SoScrappy Saturday 7.9.2022

Today is the second Saturday of July of the color purple!

Time for my wonky stars. I only found two purples to use but they sure are pretty!

 pattern credit: Google search or Pinterest will find many tutorials

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Finish or NOT Friday 7.8.2022

 Woo-Hoo!

I have a finish or two or three!

First up is my Warm Crumbs quilt. I suppose I should give it a better name...hot tamale or flames or ??

pattern inspiration: Cynthia's Festive Picnic Quilt and Alycia's Strings Quilt

panto: hot rod

Next up is the Quickie Strippie. L👀K!!! I found a home for the leftover first responder vehicle fabric!

pattern: Mary's Quick Strippie

panto: serpentine

Third and final quilt is the Cool Churn Dashes (or are they Hole in the Barn Door?)

pattern inspiration: Cathy at Sane Crazy Crumb Quilting 

                                churn dash block (hole in the barn door) public domain

panto: halcyon

Whew! The first two quilts are smaller and I was surprised at how fast they went! 

Linking up with Alycia at Finish or NOT Friday

WIP Wednesday 7.6.2022

My warm crumb blocks didn't take too much time to sew together. I swapped out a few blocks and tried to keep the darker reds towards the outside.

Since I am up to date with the Casual Quilters Quilts of Valor, the schedule on the long arm is wide open. For some reason, I had the urge to find fire trucks to put on the back of this quilt. Lucky for me, the holiday sales were in full swing AND I was left alone at Bell Creek Quilts. I did find a backing that had fire trucks and various first responder vehicles.

Not only that but today was binding day! I will have a finish (or maybe two to share on Friday! - it's been awhile since I have shown a completed quilt!)

pattern inspiration: Cynthia's Festive Picnic Quilt and Alycia's String Quilt

pattern: crumb blocks, public domain

panto: hot rod

Since warm crumbs went so quick, I remembered that I wanted make a child's quilt to donate to guild this month. I purchased this 3 yard kit at my friend's estate sale last year.

I wasn't liking the red so I swapped it out with white.

I cut the pattern out last night and after the binding, I was able to sew together the top.

pattern credit: Mary's Quick Strippie

Linking up with Susan at MidWeek Makers

Design Wall Monday 7.4.2022

HAPPY 4th of JULY, USA!

A heartfelt 'THANK YOU' to all that have helped to ensure freedoms here in the USA. 

I spent part of the holiday weekend quilting down the last guild Quilt of Valor in the current batch. I always like the look of the panel quilts, especially after quilting. Here are a few of my favorites.

I also pulled out my warm color crumbs...yellow, red and orange...and arranged them on the design wall.

I wasn't liking the really light peach in my orange crumbs.

Sew...out came the rotary cutter and darker oranges. Yes! I like this better!

Linking up with Judy at Design Wall Monday

QOV Sunday 7.3.2022

I have a few more Quilts of Valor to share from the Casual Quilters. I receive these quilts as a bundle of a top, backing and sometimes a binding. The Casual Quilters provide me with a roll of batting to use on their quilts. The only catch is that I don't know who pieced the quilt and pattern used.

Quilt A.

Quilt B.

Quilt C.

Quilt D.

Quilt E.

Hope you enjoyed this weeks's Quilts of Valor!

 

SoScrappy Saturday 7.2.2022

Today is the first Saturday of July of the color PURPLE! I love purple but sadly, I don't seem to sew very often with purple.

Here are the crumby hearts and cut-offs that I worked on earlier in the week.

 pattern credit: Scrappy Improv Hearts

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My oldest brother was in town and asked if I would join him and my SIL for lunch before they flew out. YES! You don't need to ask me twice! My other three brothers (who are local) and one SIL all met for lunch. It was a fun impromptu visit. The only sibling that was missing was my older sister who lives in the hills of Virginia.

Finish or NOT Friday 7.1.2022

I finished piecing the soaring eagle and it's waiting for a turn on the long arm. I have three more Casual Quilters Guild QOVs to finish and then I will start on my quilts! I think I have something that will work for the back of the soaring eagle but maybe not! LOL It depends on what color thread I decided to use.

Here is the soaring eagle flimsy.

pattern inspiration: Falling Charms from Missouri Star Quilt Company

                                my cuts: 6.5 inch crumb block

                                               2.5 x 6.5 inch sashing

                                               2.5 x 2.8 inch sashing

                                               twist and turn blocks in pleasing manner

Here is a RWD flimsy I made and used as a 'road map' so to speak. I blogged about it here.

Linking up with Alycia at Finish or Not Friday and Wendy at Peacock Party

MidWeek Wednesday 6.29.2022

As the days get closer to my November presentation, I feel like I need to concentrate more on having quilts to show! It will be here before I know it!! Not quite to the panic stage, just to the slightly concerned stage. LOL

Here is my take on the next block I am highlighting with crumbs. It's a variation of Falling Charms from the Missouri Star Quilt Company. I realized if you place blocks around a panel...then you don't need as many blocks! I know, I'm brilliant....NOT! Just goofy! 😍

This is my reference sheet for the placement of the blocks I was following. I blogged about the flimsy here.

pattern inspiration: Missouri Star Quilt Company Falling Charms

                                    my cuts: 6.5 inch crumb block, 2.5 x 6.5 inch background

                                                   and 2.5 x 8.5 inch background. Twist and Turn

                                                   blocks in a pleasing set.

Linking up with Susan at MidWeek Makers

Design Wall Monday 6.27.2022

The fabric pull for the next quilt project. The blue and green crumbs from a few weeks ago along with an eagle panel, a muted tan and pretty blue for the binding...maybe. I just might change my mind about the binding when it comes to that step.

pattern credit: crumb blocks, public domain

Linking up with Judy at Design Wall Monday

Sunday Funday on a Saturday 6.26.2022

We headed to northern lower Michigan to my in-law's cottages in Grayling on Friday. Saturday was the Little Traverse Bay Quilt Guild Show in Harbor Springs, Michigan and about 30 minutes north through the scenic M118 (the Tunnel of the Trees) is located a fun Polish restaurant called Leg's Inn. I asked DH to be my driver to the show and restaurant and spend the day with me. Since his parents are at the cottage, his Mom came along with us. 

The show was held at a church in downtown Harbor Springs, it was a really nice venue. There were more quilts than I expected, the guild boutique area was larger and the vender space was what I expected. At the entrance was this statue of an alter boy with the quilt behind him. I thought it was cute. 

A few of the quilts in no particular order. I loved that a few of the members had made the same pattern yet put their own individual stamp on their quilt. My MIL stepped into the picture...I didn't share that she is now in the blog!

Here is a one block wonder but using different colorways of the same print.

Here is a gypsy wife quilt. I always thought this might be a potential way to use orphan blocks.

Can you tell I am drawn to the brights?! DH likes the muted tones of Civil War prints and 30's.

Look, Mama's Park!, I found done of your published patterns!

In the boutique, a chicken pincushion decided to follow me home.

We then headed north to Leg's Inn and a wonderful Polish lunch. It is located close to the shore of Lake Michigan. I'm just a little wind blown and DH looks awesome as usual!

No food pictures but we did walk to the overlook. It was a bit hazy but still pretty.

On our way back to the cottage, DH decided to take a few smaller back roads and a huge black bear ran across the road about 100 feet in front of us! No photo evidence...I was too stunned to see a black bear in the wild!

All is all, it was a fun day spent with DH and MIL. I am looking forward to more days like Saturday when DH retires in about 5-7 years.