Tag: scrappy

Blue sawtooth star baby quilt top

Blue Sawtooth Stars

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Quite a number of years ago, how many I’m not sure, I decided I’d make 9 – 8.5″ blue sawtooth star blocks. I don’t recall making them or having a plan for them. Not surprisingly they’ve floated around the sewing room for years.  As part of my “get old projects done” push I pulled them…

churn dash quilt blocks

Churn Dash Fun

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I found some lovely fabric in my stash, that for some reason I had not used yet; “Mugungalyi” -Circle by Nutex 100% cotton www.nutex.co.nz – great quality with a lovely feel and thickness. And black and white, what could be better to use with bright scraps? A simple churn dash block I thought would show…

pennies in rows quilt top

Pennies in Rows

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One of my big goals this year is getting old projects finished. I’ve had some new starts this year (of course!) but so far I’ve managed to complete 17 projects were started prior to 2019. I’m very pleased with that and hope to get a few more done before the end of the year! This…

square quilt layout with sawtooth stars and uneven 9 patches

Stars in the Darkening Sky

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A month or two ago I made  16 patch blocks using 2 inch squares when I should have been using 2.5″ squares of fabric. I made a lot of blocks before I realised I had made an error.  Not a world ending problem at all though some rather pithy language did occur at the time. …

en provence quilt, Bonnie Hunter Quilt, quiltedt

En Provence Quilted

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We finally quilted En Provence the Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt from 2016/2017 this May. I made the quilt in Bonnie’s colourway and am quite pleased with how it turned out. How can I not be when purple is my favourite colour? Marc helped me quilt it on the long arm quilting machines that Whirls and…

Star Struck quilt designed by Bonnie Hunter

Next up for Quilting – Starstruck

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This past weekend I cut out batting for 4 small quilts. Thanks to our purchase of 2 rolls of batting this summer, there is no shortage of batting in our house. I still haven’t touched the roll of wool batting.  The batting I cut this weekend was Hobbs 80/20 batting. I’m happy to report we…

Medallion Centre Block, saw tooth star block, Alison Glass fabric Northcott Cotton solids

Medallion Quilt Project

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One of the guild projects at my guild this year is to have members make a medallion quilt. I have to admit when I heard this at first I groaned. Medallion quilts don’t do it for me for one and for another I wasn’t sure I wanted different people working on quilt for me with…

big and little patch scrap quilt

The big & little patch quilt

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I needed to make 44 – 16 patch blocks to make a border on a quilt.  I’d made more than half of them when I pulled the quilt out and realised I’d been making the blocks with 2″ squares when quilt was based on 2.5″ squares. That was a fun moment – NOT.  Out came…

fabric, 3 inch squares, y2k, 3"

I must confess, I never did make a Y2K Quilt.

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I had great intentions to make a Y2K/Millenium quilt back in 1999.  I traded “squishies” of fabric with other quilters from across the US and Canada and even around the globe so I’d have 2000 unique pieces of fabric to make my special quilt. But despite the best of my intentions no quilt ever got…