Busy Friday

I decided to pull some fabrics that have been on the shelf too long.  New fabrics, but been on the shelf for almost a year.  I like a two year turn around time on my shelf fabrics - I am not a hoarder, but a firm believer of using it.

This is a very quick project - The One Hour Basket.  This is the pattern I used, but there are a lot of them on the web.  If you are looking for a different homemade gift - this works great.  AND you can use fabrics to fit the reciever as well as fill them with goodies that they like.

Then I pulled the tote with some juvenile and fun prints that I have been seperating from the gifted scrap baggies all year.  These will be crayon roll-ups and I use This Pattern.  There are now two dozen prepped with half finished.  I've been invited to my granson's elementary school for a Holiday Shopping and craft event.  A table of make-and-take or items a child can buy under $3.  I'll also have a booth for the adult shopping hours. 

Then I pulled out the Christmas tote.  My SIL was looking for a backing for a runner and I found this in there.  I'll cut these and make some quick envelope fold  pot holders.

And then there was this find as well.  Again, more potholders.  I'm not one who like to work with Holiday fabrics, but these small, quick projects will use up these stashed away items as well as make for some little gifts for a child to buy for Mom/Dad.

Thinking and making Holiday projects, yet when I went outside for a walk break I found with the warm spell had made the roses bud again.  This is a special hybred I bought my Mom on her 80th birthday and is a 'Silver Anniversary' rose.  Why these buds are pink?  I don't know?

I did find one opened - they aren't really silver, but a pretty bright white.

 The furkids have been sticking to the indoors lately as the coyote have been running close to the house the last few weeks.  Moe is content on the couch with the 'napping' supplies.  Bella has taken to hiding upstairs somewheres - I think in the old chifferobe.

And a reminder of Carole's project.  You can read about it HERE.

QAL's and SAL' are wrapping up for the year.  As I find new ones for 2019, I will be doing updates on the sidebar.  If you know of any , let me know - I only will post up free; none that require buying a book, kit, or pattern.

HOPS COMING UP

 

Sewingly Yours,

Sharon

Scrappy Wednesday

Today I will play in all my CW scraps for the Temecula Quilt Co "Secret Santa" QAL.  I made their "Countdown to Christmas" quilt years ago and still one of my favorites.  The fabrics were listed and step one and two have come out, but you can still catch up if interested.

The 12 green 9-patch blocks worked up quickly and now I have a lot of strattas of red/lites to make so I can tackle those 68 little 9-patch blocks.  These are made with 1 1/4" squares, so making them in strip sets makes it a lot easier.  I'm throwing in a few pinks in the red mix for a little bit of fun - and to use them up.

We are headed back into several days of heavy rains - crock pot ready for making meals and plenty of projects to work on - bring it.

Sewingly Yours,
Sharon

Monday Making

This is the antique quilt that I worked on - gorgeous!  This is so big I had to borrow my Mom's banquet table to baste it out - set 3 x 4 blocks and I couldn't fit the top in. This has everything but the kitchen sink in it and I love it.  Chintz and broque', silk and polys, cotton and feedsacks, wovens of all sorts and corduroy. canves and duck cloth, searsucker and old sheets, and shirting.  It is all quilted - a simple cross hatch with an antique white thread top and bottom (backing is muslin).  I hope to have a photo of the quilt finished once the owner gets the binding on.

After wrestling the 'elephant' thru my machine, I need a little destressor.  My 1.5" barrel is stuffed as well as the mini barrel with the lites.  Time for a postage stamp quilt.

Ten by ten squares for blocks that can later be assembled into rows.  This will make a happy quilt.  Another cold and rainy day expected, so a good day to play.

Sewingly Yours,
Sharon

Finishing

I've had the new machine (and old, new machine) humming away in trying to not only tackle the 'pile', but to do some commission work as well.  I did manage to finish up the mini CW piece inbetween quilting a few pieces for others.

My very sad pumpkin runner with patch work - the Charlie Brown Pumpkin Patch?  But, it is finished.

I used a homespun on the back, I could always use that side instead.  I don't do any decorating for the different holidays.  Yes, the real bahh-humm'berger here.

The red/white boxed square quilt - finally got a bit of sunshine and no high winds to take a photo outside.

In one of the gifted bags of scraps was two very large pieces of this check and I was able to finess a back as well as enough to use for the binding.  All used up and this quilt will be one of my guild donations.

I didn't have permission to share commissions, but two quilts and two large wall hangings got done.  Word is out that I will quilt those too wonky items that a long armer won't touch.  Doing them on a home machine and some valuable tips and tricks learned, I can quilt them to make some people very happy. 

I have a very large antique quilt to do over the weekend.  I think we caught all of the seams that needed repair (hand stitched as the piece is all hand made).  I would have been happy to hand quilt it, but the owner wanted a machine stitched cross-hatch - so many miles of thread to go.  The quilt will be passed on to a 6th generation of the original maker - just love that.

We will be in the center of the Nor'Easter, very cold and rain/snow all weekend.  Good time to quilt.

Sewingly Yours,
Sharon