Yellow Two Inch Scraps

 This week I worked with my yellow two inch scraps. Two yellow Wedding Ring blocks join the four red ones made last month. 

 I made five yellow kitties that will finish at 3 inches - a calico cat, a nutty cat, a dotty cat, a flowery cat and one that says "leaf me alone".  I'm thinking I will combine them with nine patches because I have lots of them already made. I  can't decide if  I want to keep the nine patches all in one color or...

 ...mix it up a bit.   I'll just wait until I have a couple more colors of kitties made to decide.  I may even just combine the kitties with solid squares or...who knows...the year has just begun. 

I made three 16 Patch blocks and five little Wonky Stars.  I use waste triangles to make the star points.  The rest of the pieces are from the 2 inch scrap bin. 

I'm out of yellow scraps now so maybe for next week I'll quilt up a little yellow donation quilt. 

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A Finish! Sunshine on a Cloudy Day

 Sunshine on a Cloudy Day

42 x 60

It's a finish ready for giving or gifting!

I took advantage of yesterday's warmer temperatures that melted most of the recent snow and ice to take pictures outside. And today it is about 45 degrees F colder!!! 

I modified a free Katie Blakelsey (Swim Bike Quilt) pattern she calls Star Bright.  I used 6.5 inch squares instead of 6 inch and I made the HST star points my own way. 

 I have a milk crate of "chunk scraps" (scraps greater than 6 inch width of fabric and less than a fat quarter) and picked out some yellow, gray, and purple scraps to use. I've always wanted to try that color scheme. 

 My main machine quit sewing again and is in for repairs. I'm thankful I have a backup machine to use in the meantime.  I just quilted some straight lines at irregular intervals but sure had a lot of thread breakage which left me with lots of knots to bury because sometimes I don't see well enough to match up the end and beginning of the lines.  And, of course, the sewing machine light had to burn out in the middle of quilting which did not help.  I also think this sewing machine does not like cross wound thread. Even with a walking foot I had some shirring mostly at the same spot where I had most of the broken threads - of course that was right in the middle of the yellow gingham star. 

 

I used a very soft sheet on the back and I think the front shrunk more than the back which caused all this shirring after the quilt was washed because it wasn't there before washing!  I've used sheets lots of times for backings but I've never done straight line quilting on those. Maybe it's because I did not have front and back lined up on the straight of grain? And maybe that's why I had thread breakage problems in places?  Well, it doesn't affect the comfort or warmth of the quilt. That sheet is soft! 

On to the next! 

This was my goal #15 

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Q1 Finish-Along

Peacock Party at Wendy's Quilts and More

Valentine's Day

 I finished a set of four reversible placemats and napkins. 

 It all started with a set of napkins stamped for embroidery I picked up from the thrift store.  The original price was $9.50 but I picked them up for $1.95.  I finished the embroidery on them around August 2014. 

I'm not usually a "neat back" sort of embroiderer; however, I tried to stay neat since these are napkins and according to the packaging are supposed to be used as is because they have a serged edge. I didn't like them like that so decided to make them reversible and threw them in a project box along with possible fabrics to use for the reverse side which were mostly white so they would not show through to the front. And there they sat in the project box. 

Around 2016 after I saw a mini quilt tutorial with hearts at Cluck Cluck Sew I decided to make placemats to go with the napkins. I made four of those and threw them into the project box with the napkins. I didn't really like how the unfinished placemats turned out because I decided there was too much white in them for me.  I threw them into the project box with the napkins. 

I've made it a Finish -Along goal to finish the placemats and napkins several times but just couldn't get motivated to complete them. 

But this year is my year of finishing lots of old things so finished they are.  The placemats are a large size at 14 x 20. They are reversible. The reverse fabric fabric for placemats and napkins came from the Valentine fabric box. I didn't use the whites I had set aside and they are back in the neutral basket now.  The binding came from the Christmas fabric box.  I used bits and pieces of batting inside.  The napkins finish at 11.5 inches. 

This was my goal #28

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Q1 Finish-Along

Spider Webs

A few more Spider Web blocks. 

That's about as many as I can make at one time before my brain feels full of spider webs. 

I'm making them to use 1.5 inch scraps accumulated over a period of about 3 years 

More later. 

Moon Garden

 

Moon Garden with the first border. 

Medallion QAL with Em's Scrapbag

Power outages off and on here because of ice, snow and wind.  It was out for a brief time after midnight and for two hours this morning. More outages expected.  The lights just flickered. I have some hand work ready, a lantern handy and just need to download a book to my Kindle. 

Moon Garden

This is my Moon Garden Medallion Quilt center. 

There's a Medallion Quilt Along going on at Em's Scrapbag.  We start with a 24 inch center of our choice and Emily will release tutorials for borders over the next few months until we end up with a lap sized quilt.   

I decided I would use my black and white and black/white scraps to make a Moon Garden. I have a few glow in the dark threads in my stash that I will use for quilting when the time comes. 

I plant an actual Moon Garden almost every year with Moonflower, Nicotiana, Four-O-Clocks and Datura.  (And that reminds me that I haven't ordered seeds yet). 

Now my center is ready for the next round. 

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Medallion Quilt Along at Em's Scrapbag

Yellow 4.5 Inch Scraps

 This week I pulled yellow scraps out of the 4.5 inch bin and made some Half Rectangle Triangles (HRTs). 

And I made one 16 inch Fractured Rail block.  I started making these about mid year last year.  I was going to write that I've been making them in the RSC color plus a solid or tone on tone in a complementary color except that I noticed that blue should have been purple.  Thank goodness that was only a self-imposed rule so I can overrule the rule.  

And finally I sewed anything less than a 4.5 inch square into a strip. I've been doing that for several years instead of throwing them into a crumb box.  I have a lot of strips now. At the end of this year I'll figure out what to do with them. 

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