Design Wall Monday, March 17, 2025

 

Working on this year's project so there is nothing to share from my Design Wall.  It is coming along nicely is all that I can share.

I have finished Kolorado.  This Row by Row project gifted to me by Marti when she was working with Ruth's Stitchery turns into a very nice table runner.  There was lots to do in this small 12" by 39" project.  Thanks Marti!

Klondike Krew is in its finishing touches.  I have all the "noses" (carrots) on each of the 16 snowman.  Next up is the 36 eyes.  These have to be the worst buttons to work with.  The carrots are cute, but the holes aren't finished well in the back.  I'm struggling with each button honestly, taking much more time than they should.  They are indeed necessary though to build some life into these snowman.

I have Corned Beef and all the right vegetables cooking in my slow cooker today for dinner later tonight.  Nine hours of cooking with the 1" sliced cabbage going in at eight hours.  It is smelling really good as I work on the snowman!  Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone.

Sunday Stash Report, March 9, 2025

I have been sewing a lot as I get through a cold picked up last Monday.  DH and I have been keeping distance so as not for him to catch it.  As you can see I am quickly moving through Carolina Crossroads.  This project is Bonnie Hunter's first mystery.  The pattern is available in her first book, Scraps & Shirttails.

I have sewn all the block units and only have about four more to get to nine patches.  The remaining parts are the setting triangles and corners.  She designed this project with two outer simple borders.  I will have to see what blues I have left to finish it off correctly.

Saturday's mail brought two projects back to me from Kerry.  Klondike Krew really needs the notions to make these happy snowmen.  I have black buttons for eyes and carrot buttons for noses.  Red binding will work well.  Binding all ready to apply.

Kolorado came at the same time.  This project was a gift years ago from Marti.  I hope she takes a look at this post and has a treat that it was finished.  It will make a lovely table runner during the holiday season.

I have been getting fabrics for the Sunshine Quilt Guild 2024-2025 Challenge.  I don't have it all quite yet, but a 3.75 yards have arrived so far.

Used this week: 0 yards 
Used YTD: 60.25 yards 
Purchased this week: 3.75 yards
Purchased YTD: 34 yards
Net used in 2025: 26.25 yards

Sunday Stash Report, November 24, 2024

I could start off today with my first finish of the past week, but this one certainly fits the week ahead.  Kork is a 2024 UFO that I am happy to have completed.  It took a variety of fabrics in orange and brown mostly from Squirely Girl fabric line.  (More on the pattern name and designer by the tag "Kork" below.)  Kork is a small project pieced and applique.  I put a chocolate brown on the back.

Next finish from the week past is Kolorado.  This one never got to a UFO list, but it has been around since 2016 or there abouts.  It was a "row by row" project from Ruth's Stitchery out of Colorado and a gift to me from Marti.  (more on the pattern name and designer by the tag "Kolorado".  I enjoyed the little bits of applique and one of my favorite techniques, paper piecing.  I used the red/black check as the borders to carry the theme of the tree skirt made last year.

My last finish are these ornaments for the Summers Past Farms Craft Show that Sunshine Guild will participate.  It runs December 7-8; something fun to do if you enjoy craft shows.  This pattern was in the December 2024 issue of Better Homes & Gardens American Patchwork & Quilting periodical.

As for purchases, 3.25 yards towards the Bonnie Hunter Winter Mysteries (2024 and 2025) that I am working on at the same time.  I stopped by Lowe's for paint chips on my way home from a sew in on Friday.  I was having a hard time with the aqua to turquoise fabric in the 2025 Mystery Old Town and needed a solid red for the entire yardage in the 2024 Indigo Way hence a stop for fabric too.  I am busy in to cutting and sewing on these two projects.  I am even using the Acuter on the 2024 project with the 2.5 inch die.

Fun finishes and fun starts last week and into this week.  =^.^=

Used this week: 8.25 yards 
Used YTD: 268.75 yards 
Purchased this week: 3.25 yards
Purchased YTD: 139.25 yards
Net used in 2024: 129.5 yards

Wednesday Workings, November 20, 2024

Someone was at Rosie's on Friday purchasing fabrics for Bonnie Hunter's 2025 Winter Mystery.  I am going to have to start sorting out my fabrics soon for this one called Old Town (Starowka).  I am planning on making her 2024 Winter Mystery (Indigo Way) at the same time.  Both will be using her suggested colors.  Those of you who know, Bonnie brings to us big quilts with many units will think good grief!  I will be making each of them a smaller version so I can keep up!

Kolorado is finished with the exception of the applique.  There is a snow board leaning up against the house, head lights on the truck, skis on the barn, and finally the barn quilt above the barn.  I will be working on these later tonight.  The outside boarder was chosen in part because it uses the same fabric as the tree skirt I made last year.  This will be a finish come Sunday.

These are Christmas ornaments that I will donate to the Summers Past Craft Fair that Sunshine Guild will participate in early December.  They are made to look like iced cookies with sprinkles.  I have a bit more to stitch before they finish.

Kork is ready for the final steps adding sashing and boarders.  There is an orange plaid fabric used in a few of the acorns that will also become the binding.  This will be a finish come Sunday.

To break things up a bit and because it would be nice to donate the top to the Summers Past Craft Fair event, I got this project going.  Lorna put it together with donations to Sunshine Guild.  The printed blocks in Christmas scenes are surrounded by either the green or the red and pulled together by matching four patches.  There is a beige plaid for an inner border and the plaid for the outer boarder and back.  The red comes back again as the binding.

Cross stitch project Forest Friends moves right along.  I still need to get floss 632 to finish the deer.  I suppose I could move on to the panda, but I would rather complete the deer first.  I do have other hand work to keep my hands busy!

Happy Wednesday =^.^=

Design Wall Monday, November 18, 2024

Since this cold I caught has me home all of the prepared acorns have been stitched.  Only seven more to stitch before Kork can be assembled.  You can see why I wanted more tan browns.  I am heavy into orange acorns.  These next seven will correct that!  This is a 2024 UFO.

It was a paper piecing weekend.  First I made four more of the 100 that are necessary for the Kottages project (the red one was the first).  A long way to go in making these cute 2 1/2" houses.  This is a 2022 UFO.

Next and what occupied me most of the time is a project that I picked up from Marti when she was working at Ruth's Stitchery in Colorado Springs in 2016.  It is called Rocky Mountain Escape and was part of the Row by Row Home Sweet Home Experience.  I'll be calling my project Kolorado.  This is a toughie!  The instructions are good except for the log cabin block.  Yeah I know what is to explain in the making of a log cabin block.  Size!

On the left is the first sew with the widths as cut from the instructions.  Well the fabric provided in the kit seemed wrong so I changed it out to my own similar fabrics.  It finished at 4 1/2" unfinished.  Then finding out where it belonged in the design had me make it with the original fabrics and it finished at 2 1/2" unfinished.  Well it still won't fit and I really like how it looks in the project.  I may try again or remove the last four rows so it will.

This is where I left off on Sunday evening.  The log cabin unit is to be appliqued above the barn doors.  Right now it is about 1/4" too big since it is to be set on point.  All of these units sit on a bed of snow and surrounded by three borders.  It finishes at 9" x 36".  Think tiny pieces =^.^=