Hello and welcome 😊 With any luck the snow has stopped coming down for a while. ❄❄❄❄❄ I'm not sure where we'll be putting it if more comes our way. Enough of that....here's what's been happening in my studio this week!
Week 5 of SAHRR
This week I started with the Christmas bears panel since it was on my design wall. The block was chosen by Brenda of Songbird Designs. It's the half or quarter log cabin. The log cabin block is one of my favourite blocks to make because it's easy! It can be wonky and still look like a log cabin 😁.
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| Christmas bears panel after week 5 |
Can you spot the two quarter log cabin blocks? Here are close ups.
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| Quarter log cabin block, in green fabrics, at the top of the photo |
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| The other quarter log cabin block, mostly in yellow and blue |
I've been trying to use some of the fabrics that I previously used to make the quilt more cohesive. The blocks will be re-organised, and I envision a thin plain border around the panel - we'll see!
So far, here's what's happening:
- Week 1: 4 Art Square blocks
- Week 2: 2 Fairy Floss inspired blocks (HSTs)
- Week 3: 4 Friendship star blocks
- Week 4: 3 Insert blocks
- Week 4: 2 Quarter Log Cabin blocks
That's a total of 15 blocks to date. I figure that I need another 7 blocks to go around the panel. There's one more week to go. After that I'll make whatever blocks I like, either repeats or new ones. It'll depend on how I feel. 😊
What I learned and Updates
- You all know about "best laid plans..." Hubby was injured a couple of weeks ago and it would seem that shoveling and going from his office in the basement to our room two flights up has aggravated the problem. Thank goodness he's very self sufficient, but there is a limit! I am hoping that doing all those stairs a few times a day will help me 😉
- I haven't tackled the second panel yet but hope to on the weekend.
- I did work on February's Table Scrap Challenge - I played with blue scraps and made a baby quilt. I'll be showing you that soon. I figured I may as well make a child's quilt (36" x 40") for donating through our guild since I took a child's quilt to FMQ for them. That will be two finishes soon.
- I talked about making a small Kawandi style mat for my niece. I made it quickly so that I would have something to stitch while our friends and hubby were watching a hockey game. I don't want to offend anyone but I really don't like sports.
- Finally I have a small placemat sewn up to place under Poppy's water dish at home. Going through my scraps, I found a bag with my doggy fabric, so Poppy will have her own placemat. 🐕 It just needs to be FMQ.
- I shared with you my first Poppy placemat but it wasn't quilted at the time. Here is the final version.
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| Poppy's water bowl mat |
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| The back of Poppy water bowl mat |
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| Lots of snow - thank goodness Poppy didn't see anything to chase after! |
Related links
- Blocks for both panels with SAHRR, February 13, 2025
- Snow Happens Finish, SAHRR & Mom's Mat, February 10, 2025
- Lots of Updates and Free Motion Mavericks, January 30, 2025
- SAHRR and Snow Happens on Free Motion Mavericks, January 23, 2025
- International Dog Day and Free Motion Mavericks, August 29, 2024
Linking parties
I'll be linking up to many fun linking parties, including week 5 of SAHRR. You might want to check some out and link up below. Monday Musings, Design Wall Monday, Sew & Tell, Put your foot down, Needle & Thread Thursday, Off The Wall Friday, Finished (Or Not) Friday, TGIFF,
Free Motion Mavericks
Welcome to week 520 of Free Motion Mavericks! It was a very productive week with lots of link ups! Thanks 😍. Here are the projects from last week that included FMQ, ruler work or walking foot quilting.
Donnalee has finished her king size bedspread, pillows, shams and runners. She did quilt some of it and it all looks really great!
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| Donnalee's new bedroom textiles |
Gail of Quilting Gail shared with us her collection of Valentines quilt that she's made over the years. Here is one of them. Check out her post for many more!
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| One of Gail's Valentine quilts. |
Sandra of mmm quilts has two lovely quilts to share with us! The first one was created for Project Quilting 16.3, common blocks. This quilt is called Seacliff Beach and has three blocks pulled from one of Eleanor Burn's books: Jewel box (EQ calls this Hourglass), Schoolgirl's Puzzle, Peace and Plenty. Check out Sandra's post for more details!
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| Sandra's entry for PQ 16.3, Seacliff Beach |
Here is Sandra's Jasper quilt for her cousin who lost her home in the wildfires in Jasper last year. The quilt includes a grizzly bear as well as mountains, trees and the aurora borealis. You'll want to read more about this quilt in Sandra's post.
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| Sandra's Jasper quilt |
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