Hi and welcome 🌞 It's been an amazing fall weather week. We are busy getting things ready for the Out Of the Box (OOTB) Fibre Artists' Fall Fling Show & Sale. No, it's not the royal "we" it's the Andrée and JJ "we" 😍. We're both participating this year and looking forward to it.
Fall Fling 2026
It's that time of the year again. OOTB is having its Fall Fling. JJ and I will be volunteering on Saturday from 10am to noon. Hope we see some familiar faces there 😊
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| Free admission - donations accepted for the Ottawa Food Bank |
Here is JJ's (my youngest child) Frankenstein's Heart tote bag. JJ loves all things gothic and spooky - this is very much in their style. JJ has been embroidering for several years now and just learned to do beading. I'm looking forward to sharing some of their work with you as they are finished. 😍
My two small art pieces will also be at the show.
We had the photoshoot outside this afternoon with the tote bag against the brambles in the backyard.
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| "It's Alive" Frankenstein's mended heart, appliquéd, embroidered and beaded by JJ |
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| The other side - "It's Alive" Frankenstein tote bag by JJ |
This week I lined the bag - it's a really well-made cotton bag and was easy enough to line!
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| The inside of the lined tote bag |
My two small art pieces will also be at the show.
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| Backyard Senses |
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| Water and Light |
We are also having a small themed exhibition about the sea/ocean. I'll be bringing in my "Islas Canarias" art quilt. I thought I had more sea related art but I guess they've all been given away 😉
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| Islas Canarias travel art quilt |
What I learned / What I've been up to
- Getting art ready for a show can be a lot of work. There are always a couple of hours involved in placing the hanging wire, getting the forms and tags ready, etc. We'll be dropping off our pieces Thursday morning and then going to visit Poppy. Yay!!!
- I've been working on the Square Dance baby quilt. I'm putting together the scrappy binding and then I'll be FMQ the centre squares. It'll be ready for next week - the last Thursday of October and ready for the October One Monthly Goal (OMG).
- Some of my Quilter's Cove QAL blocks are getting FMQ. It's amazing how the FMQ adds to each block. I'll be sharing my progress on Saturday, October 30th at the Quilter's Cove QAL linkup party. Needless to say, I also have to create and FMQ my October house 😁
Related links
- A Restful and Productive Holiday and I Quilted This! October 01, 2026
- Slow Stitching and an extended I Quilted This! September 17, 2026
- Islas Canarias finished, January 28, 2018
Linking parties
I'll be linking up to many fun linking parties that you may want to check out. Monday Musings, Design Wall Monday, Sew & Tell, Put your foot down, Slow Sunday Stitching, Off The Wall Friday, Beauties Pageant, Patchwork & Quilts, 15 Minutes to Stitch 2026, Oh Scrap!,
I Quilted This!
Welcome to the I Quilted This! linking party that celebrates quilting on a domestic machine or custom quilting on a long-arm. Feel free to link up and share any recent project, even if you're not quilting it!
Here are the posts that included FMQ, ruler work and walking foot quilting last week. Thanks for linking up 😊 and consider grabbing the button.
Diann at Little Penguin Quilts participated in the Fall Fortnight Placemat Blog Hop and made two very lovely quilt-as-you-go placemats. You'll want to check out her post for more details!
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| Two lovely QAYG placemats by Diann |
Terry from On Going Projects wrote a post about the quilts that she submitted in the Quiltfest Northwest Quilt Show. Two of her quilts won ribbons and she included the judge's comments on all of them. You'll want to check out her post. Here are the two quilts that won ribbons. Congratulations Terry!
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| Dash by Terry won a ribbon |
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| Grow by Terry won two ribbons! |
Preeti of Sew Preeti Quilts created another beauty, Let It Shine, that was published in the Quilter's World Winter 2026 Issue. You'll want to check out her post.
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| Preeti's Let It Shine |
Vicki of Vicki's Crafts and Quilting finished a UFO with some FMQ stippling. She also appliquéd her bunnies on the runners that she had quilted last week. Too cute!
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| Lovely UFO quilt finished by Vicki |
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| Cute bunny runners by Vicki |
Gail of Quilting Gail finished FMQ a mystery runner that she and her sister had started. Gail quilted her runner with LOTS of pebbles in the background, some lines using the Rocket ruler and even used a fancy stitch on the binding that looks like pebbles. Very cool! Check out her post for more details.
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| Look at all those pebbles, lines and fancy stitching on Gail's runner! |
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| Gail's Mystery Runner |
It's now your turn!😍
JJ's bag is awesome! I agree with you about getting quilts/projects ready for a show. I hope you have a great time during your time at the event!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Terry, and JJ says thanks! It's always good to see everyone at the event since we can chat more than if we were at a meeting.
DeleteAndree, thanks so much for featuring my placemats from the blog hop today! I even made another one - that's this week's post! Your pieces for the show are wonderful - I love how you have created pictures with fabric. Also, JJ's bag is awesome! How fun to decorate and line a plain canvas tote bag like that one.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Diann - and JJ says thanks! I love making the little pieces and then attaching them to the painted canvas. JJ's bag was pretty incredible if I do say so myself :-)
DeleteVery cool Frankenstein bag! Hope the show is very successful.
ReplyDeleteThanks Kate (JJ says thanks too) We didn't sell anything but I'm never sure if I'd rather sell or bring them home for me to enjoy :-) I think that the weather may have been too good - the attendance was much less than usual.
DeleteJJ's bag is cool, though I'm not a huge Frankenstein fan! Love your show pieces. Thanks for sharing with us at Monday Musings.
ReplyDeleteThanks Brenda, I'm not a huge fan either. I find it so sad but JJ loves all things gothic and that sure fit the bill. Have a great week :-)
DeleteI hope you had you had a great time at the show. That sounds like a lot of fun :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Janine, it's always fun meeting fellow artists. We get to chat a lot more at these events than we do during meetings.
DeleteWhat a fun Fall Fling — JJ's Frankenstein's Heart tote bag is such a delight, with that appliquéd, embroidered, and beaded mended heart photographed against the brambles in the backyard. I hope you and JJ had a wonderful time volunteering on Saturday and showing your two small pieces, Backyard Senses and Water and Light, along with the Islas Canarias travel quilt in the sea exhibition. I also loved hearing about the Square Dance baby quilt's scrappy binding and how FMQ is adding so much to your Quilter's Cove blocks — and congratulations to Terry on those ribbons, too. — Mary Faith
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Mary. It was a good show, even if attendance was down - I think that it was too nice outside. People would rather stay out and enjoy the weather. I'm sure that the Spring show will do better. I'm never sad about bringing my art back and enjoying it myself or giving it to friends. Take care.
DeleteWow, le sac de JJ est magnifique, bravo ! Bon courage pour la préparation de l'exposition !
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