Scrappy Sunday?

The internet was out of wack yesterday so, This should be a Scrappy Saturday but is late. I finished up my black scraps. I got nine of these 6 " 16 patch blocks done. They have a fear bit of colour in them.

I have add this post to Soscrappy link party. there are more black and grey scraps to see.

More spools I did from Bonnie Hunter's Leader's and Ender's Challenge.

I make this little needle book with a quilted scrap of white. I might give it to someone for at Christmas time.

All of my black scraps up on the design wall at one time. Not bad for the month. Next month we are to finish up some of our rainbow quilts.

I have also started Easy Street, Bonnie Hunter;s new mystery quilt. She promises to make this one easier than the late two mystery's. My aunt Arley at My favourite Things has started with some different colours. I love the colours and will stick to the ones Bonnie has chosen. Monday is a linky party at Bonnie's site. I have to go sew today.

Scrappy Saturday Blacks

I have done some more poverty piecing for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2012. This month is Black to Grey. To see what other have done this week check out Soscrappy.

I have no idea what I will do with these chunks of Poverty piecing. I did use the turquoise one for a book cover.

I have also been using the little 3" spools for leaders and enders. This group is just from this past week. I am not showing you the blocks from the week before. 13 how unlucky is that. I do not like to leave it at 13, 12 ok, 14 ok.

I also finished off 14 blocks to send to My Patchwork Life, last night. She was asking for disappearing four patch blocks using some floral fabrics. She is making quilts for the east coast hit by Sandy. She uses 42 blocks per quilt. I have to get these in the mail ASAP.

Off to soccer soon with my younger son. Oldest son is out deer hunting with my husband and his Uncle.

Scrappy Saturday Blacks

I did not have much time in the sewing room today. I found just a little time to sort out my blacks to greys. I also allowed the bits of colour into my black. So some are kind of bright. I have lots of black and white so I will use some of them this month.

To see what others have started with their black scrap fabrics check out Soscrappy

I started to kit up my spool blocks. I used the 1 1/2" strips for these. I am surprised how much black scrap fabrics I have.

Design Wall Monday Oct 29

I have been playing with my log cabin blocks a little. I really like this idea of the half a block off set. It gives the colour a nice little curve of colour. These log cabins were started because of Ellison Lane quilt a long. We will see if I get it done in time or not. 

I have added today's post to Design Wall Monday. 

My other design wall has the last of the brown scraps still from Scrappy Saturday and the Rainbow scrap Challenge.

Last Brown Scrappy Saturday

I had to work on my brown scraps today. I really wanted to finish up my blocks today because next week will be a new colour. I have this 12 block finished today. for my main rainbow quilt I started last Nov.

Go to Soscrappy to see the other great brown scraps.

Last month I made some Orange 16 patches ( yes started another one) so today I got the brown ones done. I made sure to put one other colour in each block, pink, red and blue were used in these.

I keep working on the Spools as a leaders and enders challenge by Bonnie Hunter. So the ones here are new ones done this week. I do not have any more brown spools left to do. I think I will have to work on another colour for a few days.

Here is a photo of Teddy. He is a shade of brown so I am showing him today. Teddy belongs to my friend Yvonne. I was at Yvonne's on Friday. Our surface design group meet at her house to lay out a plan for the next few months. I think we are planning to do some marbling on fabric at the end of Nov. Teddy was a little bad and ate some candy out of one ladies bag and then over night him and the cat ate three homemade buns left from our day. Most of the time he is a good dog. Just likes people food.

WIP Wednesday Pumpkin Mats How to

I have been working hard at using my scraps up. The month of Sept was Orange for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2012. On Saturday I really wanted to make some Pumpkins, before the month ended. But into what? I got making six pumpkins and thought maybe place mats.

From my Orange 1 1/2" strips I made a 6 1/2" square. You would need 5 strips measuring 1 1/2" x 6 1/2".

Then the corners I used Purple scarps. Start with a 2 1/2" square one dark purple and one medium purple, and cut then on the diagonal once each.

I then pins the triangles to the orange square in each corner. Make sure that you have the tips of the triangles over lapping by at least a 1/4". Sew 1/4" from the bias of the triangle

The purple triangle should cover all of the orange corner. If you have it correct, trim off the orange corner and press. Trim up your pumpkin square again to 6 1/2".

For the stem I used 2 inch strips and free cut them with a little angle. make sure your three pieces have the same angle.

When sewing the angle, I just eyeballed the little 1/4" to hang over. Press and see if your new strip is straight enough to get by.

Add your stem to the top of your pumpkin. I like to keep the medium purple on the top. Yes I did some one with the stem on the dark end and ribbed to fix it. 

I then sewed some purple 2 1/2" scraps to make up the frame parts. I quickly went to my longer strips and did strip piecing with my 2 " wide strips. I cut off 2 1/2" strip piecing at this time. I used all dark purple on the bottom. then the sides have a little shading to medium purple.

This block is now 8 1/2" wide and 8" tall. Not a great size to keep track of but I was being a little free at this time.

I made the word "Boo" with all yellow scraps that were 1 1/4" wide. I had all this yellow hand dyed in my scrap box and did not cut any extra. The B started with a 2" purple square for the top of the B and a 2" by 2 1/2" unit in purple. The O's started with a 1 1/2" by 2 1/4" purple unit. I then just added the yellow were needed. The top of B needs a little strip of purple, to make it as wide bottom. I added narrow strips between the letters and some purple on the top and bottom of the Os to make them as wide as the B. Lots of 1 1/2" purple strips were used to get what I needed and then I would trim of one was to big. I am sorry I did not take photos of the Boo in process.

To get both the Boo's and pumpkins together I added 2 " strips to the pumpkin top and bottom. the Boo's got 1 1/2" strips around it. I trimmed if one was to big.

There one place mat top done. It measures 12 1/2" tall and 17 1/2" wide. I thought that was a good size for my place mats. I can not lye I had to cut a few dark purple strips to finish the place mats off, but I used so much up. Now for some quilting these up.

I have added today's post to WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced  and Needle and Thread Network

Blogtocberfest is going on this month and I am going to make a creative post every day this month.

Design Wall Monday Oct 1

Today is the start of Blogoberfest over at "I saw you Dance". I am committing to blog every day this month. So to kick it off, I have my pumpkins on the design wall in Halloween style. I got started on this Saturday morning and worked on them again yesterday. I am think they will be place mats.  I am hoping to finish them soon.

However I am having machine trouble. I have been stitching on my featherweight and thought I would oil it. Now the tension is wacky. I am starting to think the timing is out. I had a number of threads in behind the bobbin case. I keep getting loops on the bottom. No matter what I do to the tension setting. The machine sounds better. I may have to get out a different machine to sew. 
Edited at noon hour: I got it working correctly. I had taken the plate off the bed to clean around the feed dogs and did not get the hook in the correct place when I put it together. Surprised it would even sew at all. Now I am happy it sounds and runs so much better. Some one asked "you have more machines? yes I have 8 machines in total if I count all of them.

I have added today's post to Patchwork Times Design Wall Monday.

I looked back at Sept's goals I did OK. For Oct here we go.
1) In Sept I got my Spider Wed quilt top all pieced together. For Oct I need to get the backing done.
2) Adam's quilt work on at Retreat.
3) piece together the second Ugly quilt maybe at retreat and backing pieced together
4) My pumpkin place mats - plan to work more on this week
5) Rainbow scrap challenge (thinking it is Brown)
6) Maybe quilt 1st ugly quilt get mom to do binding
7)

See you Tuesday

Scrap Saturday Last of the Orange

The last Scrap Saturday to show off our Orange scrap blocks. I saw some Halloween project in the works and got dreaming of pumpkins. Better then dreaming of food - started a diet and was dreaming of white bread and butter the night before. Besides all the orange scraps, it is making a bigger dent in the purple scrap box.

I got started on the pumpkins today and got two blocks complete and a start on three more. Not sure what they will become. Maybe a wall quilt or runner. At this stage they are about 10" square. The orange strip set in the middle started as a 6 1/2" square.

I also got working on something new. I see others making blocks of 4 patches or 16 patches and I thought I would make some 16 patches but I have added in one little twist. Each block has one square that is a contracting colour. In the case of Orange it got a blue or purple square. These are made up of 2" squares and  now measure 6 1/2" square. We will see how I use these.

Go to Soscrappy to see more about Scarppy Saturday and all the other Orange happening. I wounder what colour we will get next month. I could do Black or black and other colours mixed in. Brown could happen too. Three month left and all my favorite colours have been used up.

I also needed some Orange wonky log cabins. One full orange and two that had a dark purple side too. You just wait till the end of the year and I have to put the log cabins together.

Here are new Orange spools that I worked on today as Leaders and Enders. I also have a stack from early in the month.

I have signed up for Blogoberfest 2012. I have added the button to the right side. I am to blog every day in the month of October, and share my creative sprite  I think I will host a give a way. I will have to think about what I will give away. Maybe some dyed fabric.

Scrap Saturday

 I got in my sewing on Friday night after a very busy week. This is a second orange block for my rainbow quilt. I have something like 21 blocks done so far. I love the poke-a-dot fabric that has the yellow background but is strong enough to be in my oranges. Over at Soscrappy you can check out what the others are doing with orange or pumpkin. You can also go see what others were sewing on Friday Night Sew In.

 I got some poverty piecing done. Not sure what to do with some of these pieces.

 I thought I would show off my sewing machine that I used last night. My uncle David found a featherweight for me a few years back. My table is a bright pumpkin colour too. Do you see my sweet peas. They were so sweet smelling. Better then the smell coming from my husband last night. Sorry Honey. And thank you for the Birthday Cheese cake.

So far a very productive month of pumpkin. More Hexies got done over the week too. I have 16 orange flowers now. I am wondering if a should applique them to some pants.  I have a dog agility trial on Oct 6th and the theme is crazy pants. Mine might be too nice to be called crazy.

Today Mr Lex (the Dog) and I are at a dog agility trial early. I will let you know how it goes.

Blue Scrappy Saturday

The third Blue Scrappy Saturday this month and I did more rainbow blocks. I have linked this post up with Soscrappy. For these two blocks I tried to use more of the turquoise Blues and kept out the ultramarine and navy blues. It was harder to get some contrast. I think next to work on for my blue scraps, I should work on my farmer's wife blocks. It feels like forever since I did any of them. 

This week I have not done much sewing. My husband has had the week off and we have been doing a bunch of family stuff, including riding the horses. The house has still felt warm and I have been dreading plugging in the iron and getting to warm. Maybe later today I will sew. 

Scrappy Saturday #2

I have been working hard to reduce my pile of blue scraps. This week I did some wonky log cabin blocks in Blue. I have not trimmed any of the blocks yet but it is looking like they should be trimmed to 10". There are all just over 10 but some are bigger by an inch. I did not worry about this as I worked on them. Many of the triangles I used in the centre are different sizes or the amount of twist is a little different. The more twist the smaller the block. This is part of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2012.

Here is a photo of all 12 blocks done in blue. Look at all the design possibilities. I have to come up with a way to put all the different colours together.

If you want to see more scrappy blue projects, go check out the linky page at Soscrappy. I also added this to Friday night sew in.

I also did two with the lime green on one side. I have been thinking of how can I blend the colours together. I think I will do it with blocks that have two colours and then the change in colour will not be a square block.

Saturday Scrappy Blues

Scrappy Saturday this month, we work on the blue scraps. I love blue. I have lots of blue scraps. If I was to make a two colour quilt it would need to be blue. I just love these little blue pin wheels.  I got digging in some real old fabric for these blocks. Some of the navy and the real light coloured blues are from back when I worked at a fabric store in Leduc, maybe 15 years ago.

I used some of the smallest bits in the centre block. I just sewed some light coloured to light and dark to dark and then jointed the little rows together. I really did not plan it. To see more on this quilt you can go back to this post.

I have added today`s post to Soscrappy and if you want more information on the Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2012, go see.

I did not have internet for a few days this week. We had real bad winds. This is one of three trees that came down on my drive way. My husband was away and I had to get a neighbour help move the trees. We also have a building to repair as the winds blow out a wall to our horse shelter.

These are the wild roses on the drive way. We have hundreds lining the drive way. Sometimes you have to stop and smell the roses.

3rd Purple Scrap Saturday

Scrappy Saturday is here. I have some more blocks to add to one of my rainbow quilts. I fell in love with this Rainbow Quilt last Nov and wanted to make one. I have made the inside part different for each block. I plan to do the sashing kind of the same but in green. The top block is a 6" star on the inside. To see more purple goodness check out the linky page at Soscrappy.

Friday night sew in was last night check out what they all worked on Here.

A purple log cabin with a twist for the second block.

This is a photo I took back in March after doing Brown, Red, Lime Green, Green and Pink. In May I did two Yellow blocks. I now have 13 blocks for my quilt and hope to get more done. I am thinking I could do another brown one. I feel like Blue is strongly missing so far.

Today I am sewing with the Leduc quilt guild on one of our UFO days. I hope to work on my son's quilt and RRCB quilt.

Up date June 17 for Linda who asked what size I have done these blocks (finish to 12" blocks). You too can do these. First the centre block is 6" finished (6 1/2" unfinished). I did different types of blocks. Six divided into so many unit sizes. Then the white is a 1 1/2" strip (1" finished) the piano key is cut 2 1/2" (finished to 2") It can be 2 1/2 units all sewn together or some strip piecing. The key can be any width from 1" to 3" but I kept mine to under 2".  I hope that has helped.