Quilting and Sewing Update

Quilting and sewing has been hit and miss for me. We are getting ready to remodel our master bathroom. This includes taking everything out of the bathroom and the closets that run between the bedroom and the bathroom. One closet area will become the new, larger sink and a larger linen closet. The small shower will be enlarged into the other closet. The plumbing will be moved.

To make up the lost space of one closet, I ordered an armoire online. It had to be assembled and since my husband was busy, I assembled it. I called him only to rotate and raise it so I could add screws on the back of the shelves. It was so large, I had to assemble it in the living room!

Here it is completed. I wanted a wooden piece that came close to matching the color of our oak dresser.

Consignment Shop Items

In between all the "hard work" I was able to sew five Pillow Book Totes for the consigment shop, The Yellow Window. I think these would make wonderful Christmas presents for youngsters. 

And Christmas treats are always a good choice, so I made some embroidered candy cane reindeer and Christmas tree pencil toppers.

Christmas Items

Daughter #2 said she didn't have a Christmas tree skirt for their tree. I sent her a photo of some fabrics I had in my stash. Texting between us, she chose 2 fabrics for a reversible tree skirt. All of them have some metallic paint in the prints. I found 1/3 yard of gold metallic fabric that would work for the binding (which I cut on the bias and sewed many pieces together!). 

It was dark in the house and I don't have a Christmas tree this year, so I took the photos outside around the deck umbrella pole.

I machine stitched the binding to the edges from one side, but hand stitched it to the other side so no stitches would show.

Mail

I got a small present from one of the originators of the Gridsters (an online quilting bee I belong to). It was a very fun, early Christmas present. Thank you, Elizabeth.

I am working on the blocks for the December Gridster Queen Bee. I want to finish them before the weekend. These are the colors she is using:

and includes some of Aneela Hoey's Little Apples fabric line from Moda.

I am working on some apples from The Quilter Community and the (center) leaf pattern from The Inquiring Quilter's Fall into a QAL. I will post them when I finish them. 

QuiltCon Entry Update

I also got an email telling my that my Quilt Con entry, Millie Restyled Again, for the Michael Miller 2019 Challenge did not make it into the show. The quilt is now posted on Instagram with the hashtag of #quiltconreject (with no sadness). If I hadn't entered, I would never have had a chance at being accepted. I will continue to make quilts for entry. And perhaps one day I will get a congratulations email!

Season's Greetings

Wishing you a wonderful holiday season and hope you have some time to sew or quilt during a quiet moment. 

Scrappy Hearts Blocks

Mary, June's Gridster Bee "Queen Bee" asked the members of the group to make a scrappy heart block following the pattern from Sophie's blog.

The 8" finished block was so fun to make. Mary told us if we wanted to share more of these blocks with her, she would accept them. I had a tote drawer full of red scraps and sent her 4 blocks. I can't wait to see her quilt completed.

I have so many more red scraps that I am going to work on some hearts for myself!

How many scraps do you have?

Recent Quilt Projects

For the past 2 weeks I have been sewing many projects. 

I was the Gridster Bee's "Queen Bee" in April. 

I had eleven envelopes arrive in the mail during April.

I requested only one block from each bee-mate. Some sent two!

I worked to keep up with sewing them together as they arrived.

I will finish the sashings and borders this week.

I designed this block.

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I made some Michigan hotpads. 

Three were made using the Petoskey Stone fabric 

I purchased from Hearts to Holly Quilt Shop in Charlevoix, Michigan.

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May's Gridsters Bee "Queen Bee" is Rachel,
She asked each of us to make 2 blocks, 

but I had so much fun making them that I made 7! 

The Intrepid Thread blogger has the patterns free HERE and HERE. 

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My Happy Place Row Along - September, 2018 

I continue to work on the row along block for the upcoming 

It is hosted by Seams To Be Sew. 

This will be the 4th year I have designed a pattern for her Row Along.

This year I have a paper piecing pattern for the 12" x 30" row. 

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