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ting sampler style minis or just get enthusiastic to make enough blocks to turn them into something usable like a table runner happy quilting sue at august 24 2020 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels basket blocks big twister bright twister quilt temecula quilt company very snuggle quilt carolina chain finished carolina chain quilt finished pattern by bonnie hunter in her book addicted to scraps made initially as leaders and enders blocks then pieced specifically to try and get the top to a decent size quilted by me using straight lines through the block centres and stitch in the ditch this is the second version of this pattern i have made and includes all the murky and country toned prints and cream to tan background prints the first version had white clear based backgrounds and bright fabrics another version is underway i find that working full time doesn t leave me with enough metal energy to sew anything difficult and this pattern just fills the need to mindlessly sew not had to unpick once its that easy happy quilting sue at august 14 2020 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels addicted to scraps bonnie hunter pattern carolina chain charity quilt country colours scrap quilt tennis quilt love all mild level of panic when hubby announces that ds2 snuggle quilt for the couch is too small and bit young for him ds2 is turning 12 in june and i really panic when i realise that i have never made him a bed size quilt in fact his snuggle couch quilt was made by his grandmother luckily hubby was straight to the point he likes tennis so can you make him a tennis themed quilt phew now i have a idea for a quick quilt and the not so local quilt shop i have discovered has great novelty fabric range so after a little bit of googling and some messaging and a parcel of tennis themed fabric is on its way in the meantime i drafted a pattern stuffed up maths and when fabric arrived i started cutting and sewing opps stuffed up the math sort by one 8 5 square in the meantime i got a full time job but as i am now working a 30 minute drive from the local patchwork shop instead of a 1 5 hr drive she arranged to have her daughter deliver my extra fabric on her way to work so i didn t need to pay postage sounded like a good idea except it took all week to arrive and when i did get the message i had to pick it up at the butchers lol it was bad enough having to tell my new employer that i was expecting a private parcel to be delivered to work then i had to ask where the butcher was located in town but he didn t seem fazed about being a fabric parcel drop off pick up point so this was the result two rows of tennis rackets one row of tennis balls and one of grass fabric because he plays on lawn combined with a dark blue two light blue and a row of orange i got all the fabric from the little desert patchwork shop except the orange i purchased a red fabric but it was the wrong shade when it arrived and in such large pieces it looked terrible luckily spotlight had the orange which as the same tone on tone print as the bright blue so it was meant to be then even more luckily my dear friend vicki kindly long arm quilted it within two days as she likes to do an all over pattern between custom quilt jobs i didn t put the binding on just trimmed it and gifted it for this 12th birthday he was happy enough just took me another month to get the binding sewn on but its done now happy quilting sue at august 08 2020 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels boys tennis i spy chevron quilt half square triangles novelty prints tennis quilt circa 2016 is no longer in pieces circa 2016 was a series of free quilt blocks to make a entire quilt from temecula quilt co in 2016 when i go back and look through my blog i did manage to stay fairly on track and was just trying to put it all together in late january 2017 and from there it stagnated i do vaguely remember having a try to put it together once before the main issue was that the centre medallion was not the measurement in the pattern and the side panels were different lengths yep nothing was perfect but i pinned the heck out of it over the weekend and when my maths failed i just kept pinning and sewing its all together now a nice lap size but too big for a wall hanging its rippled and a bit stretched i dont even want to check how many points i may have lost lots of lessons have been learned since then about getting accuracy in small blocks eventually it will get pinned and quilted but more importantly i have overcome the tricky bit and as a result i have another empty project box and one less old ufo and that means i can justify starting a new quilt doesn t it happy quilting sue at july 31 2020 9 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels circa 2016 mini blocks reproduction fabrics sampler temecula quilt company falling charms finished in red and spider man another one of my kids charity kit quilts that someone else sewed up there is a small mistake in the pattern in one corner but its such a lovely quilt that i am sure nobody will mind i had no hand in making this fabulous spider man quilt but wanted to show you how easy and fun kids quilts can be with a bit of homespun and a panel i have no idea why i need to convince you because its me with the panel collection lol i will get around to them one day this was a kit from my stash still regretting the dark purple strip using a pastel pink background and backing donated from my mothers stash sewn by a member of our quilting group pam then quilted and bound by another member denise i am very pleased by the result but not this photo it was a very dark cold winters day and the colours are not this dark quilt photos are very rare at my place now as the pile of charity quilts to finish dwindles and my own sewing output is nearly zero i am enjoying my new job but just not enough hours in the day to do any sewing as well weekends yields a little free time that i have ended to spend in the garden when the weather was nice i am blaming being cooped up inside non stop happy quilting sue at july 24 2020 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels charity kids quilt falling charms quilt spiderman quilt very snuggly quilt two bags two bears paws and some retail therapy i made this bag twice i cut it out sewed most of it together and it would not work much swearing and despair later i gave up a friends advise was to make the small version first so i did and it worked much sewing of incorrectly cut pieces later i got the large version finished its shallow but wide so great for carrying fabric bundles or even a large quilt disappointingly i have used a lot of very expensive fabric to make this bag so learned my lesson always make the smallest version in scrap first small bag was gifted to a nephew who is one and just at that age that carrying things around hiding things etc are fun on the making front i also completed two blocks for donating to a lady who was making teenage boy quilts i used some striped fabric i had picked up from a online destash i brought a large collection of reproduction fabrics online from a destash also but dont have a picture hubby didnt say a word but he must have wondered because the bag was super heavy as i got meters and meters mainly 10 p m so bargain prices most of them were either backgrounds or backings this collection i purchased from periwinkle patchwork over the phone with some help of a few photos emailed i want to make another chevron quilt after the easy success of the tennis quilt but this time a smaller hst because it is a cot quilt i am not sure if rabbits go with sea creatures but its all cute so that is good enough for me happy quilting sue at july 17 2020 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels bags bears paw blocks cot quilt fabric purchases some super cute kids quilts i didnt make i had scheduled two workshops to make kids charity quilts earlier in the year and they both had to be cancelled because of covid19 i had worked hard cutting up my scraps and making kits so people just had to turn up ready to sew this made it easy to distribute some kits to people who were looking for projects during the covid19 stay at home weeks jan hopper made this kit which is a scaled down version of the pattern meet me in the middle i had purchased the light blue as a background especially as i am sick of white or tan the pattern just uses 2 5 strips and some yardage for background so a great scrap buster and perfect kids quilt in my opinion these novelty fabrics are definitely left overs squares from my stash but i only included the multi coloured star border print not the yellow sashing or binding in the kit so pleased jan hopper added the yellow sashing it just makes this quilt sing i have found it really exciting to get these quilts back and see the finished product i have also been getting tops back from various people and i have one friend denise that is happy to quilt them which is a big relief i have started a six month work contract so full time work and a two hour daily commute does not allow much time to do my household chores let alone quilt i am more than happy to bind after denise quilts so we are both happy i am not keeping up with blog reading but with other peoples sewing to show off hopefully i can keep up posting on my blog for a bit longer happy quilting sue at july 10 2020 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels charity kids quilt eye spy quilt meet in the middle pumpkin and black mini in progress after months of making charity quilts i recently made a mini quilt from the quilts and more magazine which then inspired me to make another this pattern is called nine patch checkerboard 22 x22 from the jo morton book little favourites the pattern in mini quilt books are not always true scaled down miniatures but this one uses 1 5 squares and that was sufficient challenge for me at the time i figured it would be easy because there were mainly squares v triangles however trying to square up the block was a bit dicey i definitely need a new small ruler with more 1 8 lines marked all along the ruler i also struggled to find much variety in my black fabric in the end the final block uses two different scraps of black fabric in order to get enough to make a block as some of the fabrics are quite colourful and busy i ended up ordering a larger piece of black from elm grove patchwork for the borders i found that i have a substantial collection of pumpkin and cheddar fabrics so really had fun auditioning the different prints for the tiny border my birthday plant from last year has a new flower and a second one down closer to the base about to come out i think this is a peace lily but no matter what it is i just adore the colour of that flower happy quilting sue at july 03 2020 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels cheddar jo morton jo s little favorites mini mini quilt nine patch checkerboard pumpkin frolic finished i participated in bonnie hunters mystery quilt along in 2019 and finished the top months ago i sent it to the long arm quilter and good friend but told her i was not in a hurry i didn t want to quilt it myself because it is a bit big and the seam intersections are plain lumpy i dont recall making a quilt with such lumps before but it is a very heavily pieced quilt i enjoyed making this quilt and using these colours even though they are not my usual palette i mixed in reproductions with moderns and everything in between i picked a really nice mottled ink blue for the backing and a lime grass green thread for quilting i wanted a all over pattern and this gives a lovely movement to the quilt i guess it is really a version of baptist fan which is a bit of a favourite i used the left over backing to bind the quilt and now its in the pile for gifting happy quilting sue at june 26 2020 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels bonnie hunter mystery quilt 2019 bonnie hunter pattern frolic three charity quilt tops this is one of the charity quilt kits that i cut and my mum put together i have pinned it and given it back to her for quilting these were a combination of mine and donated fabrics largely from a friend who has sewn and quilted for decades so has a great big stash this is another kit that i cut from my scrap bag a lovely quilter in my group pam made it up for me pam loves pastel colours so i choose to give her this kit she did say that she wasn t thrilled with the dark purple and i tend to agree now its sewn but too late i am not unpicking her good work its a terrible photo but the only one i have i think its upside down i have sent the top off with wadding and backing to another local lady for quilting but before that i did sew some background fabric on the sides to make the quilt a bit wider this pattern is called meet me in the middle and i adapted it to fit the size scraps i had and desired finished size for kids charity my mother came to the rescue yet again and donated this lovely pastel pink print on a cream background that i used for the borders and backing this top is not one i had originally cut as a kit but there were 10 squares already cut in a box that were left over from a quilt i made quite a few years ago i found them tidying up plus my twister ruler so that seemed like fate i had purchased some new white fabric small black pattern for background on various scrap projects that made a great border for this quilt top i really love this pattern and think if i can find more fat quarters that dont have directional prints i will make another one in the future this top has not been allocated a backing yet i have decided it doesn t need another border but i will sew a 1 2 chubby binding on the front i think to give it a bright edge happy quilting sue at june 19 2020 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels charity kids quilt four patch meet in the middle pastel quilt reproduction mini very snuggly quilts fishing camping quilt version number 2 yes you have seen this quilt before this is the second quilt using the same fabric and pattern that seems to be a theme for me this year but i had to use a solid green from my stash for the sashing pattern by elaine theriault published in quilts and more magazine spring 2017 i had to also piece a backing but still very happy to make two teenager sized quilts out of this original purchase there is a little collection of scraps which hopefully i can stretch out to a quilt in a different pattern for a smaller child i quilted this one myself and was very boring and went for straight lines because that is what i feel 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