zippered pouch

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 6 days, 19 hours ago. under baby quilts , counted cross stitch , crochet , finn , oxford quilters guild , slow sunday stitching , zippered pouch

Another Secret Project Reveal and Retreat Report from The Cozy Quilter

There was no blog post last weekend as Christine and I were at a crafter's retreat at Camp Kintail. There were other people sewing, knitting, crocheting, paper crafting, card making, painting, rug hooking, etc. Lots of interesting projects to walk around to look at when I had been sitting for too long! I worked on several projects, one of which was a gift and will not be revealed until after Christmas. I quilted two baby quilts--one of which you can see in the picture below. It is not quite done yet and I hope to finish it off this ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 weeks, 6 days ago. under counted cross stitch , crochet , finn , potato chip blocks , retreat , scraps , slow sunday stitching , zippered pouch

Sweet Dreams from Sew Preeti Quilts

In summer I dream of a chilly breeze.
In winter I dream of a fire.
At land I yearn for the stormy seas.
Once there it is dry land that I desire.

It is no surprise that I made an Autumn Quilt in Spring :-) Meet Sweet Dreams.

Autumn in Spring

Island Batik's June Challenge Requirements/Guidelines are as follows:

Project Type: Quilt for Quilts Across America
Size: between 50” to 60” wide and 75” to 90” long.
Fabric: Any, in colors that appeal to children aged 2-17.
Work with any size unit that you want, you can also use ...

added by Preeti 5 months, 3 weeks ago. under autumn leaf , bed quilt , charity quilt , corner beam , island batik , island batik ambassador , rainbow scrap challenge , rsc2024 , scrappy quilt block , studio 180 designs , value gradation , zippered pouch

Fly Away Challenge from Sew Preeti Quilts

The Island Batik June Challenge reads as follows:

Use one of your precut bundles and play with the versatile Flying Geese blocks to create a fun quilt or table runner! Your project must use Flying Geese blocks as the focus but you can combine other blocks to enhance the project.

Now, I am not a fan of Flying Geese Blocks. The construction is a fiddly multi-step process, regardless of the method you choose. Even when the method works for you, you need a specialty ruler for precision points. In my opinion a flying goose block is made up of two ...

added by Preeti 1 year, 6 months ago. under aggressive fish , fish block , fish quilt , flying geese , flying goose , house blocks , houses , island batik , island batik ambassador , island batik designer , island batik fabrics , mini quilt , tame fish , zippered pouch

Its Wednesday! from Sew Preeti Quilts

Marrying someone from halfway across the globe has its perks. There is always something new to learn. Recently Paul introduced me to the Addams Family. I fell in love with Wednesday and she is the inspiration for my May project!

Wednesday Mock-Up in EQ8

But let's start at the beginning. The May Challenge requires that we use the Studio 180 Design Tool and the Winter 2022 Collection to make a project of any size. The guidelines included the following:

1. Work with two or more different size units.

2. Must use at least 30 units total, made with the ...

added by Preeti 1 year, 7 months ago. under aurifil , eq8 , giveaway , hobbs batting , island batik , island batik ambassador , lap quilt , modern quilt , pieced backing , schmetz needles , square squared , studio 180 designs , tool challenge , wednesday , zippered pouch

Vicky and the Zips from Sew Preeti Quilts

The Island Batik challenge for April is Crazy Quilts with Aurifil Threads.

The Zippered Pouches - in progress

The challenge is to show off the thread from the Color Builder set in a Crazy Quilt! Try out different block combinations and layouts and experiment with decorative stitches and embroidery to highlight the tread you received.

I received the Frangipani Color Builder from Aurifil Threads.

To ensure that these threads/embroidery/stitches showed well on the fabric, I decided to use Island Batik solids. Since I also wanted to make a modern interpretation of Crazy Quilts, the solids were a perfect choice ...

added by Preeti 1 year, 8 months ago. under aurifil thread , color builders , crazy quilts , decorative stitches , hobbs batting , island batik , island batik ambassador , island batik designer , rainbow scrap challenge , rsc2023 , schmetz needles , zippered pouch

Slow Sunday Stitching 2023 from The Cozy Quilter

I have been missing in action the last couple of Sundays for my weekly blogpost. Our Christmas took some unexpected turns this year ---as the saying goes, life happens when you are making other plans. Our daughter's dog, Finn, had surgery on Dec 19th to remove a broken tooth. After the surgery, he went into kidney failure and was in the animal hospital for 10 days in intensive care to receive treatments to improve his kidney function. Thankfully, his kidneys are now working normally again and he is home and feeling much better. The vets at the hospital called ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 11 months ago. under comfort quilts , counted cross stitch , finn , knitting , slow sunday stitching , wool applique , zippered pouch

Slow Stitching from The Cozy Quilter

I have been furiously sewing this week to finish off some Christmas gifts in time for the big day. Just a little bit more to do! My cousin and her husband came for lunch on Friday. We do not get to see each other very often but often talk on the phone about our mutual genealogy project--shaking the family tree on our mothers' side of the family to see what we can find out. The majority of our family members are Scottish with some Irish as well. I made my cousin a wide open zippered pouch with some fabric I ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 years ago. under christmas gifts , finn , hand sewing , slow sunday stitching , wool applique , zippered pouch

"Creative" Christmas Stockings from Sew Preeti Quilts

The Island Batik Ambassadors challenge for November 2022 is Creative Christmas Stockings.

Me: What is the purpose of Christmas stockings?
Paul: Not to keep your feet warm...
Me: Just a decorative item, then?
Paul: Mostly.
Me: You know how much I hate "decorative stuff". Just another dust collector, in my opinion.

Paul: Well, some people may actually use it for stuffing Christmas presents.
Me: Hmm... I thought about that.
Paul: And?

Me: Only small presents...

Paul (mischievously): Like dollar bills?

Me (realistically): And gift cards.

Paul: Yup, those can be placed inside a stocking.

Me: Small boxes of jewelry too ...

added by Preeti 2 years, 1 month ago. under applique , christmas , christmas stockings , christmas tree , giveaway winners , holiday , holiday decor , improv piecing , tree ornaments , zippered pouch

Slow Knitting and some Zippered Pouches from The Cozy Quilter

I belong to a sewing group at church--we get together every couple of weeks for a few hours to make items for our upcoming Christmas Bazaar. This past Tuesday, 5 of us met at the church to sew. P and I made two zippered pouches each. J and M made bunting for Christmas, Valentines and Halloween. K worked on another type of pouch. The bin with our new items for this year's bazaar is filling up. We also have some stock left over from the last bazaar in 2019. Here are the pouches that I made. The pattern is ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 years, 2 months ago. under finn , gardens , knitting , slow sunday stitching , zippered pouch

Hooking, Knitting, and I started something new... from The Cozy Quilter

I made some rug hooking progress on my class project. The sheep is now done, including the tail and the legs. The wool strips are not trimmed yet so the wonkiness in the legs and tail is due to that. Next, I will work on the flowers. Then, there will be lots of sky and grass to fill in.

I just have the last border to do on the whale baby facecloth--I had hoped to finish it today but we got busy with gardening and then doing other jobs inside so I did not sit down to knit. I should ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 years, 6 months ago. under baby quilts , finn , gardens , knitting , rainbow scrap challenge , rug hooking , slow sunday stitching , zippered pouch

Red Scraps and a Gift from The Cozy Quilter

The red scraps were flying in my sewing room this week. I have decided to do three rainbow scrap challenge quilts this year. When I made the selvage hot pads as Christmas gifts, it quickly became apparent that my selvage collection is out of control! I had sorted some of my selvages into bags by colour so I grabbed the red bag and some light-weight non-fusible interfacing and made two squares.

I also pieced some smaller red scraps together and used my drunkard's path rulers to make 4 quarter circle blocks. They are not sewn together yet as I ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 years, 11 months ago. under bonus hst's , comfort quilts , drunkard's path , finn , rainbow scrap challenge , scraps , selvages , zippered pouch

Gifts and More Knitting from The Cozy Quilter

I'm still in full gift making mode around here right now so some things can't be shown yet. I made two wide open zipper pouches and since the recipients already have them, I can share pictures. I have made dozens of these pouches over the past few years. It almost took longer to choose the fabrics than it did to make them! I had picked another colour scheme for one of the pouches and then discovered I did not have any zippers that went with those fabrics...back to the fabric storage area I went to pick something ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 3 years ago. under christmas gifts , counted cross stitch , embroidery , finn , knitting , slow sunday stitching , zippered pouch

Island Batik and ByAnnie Challenge from Sew Preeti Quilts

Me: I am so excited that I can explode!!!
Paul: Surprise that the new bag cannot "contain" your excitement.

Let's ignore Paul for now. I have been consumed by the bag making process and my excitement sometimes (okay, often) spilled into his area.

Island Batik teamed with ByAnnie for the September Challenge. We picked a pattern of our choice from ByAnnie. I chose the backpack Got Your Back 2.1. All fabric was provided by Island Batik. I chose Moonlight Sky - designed by Kathy Engle for Kate Colleran of Seams Like a Dream Quilt Designs

ByAnnie provided the detailed ...

added by Preeti 3 years, 2 months ago. under annie unrein , backpack , byannie , island batik , island batik ambassador , patterns by annie , pencil case , quilted backpack , quilted bag , summer precuts , vanity bag , vanity case , zippered pouch

Random Acts of Cuteness from Sew Preeti Quilts

Our office recently moved to a new location. There are no lunch places within walking distance but there is a café in the basement. The food is good and the service is great. Naturally, I became a regular :-) Fami works in the cafe and she is usually behind the counter so it was a few weeks before I noticed her pregnant state. To be sure, I asked Frank - Is she expecting a baby. Frank nodded. When I asked, he told me that the baby is due in October. She'll be going on leave soon.

So I did what most ...

added by Preeti 3 years, 3 months ago. under baby quilt , burp cloths , cute fabric , doll clothes , play-mat , scrappy , toy clothes , toy underwear , zippered pouch

Quilted Zipper Pouches from Goer

In May, I took a virtual walking foot quilting class with Jacquie Gering with my local guild. Her class was a wonderful variety of walking foot skills. We filled 5 panels with quilting during the 6 hour class.

And... right at the beginning of the class she talked about open toe walking feet. Did you know that a walking foot can have an open toe!? I did not. Our class started at 9am that morning, and when the local sewing machine shop opened at 10am, I called up and asked if they had an open toe walking foot that would ...

added by sarah 3 years, 5 months ago. under open wide zippered pouch , quilting , sewing , walking foot quilting , zippered pouch (Comments)

Island Batik March Challenge - Scrapbuster from Sew Preeti Quilts

The March 2021 Island Batik Challenge is to make a Scrapbuster Quilt.

Being a new ambassador I do not have a lot of Island Batik fabrics.

Me: How do I make a scrapbuster without scraps?
Paul: You have no scraps?
Me: How do I make an Island Batik scrapbuster quilt without Island Batik scraps?
Paul: Did you not get a big box of fabric?
Me: Well, yes, I did. However, some of that fabric has been used in previous projects and some is earmarked for later projects. Whatever is left is a bit limiting.
Paul: So what did you do ...

added by Preeti 3 years, 8 months ago. under beg , borrow and barter , dreami , hobbs batting , improv piecing , island batik , island batik ambassador , quilting with scraps , schmetz needles , scrapbuster , scrappy quilt , squirrel , zany triangles , zippered pouch

This and That from The Cozy Quilter

I made steady progress this week on "Love Birds", a counted cross stitch picture I am making for C and M for their wedding which took place late in 2020. My goal this past week was to finish the leaves and start the next large blue flower. Mission accomplished!

Here is a closer up view of the section I worked on this week.

It may take a week or two to finish the blue flower. There are a lot of stitches in it!

My friend, A, celebrated a birthday this week so I made her a zippered pouch using some ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 3 years, 10 months ago. under blackwork , colour blocks , counted cross stitch , embroidery , finn , frank lloyd wright , love birds , scraps , slow sunday stitching , zippered pouch

The Gifts of Christmas from The Cozy Quilter

Our daughter has been very busy over the last few months, working on gifts for us and her grandmother. I knew about the bee picture for her grandmother, but had no idea she was making something for us as well. "Home for the Holidays" was a stitch-along at the Barmy Fox on Instagram. Each day for 3 1/2 weeks, there were new stitches to learn and add to her picture. It looks great on our mantle with my little gnome. She learned several new stitches including the whipped backstitch, the feather stitch, the open and closed fly stitch, padded ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 3 years, 12 months ago. under christmas gifts , counted cross stitch , embroidery , hats , knitting , love birds , pillowcases , scarves , zippered pouch

More Christmas Gifts from The Cozy Quilter

We are one week closer to Christmas and my gift making is just about done. I finished off this knitted face cloth this week and it has been gifted to a friend. For me, one of the best parts of Christmas is making gifts for family and friends. Since I learned to knit this year, all of my friends received a little knitted something in their Christmas parcels. I delivered my friends' gifts this week.

I started one more facecloth this week, just because I had the yarn to make it and I like to keep myself busy, especially when ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 4 years ago. under blackwork , christmas gifts , finn , knitting , wall hanging , zippered pouch

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