WIP Wednesday 7.2.2025

I took a little break over to Wisconsin to give DS a ride home. He needed to return his semi truck to the terminal of his old employer. Here is our view from the hotel in Marinette, Wisconsin over looking the river.

On our way to down state Michigan, we stopped for lunch at the Pink Pony on Mackinac Island.

I did work ahead on a few projects. My flying geese pinwheel and t-rex quilt is a flimsy.

pattern inspiration: Swiss Cretaceous Pattern and flying geese pinwheels

I also started piecing the initial quilt for the September challenge. My initials are PP so I am using pink/purple and the plus block.

pattern: many found on Pinterest

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Design Wall Monday 6.30.2025

 I've pieced all my flying geese pinwheels for the October 2025 trunk show quilt.

Ooops! I don't like the two lightest ones so into the orphan box they went and I replace them with darker pinwheels. Ahhh...much better!

pattern inspiration: Swiss Cretaceous pattern but I'm replacing the 9 patches 

                                        with flying geese windmills.

I also cut the pink background for my purple plus quilt. This is my initial challenge (PP) due in September 2025. I've gotten a good head start on a few of my fall deadlines.

pattern: many found on Pinterest 

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SoScrappy Saturday 6.28.2025

Today is the fourth Saturday of June of the color orange. Today is also the day to reveal the Table Scraps Challenge...June's prompt is 'Life's a Beach'.

I went to my trusty bin of novelties and found fabrics with sea life motifs. I did manage to add a bit of orange into the log cabin Meals on Wheels place mats.

pattern: log cabin sewn as quilt as you go.

For my mini mat, I found a novelty with lighthouses and a beach. I framed it out with sand and blue.

pattern: frames sewn as quilt as you go.

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Joy at Table Scraps.

Finish or NOT Friday 6.27.2025

I have two finishes this week!

My first finish is my Eagle quilt.

pattern: found on Pinterest: no name - no link

                what I did: Eagles cut at 9.5 inches, rails cut at 3.5 x 9.5 inches

panto: fern gully

My second finish is a flimsy I found in my 'to be quilted' bin. I looked back on the blog but I couldn't find anywhere I blogged about it. I must have made it between 2015-2018 when I was working. Blogging definitely was minimal during those years! This one was donated for the guild sale in October.

pattern: modified jelly roll race

panto: serpentine

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WIP Wednesday 6.25.2025

The eagles took a turn on the long arm. I dusted of an oldie but goody pantograph: Fern Gully. next up for this one is the binding.

The program committee at the MelonHeads is doing a 'Pinwheel Party' on October 8, 2025. I was assigned to make a quilt with flying geese pinwheels. A few weeks agao, I was gifted two over sized dinosaur blocks. So I'm going to use grey as the background and various blues as the pinwheels.

Here is my inspiration piece. In place of the 9 patches will be the flying geese pinwheels.

I got this far before I ran out of my background. It was 2 yards! The first store didn't have it, so I'm off to another. :) When I find the background, I think I want to add in darker blues.

Since I have one more design wall and another quick project, I got out my purple charm squares. Well, I just cut a bunch of 5 inch squares. This is the Casual Quilter's Initial Challenge. I'm a PP so Purple or Pink color and a P block. I'm choosing the Plus quilt in Purples with pink background (not shown).

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Design Wall Monday 6.23.2025

I kept moving my eagle yardage around the sewing room so, I decided it was time to use some it! I'm pairing it with browns at of course, 3.5 inch cut strips. I think I'm nearing the halfway point in creating the quilts for September's trunk show. 

 I made the brown strata and cut the eagles. I then started rotating the brown strata.

Here it is with lights on top with horizontal orientation.

Next is lights to the left with a vertical orientation.

Finally, here is the lights and darks flipped in vertical orientation. This is the one I chose.

Here it is all sewn into a flimsy,

pattern: found on Pinterest: no name - no link

                what I did: eagles cut at 9.5 inch square

                                   browns cut at 3.5 inch strips, sewn along the long edge 

                                    (beige, med brown, dark brown) then sub-cut into 9.5 inch squares.

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SoScrappy Saturday 6.21.2025

Today is the third Saturday of June of the color orange.

Today is the day I am sharing my fish.

 pattern: a combination of tutorials found on Pinterest

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Finish or NOT Friday 6.20.2025

 I have two finishes this week! yea!

First up is the gray brick and novelty quilt.

pattern: found on Pinterest: no name - no link

                what I did: novelties are cut at 6.5 inches, gray bricks at 3.5 x 6.5 inches

                                   half of the bricks are sewn to the top of novelties and 

                                   the remaining are sewn to the bottom. Arranged as shown.

panto: serpentine

My second finish and hot off of binding! is the gray chips and novelties.

pattern: found on Pinterest: no name - no link

              what I did: 6.5 inch cut novelties and 3.5 inch cut chips (I actually cut 

               3.5 inch strips of the two grays, sewed together on the long edge and

               sub-cut into 3.5 in units. I sewed the two-patch on the right of 

               half the novelties and the other half on the left. Arranges as shown.

panto: happy times

Both of these quilts will be part of my 3.5 inch Strip, Chip and Brick Trunk Show in September.

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WIP Wednesday 6.18.2025

My novelty with bricks project is sewn into a flimsy. This was a really fast sew as I already had the novelties cut into 6.5 inch squares. (Bricks are cut at 3.5 x 6.5 inches)

pattern: seen on Pinterest - no name and no link

                squares cut at 6.5 inches and bricks at 3.6 x 6.5 inches

I did a deep dive into the novelty box again and found a few I hadn't used before and this time I am pairing the novelties with a dark gray/light gray 3.5 inch square chip.

pattern: found on Pinterest - no name and no link

Here are the blocks on the design wall.

pattern: found on Pinterest - no name and no link

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Design Wall Monday 6.16.2025

A new week and a new 3.5 x 6.5 inch brick quilt design (to me). I'm pairing grey bricks with boy-ish novelties. This is another design I saw on Pinterest that led to a dead link.

I think I might have spent more time cutting the bricks than sewing this one!

pattern: found on Pinterest but dead link

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