Squirrel, Snowflake,

I will begin with the squirrel that I caught.  The pattern is Seasonal Hexie from Lynn Wilder at Sew'n Wild Oaks.  Somehow it jumped into my cart when I was looking at her quilt patterns.  I grabbed some scraps and stitched it together.  It is about 20 inches across.  Machine quilted with stitch in the ditch and the heart ruler was used for the center. It was nice to have a finish so quickly.  It has already gone to a new home, but this will be a made again pattern.

I have been enjoying making the potato chip blocks.  Here they are on my wall.  They will become a quilt for the bed in one of the extra bedrooms.  I am really liking making a block without serious thinking.  It will be a wild quilt and that is really appealing to me.  Going through all those fat quarters and cutting them up is great fun.  Only one or two get cut up a day, material that I wonder why I picked it.  (The material that I can see using gets placed aside.)  The parts added to the box for this quilt, another box for the quilt that will be made with 12 inch finished blocks and then my nine-patch box.  Three scrappy quilts in my mind. 

Snowflake Tablerunner from Piecing the Past Quilts has been sandwiched.  I need to pick up some muslin to add border on the long side.  I will hand quilt this in my hoop and I need a bit more material on the sides to hold it in the hoop.  It was basted by machine, the first time that I have done that.  Shall see how that works.

Work has begun on Season and Time by Moira Blackburn. This is being worked with it on its side as it is long, and I rather work in the frame than the hoop.  Here is the center, bottom on the left, top on the right.  It will be worked toward the sides.

Won't be doing any hand work until this afternoon.  The gardens are calling me.  It is 39 degrees outside now, but the sun is shining.  

May you all have time to enjoy your threads today.  Thank you for visiting.  Linking to Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts.
 

Bits

This week has been a different week.  We still have snow on the ground from the storm.  It will be gone by tomorrow as our temps are to head warmer this week.  We did not get the storm as badly as they did in Maine.  Sister and daughters all had power outages (just received notice that the last had their power come back at 0530 this morning). 

The snowflake table runner will turn into a sandwich today.  That is what is next on the list.  Shall start stitching it this week.  Now that I have told you that, I need to get cranking to be able to show something next week.

The last of the Chubby's have been finished.  Fox, Rabbit and Bird from Jeannette Douglas Designs.  I see that she has a Bee for 2024.  Need to look for that one.  These all need to be framed and I need to learn how.  This will be a good place to start as they are small.

Squirrel!

Like many people, I have scraps left over from other projects.  I had seen a video by Conquering Mount Scrapmore with Brenda on making a "potato chip block".  This looked like less thinking than the other scrap block I had made.  Just don't put the same fabric in the block.  (I already messed that up.  Didn't notice until I was pressing the finished block.  Oh well.)

I am spending time cutting out bricks, 30 minutes a day, and my scrap pile is not noticeably smaller.  Cutting two sizes: 1.75 X 3 inches (wrote the wrong measurement down, cut wrong and had to adjust vs tossing fabric) and 2.5 X 4.5.  The smaller brick blocks are what I am showing.  It makes a finished 10-inch square.  When I stich them together, I need to make sure the center start is in different directions.  That way NO matching of seams!  Totally mindless sewing.  I leave one set up next to my machine waiting for me.  (I had to think harder for a crumb block).

Since the chip is waiting for me and I don't have to think, just sew and press.  I am back on a UFO: Little Block 365 by Sentimental Stitches.  I had 217 blocks stitched and several rows put together.  The smallness was driving me crazy as it takes a bit of time to stitch them.  Longer than to stitch a potato chip block.  I wasn't seeing the progress to keep me motivated.  Now it is a pair project.  Hope that helps me.  I want to see it done.  I do like 365, a lot.

NCAA Women's Basketball final this afternoon.  My slow stitching will be work on Season and Time by Moira Blackburn will watching the game.  

Linking to Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts.  Enjoy your threads today.