WIP Wednesday 12.11.2024

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 12.9.2024

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.

Note to self: Each bowl cozy takes 4 pot holders. I did zigzag first the sewed darts.

                    Larger: pot holders cut at 5.5 inches (as in above picture)

                                                    dart at 2 inches on zigzag side

                                                                1 inch on bound side

                    Smaller: pot holder cut at 4.0 inches (as in above picture)

                                                    dart at 1 inch on zigzag side

                                                                0.5 inch on bound side

There is quite a bit of waste with the smaller cozy but I want to buy more pot holders and try cut at 4.5 inches.

Sharing today with Judy at Design Wall Monday.

SoScrappy Saturday 12.7.2024

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. :)

pattern: Happy Blocks

panto: serpentine

Sharing today with SoScrappy Saturday.

Finish or NOT Friday 12.6.2024

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. :)

pattern: Indian hatchet block...public domain

panto: serpentine

JanP volunteered to quilt my MelonHead Christmas party donation quilts and I sewed the bindings on. My friend, Cher made the quilts circa 2008 and mailed them to me. When I found them, I offered to the MelonHeads Christmas Party as prizes. I'm afraid that I don't know any of the patterns or the quilting designs. 

Here they are in no particular order:

A table runner:

A table topper:

A quilt... approximately 52 x 52:

Sharing today with Alycia at Finish or NOT Friday.