Be Gone Scraps!

 Two main things I worked on this week, one was the sewed all the scrappy fabric into a  block or long strips. One small bin of scraps was full and I certainly didn't want to start another bin. Scraps pieces have a tendency to grow fast on you, so I has to deal with that bin right away. The second matter I want to address was to sew the 30 mini-blocks Mondays and turned them into a crib/throw quilt.  And I cut and sew all week and hope to finish this by next Friday.  It's encouraging to see the progress, creativity, and encouraging to see those scraps are not going to waste. Well, not all of it. They're still crumbs.

SCRAPS

Just so you know the bin was full before I started to sew anything together

That all the scrappy pieces I had in that one bin from only a few projects. It made it easier to sew the smaller strips that were of the same length and size together after that.

Mini-Block Monday

After brainstorming for ideas for my mini-block Monday with the EQ8, I opted to use the minis as the center of the Ohio Star block.

 The Ohio start blocks all turned out great and it was another opportunity for me to practice sewing HST (half-square-triangles) to make many triangles for this one simple block.

It is simple trick, match a square of dark fabric with a square of the same size of lighter fabric. Mark a line from point-to-point and sew 1/4" seam allowance on each side of the line. Cut on the line and you have created two HST. Now if you sew a dark fabric opposite of each other as shown above the same way you did before you will have created four triangles. 

 What Can I Do with Scrappy strips?

I've kept it simple by sewing a strip on each side the light-green because I've many of those and they are larger too.

 

At this point, I'm not sure if I'll turn them into squares or a long continuous strip for an after-quilt. It was encouraging to see how much I can do with one bin of scraps bin and yet I'm not. So it's time for me to get back to my sewing machine.

 

 

 

The Lord's Faithfulness Endures Forever

Praise the Lord, all nations!
    Extol him, all peoples!
For great is his steadfast love toward us,
    and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever.
Praise the Lord!

Psalm 117

 

 

 

 

 

Be My Neighboor

Last week I sewed the binding on Be My Neighbor quilt and and this week I sewed the binding on the Big Dream. Two projects marked off my list of thing to be completed. And I'm making great progress on my Millefiore. This week I'm working on the last rosette, but I'm far from being done with that one.

My husband helped me installed three small hooks so I could pass a nylon cord through it and then could hang my quilt for photos.  It's the best spot in the house for natural light. Sometimes it's frustrating not being able to take good clear picture, but it will have to do as we are only rental here till we purchase our next home and we're not in a rush. 

 Be My Neighbor

 

 

Binding

One thing I love to do, is to hand-sew my binding. Even it it takes between 3-4 hours for a twin size quilt. I'll sewing the binding while I watched T.V.  or until my fingers are sores from pulling the needle. 

Quilting

I kept the quilting simple and fun. In the solid white fabric, I did stippling. All the fabric were from my scraps bin or small pieced of fabric. Only the white solid fabric I had to purchase.

               The quilt looks fresh, cheerful, and would be perfect on a child's bed. 

Now let's go finished another project!

God bless

A Little Bit of Everything

 The last three weeks I've kept a good pace with the quilting on the Be My Neighbor.  Also it was very encouraging to see the progress I've achieved on the millefiore quilt along so far by keeping a steady pace by hand-stitching a bit every day. 

Rosette 10b Finished!

 

 

 

Millefiore

Today I couldn't resit but to take an overall photo of the millefiore. This year, I've worked mostly on the smaller rosette that goes on the edge of the quilt. It's like a giant piece of puzzle. for must of the project I've used scrap pieces and I've tried to harmonized the fabric best I could with what I had. 

                                                        Rosette 10b goes in a corner

                        As you can see by the empty spot, what rosette I will be working on next. 

Be My Neighbor

 This is one of the houses on row 3/4.  Another quilt made entirely of scrap fabric.

Rosette #10b: What Went Wrong?

Astonishing colors are appearing on our deciduous trees these last few weeks as Fall is casting its colder nights upon us. The Creator's beautiful  When I'm walking, I cannot resist to take picture of the leaves. The astonishing oranges, reds, browns, and golds are a natural occurrence that happened every Fall in certain part of Canada.

But what happens when my creativity with my scraps when terribly wrong. That's what happened with rosette #8.  The fabric I picked doesn't  together when all the hexagon were pieced together. Or maybe it's my brain that cannot work with those hexagons; eight way, I'm not interested to redo the entire rosette. So I played around with the hexagons to see if I can save this project.

 

 Hexagon Here, Hexagon There

                                The solid orange for some reason really unbalance the rest of the rosette.

                      When in doubt if is going to work, I save one picture on the grey scale.

 

Yep, the two hexagons with the solid orange and dark red doesn't with the rest. I've arranged them in different spot, but every time my eyes pulled back to those two hexagons. So, I will workout something else with the rest of those hexagons. 

Until then, God bless our crafty hands:)