Monday, January 26, 2015

Design Wall Monday - 1/26/15


DESIGN WALL MONDAY -
Check out all of us who link up with Judy L. -
At Patchwork Times on Mondays.
We have some awesome stuff on our walls!
Well, THEY do - ME - not so much sometimes - ;))
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Something ELSE new on my design wall this week -


But let me digress - ;))

After I fixed this one -


There - much better - ;))


I got the rest of them together -


And up on the wall - ;))


I had intended to make one -
NOT like the others -

But THIS is NOT what I had in mind - ;))


I wanted to reverse the background blue -
And the print on the one FLORAL one -
Like THIS -


SO -

While these marinate on the wall for a while -


I picked up my January SUDOKU Quilt -
That has been kitted up for a while -
The card says 12/12/13 -
So, yeah - it's been a while - ;))


I got all of the 3-patch sections done -


And started with the bottom three blocks - ;))


The rest are ready to go -


So that's what I want to play with today - ;))



Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -



Thursday, January 22, 2015

Sewing along -


So I put some more blocks on the wall - ;))



The next three blocks are pink -


They read as solid -
But are really pretty up close -


The others are just as nice - ;))



So I'm just sewing along -

Having a grand old time -


And then -

OOPS -

This ain't right - ;))




Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -



Tuesday, January 20, 2015

TUSAL - 1/20/15


Once again I have joined a bunch of other stitchers -

In Daffycat’s TUSAL - HERE -

It's a Totally Useless Stitch-A-Long - ;))

To play the game -

I have to fill my glass container -

With saved thread clippings -

Or ORTS - Old Ratty Threads -

Fabric trimmings -

Stitching cast-offs -


And then -

On (or about) the New Moon -

Take a picture of the ORTS in my jar -

Post it to my blog -

With a link back to her TUSAL post - HERE -

Label the Totally Useless posts with “TUSAL” -

And then visit her blog and comment on her ORT report for that month's TUSAL - ;))


It's EASY -

It's TOTALLY USELESS -

And -

It's FUN!! - ;))

This year I decided NOT to empty my jar each time -

Because last year my year-to-date accumulation of ORTs -

Made it look like I actually DID something - ;))



Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -



Monday, January 19, 2015

Design Wall Monday - 1/19/15


DESIGN WALL MONDAY -
Check out all of us who link up with Judy L. -
At Patchwork Times on Mondays.
We have some awesome stuff on our walls!
Well, THEY do - ME - not so much sometimes - ;))
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Something NEW on my wall!! -

WOO HOO!! -


I said on Saturday that I wanted to play with these -


Well - those were a couple of packs of 10" squares -
The ones on the left are the prints -
The ones on the right are the solids -


I had made a test block a couple of months ago - HERE -

And used the YouTube video -

Missouri Star Quilt Co.
The Churn Dash Quilt Block - Easy Quilting - HERE -

I didn't want to use white/muslin for the background -
Because it's BORING -
So I dug out some Blue -
And started with the solids -
And made three blocks -


Before I figured out my assembly line routine -
For the next four -




And got these done in an afternoon - ;))


Some of the solids look alike -

But they are different shades of the same colors -

And the prints should liven things up a bit -

So -

After I do my chores -

And work on some business/tax stuff -

I want to play with the prints - ;))



Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -



Saturday, January 17, 2015

Finally sewing something -


Yesterday I made the Heart -
From scraps that I had left over from my sampler quilt -
LHQSQ - Left Handed Quilter Sampler quilt -
See the page/tab above -


I found a bag of scraps for that top -
So I decided to sort through them -
And separate the colors from the neutrals -
And then Foundation Paper Piece the Heart - ;))


I have a full-blown tutorial on How I Do It -
Backwards - HERE -
It is also listed on the LHQ - Construction page/tab at the top of my blog -
LHQ - Foundation Paper Piecing
Check it out - ;))

I was asked once why I bother to do it -
The way that I do -

To me - my way is intuitive -
AND I like the WYSIWYG factor -
What You See Is What You Get - ;))

Here’s a quick - and - dirty (kinda) version -

Lay out a bunch of fabric scraps -
For a general idea of what goes where -


The corner (fourth section) will be “fussy cut” later -


And it would help -
If I sewed the “right sides” together -


So redo that -
And stitch together a couple strips -
For the third section -


Stitch together some scraps -
For the second section


Do the same for the first section -
And check for fit -


Lay out section 2 - face up -
With the foundation paper on top -



Fold the foundation back on the line -


Trim it 1/4” past the line -


Lay out section 1 - face up -
Sorry for the blurry picture -
Guess I was in a hurry -


Move section 2 to the top of the foundation -
Put section 1 on top of both of them - right sides together -


Flip it over and stitch on the line -


Flip it over to the right side and press -


Flip it back over to the paper side -


Fold the paper back on line #3 -


Trim it 1/4” past the line -


Flip to the fabric side -
Lay out section 3 - face up -


Put section 3 on top of section 2 - right sides together -


Flip it over and stitch on the line -


Flip it over to the right side and press -


Flip is back over to the paper side -


Trim it 1/4” past the line -


Flip to the fabric side -
Lay out section 4 - face up -


Put section 4 on top of section 3 - right sides together -


Flip it over and stitch on the line -
Then -
Flip it back to the right side and press -


Check to see that the entire Heart is covered -


Center it on a square of muslin - face down -


Stitch completely around it -
Starting on a flat area on the side -


Trim all the way around -
Trim the point -
Clip the “V” -


Remove the paper -


Cut a slit in the muslin -
Being careful not to cut the Heart -


Turn it inside out -
Press it -
And Voila -
What You See Is What You Get - ;))



As a side note -
I sew my labels to a piece of muslin -
The same way -
So there are no edges to “turn under” -
When I get to the “sewing on the label” part - ;))

On the “Organizing” front -
The boxes worked out nicely -
To hold the computer game CDs and DVDs -
That Grandpa wanted the boys to have -
So I got the rest of those together - ;))


And today I want to play with these - ;))




Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -






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