Category: My Creations

Happy Times Playing With my Fabric Scraps

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Playing with my fabric scraps always makes me happy – so today was a very happy day! I had started sewing hashtag blocks during my evenings this past week. I didn’t go crazy but made a couple each night.  Today while attending a virtual guild sew in and a online sew-in I sewed the blocks…

bricks and strips quilt top

A very colorful bricks and strips quilt

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What else to do when you have a pile of bricks (2.5″  x 4.5″ squares) leftover from other projects other than make a colorful bricks and strips quilt? I  made a  zipper quilt last February as well as a Bonnie Hunter Star Struck quilt during the summer. Both projects used bricks. After making those quilts,…

larger bear claw blocks

Bearing Down in the Scrap Box

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I swear the scraps are knee deep around here. I keep making scrap quilts but the pile of scraps never seems to go down in my scrap boxes. Not sure quite what I would do if I had no scraps – as scrap quilting is my favourite! But still, everywhere scraps.  Back before Christmas I…

scrappy beige nine patch quilt

Add color to beige and it’s not so bad.

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After I made the Brown Quilt Cinnamon Bars  (Thanks to Preeti at Sew Preeti Quilts for the great name) I still had lots of a solid beige material left. As it was near Christmas I wanted something easy to sew with that fabric. I just needed to figure out how to add color so that I’d enjoy making a…

brown and beige quilt

Trying to make a dent in the stash

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Brown and beige are two colors I rarely work with as they aren’t colors I particularly like.  However, my stash seems to have an overabundance of both those colors.  As far as I can tell that happened because I was in a fat quarter bundle of the month club and because when I see deals…

black and grey sampler quilt

A black & grey sampler quilt

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Back around the year 2000 I took two quilt classes through the Toronto Board of Education.  Thanks to the first class that I took with them, my very first quilt was made.  It was a jewel box pattern,  and this was the resulting quilt. I finished it either during the class or shortly after the…

easy breezy block arrangment

More Practice Free Motion Quilting

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I have been practicing my free motion quilting on some of my smaller quilt tops. Going from quilting with the walking foot to quilting with a closed toe free motion foot was a big step for me. It’s step that I ready for but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a scary step.  I’ve been on…