Design Wall Monday 11.18.2024

 Ahhh...the best laid plans...

I was going to work on my Meals-on-Wheels placemats for November but thought I would pull out my Hollow Nines and sew it up..real quick like. But, it is NOT going quickly. Oh, well. Time to pivot. :)

I've decided to set the Hollow Nines in the Gumdrops pattern, found here.

Here are a few blocks sewn together.

Here are all the blocks and I pulled a couple of fabrics from the stash as possible borders. I'm going to use white as the sashings and a multi-color for the cornerstones.

pattern: Gumdrops, found here.

Sharing today with Judy at Design Wall Monday.

Finish or NOT Friday 11.15.2024

 Well, technically this is Saturday but I spent all day Friday volunteering at the QOV Booth at the Original Sewing and Quilting Expo that is in town. I always have a fun day meeting and talking to the show's attendees but I was very tired at the end of the day!

I finished QOV Signature Quilt Kilo and turned it in yesterday. I was also able to bring more signed Signature blocks home with me but I haven't unpacked my 'show' bag yet to count them.

pattern: alternating 8.0 cut squares with a 4.5 inch cut border

panto: serpentine

I also made the balance of the holiday stocking for the children's donation through the Howell MelonHeads. The stockings are being collecting at the business meeting next Wednesday. I have just a few more items to sew with the Christmas fabrics then I will put them away. :) I was joking about being careful which way one traced the stocking template as that would change the way the 'toe' pointed. Guess what? half way through my sewing...my 'toes' switched directions. :)

Batch 1: All pointed right.

Batch 2: All pointed left. 

I did use my leftover blocks from the Christmas Pineapple Quilt, blogged here.

Sharing today with Alycia at Finish or NOT Friday.

WIP Wednesday 11.13.2024

I'm making good progress on QOV Signature Quilt Kilo. I decided on a little 4 inch plain border for this one. I hope to get more signature squares after the show this weekend!

pattern: *red, white and blue blocks are cut into 3.0 inch strips, sewn along the 

                length then cut at 8.0 inches. They finish at 7.5 inch in the quilt.

             *alternate squares cut at 8.0 inches

I've been wanting to make a plastic grocery bag holder to transport the plastic bags to the show. My first attempt, I made a French Seam and it is quite small so the second one, I simply zig zag-ed the exposed seam. I followed this tutorial here.

pattern: 10 minute grocery bag tutorial, found here.

Sharing today with Susan at MidWeek Makers.

Design Wall Monday 11.11.2024

 A heartfelt Thank You to all who have served and are serving our nation and their families!

I pulled and cut to make signature squares for our next Michigan QOV booth this weekend.

Ready to sew!

I also started Signature Quilt Kilo. I thought I had 2 sets of signature squares but I only found one.

Here are the squares on the wall.

The most exciting thing that happened this weekend...I replace the flannel on the design wall! :)

Sharing with Judy at Design Wall Monday.

Finish or NOT Friday 11.8.2024

 Earlier this year, Rose dropped off two Quilts of Valor for me to quilt. This week was my week to quilt them as next week is the National Sewing and Quilting Expo in Novi, Michigan and Michigan QOV will be hosting a booth again this year!

Rose QOV 1:

pattern: no information given

panto: Happy Times

Rose QOV 2:

pattern: no information given

panto: serpentine

and here is my latest QOV!

pattern inspiration: Green Mountain Farm, found here

panto: serpentine

I'm sharing today with Alycia at Finish or NOT Friday.

WIP Wednesday 11.6.2024

I finished piecing the inner portion of the Eagle Staggered panel quilt but I was unsure of the borders.

 I finally decided on the simple blue and red borders. I wished I would have had my fabrics in a different order but I do like it. Something a little different for the pillow panels.

pattern inspiration: Green Mountain Farm: found here

I'm sharing today with Susan at MidWeek Makers.

Design Wall Monday 11.4.2024

I decided to work on a panel project.

I picked up this pillow panel of eagles that has six panels on the free table at guild.

 I picked out a few 'go with's'.

I'm using this pattern as inspiration.

pattern: Green Mountain Farm

Sharing today with Judy at Design Wall Monday.

SoScrappy Saturday 11.2.2024

Today is the first Saturday of November of the month of assembly. Time to get my Happy Blocks out and take a look at them. I decided to stick mostly to the warm side of the color wheel. This is the hot mess waiting for me this morning. This is a combination of blocks for 2023 and 2024 and maybe 2022.

I first saw this staggered setting on Cynthia's blog, Quilting is More Fun than Housework and I like to use it for the Happy Blocks. After sewing the first column, I decided I wanted it longer so I added the teal blocks. As luck would have it, I found a fat quarter of the teal for the spacer blocks. Lucky! 

This quilt measures about 40 x 60 before quilting.

pattern: Happy Blocks in staggered setting

I'll be sharing today at SoScrappy Saturday when her Linky Party appears.

Finish or NOT Friday 11.1.2024

I'm soooo close to a finish but...I'll have to take the 'NOT' today!

My package to DD never arrived. I'm sure someone, somewhere is enjoying her loaf of pumpkin bread. More importantly, the label she was suppose to fill out and mail back to me for the Baby quilt is also missing. <sigh>

I did sew the binding onto the front.

Here is the quilt without the binding turned to the backing.

pattern: Indian hatchet; public domain

panto: serpentine

Sharing today with Alycia at Finish or NOT Friday.

WIP Wednesday 10.30.2024

I finished piecing the yellow and black baby quilt.

pattern: Indian hatchet block: public domain

DD was supposed to have received her package with the label parts but so far, she hasn't seen it. There now, isn't time to finish it and have it mailed to the Mom-to-be by Saturday's Baby Shower. I'm a little sad that my package hasn't made it to DD. I even had a loaf of pumpkin bread in it. :(

Sharing today with Susan at MidWeek Makers.