Hands 2Help Link Up! Week 8

Wow, I’ve got to start keeping a better calendar! I nearly forgot about the link up this week. 

I have this quilt of happy blocks done.

And after reading Diann at Little Penguin Quilts’ post, I remembered I had this quilt just waiting in the closet! Time to move it forward! 

I’m liking up with Sara’s Hands2Help party from. Sunday! I’m planning on sending both these quilts to Little Lambs in Utah. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

TO- DO Tuesday #139

Good Morning Fellow To-Doers! Hope your week was satisfying!  Mine was! Usually I stitch on my Year in the Garden blocks, on Thursday. That’s the day I meet with stitching friends. Last week, however I stitched the binding on my first H2H small Any Kid quilt! It’s done! I’ll work on December this Thursday. 

May 2nd - May 8th. 

1. Quilt more color sections on Precarious! ✅

I stitched several colors this week on precarious. Working from the middle outward towards each end I stitched, yellow, green, and blue. Doesn’t sound like much, but each section takes me an hour to an hour and a half. 

Working on Aqua/ Turquoise yesterday. 

2.  Get binding attached to The Any Kid quilt. ✅

 I chose black binding at the suggestion of a friend. It’ll survive childish sticky fingers and dragging around the house! I hope it gets loved like that!

3.  Keep stitching on DECEMBER ❌

4.  Make  House #5 for Rainbow Neighbourhood QAL✅.  House 5 is done! I think it must be a Day Care!,

5.  SPRING STAMPS SAL….stamp #3. Birds and Bees✅. In progress. There was some “frogging” done yesterday! Somehow, I read the one of the symbols for color incorrectly. I had golden leaves on that tree branch.! 😳

6. Get backing ready for Long May She Wave so she can go to the quilter.✅  I stitched the red sailboats into a piece 72X82. As I was stitching the halves together at the salvage edge in saw how dark and saturated the fabric was. So I decided to soak it in my washer. It didn’t bleed, but during the spin cycle( on gentle ), the cut edges frayed a bit. So now, when it is finally dry and pressed, I’m sure I’ll need to add some of the blue to get enough inches. My long armer likes 4” more on each side. So the width is skimpy.   And find batting ❌

May 9-15

1. More Precarious!

2. Purchase batting for May UFOs ( Long May She Wave, En Provence, One Happy Girl!

3. Spring Stamps….make progress

4. Stitch on DECEMBER

5, Rainbow Neighbourhood = House #6….Red or  bright green?  Or dark blue? 

Linking up with Carol at Quilt Schmilt. Hop on over to see what some other quilters are working on!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Finally a Finish! A Hands 2 Help donation!

Yesterday I met with some friends, 15 of us, to socialize and stitch on various projects. Some stitched on wool, some did regular embroidery, some Brazilian embroidery. Some of us bound a recent project. One friend is doing a kind of weaving, I think she called it huck weaving! She’s using Monk cloth and blue thread. 

 I stitched the binding on one of my Hands to Help donation quilts while I sat and visited.  I didn’t quite finish, there were lots of distractions, but did finish it at home. 

Happy Blocks all done for a gender neutral or at least not girly quilt.

And there is that smiley face fabric again!

And I also made house block #5 for the Rainbow Neighbourhood QAL. I’m think I’ll call this the Day Care Center.  The smiley face fabric is not gone yet!

Three more to go, because the Christmas House is finished, but I haven’t shown it yet. 🙂

I’m joining Alycia at Alycia Quilts for Finished or Not Finished Friday. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Hands 2 Help #2. 4-20-22

I used some of my novelty fabrics a couple of years ago to make these Nine Patch and Rails blocks. Sylvia at Treadlestitches makes the best kids quilts with kid themed novelty fabric and she shared the idea and the tutorial that was originally from Libby at Life on the Hill here. !  In previous posts, I’ve referred to this quilt as a chunky churn dash!!!! I don't know where I got that or why I did that. It is not a churn dash, just similar enough that I mis-typed and then continued!!

Any way, there were 4 pink blocks, so I made one more, put them with some hourglass blocks and a pink border , then donated it to Jack’s Basket in Minnesota. 

Then I made a few more to get this layout!  I used a denim looking sashing and plaid cornerstones. 

 I finally chose the red for a border.  I do like it, but then I wondered what I would use for a binding.The red would have been great, but I didn’t have enough.  I searched and search my chunks of fabric. I even considered a scrappy binding, but this quilt is already really busy. I finally looked online and ordered this one.  From Missouri Star Quilt Company in May 2021. It's called Liberty Lane by Stephanie Marrott for Wilmington Fabrics. It is just right. 

The light blue cloud flannel was in a tote that a friend insisted I take home with me!  Thanks, Kari!

I spent my stitching group time on March 31st to get the binding stitched down.  I didn’t quite get it done, but it was finished on April 1st. Then a trip through the washer and dryer. It's all crinkly and soft. Ready to be boxed up and sent to Little Lambs.

I’m linking up with Mari at The Academic Quilter  and H2H Progress Party. This is my second donation to Hands2Help. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

Finished or Not Finished Friday- Nearly Finished

 

Another finish or almost

I used some of my novelty fabrics a couple of years ago to make these Nine Patch and Rails blocks. Sylvia at Treadlestitches makes the best kids quilts with kid themed novelty fabric and she shared the idea and the tutorial that was originally from Libby at Life on the Hill here. !  In previous posts, I’ve referred to this quilt as a chunky churn dash!!!! I don't know where I got that or why I did that. It is not a churn dash, just similar enough that I mis-typed and then continued!!

Any way, there were 4 pink blocks, so I made one more, put them with some hourglass blocks and a pink border , then donated it to Jack’s Basket in Minnesota. 

Then I made a few more to get this layout!I used a denim looking sashing and plaid cornerstones. 

 I finally chose the red for a border.  I do like it, but then I wondered what I would use for a binding.The red would have been great, but I didn’t have enough.  I searched and search my chunks of fabric. I even considered a scrappy binding, but this quilt is already really busy. I finally looked online and ordered this one.  From Missouri Star Quilt Company in May 2021. It's called Liberty Lane by Stephanie Marrott for Wilmington Fabrics. It is just right. 

The light blue cloud flannel was in a tote that a friend insisted I take home with me!  Thanks, Kari!

I spent my stitching group time yesterday to get the binding stitched down.  I didn’t quite get it done, but it will be finished by tonight! 

I’m linking up with Alycia’s Finished or Not Finished Friday              This is my second donation to Hands2Help. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

To -Do Tuesday! March……

May go out like a lion! The oks saying may hold true. I noted in my journal that the 1st of March was unseasonably mild. Now they are predicting cold and maybe even snow for this afternoon and tomorrow! Hope they are wrong! 

Today is To-Do Tuesday! Let’s see how I did and then check out others at Texas Quilt Gal! Thanks Linda for keeping us on track!

March 22- March 28

1. Finish TSC  and post to The Joyful Quilter ✅

      You can see my post here

2. Start quilting in Chunky Churn Dash for H2H donation! ✅

The denim blue thread is visible in some blocks more than others! 

So many different prints I just kept the color the same throughout!

After picking out the first two rows of quilting, I cut a new piece of batting. It’s Warm 100 and it has a scrim. The package states you can quilt it 10” apart. My lines are no more than 6”, so it should be good. So I’m back on track “ i

3. Keep working on Growing Up Odd blocks! ✅ I got two blocks done and moved the blocks into my sewing room’s design wall. 

My brother and SIL are coming for an overnight visit, so I was neatening up! I need 5 more blocks! There will be sashing between the blocks also. 

And tasks for next week…

March 29 - April 4

1. Get a start on pink! Happy Blocks and  ZigZag blocks! 

2. Trim and attach binding to Chunky Churn Dash! 

3. Stitch on August’s Year in the Garden. 

4. Make some Bow Blocks for Melva’s “Pieces in the Garden” and download Block 3 from her site! 

That should keep  me busy. Of course there are other non sewing related tasks. Like laundry and cooking. It may get nice enough to start on our lawn clean-up. And I need to get a birthday card in the mail to our grandson-in-law. 

Til next week

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

Finished or Not Finished Friday! A Little Donation Quilt and a Happy Table Topper

I've finally finished the small donation quilt I'm calling Ninja Friends.  The quilting went very smoothly. The serpentine stitch across the width 2.5" apart and up and down the length 1.75" apart using the guide on my walking foot. It made a rectangular grid that mimicked the rectangular size of the quilt. 

It's bound and washed and dried.  I'm really happy with it! It will be one of my donations to Hands 2 Help. 

And this is the happy yellow March entry for the Table Scraps Challenge hosted by The Joyful Quilter. 

It's six different 6.5" blocks with more than six different yellow or gold fabrics. I added the 2 inch scrap of sunflower fabric to give it a bit of "focus"!

It's backed with a black flowered fabric given to me in a donation tote. I bound it with the backing. 

Two small finishes.    And 6 days left in the month. I do have another small child size quilt that I though I was ready to quilt. I used an odd piece of batting that I could not get to lay flat. When I started quilting there were numerous wrinkles in the backing. The quilting has now been all removed. And tomorrow I will cut a different batting and start over. 

I'm linking up with Alycia from Alycia Quilts for  Finished or Not Finished Friday. Hop on over there and see what others finished or maybe not quite finished. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

To Do Tuesday #45

 

I'm joining some friends to share my to do list at ChrisKnits. Come see what others accomplished this week!

June 15 - June 21

1. Sew purple hollow 9 patch    #3  Done

2. Keep working on Geese Migration blocks.   Done

Rows 1-4 are joined and on the hall design board. I can't reach the top right hand corner of my sewing room design wall with out a stool. And I did not go get the step stool. I will finish rows 5,6,7 and then join the two triangular pieces.  That's my plan at least. 

Rows 5 and 6. Row 7 is one block and under my needle. 

3. Get label sewn on H2H Hometown Hero quilt, so I can give it to Becky when she gets home on Friday!    Done

Personal information redacted!

And wrinkly! I washed and dried it to make sure the dark brown didn’t run! 

Label is attached to the corner. I don't have photos of when I gave it to her. There were too many hugs and tears!

4. Work on Table Scraps Challenge.  Done   See Friday post for more detail. 

5. Bonus:  cut more Plus fabrics for more Positivity blocks    Done

Enough for 12 more blocks. 

Phew!   I'm taking a breath and posting the ChrisKnits as soon as I get up on Tuesday.  First though, here is my list for the upcoming week!

1. Make 12 more Positivity blocks

2. Finish the Rainbow Geese flimsy and post to June OMG

3. Make 1 more purple hollow 9 patch

4. Start making purple semi-colons for Full Stop Sampler.

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy.