Now One Finish and One Not So Much

It's Friday and the 13th!  I'm not usually superstitious, but this is turning out to be a pretty weird Friday!


I awoke at 4:30 am. MDT. It's pretty dark, but my next door neighbor is warming up his company truck to go to work. I had been tossing and turning in the bed for a bit, so I just decided to stay up. I made myself a cup of coffee and proceeded down to the family room to finish sewing the binding on the first of two Easter Bunny Mini quilts or table runner.

So that is my finish for this morning.

Itr's partly clouding out side today. So sorry about the shadow. I quilted this one myself. I usually can mangage to quilt table runners and other small items. I did a serpentine stitch in the borders. It shows pretty well in the above photo.

Then I spied a stencil hanging on my bulletin board above my cutting table. Not sure why I have it. Maybe it was a gift, maybe I bought it thinking I might do it someday. So,  I decided to try. What to mark the fabric with. I have chalk pencils, they did not work. I have white marking pens from Clover, a pink Mark  B Gone, a double ended Mark B Gone and a Blue Fine Point Mark B Gone.  (the newest of all).  The double ended pen and the pink one are now in the trash. They were dried up and/or blunted.  I used the white one on the blue fabric. and the blue fine point on the other three fabrics.

I stitched with matching thread in each different bunny head and echo stitched around the inside of the ears. I like it! Not perfect by any means, but a step forward for me!

The backing and the pink binding.

This one goes to my granddaughter and her family. They just moved to Florida and I hope it looks a little "beachy" !

Number 2 is on my machine. The serpentine stitching is done. Except for the lengthwise border, I'll do that last.   Now to mark the bunnies.  The background for this one is sunflowers. This granddaughter lives in Vermont. She could use the sunny flowers. It's been a long winter for her and her beau!

I'll be linking this up to Alycia's Finished or Not Friday post. These 2 are my OMG for March, so it looks like I'll make that goal too. And in time to get both in the mail to my girls.
I am going to try to get one more finished. I have a granddaughter in Phoenix also, can't leave her out!.


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Scrappy Saturday - Teal

I thought I had lots of teal and the other shades. And I do, but not solids. A solid is necessary for the Geese Migration block I have been making each month. I had one teal solid...left over from when Mr Busy and I square danced!  A long time ago! 

And I made 2 hollow nine patches. I do have more pieces cut for more of those.

Thursday, I was at a hand stitching group and mentioned that I needed a 5" X 12.5" chunk of solid teal if anyone had a piece they wanted to trade. They all said they would check at home. One friend delivered and did not want to trade and did not want the left overs returned, so now I have the necessary fabric to make a second Geese Migration block!  Hooray. The color is similar, but I think in the whole scheme of things it will be just perfect.

I also started on my OMG for March. I am making Easter table runners (here is a link to the pattern on the Moda site) for my 2 granddaughters who recently moved away. One is in Vermont and the other just relocated to Florida. I have been melancholy this past week. This will help.

 Four bunnies on the design wall, waiting for sashing between the bunnies  and top and bottom sashing to complete the table runner.

Four more bunnies under construction. I want to get the bunny parts done, because they require 1.25" square to be sewn on the ears and faces and I am using my Pam Bono Angler 2 tool for sewing the angles. I could have drawn the lines on each little white square but there were 40 per table runner. That's 80!  and so I got out this little tool. I have had it for a long time and use it every now and then.

The 2 Bunny Table Runners or Mini Quilts as the pattern calls them will be identical. The granddaughters are sisters and it felt right to do it that way. Maybe the backings will be different, it will depend on what I can find in my stash.

I am hoping to link up to Angela's ScrapHappy Saturday linky party.

I procrastinated linking up my Friday not Finish and missed the deadline!


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It is not really a Finish!

Ok, so this is not a real FINISH, but it is a goal finished! I have sent blocks to Covered in Love block drive for 2 years, since Jan 2018 ( according to my blog post labels.)  This is the current block. Kat requested true blues, true yellows and white/ low volume. There are 2 different blues, 2 different yellows and 2 different neutrals.

I cut fabric on Tuesday night and then took all the pieces to our group sew on Wednesday. I got all the rail fences done, and 2 blocks completed. Thursday night I finished the eight blocks. They are fun and fast.  Check out Kat's blog to join in the fun.


Now I am on to my OMG for March. Easter Bunny table runners.  I should have a post soon.

I'm linking this post to Alycia's Finished or Not party. Late,  but I've been reading everyone else's posts.

I was too late to the party. I tried to post this on Saturday night. Boo!


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March 2020 OMG Goal Setting

I have tons of projects that need to be brought to completion. I have tons of scraps that need to be used up.

But for March I am starting a new project. Both my granddaughters have moved away. Far far away!
One to Vermont and one to Florida. So in an effort to stay connected.....I am going to make two Easter themed table runners using this tutorial.

https://my.modafabrics.com/2017/04/bunny-quartet-mini-quilt.html

I think I have enough fabrics in my stash to make the bunnies. I will, probably have to purchase a background.  But they(my granddaughters) are worth it.

So that is my goal, 2 completed cute little bunny tablerunners. I am linking up with Patty's March 1st goal setting post for OMG (One Monthly Goal).


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Finished or Not Friday Feb 2020

Linking up with Alycia's Finished or Not Friday! 

Even if today is Saturday!  LOL!


I have a photo of my garlic knot flimsy, if by chance you haven't already seen it 17 times already! 

And a completion.  A book pillow aka tablet pillow for our young great granddaughter. They are leaving our area, moving to Florida. Her older brother has one and I thought this might make a loooong car ride a bit easier for all.

It's not like she doesn't like books, here proof:

reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar to her mom over the phone. 

but she does like learning on the tablet too!  And there will be lots of hours to fill! 


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ps: last Sunday was my birthday, I have to share this card from my sister:

my friends would laugh if they knew I was a blogger too!

Last Orange Saturday February 2020

Just a quick post to let you all know that I haven't fallen off the face of the earth.


I'm linking up with  ScrapHappy Saturday over at Angela's blog So Scrappy.



These are the extent of my orange RSC20 pieces. It's all good.
One geese migration block and 8 hollow nine patches.

These has been some other sewing in Feb. I sent 3 blocks to CiL.  Wow, these look mish mashed but maybe you can appreciate them.

I finished my garlic knot flimsy

 

And I sewed a Book Pillow alias Tablet Pillow for our young great granddaughter. I was gifted some children's fabric and this one worked perfectly. Luckily I had a scrap of the perfect purple to make the pocket.

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February OMG Finish

My garlic knots have been kneaded into a flimsy or quilt top, if you prefer. I made this as leaders and enders for the last several years. I used Bonnie Hunter's technique and pattern for constructing the actual block complete with pressing directions.

When I got ready to put them together, I had a bit of a pickle!  First I decided I did not want to do the sashing technique that was in Bonnie's pattern. Not because I didn't like it, but because it requires a design space to get the colors right. My design wall is smallish and was being used for my RSC 20 blocks.

Then I had a "senior moment" in laying out the blocks in the pattern that I had seen on pinterest. See this post.

Finally, I had them on the design wall in the arrangement I liked. I gave each block a label as to which row and which column, took them down to my machine and  began sewing them together. Well, the pressing was a problem. Some seams did not nest as I wanted. Some I had to nudge, some I had to push and some just did not obey at all. Several intersections are off.  A bazillion pins later, it is together. And now with a 3 inch border. I cut it a little large in case I wanted to cut it down a smidgen. Not sure yet, but my February OMG goal was to get it to flimsy/top stage and here it is..

 If I had to do it over, I would not use the darker neutrals for the background. There are a couple that jump out. But this will "not be going to Paducah" as my guild members like to say, so I am satisfied. And every single piece including the border is from my stash. It was fun to remember the quilts that each of those little bits came from.

I am linking this post up with Patty at Elm Street Quilts, just in time.  February Finish OMG.


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