I had a lot of fun making this quilt. I used up so much of my black and white scraps.
Damien loved the quilt.
I had a lot of fun making this quilt. I used up so much of my black and white scraps.
Damien loved the quilt.
This month over at Angela’s is purple
https://superscrappy.blogspot.com/2025/07/scraphappy-saturday-now-in-purple.html
I saw this great tutorial on YouTube for a mini bucket bin.
https://youtu.be/YKY-nZZBlr0?si=7EN2McqxdXjBdZnj
I wanted to give it a go. So I decided to use up some purple scraps.
Okay. What is my # 9.. hang your britches on the line.
Oops. Haha. My inner child coming out.
Progress on my Farmers Wife quilt. I have not touched this since 19th July 2024. The concentration and time required to do these 6” blocks has not been with me with what I have been dealing with. At the moment things are in more of a routine. I have finished some quick finishes but it’s now time to make a little bit of a difference on this quilt. So here is where I am at now.
And here are some of the blocks
Now to work out where I’m up to.
Thanks for the push Deana
https://dreamworthyquilts.blogspot.com/2025/06/july-chookshed-challenge-number-is.html
A quilt for my son in law. It is his birthday soon and I have had this in mind for 2 years. It’s about time I got it done. So I pulled out the panel I had bought and showed it to my friend. A light bulb went off and I thought of how I could finish it. I was so happy that I drew up a design and pulled out my black and white fabric scraps.
Where has the month gone.
This month’s colour was ORANGE for RSC and my challenge for June CHOOKSHED was to make placemats. This was an easy make so I don’t really know why I left it to the last weekend of the month. I suppose deadlines are good.
I have been so busy with a mystery and I couldn’t leave it go. I’ll start those posts soon. Then all this morning I was reading blogs. I haven’t really looked at them for over a week so say goodbye to a few hours.
Anyway for the orange. I pulled out my scraps
I have had a couple of days sewing and I am very happy with my progress.
Using up some scraps and tidying up some baskets.
This is where I am so far.
I still have to sew the corner triangles.
I have decided that this is big enough. I will do a scrappy binding. Very happy with this design.
Not sure where it will go but if I wanted to make another one in a colour way or larger it is doable..
It measures 56” * 72”
Now to choose a backing. I might copy the block and make it larger with a border top and bottom. Use up more scrap fabric…..
Just a silly little thing came to my mind recently. I needed a new oven mitt and was going to make one. I was visiting my brother and the local shop had some on sale so I bought them.
I got home and ready to through them in the cupboard like I have done all my time living away from my mums. Stuffed in the cupboard with all the others.
What was I thinking. I had an idea to put some hooks on the inside of the cupboard door. Hang them up and they are always there when needed.
I’ve had some interest of how to make these blocks. So here goes…
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This is what is needed to make one 8.5" block
9 * 2.5" squares
1 * 3.5" square to be black
1 each black and white 1.5" * 6.5" strip
1 each black and white 1.5" * 8.5" strip
(Or you can cut longer strips, sew together then crosscut to size)
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Sew strips together and cut to 6.5” & 8.5” long…
A friend had made all these teddies but the group she made them for ended up not wanting them. She asked if I had any suggestions. Well, years ago when my daughter was small I made these for all her friends when she was going to their birthday party. We couldn’t afford much so made a lot of gifts. The girls ended up hiding their treasures in them and really loved them. It was a good way to use up odd balls of yarn.
First up you need a large margarine container and cover the outside with plain paper.
I had a great and busy time over the weekend.
I saw a fun scrappy quilt on line and decided to have a go. A couple of friends came over to sew along too.
Sewing up our scraps into 9 patches, then making fancy blocks.
Doing the extra stitching row on the stitching and flip corners makes a bonus 2.5” square. Trimming them and making another pattern was exciting. I will end up with 48 or 56 squares depending how big I make my quilt.
Then we moved on to make a plastic front pouch.
I taught them how to make these using your own measurements depending on the fabric you have. It is done in a way that there are no exposed seams. Here are the 3 of them completed. Everyone was happy.
I made mine with a scrap of orange so I could link up with RSC .
https://superscrappy.blogspot.com/2025/06/scraphappy-saturday-orange.html