SoScrappy Saturday 5.3.2025

Today is the first Saturday of May of the color green!

I made more Happy Blocks for today's post.

pattern: Happy Blocks

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Finish or NOT Friday 5.2.2025

I have both a 'finish' and a 'not'.

The finish is the 'Trailing Rail' quilt. I think it's more common name is 'Stair Step Rail'.

pattern: Rail Fence in Stair Step setting: public domain

panto: serpentine

My 'NOT' this week in another pink/purple rail fence but this time, it's in a Simple Sticks setting.

(sorry...no process pictures. 👎)

pattern inspiration: Christa Quilts Simple Strips

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WIP Wednesday 4.30.2025

 My 'Traditional' Trailing Rail is now a flimsy!

pattern: Rail Fence: public domain

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Design Wall Monday 4.28.2025

I've sewn another set of blocks for my pink/purple series of rail fence quilts. This one will be a 'traditional' trailing rail...well, that's what I call it. :)

Now to sew it into a flimsy.

pattern: Rail Fence (using 3.5 inch cut strips): public domain

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SoScrappy Saturday 4.26.2025

Today is the fourth Saturday of April of the color red. 

It is also time to reveal my Table Scraps April challenge. The prompt is rain. Red and rain. Uh-oh, I'm in trouble because all month long I am stuck on red umbrellas...

I finally gave in and made a little mat for my hearth room planter turned into a side table. First I found an umbrella to applique on Pinterest. Thank you to Simple Mom Project. I had some rain type fabric in my closet, black with fusible on it and a red fat quarter. I'm ready!

Snip, snip. Iron, iron. Diagonally quilting on Baby and ta-da!

My newest umbrella mat on the design wall.

Now, the mat is out in the wild. 😍 I squared it up to 8.5 inches and it's a little big for the space. I need to remember to make the next mat smaller! LOL

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Joy at Table Scraps 2025.

Finish or NOT Friday 4.25.2025

Earlier in the week, I finished the binding (by machine!) on the Beth Dutton quilt. I think she is beautiful in her simplicity. 😍

pattern: Beth Dutton quilt with 9 inch finished 9 patches set on point

panto: serpentine

Earlier today, I finished the binding (by machine, again!) on the 2 color rail fence. This is the first in a series I am making for my 3.5 inch strip trunk show. I decided to make this set of quilt a little smaller (48 x 60) so the 'making' would be faster. 😍

pattern: 3.5 x 6.5 inch cut bricks set in Windmill pattern

                (truth: I cut 3.5 wide pink/purple then sewed together on the 

                    long side then subcut into 6.5 inch units. I then assembled

                        the blocks.)

panto: serpentine

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WIP Wednesday 4.23.2025

I decided on the windmill setting for the first 2 color rail fence. I sewed 4 blocks together first.

I then sewed the rows together. This flimsy is approximately 48.5 x 60.5 inches before quilting.

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Design Wall Monday 4.21.2025

I've met my goal of getting the Beth Dutton on the frame and I even found time to quilt it down!

I've started on the two-color rail fence quilts. I brought a bolt of pink and purple and thought that I would make all the same block but just twist and turn the blocks for the different settings. I'm hoping that this approach will make it easier to understand for my guild-mates.

Here are the segments for my first setting.

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SoScrappy Saturday 4.19.2025

Today is the third Saturday of April of the color red.

I was playing around with making fish (not on point) and before I knew it, I had a little school of red and teal fish! I'm thinking about making more and sharing a finished quilt at guild's Beach Day Party in July...maybe...

pattern: a combination of various tutorials found on Pinterest.

Update:

I pieced the Beth Dutton into a flimsy but wouldn't you know it? My background greys are from two different dye lots. 'I hate it when that happens!'

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Finish or NOT Friday 4.18.2025

I was gone sewing two days this week, so not a whole lot of progress in the sewing room.

First, I quilted and bound the purple and green 3 rail fence. This is a good thing because I have one more completed for my September trunk show.

pattern: Rail Fence - public domain

panto: serpentine

I also cut the grey squares for the Beth Dutton quilt. I think the grey might be a little light but I'm going with it. :) My goal is to get it sewn together and pinned to the frame so I can quilt it next week. That means...I need to stay home, right?!

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