberant Color


I did my grocery run yesterday morning and I couldn't settle on doing any one thing the rest of the day.  I started going through things in a bookcase and found these 2 magazines, from 1997 and 1998.  The Beanie Babies at that time were so hard to find because everyone was buying them.  I have given all of my Beanie Babies to the great-grandchildren, a few at a time.  It is so hard to throw pristine magazines into the recycling bin (but I sure don't need these).


Then I was cleaning out a bin on a shelf ...

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September 8, 2024
Memories - 1956................ from Exuberant Color


Sometimes when I cut too many pieces they are a burden.  I spend too many hours trying to figure out what to do with them.  In this case I had gone to the bin with all of the Kaffe "Spot" fabrics and saw a good size piece of this gray/white one.  I had just opened the box with the leftover pink, blue, and green 6"  triangles a day or so before.  This one was meant to be.  I counted the pink triangles (170) and then figured out how many gray/white triangles I could cut out of the piece ...

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September 7, 2024
Sewn, ready for pressing................ from Exuberant Color


The top is sewn as of 9:30 last night.  I'll press it and photograph it today.  I just love the pink and gray combination.  Now I'm not unhappy I overcut the number of pink triangles I needed for the previous 2 quilts.  It made this one a fast project.


I always pre-order some new Kaffe fabrics that come out in February and end of August.  This one is my favorite so I got 1 yard of it.





This was my next favorite so I got a little of each color.



 

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