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th the colour of the month from the rainbow scrap challenge which is purple for june a challenge trifecta i started this month with a bag of hsts that a friend shared with me i think these were from jackie since it looks like her handwriting i pulled out the purple ones and added some brighter hsts from another bag of scraps the hst blocks turned out to finish at 1 25 and there are 52 of them in this project these are the 13 pinwheel blocks i ended up with and this photo shows playtime on the design wall trying to figure out what layout the quilt wanted and what fabrics to use the dark purple got voted off the island all together i decided that an on point layout was fun with these pinwheels and added white sashing somehow i miscalculated the math so what else is new and you can see the edges aren t aligned that s okay with me the trimming chopped off some of the white points but i thought it still looked okay i added two strips on the sides to make it rectangular then i bin basted and got to work machine quilting with white thread on the top and purple in the bobbin the backing fabric is a black and white stripe fq that i hand dyed many years ago it was the perfect backing for this little quilt and my granddog max was happy to be my quilt model as you can see i quilted some diamonds in the side fabric strips but once it was finished i was unhappy with the white blobs in the side fabric strips so i got out my setacolor paints and had a bit of painting fun i covered the white blobs with a bit of purple paint that s a little better i ll be linking up to table scraps rsc party june s favorite finish and the constant quilter mini quilts list posted by quilter kathy 15 comments labels finished quilt 2021 placemats monday june 21 2021 mini arrowheads my collection of arrowhead blocks are on the design wall today i have sewn 120 individual 3 blocks so far and recently started sewing them into groups of 4 to make it easier to layout the design the yellow really stand out in this collection doesn t it i need more pink and aqua blocks what else does it need maybe more gold blocks 4 arrowheads make a 6 block this project is coming to the end of my interest in it so i need to be more thoughtful about the blocks i will make so i can finish up this scrappy quilt top linking up to design wall monday at judy s posted by quilter kathy 11 comments labels rainbow scrap challenge 2021 sunday june 20 2021 slow sunday stitching welcome to the weekly hand stitching party this week marks the 9th anniversary of slow sunday stitching adventures the inaugural link up was june 24th 2012 i can t even believe that much time has passed my original goal in creating this link up was to inspire people to slow down to take a deep breath to dedicate precious time to the healing process of hand work and to connect with other creative like minded stitchers slow stitching gang and all these years later there are still folks who are hand stitching and blogging about it and they are still willing to share their projects with us and i am thankful although i don t get around to visiting everyone each week i do visit as many folks as time permits and hope you all take the time to visit a couple of friends each week too thank you for posting for reading and for leaving encouraging comments for all of us hand stitchers this week i finished knitting a 1 dad facecloth just in time for father s day it is a knitwits pattern and was easy to make except for when you miscalculate and miss a row thankfully i was able to fix my mistake and finish the cloth in time to go in the gift bag today and i put some stitches into my kawandi quilt that was started in a class with sujata shah from the root connection she was offering a summer class on how to make a kawandi but it filled up before i could get this posted she is a great teacher my progress is slow and sporadic but i do love the slow mediative hand stitching i really enjoy stitching with perle cotton and don t even mind when my stitches are not even or following a straight line life is way too short for perfection what are you hand stitching today are you making slow imperfect progress we invite you to link up your blog post below and share your project with us you are invited to the inlinkz link party click here to enter posted by quilter kathy 21 comments labels slow sunday stitching 2021 saturday june 19 2021 scrappy saturday it s a great day for cutting scraps cathy who blogs at crazy by design called the rainbow scrap challenge participants scrapettes i love that i am claiming the title of a scrappette and this is what i made in purple scraps this week waffle blocks 5 on the left easy breezy blocks 4 in the middle mini arrowheads 3 5 on the right and two pinwheels 2 5 on the bottom that might turn into a placemat lots of scrappy goodness i m in the quilt studio today cleaning and you just know that means i ll be falling into a rabbit hole of a random project that i find and have to work on linking up to rainbow scrap challenge posted by quilter kathy 11 comments thursday june 17 2021 june ufo project update this blue fabric is finally coming to an end it s an older darlene zimmerman fabric for robert kaufman and i bought it on a sale table for 5 metre at a fabric store a few years ago it was the full backing for one of carole s mystery quilts then it was part of the backing for another one of carole s mystery quilts and the leftovers were used to make some friendship block variations in an online class with cheryl arkison it is the fabric that just keeps on giving now i m using it as part of a quilt backing first i am sewing borders around the blocks that i made in cheryl s class the star block above is 6 and the star block on the right is 3 then i will use the extra fabric as sashing to sew the blocks together somehow hopefully every bit will be used up and i will meet my goal of getting these blocks into a creative quilt backing by the end of the month posted by quilter kathy 5 comments monday june 14 2021 easy breezy design wall on the design wall today are my most recently sewn easy breezy blocks this is the 2020 quiltville leader ender project that started last july i have been slowly sewing these 4 blocks as a rainbow scrap challenge project over the year and have sewn 130 of them so far this weekend i played with a scrap bag and cut and coordinated 24 more blocks they are ready to sew but they might not be done leader ender style since the new challenge will be posted in july and i d like to finish this one before i am tempted by the new one linking up to design wall monday at small quilts posted by quilter kathy 11 comments sunday june 13 2021 slow sunday stitching welcome to the weekly hand stitching party thanks for dropping by we want to encourage you in the slow process of creating treasures by hand i am so excited to have nothing planned for today i might do a bit of pulling weeds and then some hand quilting and some knitting or i might do nothing at all it s a wonderful feeling to have a whole day in front of you to do whatever you want what are you doing today we d love to see what you hands are stitching so link up your blog post below and share your project with us you are invited to the inlinkz link party click here to enter posted by quilter kathy 14 comments labels slow sunday stitching 2021 saturday june 12 2021 scrappy saturday full stop are you sewing along with the rsc year long quilt project called full stop each month we are sewing a different punctuation mark using the colour of the month last month our block was red exclamation marks and i just finished sewing these i tried to make each one a bit different using cheryl arkison s improv tutorial it was so much fun that i briefly thought of making a whole quilt of these in many colours cheryl made her quilt in blues using these blocks and it s the perfect block pattern for a covid quilt here are my full stop blocks on the design wall i am making 4 blocks each month and am ready to start sewing my purple semi colon blocks to add to this collection linking up to the weekly rsc party posted by quilter kathy 7 comments labels rainbow scrap challenge 2021 monday june 07 2021 finished quilt top i participated in the laundry basket mystery in may for 2 weeks a different block pattern was posted daily and by the end we had 225 plain or pieced blocks ready to put together here is the quilt top on my design wall this was a fun way to build a quilt i am delighted that it was mostly made from fabrics that were gifted to me from my quilty friend leslie and some of my older neutral fqs the colour work would have been better if it wasn t a mystery i would have spread out those dark reds more and wouldn t have put the browns on the outside but it was a mystery and the goal is to have fun not to make a perfect quilt you just never know where everything will end up and which blocks will be together if edyta does another mystery next spring i m going to try making my first monochromatic mystery her blue and white version is gorgeous linking up to design wall monday posted by quilter kathy 14 comments labels mystery quilts sunday june 06 2021 slow sunday stitching welcome to the weekly hand stitching party last weekend i attended my first zoom wedding while i was waiting for the ceremony to begin i was knitting another facecloth although i was thankful to be able to watch and they did a great job of ensuring that the virtual guests could see and hear everything i t was hard to not be there in person i did finish this knitted cloth for my friend louise for her birthday i m always thrilled when you can actually make out the pattern there are a couple of mistakes but you can see the letters and make out the shape of the flowers so i m very happy with it this is another pattern from knitwits and made with sudz yarn i also finished hand stitching the binding on my may placemat this week so it has been a productive hand stitching week and i don t know what i ll be stitching today what are you hand stitching today link up your blog post and share your project with us you are invited to the inlinkz link party click here to enter posted by quilter kathy 17 comments labels slow sunday stitching 2021 saturday june 05 2021 scrappy saturday red month has come and gone how did that happen so fast i sewed these cute little blocks using 1 25 hsts for the side borders of my may placemat it was fun to use some canadiana themed fabrics one print has the names of all the provinces and i am still sewing up some of the scrap blocks i had cut out earlier in may such as these waffle blocks today i ll be working on some red explanation point blocks for the full stop project and then i will be ready to start cutting scraps for purple month linking up to the weekly rsc party posted by quilter kathy 9 comments labels rainbow scrap challenge 2021 friday june 04 2021 june goal june will be a busy month so i am being kind to myself in choosing a realistic ufo goal i intend to piece a backing for my 21 stars mystery quilt which was pieced in january i used the quilt top scraps to make these fun friendship variation blocks in cheryl arkison s traditional variations class i just have a few scraps leftover from these blocks and will look in the stash for more fabric to linking up to one monthly goal ps did you know that i won a prize for linking up with one monthly goal last month i won this lovely epp kit from paper pieces i actually got a treat for finishing a quilt posted by quilter kathy 5 comments wednesday june 02 2021 may s placemat i m a little late posting my mini table scraps challenge for may the rsc colour for may was red so i rummaged through the ufo box and found a house block that was primarily red i think it was started for some kind of challenge and then it was abandoned when it didn t turn out as i had envisioned basically i hated it lol just look at that weirdo applique tree which i m sure must have been the challenge fabric i decided to combine the block with a charm pack for this month s placemat project i also found some gifted red triangles and dove right in to creating something first i sewed these sweet little blocks using the canadian themed true north charm squares with the red triangles the 20 hst blocks finish at 1 25 and are my favourite part of this project i sewed the blocks together for the side borders which gave the project the rectangular shape i prefer for a placemat then i had to fix the windows in the house since they were too stark i appliqued a tiny print fabric over both windows and later quilted some curtains then i pin basted the quilt batting and backing and the quilting fun began i machine quilted the words home sweet home in the background and on the roof and then stippled the background space it t urned out much better than i had anticipated linking up to the may table scraps challenge and the constant quilter monthly mini projects posted by quilter kathy 8 comments 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