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Monday, March 25, 2019

All About Strings - Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to day one of the All About Strings Hop. Thanks to Carla at Creatin' in the Sticks for once again taking the time to corral us all together for sharing of ideas, this time ideas All About Strings.

I've never been clear about the difference between strings and strips of fabric. When I tried looking it up I found that I was not alone in my confusion. The guide line I choose to follow was a piece of fabric narrower than 2.5 inches that does not need to be consistent in width over its length.

A few months ago a quilting buddy handed me a bag of her scraps intended for stuffing of dog beds that is a standing project for our guild. The scraps looked awfully big for that project and I asked her if I could repurpose some of them for another charity type project. No problem so long as I took them out of her space.

This is just some of what I found after I trimmed them into strings.

I had 5
goals when I started this project:

1) Use up those donated scraps
2) Use my embroidery machine for the quilting of the project
3) Learn a new skill
4) Have a finished quilt for the H2H 2019 Challenge
5) Have a completed string project for this hop

All of the blocks I made were from scraps. The only scraps I used that were not from the original bag were the starter pieces for each block. Those pieces were from the trim from the backing of my last quilt.

After using my machine to quilt each block individually (goal #2)before joining them together

I then used Leah Day's Quilt As You Go tutorial to assemble the quilt. (goal #3)

This will be going to one of the H2H 2019 Charities.

I am happy to show you the completed project that successfully met all 5 of my goals.

Last week I took a class on making Half Log Cabin blocks. I may have made a traditional Log Cabin block when I first started to quilt but over the years I have mostly done the block where you added odd sized pieces as you go around much like the quilt above..

This class took a 2 inch strip (string) and you sewed onto it pieces of 4 blocks in various stages of completion. So for kicks and giggles I am adding the quilt top I made to this posting as a second string project,

The picture reflects true colors, Black and White novelty prints with little pops of color all from my stash.

Now I want you to go and visit the other posts for today for this fun hop. I am including a list for your easy access.

Thanks for stopping by for a visit and for taking the time to leave a note, they are so apprecitated.

All About Strings Blog Hop Schedule

Monday, March 25th

Just Let Me Quilt

Kathy's Kwilts and More

Bumbleberry Stitches

QuiltFabrication

Seams to be Sew

DesertSky Quilting

Happy Cottage Quilter

quiltsbyjoanne

selina quilts (me)

Homespun Hannah's Blog

Karrin's Crazy World

Tuesday, March 26th

Patchouli Moon Studio

ShirleyC

Wednesday, March 27th

Stitchin at Home

Alycia Quilts

Websterquilt

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Melva Loves Scraps

Words & Stitches

Den syende himmel

Patchwork Breeze

Domestic Felicity

The Quilted Snail

Thursday, March 28th

Cynthia's Creating Ark

The Joyful Quilter

Color Creating and Quilting

PamelaQuilts

Beaquilter

Two Maker Chicks

Days Filled With Joy

Quilting & Learning - What a Combo!

Creatin' in the Sticks

Thursday, March 14, 2019

So What's New

It's been a busy few weeks in my sewing room. Still waiting for the new table for my embroidery machine but that hasn't slowed me down one little bit.

I have been diligently working on my piece for the All About Strings blog hop coming up the week of the 25th of this month. Just some of the strings I have been using.

In and around those projects I have been doing some embroidery for Easter. I got a great bunny embroidery pattern by Brenda at Song Bird Designs

I've tested him on a couple of mug rugs and have requests for a couple of placemats which I hope to get to in the next week or so.

I have a friend who asked for a small gift for a charity auction for which she is the coordinator. I again used the sweet bunny, this time for the front of a basket. I made several FSL Easter ornaments and will add Chocolates just before her event in mid April.

We will be having a new arrival in the family this summer and I thought I'd give a Burp Cloth a try. My local quilt shop has monthly Kimberbell classes. I saw this little fella and had to have him.

My quilt guild had a baby shower for a local organization that supports unwed moms and families in need with very small children. I contributed these 5 quickie receiving blankets made using the Missouri Star Quilt tutorial with fabric donated by other members of the group.

Then I saw these adorable little bears on Kreative Kiwi Embroidery I just had to make a couple and then make them sleeping bags.

The shower was a great success. I play with a wonderfully generous group of ladies. They filled 10 cafeteria type tables with goods ranging from quilts, diapers, onseies, toys and games for kids 5 and under and on and on.

So just one more fun photo. Its of my girls who are feeling neglected of late. They have a bed in my sewing room but have now taken to napping in the living room with the dad where they get a little bit more attention than I have been showing them since the Machine arrived in December. Don't they look deprived. tee, hee

Well that brings me up to date excluding the upcoming hop. You'll just have to come back on the 25th to see those happenings. Hope to see you then.

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Show Your Wings - Blog Hop

Good morning and welcome to my day of the Show Your Wings Blog Hop.

So many choices to make for this hop. All we needed to do was pick a wing any wing and get creative in a quilty way.

My brain and my embroidery machine were in their glory. I had taken a class in January to learn a few of the fun things embroidery machines are capable of. It just so happened that a lot of the class work was centered around winged things.

I'm just a little partial to the bees but not enough to make as many more as needed for a project. I could have done as intended and made a pillow but that was a little too busy for my tastes.

Then I had an idea, how about finding an airplane design for play time on the machine.

I found this lovely, simple, winged jet in a couple of sizes. I wanted to keep it simple. Just planes is 2 sizes. The real problem would be how to set them.

The planes were all done from fabric scraps found in my various scrap bins.

I was lucky enough to find the perfect background fabric at a local quilt shop. I then just did some really basic white sashing. I tried it without the sashing but the skys were looking like an accident waiting to happen.

Just a simple white with gray circles for a backing with a red, white and blue star binding.

A little bit better view of the planes.

This quilt is intended for this years Hands To Help Comfort Quilt Challenge.

Including this photo just so you could see how well the background fabric matches the real world.

Well that's all I have to offer this go round. Thanks for stopping by and thanks to those of you who have the time to leave a comment. I do hope you have the time to visit with all of the other creators of winged things this week, I'm including a list so you can find them all.

Thank you Carol over at Just Let Me Quilt for coordinating this amazing event.

Check out all the amazing bloggers who are participating:

February 18

What About Rheema?

Hill Valley Quilter

Nutz For Redwork

Kathy's Kwilts and More

February 19

Patchouli Moon Studio

Vroomans Quilts

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Songbird Designs

Quilts Fabric and Thread Tales

Kathleen McMusing

Life in the Scrapatch

DesertSky Quilting

Clever Chameleon Quilting

February 20

Creatin' in the Sticks

Cynthia's Creating Ark

February 21

For The Love Of Geese

Two Maker Chicks

madeNcorrea

That Fabric Feeling

Monday, February 18, 2019

Dust off a Quilt Book Blog Hop

Welcome to my stop on the Dust Off A Quilt Book Blog Hop. Thanks go out to Bea over at Beaquilter for the idea and the organization behind this event. The point of this hop as most of you know was to find a quilt book, an old quilt book and dust it off and make something from it.

I had no trouble finding this book. It was one of several stored in a box in my garage since we moved to Florida 4 years ago. The issue was to figure out what I wanted to make from it. The book has a copyright of 2002. I did make this cutie as a wall hanging when I first got the book.

You need to trust me on that since I can't locate it in my Easter storage bin at the moment.

When I opened the book I found the beginnings of this banner. Never finished it and thought it might be a good time to take it from UFO to finished, but not. I'm just not a banner person and don't have any friends that are either.

If anyone out there is interested let me know. The first person I hear from can have all of the pieces.

Next thought was to use my embroidery machine and make an applique from this design. I spent hours playing at doing something I had no training in with a toy that I wasn't really sure could do what I wanted it to do.

As I was running out of time I decided to go back to the old fashioned way of applique using heat and bond.

Then one last try and I got this far. Not exactly what I wanted but close enough to be usable for a bag. I was so excited that I completely finished the bag before I realized I never quilted it. I may go back and open a couple of seams and do some, or not. But I did manage to get my goal of some machine embroidery into this hop.

Because I didn't know where the bag would end up I did use that piece I put together with Heat and Bond to make a sweet one hour basket.

I had also made an egg from the book, for testing, that I ended up making into a little draw string bag.

Thanks for stopping in and visiting. Please take the time to visit all of the sew very talented participants in this hop you'll be so glad you did. Here is the complete list for your convenience.

Monday Feb 18^th

Turid at densyendehimmel

Pamela at Pamelaquilts

Joan at Moosestashquilting

Anne at seems like a plan

Susan at Desertsky Quilting

Selina at Selinaquilts

Kathleen at Kathleenmcmusing

Tuesday Feb 19^th

Cindy Stitchin at home

Jennifer at curlicuecreations

Stephanie at stephjacobsondesigns