Finish It Up Friday ~ Baby Charm Quilt

The hubs needed a baby quilt for a former coworker. I love making baby quilts! So, here it is!

I used half of a charm pack for the print squares.

I used leftover backing for the binding.

This is the pantograph I used for the quilting.

And…..ta daaaaa!

I love it! It finished at about 41 by 50 inches. Hmmmm…..this would be a great way to use some of those feed sack charms I cut up!

Have a great day!

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Parsonsfield QAL

Lori over at Humble Quilts is doing it again! She’s hosting a lovely little quilt along. I’m a bit late to the party, but I’m finally started.

Hers is done all in shirting fabrics and I love it! But I had a bin of scraps nearby and just started cutting those up. Here is part one all finished.

I grabbed squares from my bin of precut squares for part two.

Time to sew. Have a great day!

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Scrap Busting

I’ve had this bin of black, white, and red fabrics hanging out for ages. I knew what I wanted to do with them, I just haven’t gotten around to starting. This bin is the size of a large shoebox.

I grabbed my AccuQuilt Studio tumbler die and went to work. There is a GO! Die that is the same size and shape. I have that one in AZ.

Not bad!

Not wanting to put any pieces back, I grabbed another die and cut up the leftover scraps from cutting the tumblers.

This is the AccuQuilt Studio die I used. This is equivalent to Shape 1 in the 6” AccuQuilt Qube.

All the tiny leftovers went into the trash. I put the squares in my 2” square bin. The tumbler project is on hold for now. But it takes up much less room and it’s ready to go when I am.

Have a great day!

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Charm Pack Baby

This has been such a fun little project!

I’m sewing my blocks into two different rows.

The stripe in this one is part of a Magnolia sheet I used for a quilt back.

I love it when a plan comes together!

Have a great day!

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Charm Pack Baby Quilt

Mr. Wonderful asked if I had a baby quilt on hand to gift to a former co-worker. I was all out, which gave the perfect excuse to make another! So I dropped everything and started. This is the charm pack I started with.

These two dies are from the AccuQuilt 9” Qube. The square is 5” for a finished size of 4 1/2”, same as a charm square.

I really hate the pinked edges on precuts. I used the square die to trim them off.

This is the extra from 20 charm squares.

Time to make some hourglass blocks. Have a great day!

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Feed Sacks

I have a couple bins like this of vintage feed sacks I’ve collected over the years. I finally decided to start cutting them up to use.

The prints are wonderful!

I decided to ease into things by cutting 5” charm squares.

Then I thought, some of you might enjoy some as well!

So, I currently have 6 sets I will sell. Each set has 30 different 5” charm squares of authentic feed sacks. the price is $30 each and that includes shipping via USPS Ground Advantage in a padded envelope. I will only ship within the US and payment must be made by PayPal.

Please email me at sew4given@aol.com if you would like to purchase a set and include your PayPal email so I can send an invoice.

Thanks!

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This and That

I’ve had this on my list for ages and finally read it. I’m not a huge Steinbeck fan, but the premise caught my interest. It was interesting, but just okay. Does that even make sense?

Now I’m reading this.

I woke up to frost one day last week.

A couple days later, it looked like this. Michigan is beautiful in the fall! Since I took this photo, most of the leaves are on the ground.

I set this up and then told the mister that our toilet was smoking.

He was not amused. 😂

I finished the puzzle above to find one piece missing. it was underneath the finished part.

Before I go, there is a great deal on AccuQuilt Studio dies right now.

Have a great weekend!

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Finish It Up Friday ~ Scrappy Stars

The blocks for this quilt were made as part of a sew along headed up by Taryn, @reproquiltlover, on Instagram. It was so fun! The blocks are small, finishing at six inches.

I couldn’t think of how to quilt this, so I fell back on my usual Baptist Fans.

The binding was a bit of a surprise, but it worked.

Gotta love that texture!

A couple of my favorite blocks.

I have no idea where this will end up, but for me, the joy is in the making.

Have a great day!

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Another Idea for the 4 Patches

This is another idea I considered for my leader/ender 4 patches.

Since I wasn’t having success with my first idea, I decided to try to combine these ideas.

Oh, yeah! I think this might work!

Have a great day!

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October Wrap-Up

Thank you all for your lovely comments on Mr. Wonderful’s retirement! As this post publishes, we are sleeping in without an alarm clock. 😊

It’s been a busy month for me, but in spite of traveling and being sick, I still finished some things up.

I’m quite chuffed with this stripy quilt.

This tumbler was a very quick finish, but then, those tumblers are pretty big.

A Christmas gift is finished!

And this Lincoln Museum quilt is off the bucket list.

This was finished back in late August, but it was secret sewing for the Fat Quarter Shop so I wasn’t able to share sooner.

Have a great day!

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