And some quilting content! I am sewing some of my 2.5 width pieces, for a simple rail fence quilt. I find these old fabrics to be like old friends, coming around to visit. I love them!!! The inspiration of this is a lady who presented to our local quilt guild. I loved her on sight...just a sweet, darling lady!
Sunday, April 21, 2024
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And some quilting content! I am sewing some of my 2.5 width pieces, for a simple rail fence quilt. I find these old fabrics to be like old friends, coming around to visit. I love them!!! The inspiration of this is a lady who presented to our local quilt guild. I loved her on sight...just a sweet, darling lady!
Monday, April 15, 2024
A finish
Here is the finished article. It is pretty big on me. I used a large men's sweatshirt to sew all the pieces to. Walmart has these on sale...end of the season. I did have to cut off the sleeves a couple of inches, and the rest will shrink in the wash. I machine quilted it on my Bernina. I did cut off the neck stretchy material, and also the cuffs and bottom of the sweatshirt. I cut the sleeves open to sew the patchwork to it, and then quilted them and sewed them back together.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Sweatshirt jacket
Good morning!! This is the second sweatshirt jacket I have made. I got a large sweatshirt, because the sweatshirt really shrinks a lot. I sorted out every last blue scrap, put them in a basket, and I am randomly sewing them to the sweatshirt. I cut the sweatshirt up the middle front, and also cut the sleeves and opened them for easier piecing. It is a bit challenging to sew on the wiggly sweatshirt material, but I am having fun anyway. Still, lots of work to go on this one.
Here is Lucky, looking on. He does not know what to think!! HIs eyes are so pretty to look at...darling baby kitty!! He is 8 months old now. Good nutrition has made him grow so big and his fur is so soft and luxuriously thick. I never thought I could be a kitty person, but I am a person who will help another being in need. He is so sweet and just rips around, despite his permanently injured leg. No victim here...just a kitty having a great time!!
Here is the first sweatshirt jacket I made. I am making the blue one longer, and it is a bit bigger. This was a man's small, and although it fits ok, I like my jackets a bit looser now.
I am enjoying a leisurely stroll through mystery quilt land. This is Bonnie Hunter's Quiltville mystery. Just two blocks a day...hey, any little game to get it to the finished line!
Monday, April 1, 2024
Puffins!!
Sunday, March 24, 2024
Puffins and purples!!
Sunday, March 10, 2024
Hexies, rainbow quilts and plaids!
This is the quilt I made a long time ago, and I use it a lot. So, I made the "blue" version above. What a lovely thing it is for me to work with soft plaids! Plaids are soft, and I do not care of the plaids are a bit wonky, or soft. It drives some people batty, but I like the wonkiness of it.
Wonky stars!! And pretty quilting.
I made this pink quilt for a nursing colleague and friend...her favorite color is pink and she has breast cancer. Seems like she needs this. I will hurry up on the binding and get it to her.
Sunday, March 3, 2024
Miniature piecing!
Saturday, February 17, 2024
Rainbow quilts update
Yes, he has sass, this one!!! Always up for playing and running and just generally having a great time!
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Sunday, February 4, 2024
Happy Sunday!
Kitty felt good enough to inspect this little pink quilt for my nursing friend with breast cancer. It is all done now!!!
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Updates!!
Hurrah!! I got this quilt top together, which was a rainbow quilts one. It is off to the quilter, and then will be gifted to a patient.
I have been fiddling with the heart blocks, which I love. Just silly flowers. I love those too!!
I pulled out this very thick string quilt to put on the bed, for it has been cold here. I mean relatively. I know you in the Dakotas and such are laughing at my 12 degree weather, which thankfully was short lived. The cold weather surely did a number on the garden, though. Onward! I got new seeds for the springtime garden today.
I have a nurse friend who loves pink, and has told me several times how much she loves it. OK then!! She is a breast cancer patient too. She will get this one when it is completed.
What are you working on today????
Julie
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