Scrappy Green Saturday

I worked on the many many tiny bits of green scraps. I had tons of little triangles left from making binding. I love to use green for my binding. I got 10 crumb 6" blocks done. I also like to call this Poverty Piecing, as I am making something out of nothing. I love the depth of the greens in these blocks. 

I got five Lime green sprout blocks done. I still have enough that I may get 5 more darker green blocks done this next week. You can find the pattern at Tracey Jay Quilts. 

I found the clover block on Pinterest but then I did not like the web site instructions, so I kind of made up my own. They look the same. Can you see the background fabric? It is horse Shoes. How very lucky is that?  

This is Selvages. Yes I have gone crazy and mad and silly all at once. I sewed the green (and other colours here and there) bits of 2" wide selvages I had collected.  I have no idea what I will do with them now. I need to sew more before I can make much. 

I will be adding this post to the linky party over at Soscrappy.  Go see what other are doing with their green scraps. 

So I am out the door today. The Leduc Black Gold Quilt Patch is having a Quit till you Wilt day. We have rented a church for the day and are sewing up a storm. We have another crappy weather weekend with snow/rain/sleet. There are no agility dog trials locally. So I sew today. We also have pot luck supper planned. It should be a good time.

Evergreen Scrap Saturday

I got 19 spools done this past week. I love the bright lime green ones the best. I still have a bowl full to sew.

I still did more sorting and cutting down the scraps. I need 2" squares, 2 1/2" squares and 3" squares for some of the blocks I am planning. I will also use some strings. Then the smallest bits can be used in crumb blocks. 

I have added today's post to So Scrappy and the Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2013. 

I still have so much planned to do in Green. Here is a list 

1) coin strips

2) 16 patches with 2" squares

3) triangles with strings

4) More tulip bottoms

5) sprout blocks

6) crumb blocks 6"sq

7) around about

I got 48 flying geese done today. I am still not sure how or where this geese will be used but they are cute. 

I had to show you these trees - evergreens. They are from an old UFO quilt top. I made them by using a pleater board. They are 3D. 

Design Wall Monday April 6th

I found my sitting dog pattern. I designed this paper piece pattern many years ago and wanted to remake the dog. I am planning a binder cover for my dog journal. Lex is a Brown Chesapeake Bay Retriever. I have been busy with the a one line dog training course and they tell us we should journal every day about our work with the dog. I want a fancy cover for my binder.

On the right is an old block that is needed in a UFO quilt. I have the old UFO quilt mostly designed but not sewn together. I did not want to just steel the block. Now the new dog will face the opening of the binder.

Judy over at Patchwork Times hosts Design Wall Monday. I have added today's post to her linky party.

I have also been working on my Easy Street blocks. But I quickly ran out of the four patches. I changed them from grey to pink and I thought I had made enough ( the stack of square looked big enough) well I needed 68 more. I just did not make enough. Also had to cut more lime green squares. I must of only made half the number of required units on some steps. What was I thinking. I hope that is all I am short of.

Where is the Green?

We have no sign of spring here. No sign of green outside yet, still lots of white stuff. It snowed again last night. The roads have been bad for three days. Time to stay inside a sew up a storm.

I have my green scraps well sorted. This is a pile of green and neutral triangles I have leftover from past projects.  I can do lots with them for scrap blocks.

I made kits of green spools out of the scraps. I am thinking I have around 50 here so far. I place them in the red and black fabric bowl and have it next to my machine as Leaders and Enders. This stack should do for the month of April. 

I got three Jack in the Box blocks done using the triangles I had. I got the pattern from Bonnie Hunter's Addicted to Scraps Here.  I used the 2 1/2" unfinished Triangles. I have no plans to use the sashing in the pattern shown but maybe no sashing at all. 

I had a few Orange blocks done last week. This week I went back and did the pink and purple blocks too. I am thinking I might add blue and yellow ones later and then just finish this one into a small quilt. I do not have any new extra baby quilt. They are good to have on hand in case you need a gift.

I have added today's post to Soscrappy were you can find more green scrap projects. I am a day late posting but I guess late is better than never.

Yesterday was a Dog Agility Trial. Lex and I passed our first Master Standard class. It was a tough course too, many good dogs and handlers did not fair well. Lex saved me on one jump as I made a mistake in handling. A very good boy, he was. The roads to the trial were not good in the morning. I had a close call, as a driver came down the Devon bridge crossing on the wrong side, in my lane. I had a truck in front and in the other lane so I just saw the car in the last seconds and had to change lanes. Felt the Van slip but stayed on the road. Wow to close a call, Glad to be ALIVE.

Last Orange Saturday of Scraps

Spring is taking it's time around here so I got making my own Spring Tulips. I found the pattern for it at Bee in my Bonnet, it was the last row of her row by row. I just may have to make the whole quilt. I have made many of the butterflies and I love the apples and cores. These are just so cute.  

Next I sewed together some strips in orange. They are 6 1/2" wide. I am thinking they will be great as a boarder on one of these Rainbow quilts.

For more on today's Orange scraps Go see Soscrappy.  And to see more about the Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2013.

I made five 6" crumb blocks to go with the others. I have trouble stopping these. I get started and there is always more little bits left that could be one more block. Then one more. Hard to stop. 

I still had a little stack of triangles so I made two 8" jack in the box blocks. I am thinking of going back and making a few pink and purple ones too. 

I still have a few strips so why not make a few string blocks. I decided to really make them triangles so that I can mix the colours up. I have no idea how I will really use them but they are more useful now. I went back and did some purple triangle strings too. I am not sure what size these are maybe 8" when two are sewn together. 

We have so much snow. I am thinking I may have to do some snow dying of fabric this week. The snow was so wet and perfect for snow dying yesterday.

Stitching for Customers

I keep machine quilting for my customers and then forget to ask if I can post photos. Well this past weekend David Taylor came to get this Bright and Beautiful Flying Geese quilt of his. And I remembered to ask. I just love this quilt because it is a rainbow of colours. 

A detail of the machine quilting I did. I love what I did on this quilt so much I might had to make one. The inside of the block has this sunshine like pattern and the outside is a few spirals and more flame like stitching. It is all done by free motion so if I look closely I can see small changes with in each block.

I believe David found the pattern for the block on the internet. The block is paper piecing done in four parts. I believe I have seen this pattern but not sure where. I am sure I will find it again.
Edit note I have found the free pattern called Circle of Geese by Beth at Piece by Number.

Orange Scrap Saturday

I found sometime to work on the Orange scrap box again this week. I got two flower blocks done. They finish up to be 8" square blocks. When I did purple ones I thought of them as Pansies, not sure I would call these ones pansies or not. Edit - We will call them Poppies as Brenda suggests. Thanks

When you are done reading here, go check out what others have posted over at Soscrappy. We are all working though our scraps for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2013. This month is Orange, January was Pink and Feb was Purple. The other colours of the month are a surprise for each of us. You can join in the fun anytime. 

I have 24 butterflies done in orange. I got this pattern over at Bee in My Bonnet. She has been doing a row by row and this was row 2 back in Sept. She has just finished the quilt. I like some of the other patterns and may have to do more. Heck, I may end up making a whole quilt more. I love the apples and cores and the Spring tulips too. There were mittens but we have so much winter I am not sure I want to make mittens. 

We got snowed in this week. Thur was a mess and we did not plow out till late on Friday. I got my van stuck on Wed. So we are on a forced long weekend. Spring Break is also this week. 

I was surprised how the photos today made my oranges all look the same. So here is a detail so show the details of my prints. I had a number of old orange Jenny Beyer prints because I bought some oranges on clearance 15 years back. I kind of wish I had some of the other colours that never made it one to the clearance shelf.

WIP Wednesday

I have been working on my Easy Street mystery quilt this week. I had a UFO sewing day with the Leduc Black Gold Quilt Patch on Monday. I had these blocks done a few months back but I really did not like the Grey four patches and I changed them to pink four patches. Big improvement, I am much happier with the pink.

The wall also has my orange Sprout blocks on the left. On the bottom right is my Around About. Both of these are part of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2013 that I have been following along. One the bottom left you can see the red and green project, that is a Christmas table runner I have quilted it but need to trim and bind still. I did not get it done for Christmas but maybe I can get it done in time of one of the guild quilt shows and the next Christmas.

Here is my box of patches that still need to be sewn into blocks. I have all the out triangles done but need to complete 21 more blocks. If you want to see more about the Easy Street Mystery go see the pattern on Bonnie Hunter's Quiltville site. The pattern is only going to be there for a few more weeks, as she will take it down and publish the pattern in her next book. 

I have 7 orchid plants flowering now and two more about to pop. This is just one of the plants flowering and it is so perfect today. I hope spring hurries up, it is very much winter here today with blowing snow and drifting. Tonight is the Edmonton guild meeting and I am wondering if I should be out driving in the dark. 

Now back to more machine quilting for my customers. I have a few deadlines for quilts this month. 

I have linked today's post with Freshly Pieced and Needle and Thread Network

Plans for the week

Lily pad I am needle felting

I am home from my dog trial. We did not get any passes but maybe we got the biggest laugh of the day. Lex was up on the A frame and spotted his green stick toy and raced down over two jumps and the ring fence to retrieve his toy. It was kind of cute but we had a incomplete run. We had a few really good parts and some wrong moves in every go today. It was fun and that was Why we do it.

Monday is a UFO stitch day at the Leduc Quilt guild. I am looking forward to going to that. So I worked on Saturday, quilting, so I could take Monday off. I think I will take my Easy Street Mystery from Bonnie Hunter. I have lots left to do.

The lily pad is for a project I hope to finish soon. Then maybe I can show you more.

Orange Scrap Saturday

I have been working on the Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2013 this past week. We are using our Orange scraps for the month of March. To see what other quilters are doing with orange scraps go take a look at Soscrappy.

I first have my sprout blocks done. So far I have been doing five of each of the colours. I am not sure how big this quilt will be or how many blocks I will make. You can find the pattern for the Sprout block.

I did some flying geese this week. They measure 2" by 3 1/2" and will finish to 1 1/2" by 3" when sewn in. I think I could always use some on a boarder or to joint blocks together. We will just see what comes. 

We did Orange last Sept 2012, so I have already done many spools. I found two more orange fabrics to do.  I am trying to do the spool quilt like a charm quilt were the fabrics are not repeated.

I have a dog trial on Sunday. Wish us luck. I hope the roads are not to bad in the morning. We have blowing snow here and there.