Applique with friends update, and also...a Pinterest pouch!

 Here are my blocks for this month, for Mrs. Lincoln's Sampler quilt.  I enjoyed the applique immensely!  But the prep is not that fun.  But then again, I don't actually LOVE the running I have started to do at the track...but I love the way I feel immensely!!



  The following quilters are participating.  We will be showing completed blocks on the 30th of each month!  Take the time to visit them to see their completed monthly blocks!

Karen – Log Cabin Quilter (Lead)

Cathy – Biglakequilter

Jennie  – Overthehillandrunning

Julie K –  Juliekquilts

Robin –   solsticestudio

Nanette – Doitrightquilter

Jan – Nanette will show her progress on her blog.  

 Ok, so I love Pinterest, and decided to make this pen/pencil pouch, from a pattern I found on Pinterest, for my work tools. 

 It turned out OK...not exactly as the lovely illustrations showed, but it is usable.  Totally user error...the pattern was great. 

 OK then, so I tried another Pinterest pattern...this little snap purse.  I added the wrist strap.  It is OK too...would be better if I had a serger, I think!!  But it is totally usable and I will carry it to work, with my driver's license, credit card and twenty bucks.  No purse...just that.  And a Chapstick!

I am making more masks...so here I am in that process.




Have a great day, everyone!!




Julie

Borders on the purple quilt

 And that is it, folks!  Just a simple border. I do not have any batik yardage big enough for an outside border, so there you have it! A finished top!

 I am glad to have to together!

 There was one extra block, so I made a potholder from it.  Quilted it to death, with two layers of batting inside.

And wow...did I ever make a mess!  That is my favorite mixing bowl, full of potato salad, or it was...now it is shards in the garbage!  What a mess...I tried to get the milk out of the fridge, and dumped out that bowl, too!  Geesh!!!  But the bright side is...I get to shop for a new mixing bowl!  That one had a wee chip anyway...



Have a great day!


Julie

Dear Jane and friends!

 I have all the blocks for this quilt made.  How much more simple could anyone wish for?  8 inch blocks, alternating with 6 inch blocks, bordered with 1 inch strips. So this jelly roll is toast!

 This is a good patient quilt...fast to make and will be sturdy for the many washings it will receive.  Win win!  And pretty colors to cheer someone!

 This is my latest Blockheads 3 block.  Please see all the free patterns here:

https://bearcreekquiltingcompany.com/moda-blockheads-iii-2020/


Mine is a bit different than the original...I call it a design decision, but what it really was is that I cut the middle block the wrong size!  LOL!  It all works...and this is not brain surgery, so I just improvise and be happy for a finished block. 

 I did get these blocks made for my mystery quarantine quilt.  Please see the free patterns here!

https://www.laundrybasketquilts.com/blog/mystery-quilt-2020-final/

 And...tada!  I made a block for Dear Jane.  I am really trying to make a block each Sunday.  Surely slow progress is better than NO progress!!  I am actually quite proud of this imperfect little block...a triumph for me! I find if I just get up when I wake up in the middle of the night...it is quiet.  NO one hollering for me to come here and see this or do that or what are we going to eat! LOL!  I love the quiet times...alone times are rare for me these days, but recharge me a little bit.  So insomnia is not all bad!

And here the block is, in the row.  Row G!  I am up to row G!





What are you doing today? Sewing?


Hugs to all!


Julie

Light blues and masks

 More masks.  I like making them as pretty as I can.  This batch is going to neighborhood ladies.

 Four more blocks were completed today.

And one of these blocks, too.




What did you do today?

Hugs from Julie!

A center of something pretty!

 I purchased this applique block from the Quilt Museum.  They are needing money to stay afloat, and I loved this.  Win/win!

 I sewed more of these Garden Party blocks.

 A few pinwheels, and I found out why my pinwheel blocks were not meeting in the centers!  It was a pressing problem!  Hurrah!

And JulieRose was playing with her scrappy blocks, and I just had to emulate her! 

Please see her blocks in the link below.



https://julierosequilts.blogspot.com/2020/04/mondays-four-cs.html




Have a super day, quarantined or essentially working!


Julie

Dear Jane update

 I have a progress list...and Sunday is Dear Jane day, LOL!  I was just wanting to make any kind of forward progress on this long term project, so I made this block, number M-12, "Hopscotch".  I am trying to make the blocks as closely as I can to Jane's fabric selections, but I am only using what I have, and also, her fabrics have faded with time.  So here is my block!!  PROGRESS!!

Annie was kind enough to join me on this project, and here are her blocks that she shared last.  Very nice work, as you can see!!!

Please see Binsa's blog Here:  She is making great progress!!!

https://cobblestonebridgequiltsnthings.blogspot.com/2020/04/dear-jane-block-10.html

So I crochet, too.  I have been crocheting a line a night, while I am waiting for things to settle down in the house and everyone to get to bed, as it is too noisy to sleep and I hate to waste that bit of time.    I am putting a white border on this afghan, and it will be called done!  I have only a tiny ball of blue variegated yarn left...so hurrah!  I used it all up!!  (almost).  If no one wants it in the family, I will donate it to a patient at our hospital. 




Hugs to all!!



Julie

Sorting and I re-did the guest bedroom!

 I found this little quilt hiding quietly in the guest bedroom.  I took everything out of the room, cleaned carpets, edge cleaned, and ordered new blinds, taking down the ancient draperies, which in their day were quite decadent, but now are quite drab and dusty, regardless of cleaning.  Hurrah!  So I was glad to find this quilt...it is cheerful and fun, and I want to make another one, because it uses scraps, which it what I have mostly.

 Here is a little picture of Rosie's tushie and tail just for you!  Hahaha!

I also found these Christmas blocks.  These are too cute and just must be finished into a quilt.







I have come to a point of saturation, where the sponge (my brain)  is spilling over and cannot possible take anymore water before dripping everywhere.  So I will be selling a few fabric bundles and kits and etc, just because I feel like SOMEONE needs them more than I do, and can get them done. I don't have a lot of kits, or bundles, and I saved for them, but it is time to share!  Are any of you at that point? And I make it worse on myself by wanting to join every quilt along there is and enjoying pinning quilts on Pinterest daily that I just MUST make!  LOL!



Have a great day, each of you!!


Julie K