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just one more stitch just one more stitch happily retired more time to sew tuesday november 25 2014 making progress on old tobacco road this was a mystery on bonnie hunter s website quiltville i finished most of the top last winter then my sister in law carol helped me pick out the border fabric when we were in new braunfels in april i finally got around to attaching the borders today this is the largest quilt top i ve made in years it s a long queen 84 x 104 i guess i ll try to get around to making the backing and getting this quilted posted by cyndi at 10 37 am 2 comments labels bonnie hunter finished quilts wednesday november 19 2014 gypsy wife plus 2 spinoffs when i went to the silver thread guild s quilt show in creede a couple of months ago i picked up jen kingwell s gypsy wife pattern it looked like something that would be fun to make it was you select your own fabrics no directions are given for that and you plug your blocks into whichever size spaces you want i like how there are 1 1 2 strips running vertically through the quilt that give it some continuity gypsy wife when i finished gypsy wife i thought that jen s concept would translate easily to designing more quilts like hers so i grabbed some graph paper and planned out one that would use up some of my orphan blocks i ll be taking it to the longarmer s tomorrow but thought i d post a pic of the top as i was looking around on the web for sites about designing your own quilts i saw this page about making a crocheted blanket using different sizes of squares i thought it would translate well to a quilt and grabbed my bags of 1 5 strips i think that i can teach a class on doing this so i ll be talking to my local shop folks tomorrow about that wouldn t that be fun posted by cyndi at 2 12 pm 2 comments labels finished quilts stashbusting strings sunday november 16 2014 fabric postcards my newest obsession last month our guild invited judy stevens to do a workshop and then a trunk show the next day at our meeting on making fabric postcards she moved to our area recently and is in a different guild that i ll be joining next week her workshop was wonderful and i m hooked now i have two obsessions piecing and fabric postcards i ve been exploring pinterest and etsy as well as the blogging world and have accumulated tons of wonderful ideas for cards here are some of the first ones i ve made posted by cyndi at 11 14 am 4 comments labels fabric postcards more charity quilts finished while we were in colorado i made a lot of tops i think the total was 10 some of them have been quilted and bound thanks to a few friends from my guild they were sandwiched and quilted and then i did the binding there are three others that have been handed off to friends and they will complete the binding as well so i won t have photos of them peaks and valleys from scrap basket beauties kim brackett generations from scrap basket beauties kim brackett start struck a bonnie hunter pattern from quiltville com i call this one rectangular split 9 patch star yet another string quilt i call this one split 9 patch medallion i started with the star and then added tons of pinwheels to make it large enough posted by cyndi at 10 31 am no comments wednesday august 6 2014 first and most recent quilts my friend laura west kong has started quilt bloggers collective on facebook and today she decided to offer a seed for august i just had to give this one a try she says august blog seed write a post featuring your first quilt and your last quilt its quick fun and interesting takes two photos and a paragraph or two about how your quilt making has evolved over the years this faded and out of focus photo is of the very first quilt i ever made it s from 2009 i was a cross stitcher who decided to learn to sew and make quilts i took a class at joann on how to use a sewing machine and then got some books from barnes noble to teach myself about quilting i was afraid of triangles at first so my first few quilts are squares and rectangles but here s the thing i didn t know about pinning to match seams so my quilts from back then are wonky with mismatched seams i have 4 like that also i didn t know how to quilt so this first one is tied the next couple quilts i tried quilting in the ditch and wasn t really satisfied with that i spent the next couple of years making miniature quilts and paper piecing i participated in online mini quilt swaps and grew tired of that because i really had no use for them i have a couple of drawers full of mini quilts and don t know what to do with them i tired of paper piecing as well but will paper piece occasionally if i have to my passion now is piecing and using up scraps i m in two guilds and both of them have community service programs which take donated quilts and give them to shelters veterans sick children etc i have a few friends in the guilds laura included who take my tops and do the quilting most of them also provide the batting and sometimes even the backing then i put bindings on them and turn them in i ve made quite a few personal quilts for family and have several places and friends who will quilt them for a fee but my community service quilts are all scrappy i use everything pieces even as small as 1 x 1 5 i m known as the scrappy lady at my guild and at every meeting someone will hand me a bag of scraps i cut them into strips and squares and use a variety of patterns to turn all those scraps into tops sometimes i ll use kim brackett s scrap basket books sometimes i ll use a bonnie hunter quiltville pattern but there are times i ll design my own this one below is the most recent quilt i ve finished i took a regular ohio star and elongated it i did this on graph paper then i used a concept from a designer author named karen combs called split 9 patches this quilt is made up of 2 5 squares and hsts that are first sewed into 9 patches some are all neutral or all scrappy and some are split like a giant hst between neutral and scrappy if you look at the quilt you can see that the top row is made up of two all neutral 9 patches and six split 9 patches the sandwiching and quilting was done by cathy kreter and i will be donating this one to community service at our guild all of the squares and hsts are from donated fabric and i got the border fabric on sale for 5 a yard at a shop in ft walton beach florida posted by cyndi at 10 40 am 1 comment labels community service lessons learned saturday august 2 2014 5 quilts finished this one is for my guild s community service project it s made from 2 5 scrap squares and was quilted by judee koda a gal in my guild this one is called pink charlotte it s from the book three times the charm i used a charm pack jessica cook quilted this one for me it s a gift for my great niece cadence this is made from 2 5 scrap squares and all i did was design a star and then elongate it jessica cook quilted it and it s for community service this was my very oldest ever ufo the second quilt i ever made it was back when i hadn t learned about pinning to match seams but it s good enough for community service jessica did the quilting this one is called town square and it s from the book scrap basket sensations by kim brackett it was quilted by cathy kreter and is for community service posted by cyndi at 1 40 pm 1 comment labels community service split 9 patch stashbusting tuesday july 1 2014 easy wonky tree for sew bee wonky this is the july block for sew bee wonky it s from the book modern quilts in the blogging universe my wishes for this block background neutral anything from solid white to beige any white on white or cream on cream or beige on beige or solids in white cream beige will do trees bright rainbow colors in modern prints which can include dark pastels say bright pink but not pale pink for example please do not use black brown or any civil war or 30s repro fabric i d like my trees to be as bright and modern as they can be multicolor trees are fine too as long as they re bright and modern so here goes 1 start with a tree a triangle shape wonky or even doesn t matter that s no taller than 8 and no wider than 4 2 cut a piece of neutral background fabric about 11 tall and any width from 5 to 8 3 lay your tree on top of your background fabric as i did below 4 using your ruler cut the background off the bottom even with the bottom of the tree set aside for later 5 slide your tree about 1 to the left of its original position use your ruler to cut the background fabric along the right side of the tree set the piece of background fabric aside for later 6 slide the tree to the right so that it extends about 1 2 past the edge of the background fabric use your ruler and cut the background fabric along the left side of the tree discard the little triangle of background underneath the tree 7 lay the tree along the left piece of background fabric as shown sew together 8 press the seam allowances open 9 repeat with right side of background fabric 10 press seam allowances open 11 attach the bottom piece of background fabric press seam allowances open do not trim these blocks i will trim them to shape and size that i need note if you d like to get fancy and add a trunk to the base of the tree that s fine it s up to you posted by cyndi at 2 00 pm 2 comments labels sew bee wonky monday march 10 2014 some scrappy tops i made last month my own design i just took a star and elongated it this uses the split 9 patch technique all 2 1 2 squares and triangles swoon uses the split 9 patch technique 2 squares and triangles using up some 3 squares and triangles this one is called six degrees south of the equator it s from scrap basket beauties but i used 2 strips instead of 2 1 2 lake cabin from scrap basket sensations over and under from scrap basket sensations top made using diamond ripple block from 100 modern quilt blocks posted by cyndi at 6 35 pm 3 comments labels split 9 patch stashbusting monday february 3 2014 things i ve been working on lately i haven t posted in a long while but i ve been busy used up a bunch of low volume strings a smaller version of sunday morning from sunday morning quilts parachute inspired by jacquie gering fake geese actually pairs of hsts top made from blocks acquired from a swap star struck christmas swoon hanging at my local quilt shop i taught a class on this one baby quilt for my great nephew posted by cyndi at 9 03 pm 2 comments labels finished quilts split 9 patch strings swaps older posts home subscribe to posts atom followers about me cyndi so many places to see so many pieces to stitch so many foods to eat never enough time view my complete profile blog archive 2014 9 november 4 making progress on old tobacco road gypsy wife plus 2 spinoffs fabric postcards my newest obsession more charity quilts finished august 2 july 1 march 1 february 1 2013 27 november 4 october 2 september 2 august 1 april 5 march 5 february 3 january 5 2012 68 december 4 november 1 october 4 september 5 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