This and That

I found this Windham panel at Good Will! It’s perfect for a QOV.

E1 has a birthday last week. Mom and Dad rented this huge bounce house. Everyone enjoyed it, even the adults.

It was 45 feet long and a bit big for their yard, so we had the party here.

Winslow and Willy dressed up for the occasion.

His gift from us was this RC Jeep. I kinda wanted to keep it for myself…

Daughter #2 gave me this tiny cactus when I was in AZ. Big L likes to name plants and he’s decided I should name this Cac-tee. 😁

Have a great day!

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Finish It Up Friday ~ I Spy

This was such a fun quilt to make!

This is the panto I used. It is from Urban Elementz .

I cut the rectangles using my 3 by 6 inch (finished size) Accuquilt die.

I was running low on backing, so this just got plain muslin. Everything for this quilt came from my stash.

I used Cool Gray Glide thread and machine bound it in navy.

There are two of each print in the quilt.

Now all five of these quilts have been shipped and received. 😊

Have a great weekend!

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QOV

Finally! I found inspiration for that Quilt of Valor I wanted to make!

This is a free pattern I found here.

In no time at all, I had all 12 blocks done. Here are 8 of them.

Time to cut some sashing and get this together. Have a great day!

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Scrap Busting

This is a loooonnnnggggg post! I decided had to do something with my overflowing scrap buckets. I keep buckets for modern and reproduction fabrics. Solids and QOV scraps are also kept separate. This first one is a baby bathtub! Before:

After:

Another bucket before:

After:

These are the Accuquilt dies I used. Honestly, if I didn’t have my die cutter, these would likely have ended up in a bin!

This is how I cut my scraps. I press everything and lay them out on my die and run them through.

There is some waste. But much less than binning everything! I do cut off bits and throw strips into my strings containers.

Two and a half inch squares. Each of these piles are about two inches deep.

More tumblers.

Two inch squares.

Strips and strings.

Repro bucket.

Two and a half inch squares, 2 by 4 rectangles, two inch squares, one and a half inch squares, and squares for on point blocks.

I’m not sure what to do with my solid scraps.

And I have Quilt of Valor Scraps.

I’m not going to lie, this took a couple days. And I have more work to do (leftover binding strips anyone?). But it would have taken a good month without my Accuquilt die cutter. It is seriously one of the best quilting purchases I have ever made.

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Have a great day!

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Vintage Top and Blocks

When I was in Arizona, I found a FB Marketplace ad for a vintage quilt top and blocks. For $20, I snapped them up. Here are the blocks.

They range in size from 11 to 12 inches and few of them actually lay flat. But I love the fabrics and I think they will be a fun project. They were all handpieced.Many of the edge triangles appear to be a later vintage.

This is the top I got.

Bambi was helping me. It is also hand pieced. These will go into the someday pile for now. Have a great day!

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Cutting for Something New

I mentioned before that this time of year makes me want to work in 30s prints. I started cutting out another quilt while cutting more pieces for my leader/ender project.

You might as well cut out for more than one quilt at a time!

This is one of the dies I’m using . I’ll also use my 2 1/2 inch square die.

After these were cut, I started in white squares using this die.

Now it is all kitted up and ready when I am.

In the process of digging through all my 30s prints, I found another UFO. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Oh, well. Have a great day!

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Slow Stitching and Other Things

I only got 12 of these done on my trip. I read a book the whole way home. I hope to get a few more done today.

I really do like how it looks!

I stopped at my favorite fabric store while I was in AZ, but their inventory was quite low. This is all I came home with.

The top piece is wide backing.

I’ve managed to get this Liberty top done.

No idea when it will get quilted. Have a great day!

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Home Again

If you follow me on Instagram, you know I’ve been in Arizona. I just got home. I appreciate all of your recent comments and read them all, though I didn’t take the time to respond as I should. Due to the Covid mess, I had many flight cancellations and delays and my trip was shortened by nearly half!

Here is Daughter #2’s house and my rental Jeep.

She and I did some fun touristy things like visiting this ghost town.

I loved spending time with my grandpups. They are as adorable and sweet as ever!

And I spent time with my wonderful son and these precious grandsons! We had so much fun! Big L told me over and over that he loved me and a couple times he told me I was “so cute!” ❤️ He’s a charmer! Little L has Autism. He is about to turn five. My heart rejoices whenever I’m able to break into his world and that happened quite a few times on this trip. When he says he wants to snuggle with Nana, my heart just melts!

Daughter #2 and I also visited Sedona. It is so beautiful there!

I’m still dreaming of buying a house out there so I can stay for months at a time. It is so beautiful there and even more so with my family. Have a great day!

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Finish It Up Friday ~ T-Shirt Quilt

This has been finished for a while, but I didn’t want to post until it had been handed off.

I kept the quilting very simple and just freehanded loops. I couldn’t use a panto, because I needed to avoid bulky intersections, embroidered patches, and buttons!

I used an 18 needle on the long arm and didn’t have any issues at all quilting through even thick screen printing.

This shirt was a bit of a challenge!

The weather was very rainy when I finished so I had to take all my photos inside.

Have a great day!

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Finish It Up Thursday ~ Twofer!

Get your coffee, this is a long post! Ready? Ages ago, I bought this kit at a Tuesday Morning store.

If you know me, you know I was never going to make this quilt. But the fabrics were lovely, so I bought it anyway. After it had aged for a few years, it became this.

I called it, Gee’s Geese. It’s one of my favorites. When I was done, I threw all the scraps in an enamel pan and there they have been sitting for the past four years. The fabric is Pima cotton, a fabric with a very tight weave and I didn’t want to mix it up with my other scraps. So finally, I made this little HST quilt.

I still had a few scraps left and some binding, so I made this.

The tiny scraps left after that went into the bin.

I think I got my money’s worth out of that kit. Have a great day!

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