Stop Tossing...A Military Mystery...Clue 5

Last Wednesday, Alycia released Clue 5! It was the reveal!

I had to make a minor adjustment to her border treatments as I was running out of the red contrast fabric. I 'knew' I would be close as the mystery unwrapped. Alycia called for 2.5 inch contrast on the sides of the inner border and 4.5 inch contrast for the top/bottom inner border. I only had enough of my red (contrast) for 3.5 inch top/bottom border and 2.5 inch sides border. In order to keep the length in the 'right ballpark', I made the outer blue (background) border 4.5 inches all around instead of the 3.5 inches original to the pattern. 

Clear as mud, eh? I think overall, it still looks good!

pattern: Stop Tossing...Clue 5

Alycia promised a Military Mystery with no HST's and she delivered! It's a beautiful quilt design and THANK YOU for another quilt to cover our veterans!

SoScrappy Saturday 3.19.2022

Today is the third Saturday of March of the color Yellow and Gold!

Time for my Crumble Jumble blocks...I was able to make 7 blocks this month. I picked the happier yellow crumb blocks as the base. Is happier such a thing will yellow? It seems to me that almost all yellow fabric is happy! 

 pattern inspiration: Crumble Jumble from String Frenzy book

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Finish or NOT Friday 3.18.2022

 I actually have two, yes! two finishes this week! I already had the 'parts' made so it was a matter of cutting the contrast fabric, assembly, quilting and binding.

First up is the Horizontal Shout Color Catcher string quilt. This layout was inspired by Victoria Findlay Wolfe and her '15 Minutes of Play'. I used a dark purple thread and it really blends onto the black contrast fabric.

pattern inspiration: Victoria Findlay Wolfe '15 Minutes of Play'

panto: serpentine

I also finished up the Vertical Shout Color Catcher quilt. This one was also really fast, see reasons above! Once again, thanks to the 'parts' department for a quick finish! 

I actually like the vertical set better than the horizontal set. 😍

Similar pattern: Allison Ramsing Majestic Scraps pattern

panto: serpentine

Linking up today with Alycia at Finish or NOT Friday

WIP Wednesday 3.16.2022

My Shout Color Catcher string quilt went together fast! It sure does help having the 'parts' made! Just a side note: I saved my used Shout color catchers, gave them a press then used as foundation for the string blocks. I elected to leave the color catchers in the finished quilt. 

pattern inspiration: Victoria Findlay Wolfe's book '15 Minutes of Play'

When I stitched the Shout Color Catcher blocks (so long ago), I didn't pay attention the the orientation of the fabrics. As a result, some motifs are vertical while others are horizontal. I sorted through the remaining blocks and pulled as many as I could find with a vertical orientation and began to set those into a top.

I was surprised when I was trolling Pinterest and I found another quilter had recently published a very similar quilt pattern in December  2021. Although I didn't use Allison's quilt pattern as inspiration, you can see it is very close indeed. Find Allison Ramsing's Majestic Scraps Quilt Pattern here.

Alycia released Stop Tossing...A Military Mystery Clue 5 today, I'll take a brief break from my String Adventure and piece Clue 5 in the coming days (or maybe today...<grin>)

Linking up with Susan at MidWeek Makers

Design Wall Monday 3.14.2022

I decided to dive into my box of multicolored strings and things. 

Sometime around 2009 or 2010 or so, I started piecing my leftover fabrics onto used color catchers. DS was starting to do his own laundry and I had him throw in one or two color catchers in his wash load just in case 'something' bled. I ended up with quite a large pile! This picture is actually two piles, 5 inches deep!

I think my first quilt will be one inspired by Victoria Findlay Wolfe and her '15 Minutes of Play'.

pattern inspiration: Victoria Findlay Wolfe '15 Minutes of Play'

Linking up with Judy at Design Wall Monday

Stop Tossing...A Military Mystery...Clues 3 and 4

As I was waffling on my background choice, I feel behind on the clues. <sigh>

I settled on the light blue since Alycia used the light blue in her mock up of the clues...imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!

Here is my progress after Clue 3.

 pattern credit: Stop Tossing Clue 3

Here is my progress after Clue 4.

pattern credit: Stop Tossing Clue 4

Believe it or not, it's measuring pretty close to Alycia's size in the clue directions! Whoop! Whoop!

Maybe I'll make a light blue D9P with the red accents and tan background...time will tell.

The next clue will be out on Wednesday...I wonder what the border applications will be?!

SoScrappy Saturday 3.12.2022

Today is the second Saturday of March of the color yellow/gold! 

One of the blocks I am making for 2022 is the wonky star. 

First up is the selected color with white background. 

Sew...yellow stars with white background

 Next are the white stars with the yellow/gold background.

pattern credit: either 'Pinterest search' or 'Google search' wonky stars and you will

                        be treated to many tutorials!

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Finish or NOT Friday 3.11.2022

I finished piecing the Amazing Grace panel this week. This fulfills my low key goal of piecing one quilt a month for potential Christmas gifts. I used green as an accent with the paver blocks around it. I first placed a light blue as the top border, thinking to simulate the sky.

Well, I wasn't feeling it. So I took off the light blue and replaced it with more green. Much better!

pattern inspiration: Sew Yummy's paver blocks

The local Historical Society is having a display about the Casual Quilters Guild. I have kept a pictorial notebook of the guild QOV's I've quilted in 2020 - 2021. I thought our guild historian might like to add it to the collection so I made a cover for it! I then promptly forgot to give it to our historian...Duh!

pattern: shared by PatR at the Oconomowoc Quilt Guild circa 2010.

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WIP Wednesday 3.9.2022

I've made the paver blocks, the corner turner blocks and added an inner coping border. Just a few more paver blocks to go.

I'm liking where it's heading. 😍 I'll need to add a little something to the top and bottom to get it more rectangular.

 pattern inspiration: Sew Yummy's 'paver blocks'

In other happenings around the sewing space, I was long arming my last guild quilt in the current batch. I was really struggling with it when the top thread came out of the tension disk and I actually needed to un-pick a partial row. I got that done and fixed the thread path problem only to roll the quilt on the next quilting pass to discover this:

I was NOT a happy camper! When I looked closer, I realized my cut off threads had somehow gotten caught in the needle pick up and were sewn onto the quilt. WHEW! All I had to do was simply tug and cut (carefully) at the loose threads and the quilting was fine!! Thank Goodness! I was very very happy when I did the final pass on this one. In case you are interested in the front:

pattern: sewn by a member of the Casual Quilters...unknown pattern

panto: serpentine

Linking up with Susan at MidWeek Makers

Design Wall Monday 3.7.2022

I found this Amazing Grace panel in a bag that was given to me after our guild tag sale. The instructions were, ' Everyone take one bag of fabric NOBODY wanted to buy and throw it in your trash. That way, we will spread out the trash and one member won't be overwhelmed.' Dutifully, I took a bag and to my surprise, I found a few things that I could actually work with. Would I pay for it, 'No' but I could make a quilt with it! LOL. Here is the Amazing Grace panel and some fabrics I pulled as 'go withs'.

In my mind, I see a path around the panel. Grass, sand, pavers...you get the picture.

Something similar to the blocks found here at Sew Yummy's blog. This is Sew Yummy's picture that I boosted from her blog. Sew Yummy states in her post that she found the original post by JudyL but there is no picture.

Linking up with Judy at Design Wall Monday.