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the academic quilter the academic quilter home classic stitches bom intricate stitches bom constellations bom spring cleaning squared away bom hands 2 help 2022 friday july 24 2026 small people quilt hi everyone how is your summer going has it been too hot for words yeah same here we actually spent a couple of weeks visiting our grandchildren and i hoped that the shores of a great lake would be cooler but apparently that lake effect thing was broken because it was sweltering being the amazing grandma that i am i took a sewing machine and a bunch of scraps and fat quarters with me to fill up some of our time on rainy days they loved it i let each of them make a small quilt any way they wanted and it turned out great they really took to the lessons and enjoyed mashing down that foot pedal they also showed remarkable color sense take a look at the three little quilts aren t those great if they look wavy to you i swear it s the ground because there was no way that i was going to let them turn out crummy you know this one is from the 6 year old the colorful strips are off cuts from another project that ended up in the bag she put them together in the order she wanted and used a couple of the white strips after i suggested it i expected her to alternate the colorful ones with the whiter ones but you can see she had her own ideas i did let her help stitch everything together with her sitting in the chair and me off to the side not great for the back but great for the kid the quilting is just a few lines of the serpentine stitch check out little miss personality s choice for the back this is the 8 year old s quilt stripes and florals what great color sense it s so funny because she was so precise and every square was put together individually in it s own place a lot of short seams but by the end i think she could have done it herself i drew the quilting lines and she mostly followed them with lots of help and supervision there are a few wobbles but i believe she may have natural talent here is her backing those two are doll quilts already well used but my 10 year old grandson obviously was not going to make a doll quilt so we re calling this small masterpiece a wall hanging he and i use the merlin app together so he made a bird this was a blast to make you ll see that he s quite a literalist so we had to look up what a cardinal looks like and try to copy it exactly he was quite directive and it took a little while to figure out how to do the black on the breast and the little cap on top it took him a long time to choose the beak and the legs because apparently i need more colors i did the quilting except for around the green edge which is all he was really comfortable with he did give me a lot of directions though it took some convincing but i did get him to let me put a few feathers on the bird too and look what he found for the back serendipity this is my favorite bird ever and it was so much fun to watch him picking fabrics and giving me directions on where everything goes if you want to make birds i used lynne s tutorial which is here two suggestions if you re going to sew with kids use your walking foot which prevents wrinkles and tears and set your machine speed to slow because they really do like to use that foot pedal but wait mari don t you have four grandchildren there yes but number four an 8 year old boy was so completely uninterested it wasn t funny not his thing but you should have been there to answer all his questions about how the machine works when i was cleaning it he was amazed that i could take it apart and put it back together now that the scraps and i are home again i have to finish off an absolute behemoth of a quilt for my nephew and his new wife it s easy but it s huge he s 6 5 and she s 6 1 so it s king size huge i am chaining myself to the sewing machine until it s done wish me luck since it s still sweltering here s a nice lake picture to cool you down as we cruise into august have a great day everyone sharing at alycia s for finished or not friday posted by mari at 5 00 am 16 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels scraps small quilts wednesday june 3 2026 small update big blocks hello all and happy summer i wrote today s post earlier and set it to post while the hubs and i took a bucket list trip to iceland but it didn t post and there i was in iceland with only my phone and i m too afraid to try posting using that ah well i hope your memorial day weekend was relaxing and meaningful and please tell me that no one left the potato salad out in the sun as for me well we got everyone graduated and i spent a few days getting stuff from the library to work on this summer then i logged off closed the door and locked it for some reason that felt amazing this year and then i packed a bag and headed for iceland which felt even more amazing if that s possible of course i came right home after the library and caught up on my rsc blocks here are my pink and orange ones although i ve been thinking of them as raspberry and grapefruit am i hungry are you as you can see i also planted some flowers in the planter box we can see them from the living room and they are so cheerful heaven knows we need that around here now someone tell me how to keep it from becoming a salad bar for the deer i planted deer resistant flowers but somehow that never really means anything these blocks are huge and will finish at 16 inches which means big pieces and easy sewing this is the fireworks pattern from sew preeti quilts and there are no templates which helps my overwhelmed brain i pulled the other blocks out and took a family picture of sorts i plan on making 9 of the big blocks so i am halfway finished hurray i see that angela has posted pastels for june s colors which is great for june brides but not so much for my quilt i don t think a pastel would look great with all those jewel tones maybe a yellow green that would look more like a peridot or a tourmaline kind of color if you have a suggestion let me know hope you all are enjoying the summer so far i know for a lot of people it doesn t really start until the kids are out of school and around here that s not for another two weeks and because i mentioned our trip to iceland here is one of the astounding places we visited bucket list indeed a little wet but worth it sharing at angela s for rsc26 posted by mari at 5 00 am 9 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels orange pink rsc26 thursday april 23 2026 pink flowers and yellow blocks hi everyone i hope it s been a nice week where you are we had a freeze a few days ago here in maryland but i have been too busy lazy to get any plants in yet so i was just cold not traumatized at least there was sunshine continuing in my quest to keep on keeping on i ve made a few more things in the last couple of weeks we re coming to the end of the semester so just blocks is okay with me right now take a look at the next step in the angela walters build a quilt check out those azaleas can you even see the block past those beauties the bushes are really old and scraggly and every spring i think i need to cut down those ugly bushes and then they spite me by blooming really profusely the deer have eaten them so only the tops bloom so there are flowers kind of floating in mid air on top of basically bare branches someday i will cut them down just before i move when i first showed the build a quilt blocks a couple of weeks ago one of my friends got a hold of me and told me she had gotten the build a quilt from last year but she didn t like the fabric she chose so she never made it have you ever done this of course you can t cancel so she sent me the kits for all 10 blocks from last year thanks el i made the first three so far a little washed out in the sun and not my favorite colors but they look okay i can at least get a charity quilt or something out of it this is a better representation of the colors not my favorite but not bad like i said probably a nice charity quilt just to end on something really pretty i was out walking and took some pictures of the cool spring blooms and look what happened serendipity truly one of the best pictures i ve ever taken except of my favorite people i never planned to get such a great picture but sometimes things come together these are apple blossoms on a tree down the street and i m pretty sure i ve never seen apples on it everyone have a great week and a great weekend i m going to write a final exam today can you feel the excitement posted by mari at 6 00 am 14 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blocks gray pink yellow saturday april 4 2026 starting blocks hi everyone and happy weekend first thank you all for your kind messages from my last post i really appreciate all the warm thoughts and encouragement it was nice to read all of that and really do appreciate all your kindness so i signed up for a block of the month from angela walters at quilting is my therapy mainly because i liked the fabric and sometimes when your brain is overloaded it s nice to have someone tell you what to do i ve finished two blocks just in time for block three to get here hey look our friendly garden turtle wanted to be in the picture too he s waiting for flowers but it s not quite time for those yet the blocks were easy enough and turned out nicely and the right size but when i opened the envelope here s what i saw usually a bom will have pieces of fabric with it but this is the first time i ve seen it as a panel with just enough fabric for you to make the block and i do mean just enough there were some techniques in there that i don t use but with this you must use those techniques or you won t have enough fabric there s a lot of make it bigger and trim it down which i don t usually do but not enough for me to make hsts the way i usually do block two was the same way is it weird or is it me oh well it s only one block a month and they do turn out well i think i can take it we did have a few flowers just starting in the garden last year i transplanted a bunch of daffodils from the side of the property and one of them is now blooming along with a very tiny bleeding heart they ll both get bigger right with that have a very happy easter if you celebrate and a great weekend all the way around our daughter and granddaughter will be here and i might cook something but i do have pizza in the freezer posted by mari at 5 00 am 11 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels build aquilt older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me mari baltimore maryland united states mild mannered college professor by day fearless quilter by night thanks for stopping by to share some quilty fun pull up a chair and let s sew view my complete profile contact me by email academicquilter at gmail dot com you know how to put these together find me on 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