Finish or NOT Friday 3.1.2024

 Happy March 1st!

I have a couple finishes and a quilt top.

The first finish is my Crumb Bear quilt. The background is a rail fence and then I made a few brown crumb blocks. I use two sided fusible on the crumb blocks, traced the bears, iron them on and stitched a (somewhat) straight stitch around the edges. I treated the tree fabric in a similar manner to add interest to the lower left corner of the quilt.

pattern: rail fence background with appliques

panto: serpentine

My next finish is QOV Signature Golf.

pattern: Signature blocks alternated with patriotic fabric squares

panto: serpentine

My quilt top is my Stay at Home Round Robin (SAHRR). If you you've been following along, I added the words for round 6, the final round. This brought the quilt to 48 x 80 so I added a 6 inch border on the sides to bring the quilt top to 60 x 80. The plan is to use the navy blue to bind, so that should pull it all together. (I had a little trouble photographing this one :))

pattern: Stay at Home Round Robin 2024

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Sarah at Whoop! Whoop!

Stay at Home Round Robin (SAHRR) 2.29.2024

Happy Leap Day! I have a hankering to make a frog quilt! Instead I settled for a 'little bit of frogging' my seams on my round 6 of Stay at Home Round Robin (SAHRR)! 

Kathleen is our leader for Round 6 and she picked 'letters' or 'numbers'. I immediately thought of the words 'HONOR' and 'COURAGE'. I tried to talk myself into something else but in the end, I mustered up some courage to piece the letters. First I graphed the letters using the block system and 6 inch finished. 

The 'R's' gave me a bit of trouble. The 'R' in 'HONOR' is just so-so. I like the 'R' in 'COURAGE' better.

Sharing today with Kathleen at Kathleen McMusing - Quilter, Teacher and Designer

WIP Wednesday 2.28.2024

 The newest QOV is pieced and awaiting quilting. 

I counted the remaining Signature blocks and I'm about 10 short of a full quilt. So I started making more blocks and will take them to guild and ask the girls to sign a few. :)  I'm not certain Michigan QOV will have a booth at the AQS Grand Rapids in August but I figure the worst case scenario is to make a rail fence quilt with the un-signed blocks. :)

Since Baby (my Brother QC1000) is in the shop, I decided to old school the binding that needed completing. I was happy to find the tools I needed to complete this portion of the process.

Sharing today with Susan at MidWeek Makers.

Design Wall Monday 2.26.2024

On my wall today is another set of the QOV Signature blocks. I think after this set, I'm hoping I have enough for one more quilt in this round. :) I wasn't too excited about the tan with the flags print with the signature squares. I decided to sleep on it and guess what? It looks a whole lot better in morning's light. Mostly, I don't want to store the cut flag blocks and worry, er figure out how to use them at a future date.

 Sharing with Judy at Design Wall Monday.

The final round prompt dropped for the Stay at Home Round Robin (SAHRR). The final round should include letters or numbers. Oh boy! My first thought is to piece the words 'Honor' and 'Courage' and use them as top/bottom to lengthen my QOV. Am I up to this challenge?!

SoScrappy Saturday 2.24.2024

Today is the 4th Saturday of February of the color red. Time for my Meals on Wheels placemats!

Guess what! The 'quilting stars' aligned once again for me as Joy's Table Scraps theme is 'hearts' for February...

pattern: Hug Me...single hearts

The quilting was a simple quilt as you go.

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 Joy's 2024 Table Scraps

Finish or NOT Friday 2.23.2024

I have a finish and a flimsy this week.

First is the finish. It's Signature QOV Foxtrot.

pattern: alternating patriotic fabric with the signature squares

panto: serpentine

The flimsy is my bear quilt. I decided to add one more bear and one more tree. I ended up using the tree fabric for the trees. My idea was simply to fill the bottom space with something 'sorta' interesting as the bears are really suppose to be the main focus of this quilt.

pattern inspiration: Mary Johnson, found here.

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Sarah at Whoop! Whoop!

SAHRR Round 5: 2.22.2024

Round 5 of the Stay at Home Round Robin dropped on Monday. Gail at Quilting Gail is our host for this round. Gail picked '4' as the theme for this border. You could pretty much do whatever you wanted but you needed to incorporate '4' in it. I took Gail's lead and made '4' Friendship stars as each Friendship star has '4' legs. I then used Lisa Sutherland as inspiration, found here with '4' rails between the stars.

Round 6 drops next Monday and it is the last border!

Sharing with Gail at Quilting Gail's Round 5.

WIP Wednesday 2.21.2024

I finished piecing the background for my Bear quilt. The inner portion is a rail fence.

 I added two more borders, a brown inner and pine trees that I discovered in the stash.

I made my bear family out of brown crumbs and fused Wonder Under Lite to the shapes.

I was excited to fuse and stitch around my bear family. I decided to set the family high since I am short and if I was holding the quilt up...well, it would work better if the bears were towards the top. Or so I thought!

Oh no!  I think I need to add something. More bears or maybe trees? I made a few crumb blocks in sages for trees but I didn't like the look. So I cut some trees out of the tree fabric. Maybe another tree and bigger bear?  This is where I left it. The three bears are fused down and stitched. The trees are loose. I'm thinking about it...

pattern inspiration:  Mary Johnson's rail fence with applique, found here.

In other news, I took my piecing machine in to be serviced and pulled 'Little' Brother out to sew on.

When I was in Ann Arbor dropping off  'Baby', I stopped by the Ann Arbor Sewing Center. Parking is down the hill out at the back of the store. The back is almost as cute as the front!

I had my gift card I won last year, so I brought a few trinkets to put in a gift bag for this years challenge and this pattern by Allison of CluckCluckSew fame. I was on the lookout for a bat pattern. My birthday is October so the bats will be my entry into the 'Birthday Bash' Challenge I am hosting.

Sharing today with Susan at MidWeek Makers

Design Wall Monday 2.19.2024

 I quilted down the Irish quilt over the weekend. This was originally made for the 'If my birthday was in < March >' series and I had planned to donate it. But....I sewed a pleat into a seam and when I attempted to remove the stitches...I poked a whole in the dog fabric. RATS! I did patch it but...now it will belong to me! LOL I quilted it with the apple blossoms panto but they were looking more like alien toadstools to me. Oh well...it's mine so it's all good!

I also pulled fabric for the April Melon Heads presentation, the theme is applique. Not my strong skill. So I am going to prepare a quilt top and raggy edge applique a few bears on it. The bears will be made from some of my crumb fabric pieces. I've been wanting to make a little applique something to add to my crumb collection and this will fit both presentations. I hope it looks okay in the end!

Sharing today with Judy at Design Wall Monday.

SoScrappy Saturday 2.17.2024

Today is the third Saturday of February of the color red!

Time for the main block from the Stash Buster 2024 Challenge. I may have over made this block... I think any extra blocks at the end of the year will be paired with blues to make a QOV.

pattern: main block from the Stash Buster 2024 Challenge

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