This month has flown by! I’ve been busy, busy with sewing, grands, and home stuff. I did manage to finish this for a friend.
I played with pixels.
Finished a little quilt, cut out earlier this summer.
Still thrilled with this little bit, made from vintage fabrics.
My favorite finish has to be this postage stamps quilt, called Pen Pals.
Have a great day!
There were several displays of guild challenges at the recent AQS show. Here are my favorites.
So much creativity! Have a great day!
It’s done! This was a very satisfying finish.
It’s been in my head for years and I’m glad I finally made it. The fabrics are all vintage.
This backing fabric came from the stash of my Great Aunt Celia. She died in 2016, just shy of her 100th birthday.
She never married after her fiancé was tragically killed in a boating accident. She was a school teacher. She built her own home and sewed her own clothes. She was quite stylish.
The binding fabric is from a vintage apron that was never finished.
I was going to get fancy with the quilting, but the quilt said, no.
Have a great day!
That’s my working title for this quilt.
I absolutely love this. It will be small, but it looks exactly like the picture in my head. I so love the vintage fabrics. It is inspiring me to finally cut into my feedsack collection.
I think I have about 50 different sacks in total, less than half are shown above. I need to find the perfect pattern to show them off.
Off to Pinterest! 😁 Have a great day!
I’ve wanted to make this quilt for a very long time. I even had most of the pieces cut! I finally buckled down and cut out the green background bits. It only took about ten minutes. I don’t know why I waited so long.
The squares are all vintage fabrics. This next photo shows where I’m headed here.
It won’t be a very big quilt, because I emptied my bin of these scraps. But I will be able to scratch this off the bucket list and I’m having a ball sewing this up!
Have a great day!
Can I be down and dirty, gritty and real here for just a bit?
Alycia from Quilts Girl got me thinking….. Actually, I’ve already been pondering some related things, but her post was a definite piece of the puzzle. She wrote a great post about finishing, or not. You can read it here. Go ahead, I’ll wait. 😊
I’ve been working on cleaning out my house lately. Mr. Wonderful and I would eventually like to downsize our Michigan home. I don’t want to leave a big mess for my kids to deal with down the road.
This means lots of sorting, donating, selling, pitching. It’s a big job. It’s hard. It’s messy. But I’d rather do this than leave it for my kids, not that I’m planning on going anywhere soon!
Clearly, my sewing stuff is a big category. I have been giving quilts away, and have more to part with. I need to pare down the herd of sewing machines and collectibles. (This one is not for sale yet 😊).
Alycia reminded me that one thing I can let go of, is finishing every project I have started. My kids are under no obligation to finish them either. Who made the rule that we have to finish everything? I will say that I do enjoy finishing most things, but I hereby release myself from the obligation of it. Big difference.
So, I’ve decided to put these away for now. Eventually, I might let them go altogether. I’ve given myself permission.
Life is too short to spend on things that don’t matter. And in the light of eternity, it does not matter if I don’t finish this little thing, but move on to something else more important or engaging.
And if my kids want to drop everything that’s left at Goodwill for another quilter to find, I’m good with that.
So, you all just got a little peek into the chaos of my head! I’m still processing, so if none of this makes sense, that’s my excuse. 😁
And if you have any tips or ideas regarding downsizing, please share!
Have a great day!
You know I couldn’t leave the postage stamp leftovers alone! I started thinking I could use them to make a small version of this quilt.
The problem is, the leftover blocks have definite light and dark areas.
Hmmm…. Maybe I should just put them together like this.
But that doesn’t really scratch the itch the stripy quilt above gives.
I’m going to have to think about this some more.
Have a great day!
I have more photos to share from the AQS show. Here are the deets on the Cherrywood Challenge.
And here are a few of my favorites.
Have a great day!
Here are my favorites from the Shakespeare exhibition at the AQS show. So much creativity. Enjoy!
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It’s done! I’m smitten with this quilt for so many reasons.
It’s big and has 8,000 pieces in the top. It finished at 80” by 100”. It’s as scrappy as can be!
These blocks must have taken ages, but I didn’t make them. An online friend that I have corresponded with for a number of years gave them to me! I know, I still can’t believe it! And that beautiful backing came from another online friend, Sweet Ila! So it seemed appropriate to call this postage stamp quilt, Pen Pals.
Don’t look too closely at my quilting, it was all done freehand.
I definitely did not want the quilting to be the focal point here.
Here are a couple photos taken after washing.
I could study these fabric bits for days. It’s already been nap tested. 😊
Have a great day!
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