My finish for this week is my Four in a Row quilt. I suppose I should re-name it as I elected not to make 4 patches and use a star print. Maybe Stars in a Row? Not quite the vision I had for it but, it is what it is! Done for Christmas gifting. :)
I've been working on the latest quilt, Four in a Row. I had a little miscalculation and had to adapt the pattern. Here are my choices after my 'design opportunity'.
I have one more quilt I want to complete. It is for a niece who loves black and white. A while back, JoAnn's had pre-cuts on sale so I picked up two 20 strip jelly rolls in black/white and black only. I've been trolling Pinterest and found a pattern, Four in a Row I wanted to try. Instead of 4 patches I am going to use grey star fabric and them repeat that in the outer border.
pattern: Four in a Row, found on Pinterest
Sharing today with Judy at Design Wall Monday.
Yesterday was the second Saturday of December. This is the month of finishes.
I did apply the binding to my SoScrappy finish this morning. The pattern is Gumdrops set with the Hollow Nines block. I wasn't sure which color to bind with and finally settled on an orange.
Yesterday was a busy day from meeting a friend to Christmas gift shopping to a little grocery shopping to getting my hair done for the Christmas Dinner Party...it is Saturday before I know it! Here I am after the party with my curls starting to droop (me, too...lol) I definitely need to practice at selfies...
In did quilt and bind then next quilt in the queue. This is the farm scene fabric made with Villa Rosa Design's pattern, October Sky. This one is going to DH's work party as the 'nicer' 'white elephant. The party is next Wednesday so completed in plenty of time. His company represents and brokers raw milk for the dairy farmers here in the surrounding states of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and even as far as northern Wisconsin (close to Green Bay). I found the dairy farm scene fabric on the free table at guild and thought that this would be an unexpected 'white elephant' gift for his office Holiday Party.
I love the Villa Rosa Designs! This October Sky went together so quickly.
pattern: Villa Rosa Design's October Sky.
Sharing today with Susan at MidWeek Makers.
Design Wall Monday...well, sorta.
My sewing mojo has gone on Christmas hiatus. :(
I've been wanting a few bigger bowl cozies and to upgrade my cereal bowl cozies. I even brought a template but never did get around to it. But I saw this on my FB feed made out of Dollar Tree pot holders. ummm...$2.50 invested into a project to 'see if' it works.
Low and behold, a few tries later yielded 3 larger and 1 smaller bowl cozy. The black one is the first and made with cotton/polyester thread. Ooops...I'll see how it does. I did buy red 100% cotton for the other three. I'm a little worried about the one with glitter but I'll be watching them in the microwave. The tag did say...heat resistant to 350F. While they are NOT the prettiest but cheaper than the cozies for sale at the Christmas Bazaar I went to over the weekend.
Today is the first Saturday of December of finishes. This is the last of my quilty work to show that I completed before I got busy (ah em, cough, cough) doing other than quilty things.
This is one of the Happy Blocks quilt I put together. I still have lots more Happy Blocks so when my quilty mojo returns...it's all waiting for me... :) I used some of the older blocks and the majority are girl-ish with a few boy-ish Happy Blocks thrown in for good measure. I already turned it in for our Comfort quilts so I'm hoping it already found it's forever home in time for Christmas. :)
I haven't done very much sewing or quilting this week.
I did manage to sew the binding onto DD's friend's baby quilt. Although the baby was born 5 weeks early, DD said everyone is fine. In all, it worked out well as DD was able to sign the label and I shipped it off last Monday.
Here is the quilt on the design wall. The new Momma's favorite color is yellow and DD wanted to pair black with the yellow. I was worried it would have major bumblebee vibes but I do like how it turned out. Not bumblebee-y at all. :)
Today is the fifth Saturday of November of the month of assembly. I did manage to complete my four Meals on Wheels place mats. This month's theme for Table Scraps is trees.
I decided to applique a few trees on a snowflake background and then sew 'tree' fabric to the top and bottom of the place mat.
I have a few finishes today! Yea, me!
First up are the little scarecrow hot pads. These cuties finish at 7.5 inches. I totally forgot that they would be smaller than the original cut. Due not only to the quilting but also to my wonky placement of the fabrics and Insul Bright. I ended up with 4 with the light binding and 4 with the dark binding and placed them along my woven table runner. I opted no placemats in the formal dining room this year.
I also put the final stitches in the round Christmas table topper at guild the other day. I didn't realize I had pulled the binding when I was sewing it on...so it does curl just a tad. :)
Sharing today with Alycia at Finish or NOT Friday (when posted!)
I am concentrating on the quilting of my projects. I'm using straight line on Baby Brother.
The wedge quilt.
It's also time to pull fabrics for the Meals on Wheels placemats. This month's theme is trees. My friend LexusMary was unloading a bunch of greens so I snapped some up! :)
Sharing today with Susan at MidWeek Makers.
With Thanksgiving just around the corner and we are hosting this year, sewing will be limited at best. :)
I unearthed another vintage top under the Christmas fabric basket. This one is only about 8 years old and was a test of a wedge ruler for a wedding Christmas tree skirt gift. I thought i would spray baste it and sew a few lines in the wedges to hold it together. Although it will need bias binding...oh my!
I also had the bright idea that I needed a few Thanksgiving hot pads for the table. Scarecrow fabric, snowflakes, a little green binding and Insule Brite.
Fingers crossed. :)
Sharing today with Judy at Design Wall Monday.
It's been a hot second since I hand sewed back a binding!
I found three Christmas themed items from my friend, Cher in the bottom of my cupboard under the basket of Christmas fabrics (which I dragged out to make stockings). Howell MelonHeads were looking for donations for their Christmas party so I offered them to the committee. The committee would quilt them up but then I was responsible for the binding. The items are a table runner, table topper and a small quilt. Cher made the items and then sent them to me in about 2008 or 2009. They definitely have aged quite well...
Here's a sneak peak at one of the bindings.
My finish today is the piecing of the Gumdrops quilt. I still have a few of the Hollow Nines blocks leftover so maybe there might be another Gumdrop in my future. :)
pattern: Gumdrops, found here.
I also quilted down a baby quilt for my friend. Her family is having a 'sprinkle' for her niece on Thanksgiving. She did tell me that a 'sprinkle' is for a second or third baby and not as elaborate as a 'baby shower'. Judi didn't tell me (and I didn't ask!) but I think this might be Elizabeth Hartman's Whale pattern.
