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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SoScrappy Saturday 6.14.2025

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

Time for my 2025 Scrap Buster Block.

Here are all my blocks so far this year. I'm planning white sashing with black cornerstones when finishing the flimsy. I think I want 12 blocks so I may have to repeat a few colors. I do believe that the colors left for this year are purple, dark green, dark blue, tan/brown and black. I made teal at the wrong time so I'm ahead on the teal blocks. 

pattern: 2025 Stash Buster block in 16.5 inch unfinished

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Finish or NOT Friday 6.13.2025

I have two finishes this week! My 3.5 inch strip project sure has kept me busy. :)

First up is the pink/brown 4 patch with novelties.

pattern: 4patch with novelties

                *color 1 & color 2 cut at 3.5 inches x WOF then stripped pieced to make 

                    the 4 patches

                *novelties cut at 6.5 inches square

panto: happy times

My second finish is the pink/green 4patches with kitties. 

pattern: 4patch with kitties

                *color 1 & color 2 cut at 3.5 inches x WOF then stripped pieced to make 

                    the 4 patches

                *kitties cut at 6.5 inches square

panto: serpentine

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WIP Wednesday 6.11.2025

 L👀K who woke up from vacation! It's DD (Dinosaur Diva) back to work...

pattern: pink/brown 4 patches with novelties

                patches cut at 3.5 inch square (well, I stripped pieced it. :))

                novelties cut at 6.5 inch square

panto: happy times

The pink/green/kitty 4 patch is sewn into a flimsy.

pattern: 4 patches with kitty novelty

                4 patches cut at 3.5 inches (I stripped pieced this one, too)

                kitty novelties cut at 6.5 inch square

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Design Wall Monday 6.9.2025

 The pink/brown 4 patch novelty is now a flimsy.

pattern: 4 patches with novelty fabrics.

                Quilts for Kids 4 patch pattern

I still want to make the 4 patch kitty quilt. I was heading to Micheal's (they acquired the JoAnn Fabric's brands) to find a bright pink and green for a few of my projects. But then I decided that I liked the pink/green together.

I made the pink/green 4 patches and here it it on the design wall waiting to be sewn into a flimsy. I decided 'to just go with' and move on...

pattern: 4 patches with constant novelty

                Quilts for Kids 4 patch pattern

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SoScrappy Saturday 6.7.2025

Today is the first Saturday of June of the color orange!

Time for my Happy Blocks.

pattern: Happy Blocks

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Finish or NOT Friday 6.6.2025

I'll have to take a big ole NOT this week!

I woke up the piecing part of the sewing room by plugging in my power strip to my iron and Baby (my piecing machine). I also swapped out the darker novelties with lighter background novelties. Now I think I am ready to sew it together into a flimsy.

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WIP Wednesday 6.4.2025

Today I am traveling back to Bell Creek Quilts. I'm in my car and it looks like a rainy travel day. But...we had beautiful weather here in Milwaukee!

DD's birthday wish was a day in Chicago! So on Monday, we rode the train to Chicago and spent the day sightseeing. We first went to the Shedd Aquarium. She especially likes the Deep Ocean displays. Whales, sharks and dolphins. I like the Icy Cold display...penguins! We also both enjoy the jelly fish. We also walked through the Great Lakes display. Her BF is a fisherman so she was checking out the fish he fishes!

We then walked across the courtyard to the Field Museum. DD wanted to see Sue the T-Rex, the gemstone displays and the African fashion. We did run out of time and didn't walk thru the African displays. We went in the back door so when we left, we went out the front to enjoy the magic of the building.

In my time away from DD, I worked on sorting and cutting my green scrap bin. I did stay up a little late last night and finished this chore. I am now ready to make my very own green Duckworth quilt but that will be a few weeks from now. 😍

Here is BooBoo with the empty bin. Yea! I did pile my organized scraps back into it so the bin was only empty for about 5 minutes!

Here is my pile of organized and pressed green scraps. Yea! I separated the scraps into pieces smaller than 2.0 inches, pieces that are 2.0 inches, 2.5 inches and greater than 3 inches. I also have a pile of bigger chucks that could be backing...if I was feeling creative. In the front are wacky pieced crumbs that I had left in my bin. All the way on the right, is my pile of cut-off and pieces less than 1.0 inch.

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Design Wall Monday 6.2.2025

 I'm actually in Milwaukee visiting DD for her 26th birthday but I did sew ahead a little bit to share.

I started a pink and brown set of 4 patches using the 3.5 inch strips. Here are the fabrics I was thinking about using.

The 4 patches are the easy part of my design. I picked cats because I feel cats have been neglected at Bell Creek Quilts...

The 4 patches on the design wall...

...and with the cats.

Oh! I'm NOT liking this. So I pulled the cats off and dipped into my ISPY stash.

Oh! I'm NOT crazy about this either. This is how I left the sewing room and this is how I will find it when I return. So I won't have anything to share. :(

Our bear BooBoo made the trip with me and I brought my bin of green scraps. In my spare time at the hotel, I've been pressing and cutting my scraps. I usually just use the scraps as is from my bins but this time I want to make a Duckworth Scrap quilt (see you tube video here and a blog post here). I first 'saw a Duckworth' on FB Scrap Quilt Enthusiasts Group...it's a private group so I can't link to it.) A Duckworth needs a little more controlled organization than I usually do. :)

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SoScrappy Saturday 5.31.2025

Today is the fifth Saturday of May of the color green. The prompt for Table Scraps May 2025 is fresh cut grass. How perfect is this combination!

Green and fresh cut grass reminds me of my husband and his old John Deere mower (it was actually a Sabre but still John Deere green). I actually took this picture when he was working on leaves.

He has since upgraded to a Toro Zero Turn mower that is red.

I had used all my John Deere fabric so I did go to the store and buy a yard. I made myself a little table mat for the hearth room side table.

Pattern: 3.5 inch cut center with 2.5 inch cut frames sewn as quilt as you go.

Since I had more John Deere fabric, I made four place mats for the local Meals on Wheels. I changed around the fabric placement and I ended up liking the dark corners best!

pattern: 6.5 inch cut center set on point with 2.5 strips sewn as quilt as you go

                 rounds. I then trimmed to size and bound.

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