Finish or NOT Friday 12.16.2022

I have one small 'Finish' and one 'NOT Finished' today.

First the finish is the dog bone stocking for Angie. First photo is on the design wall and the second photo is 'in the wild', hung by her Momma's stocking.

 pattern: Sew Very Crafty 'How to make a dog bone stocking' tutorial

My 'NOT finish' is one of my crumb blocks. I had made quite a few of the 'crumble jumble' blocks. I did one set on point and had enough left over for this straight set. AND! I still have 'crumble jumble' blocks leftover! I had used all the purple blocks in the on point set, found here.  So this one is just a tad smaller as I decided not to make more blocks and not to add a border. This one is for me just to show another use of crumb blocks. 

Good thing that the 2023 Guild Challenge is 'Using Your Orphan Blocks'. I seem to be creating more orphans lately. LOL

pattern: Crumble Jumble from Bonnie Hunter's Book: String Frenzy

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and Sarah at Whoop! Whoop!

WIP Wednesday 12.14.2022

I wanted to try my hand at making portable design boards. I followed Lori Holt's tutorial here but ran out of glue for my gun after two. I'm thinking I might swap out and make a different binding...something that contrast more might be nice...

 pattern: Lori Holt's tutorial, found here.

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Design Wall Monday 12.12.2022

DD and her dog, Angelo are going to spend a few days with us over the Christmas holiday. I found this tutorial on line and picked a few fabrics to make Angie a dog bone stocking to hang next to her Mom's. DD picked the Christmas bird fabric. She may want me to change it out once she arrives! LOL

pattern: dog bone stocking by Sew Very Crafty

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SoScrappy Saturday 12.10.2022

Today is the second Saturday of December of the month of finishes!

Time for my 'Wonky meets floating' Stars.

pattern spark: Wonky meets Floating Stars

                        QOV tutorial found here

panto: horizontal serpentine

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Finish or NOT Friday 12.9.2022

I finished my two newest crumb quilts, in plenty of time to donate at the next guild meeting!

pattern spark: explained in this blogpost

panto: vertical serpentine

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and Sarah at Whoop! Whoop!

WIP Wednesday 12.7.2022

I took Judy and Nann's suggestions and swapped out the gray for black. I also reviewed this blogpost and cut the fabric accordingly. Here is the resulting flimsy. 

This flimsy definitely 'looks better' than the gray one. Here they are side by side.

pattern spark: explained in this blogpost.

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Design Wall Monday 12.5.2022

I thought I would sew together a few small quilts to illustrate another setting for crumb blocks. I had found a staggered set somewhere in blog land and decided to dive right in. Here are my fabric pulls.

Well, I cut and sewed and cut and sewed and here is my first one. Uhhhh...Houston, we have a problem!

While this looks fine as is...it's not WHAT I wanted. Back to the drawing board or rather, search my blog aa I remembered I had made a staggered set using my novelties a long time ago. 2014, to be exact. Thank goodness, I was blogging pretty consistently back then and was able to find my 'note to self' on a easier construction process! Find the blog post here about an offset setting.

I'm off on a few holiday errands but hope to get to the second quilt in the coming days.

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Sunday Shenanigans 12.4.2022

Just for fun, I thought I would turn the next quilt on the long arm 180 degrees. This quilt is approximately 60x 80 so I pinned the 80 inch side to the leaders on the frame. This results in the serpentine wave running vertical instead of horizontal. This is actually QOV #40 for the Casual Quilters in 2022 that I have quilted down. It took just a little more thread but finished quicker.

pattern spark: disappearing 9 patch

panto: vertical serpentine

I really like the look of the vertical wave. I'll have to remember to 'go vertical' when I have enough backing fabric to complete quilts this way. <grin>

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SoScrappy Saturday 12.3.2022

Today is the first Saturday of December of finishing and I have a finish!

My crumby heart quilt!

pattern spark:    Bonnie Hunter's Crumb Hearts and

                            Scrappy Improv Hearts

panto: serpentine

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Finish or NOT Friday 12.2.2022

Yay!

I'll take that 'Finish' today! I was able to quilt and bind my RWB Crumb BQ1 quilt! The only sad thing is that I used all my red Permacore thread and that particular red isn't available any more! so sad...but I did buy a back up spool of Guterman at JoAnn's to use with my red bindings. Like DD's BF told me, 'You can't leave money on the table' and I needed to use my $10 coupon before it expired. I treated myself to a new seam ripper, too. 😍

 

pattern spark: crumb blocks...public domain

                        BQ1 from Maple Island Quilts

panto: serpentine

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and

Sarah at Whoop! Whoop!