Hands 2 Help - Guest Blogger #6

Please be sure to visit Sarah today for another guest blogger with a tutorial for a charity quilt pattern.  It is also a progress link up day.

I will be joining Kathy today for a lovely slow down day.  I have a project that I need to get going on.

Yes, that Let's Book It project.  AND I am doing needle turn applique.  I was tempted to do it by machine and then slapped myself.  This project needs to be done with the right technique.  I am making a smaller piece, so I won't parish doing this by hand.

These are the little guys I missed last Slow Sunday for.  It was a wonderful day and brought back memories of my three on the field long ago.

AND since the secret project is at it's new home, I can show it now.  I had two sisters in the Doll Quilt Swap Group and I know another sister thru blogging who has given such praise of those quilts/dolls.  Well, now sister three has her own.  A 'just because' gift.

Sewingly Yours,

Sharon

Blogger's Quilt Festival - Spring 2015 - Scrappy Quilt

With Market, comes time for the Blogger's Quilt Festival hosted by the lovely AMY.  A virtual quilt show for us all to enjoy as well as show off a bit. My entry for Scrappy Quilt..........

I do a lot of scrap quilts, but wanted to chose one for this Festival that truly represents me as a quilter.  Tiny scraps collected/donated from many quilters and projects turned into a mini.  This is 'Cascadia' and a QAL with Lori of Humble Quilts in Nov/Dec 2014.

 

The scrap barrel of 1.5" squares and tidbits - all that goodness to play with for this project.

Piecing rows in twosies and foursies - just no real care in what goes where.  Even some HSTs got mixed in.

Working rows set on point - lots of starch to keep those little pieces from going 'a-wonk'.  Trimmings of muslin from quilt backs used up for those setting triangles.

 

The backing was a scrap off the shelf, batting was a trim off, and the binding was pulled from the scrap binding drawer.  A totally scrap project.

                                  

Statistics:

Catagory - Scrappy Quilt

Size - 19" square

Fabric - various scraps from numerous resouces, batt Hobbs 80-20

Technique - traditional piecing , straight line quilting on on-point strips and cross hatch on columns with home machine(Superior Thread)

Design - Cascadia by Lori @ HumbleQuilts

Sewingly Yours,
Sharon

RSC15 - Green

Although the colors look other than a nice green - they are.  I love these Bitty Blocks - floating pinwheels.  They don't take a lot of fabric (they are 4.5" unfinished) so they really aren't scrap eaters - but they work up really fast and are stinkin' cute.

And I worked the green HSTs out of the box - there were a lot of green and even though the official 'green' is the darker hues, I decided to just do them all up. There's 10 in each pile so 100 more HSTs have been added to that storage.

The bricks for the 'Now & Later' quilt.  I am making 40 of each monthly color - I won't need that many in total, but it will give me a nice mix to play with and any extras will certainly be used elsewhere.

And I added a few more 9-patch blocks to the pile for my granddaughter's future 'big girl' quilt.  I've decided on pattern, setting, and know how many I need.  BUT, again I will make more than needed just for room to play.

Well, there's all my food storage containers!  The lids are in the cabinet and I was trying to figure out where the bottoms were.  I've neglected this project for far too long.  Lots of 1.5" squares for a project that is a challenge.  A challenge in that it is trying to read a photo copy of a very bad, old newsprint graph.  But I worked out a quandrant, mirror image and reverse image that for a workable project sheet - oyi, it gives my a headache after a while which is why it has sat so long.

I've been less chatty - some home issues and also making sure I get some ME time.  I met my daughter for a lovely lunch (she was in the area for a training class) and the weather has finally gotten nicer so there has been time outside cleaning flower beds.  We lost a lot of things with this last winter and we are debating whether to replace or just move surviving plants to other beds and have less beds.  We (SIL & I) are leaning toward the later.

Off to play with my little scraps,
Sewingly Yours,
Sharon
** linking up with RSC15 **      

With Quilt Market Comes Quilt Festival

I love that we get to experience Quilt Market week with Amy's ingenious idea of Blogger's Quilt Festival.  A Virtual Quilt Show from us who can't make the main event.

Please go HERE for all the information and consider joining in.

I finished the three commission quilts ahead of schedule.  I do have a pile of quilts of my own to get to, but I think I will spend a couple of days just playing with scraps and block making.

And as I expected with the wind and rains - my lovely apple tree is nearly stripped of all those gorgeous blossoms, so I hope all those busy bees did their business.

I am spending a little ME time today - my daughter has a training class in the area and we are meeting for lunch.  After which my SIL and I  are going out for a little retail therapy.

Sewingly Yours,

Sharon