Scrap Quilts Archives

Smooches

Posted on April 18, 2020June 11, 2020

When I read Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict last Sunday she had a guest blogger Sandra Walker showing how to make her Smooches quilt as part of this years Hands2Help challenge. Sandra, who blogs at mmmquilts.com had these great instructions for a scrappy quilt with 12 hearts, background, sashing and a border. I…

Dog Themed Quilt

Posted on April 16, 2020January 11, 2021

Thanks to too many conference calls my second dog themed quilt was bound this week. Finally something good coming out of what are normally boring conference calls. This small quilt is 38.5″ x 43.5″ dog themed quilt is my latest UFO (quilt started before 2020) to be finished. I have one more quilted that must…

Let’s put it together

Posted on April 12, 2020June 11, 2020

Hi”Let’s put it together” was the theme of my Saturday. I put together two quilt tops. The blocks were made for both of them, they just needed sewing together. I like sewing blocks, however, for some reason, I’m not as fond of sewing rows, and even less fond of sewing finished rows together. I keep…

My Broken Stripe Nine Patch Quilt

Posted on April 10, 2020October 24, 2020

I had lost my binding mojo with this broken stripe nine patch quilt . It has been by my chair in the living room for almost 2 months waiting for me to finish binding it. Strangely I don’t mind hand binding once I’ve got going doing it. My problem is I find myself reluctant to…

My Saturday Sew-In

Posted on April 5, 2020June 11, 2020

I participated in the 3rd Saturday Sew-In with Jennifer at the Inquiring Quilter yesterday. She held it on her Facebook group and it was lots of fun to sew knowing others were sewing along on their projects at the same time as me! For some reason I had no place to be yesterday other than…

Steps Quilt Top Complete

Posted on April 1, 2020June 11, 2020

My Steps Quilt top is complete! I’m really liking this. A perfect sewing project in a stressful time, easy, repetitive and colourful! All I worried about while sewing it was trying not to have two of the same colour touch each other and while I managed for the most part there are 3 or 4…

Gathering Quilt

Posted on March 29, 2020June 11, 2020

I have been doing a lot of sewing this weekend – what else is there to do really? Housework? Well, I guess … but quilting always wins over that if I have anything to say about it. I have enough of my Step Blocks (I decided to name them) to make both quilt layouts that…

Stress quilting

Posted on March 27, 2020October 22, 2020

The last few weeks have been stressful, so I’ve been stress quilting. What with being home 24/7, worrying about family, friends, community, country and indeed the world why worry on a small scale when you can go big, right? Luckily my husband and I are both able to work from homeand so far haven’t been…

Two finished Quilts

Posted on March 15, 2020June 11, 2020

I finished two quilts yesterday! One with machine binding on both the front and back and one sewing the binding to the front of the quilt and hand sewing it to the back of the quilt. This DOUBLES my UFO finishes from 2 to 4 for the year (plus one non UFO finish)! Not very…

Anne with an E TV Series Baby Quilt Top

Posted on March 8, 2020June 11, 2020

We found out about an online auction two weeks ago. The auction was for a TV series called Anne with an E based on the 1901 novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery called Anne of Green Gables. I read the book growing up and it’s many sequels grown up and absolutely loved it. So when I…