Design Wall Monday 6.13.2022

Back to the crumbs, for me!

This time I'm making stars with red crumb centers and blue star points. As added fun, two of the corners are going to have half square triangles! My fabric pull and inspiration quilt...once again, I have a picture but no identifying notes. The red crumb blocks are from my 'parts department'.

Of course, I needed to sew up one block.

Here are more 'parts' ready to be sewn into blocks. Does anyone else assembly line sew when doing multiple blocks that are the same?

pattern credit: sawtooth star with crumb center and hst on two corners.

                            Pinterest or Google search and you will find tutorials on the web.

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A special Thanks to Mari of The Academic Quilter, my gift of flannel charms arrived late last week. Just in time as the Casual Quilters are making burp clothes out of flannel in July. Also Thanks to Em of Quilty Hugs for the card, always nice to know that the package of quilts arrived. My other two packages also arrived...I had included my email so I received digital Thanks.  😍

QOV Sunday 6.12.2022

Time for a few more QOV's compliments of the Casual Quilters!

Quilt A

Quilt B

Quilt C

Quilt D

Quilt E

Quilt F

 Hope you enjoyed the quilts!

SoScrappy Saturday 6.11.2022

Today is the second Saturday of June of the colors navy/bright blue.

Time for my wonky stars. When I went into the cupboard for a little bit of stash to make this block, I was surprised that I only had one fabric that I wanted to use. My first impulse was to run to the store and buy more...but the RSC isn't about buying more fabric. It's about using what you own! (in my case the 'S' in 'RSC' is either Scraps or Stash) 😍 So, here's what I have, one positive and one negative.

I did grab my RSC2022 collection and put them up on design wall. 

Arrangement 1:

Arrangement 2:

pattern credit: Google Search and/or Pinterest 'Wonky Stars' and 

                            you'll find lots of tutorials!

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Finish or NOT Friday 6.10.2022

A small finish but one I needed!

I had guild on Monday night and I couldn't find my favorite name badge anywhere! Not really a big deal except that I had a call from a member earlier in the day asking for my help. Eh gads, HOW will she find me if I don't have my name badge on? So quickly made a paper thing and went on my way.

I had found a chunk of sailboat fabric in my blue bin I had set aside and decided to make that into a label, errr, name tag. Yes the white is sewn wonky but I didn't notice until I was quilting it. I think it might be my experiment to see 'how many' people let me know it's wonky!

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On the long arm front: 

I called Gammill Monday to check on the scheduling of my service. The rep informed me that my service request had only been open 13 days and it's usually 4-6 weeks of an open request before they even 'think about' scheduling service! YIKES! Gammill called back later on Monday to check my availability for service next week. The service rep said he would let me know my day of service, but then never called to confirm. I called a few times and my calls went to voicemail. Another customer rep called me back Thursday and said they had me on the schedule for next Thursday but the day might change as the schedule might get re-worked. So, again, I wait. This time is better because I know that Gammill knows my machine needs service and are actively working to get the service guru here.

WIP Wednesday 6.8.2022

I am continuing working through the blue bin. I actually have cut-offs from quilt backs from my early days of my quilting journey stashed away in this bin. I found a piece of chicken tracks that I believe I made the quilt in 2003 or 2004! It's way past time to strip it up (or is it down?!) and get it into a quilt for it's forever home!

This is where I started with the blue bin.

 After I made my navy/dark blue crumbs and then light/medium blue crumbs, I noticed I had a smattering of all shades/tones of blue. I decided just to sew 'willy nilly'. Here are my some of my starter 'seeds'.

I was able to make quite of few blue blocks that are a mixture of lights and darks.

I then pressed any fabric from the bin that was more than 15 inches long and cut it into 2.5 inch strips.

This is the pile that is going back into the bin.

Along with a baggie of teal.

Sew much room in the bin now! I did have two baggies of blocks I made that I'm not sure 'what' will happen with them. I'll stop thinking about them and of course, that is when an idea will form!

The 2.5 inch strips are piled on the cutting table, but I have a plan for them.

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Design Wall Monday 6.6.2022

There is not a whole lot happening here at Bell Creek Quilts. 

While I had my navy/bright blues out, I thought I would sew up a few crumb blocks to have in the 'parts' department'. As usual, a few lighter blues snuck into the mix. LOL

Since my tub of blues was open and available, I then took out the lighter shades of blue to make crumb blocks for the 'parts department'. As usual, a few darker blues snuck into the mix. If only my fabric would behave!

At this point, I realized my light blue crumbs really weren't crumbs at all. Most pieces were over 2.5 inches wide WITHOUT a lot of variety and WITH patterns. So, I made a few more of these very busy crumbs.

I pressed the larger pieces and then cut them into 2.5 inch strips. I was missing my Quilting Buddy in Wisconsin as she always wanted me to come over and use her AccuQuilt to cut my scraps down. I'm not sure if I will further cut the strips into squares or just leave them as random length strips. Time will tell...

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QOV Sunday 6.5.2022

QOV's from Casual Quilters Guild. These quilts are pieced by the members of the Casual Quilters Guild. I received them as bundles of pieced tops, backings and sometimes binding. I have no information about the maker or pattern used. Hope you enjoy the quilts!

Quilt A

Quilt B

Quilt C

Quilt D

Quilt E

Quilt F

Hope you enjoyed the quilts!

SoScrappy Saturday 6.4.2022

Today is the first Saturday of June of the color navy/bright blue.

Luckily, my already prepared crumb blocks were navy. Here are my improv hearts  along with the cut-offs.

I also decided to take a minute and put all my improv crumby hearts on the design wall.

For fun, here are the cut-offs arranged as flying geese.

pattern credit: scrappy improv hearts

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Finish or NOT Friday 6.3.2022

I wish I would have gone with the 'NOT'!

I was last in my sewing space prior to DD's arrival and I was working on a Birthday placemat. I had pieced it but it needed a little bit of quilting. I usually quit my placemats on Baby Brother so I thought, let's give it a go. I'll just outline the cake and candles, put a few lines down the side fabric and wa-la:

Best laid plans. I sorta like it. Not exactly my vision and my quilting on Baby needs improvement or at least my basting so my fabric doesn't shift as much. As usual, a learning experience.

pattern credit: Lori Holt's Birthday Cake, download from the Fat Quarter Shop here

                    

I opted out of the bow. I have until the middle of July for the next birthday if I want to try again. 

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on the long arm front: the new belt arrived...that wasn't the problem.

WIP Wednesday 6.1.2022

First...Happy Birthday to DD! She turned 23 yesterday and has been here at Bell Creek Quilts for the last 4 days... I think it is just the change we both needed!

I did another 'sew the sewing room space' before she arrived. For Christmas 2021 I joined the QOV Working Stars Christmas exchange and one of the gifts I made was re-usable grocery bags. I also wanted to make a few for me but they sat in a pile on the counter. I think it's been about 6 months now!

I made a total of 4 bags from this collection of fabric plus I purchased a yard of limes to add this collection that didn't make the picture. I also sewed up a Santa bag as the guild is looking for ideas of Christmas sewing projects and they have requested that we bring previous Christmas items that were made to the next meeting.

Here is an action shot at the big box store where I sometimes shop. I still like to put any items that might sweat into plastic. Slowly but surely, I'm working into using my fabric grocery bags.

pattern credit: Shabby Chic re-usable grocery bag. It's a youtube video.

I also had a few yard visitors the other day. I've seen the adult sand cranes before but never the baby. SO CUTE!

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