Ta da da done the second

 

Another one done!!  Just simple free motion machine quilting from point to point.  The backing fabric is a piece of hand dyed fabric that my mother got some where local it just seemed perfect for this quilt, it was a little narrow so I had to add a strip.  Used binding scraps just sew another strip to the strip and viola' its done.  --Ann--

quilt seeds / scraps

The start of another quilt from my little bags of quilt seeds leftovers from previous quilts.   I take out the parts then reach for fabrics to add and start cutting and sewing and cutting and sewing some more.  This little bag of scraps even had the recipe for the quilt complete with the name of the book and author.  Most of my decisions were already made for me.  Happy quilting.  --Ann--

another ta da da done

 I don't know which I like to do more piecing a quilt or machine quilting maybe its just putting my foot on the pedal and feeling the hum of the machine.  This was the third quilt from these fabrics this year.  It seems these fabrics grow instead of deplete from the stash.  Another one done!! --Ann--

Is it really spring

Our snow is gone! It melted then it evaporated!! It’s gone!
Then I saw some daffodils blooming, is it really spring?
It's time for a new project I'm tired of sewing masks and I need to clear the design wall.
Finish this flimsy!!!

 These blocks have been arranged and rearranged now they are stitched and set for life. Maybe I will add a border maybe I won't.  Add it to the stack for the next basting day.
I pulled out a stack for fabric from the stash because I was inspired by a book I read, more on that next week.  I have been working on graph paper and doing math on paper and in my head and making lots of notes so that I make the best use of the fabrics with as little waste as possible.  My head is swimming with ideas, will it be one quilt or two.    The end of the 6th week of staying home.
--Ann--

Pin wheels and 4 patches

 Random placement of half square triangles in the pin wheels.

 Matching half square triangles in the pin wheels.

I moved the top row of 4 patches and half square triangles from the top and right sides to the left and bottom centering all of the16 patch blocks in the diamond formed by the pin wheel blocks.
Which way do I want to sew it together??  I'll study it for a couple more days while I sew face masks.
--Ann--

design wall

I needed a day of mindless normal sewing.  Just scraps and strips I had previously cut, 2 1/2 inch and 4 1/2 inch strips. I just stuck things on the design wall as I sewed and I can see I need to bring some order to it by matching the pin wheel blades in color and value.  Those bright blue squares really pop.  I like that.  Back to sewing masks  I pulled a pile of wonderful fabrics out of the stash, the wondering what I was thinking I would make with that fabric. When I need a stretch from sewing masks I will rearrange the pin wheels.  There's no place like home, there's no place like home, there's no place like home............--Ann--

Design Wall

 This past week has been one step at a time getting these blocks together.  I'm not thrilled with the squiggly black line on the white fabric for the background but I had a couple yards of it to use.  The little dots with the diagonal line for the corner triangles brightens it up at lot.  I see two blocks where I turned the 4 patch the wrong way.  I don't think I'll fix it.  I need a humility block to check me back to reality especially when everything is falling into place to easily.  Hope you are staying safe as we social distance ourselves from everyone and everything.  --Ann--

Color Me Happy

Another finish!  Color Me Happy is really how this one makes me feel. Those cheerful colors brightened up the many gray days we had this summer.  I had binding left from an earlier quilt and scraps to make the backing wide enough for this quilt.  I had second thoughts about the binding because it was not used in piecing this quilt.  The color changes in the bias pull it all together, a little aqua blue, a little orange, a little green and a little more orange and yellow.  I'm glad I used it. Super simple quilting to show off the fabrics and piecing.  Just a diagonal line through the 4 patches and 9 patches and arcs in the pinwheels and a little loopy thing in the side squares of the large 9 patches.  Need to think about some new projects.  --Ann--

Sizzling colors and scraps

The days have been hot and humid or overcast and I need some bright cheery fabrics.  I used scraps from previous quilts.  The only full width of fabric that I cut was for the background and one strip for pinwheels.  Sadly I used most of my black and white fabrics and when I was in the fabric store for batting I didn't see any that were more white than black,  they are gone.  But there were lots of boring grays. I think gray would suck the life out of these brights.  Did you guess I don't like gray?  My next quilt with bright prints may have a plain white background.  The bag of scraps is smaller but there is a new bag of scraps inside that bag with the leftovers, 1 1/2 inch squares, 2 inch squares, 3 3/4 inch triangles and 5 inch triangles and a note about 9 patches, 4 patches and pinwheels--my seed bag for the next quilt.  Enjoying bright blue sky and cooler temps today.  --Ann--
Linking to Em's Scrapbag

favorite fabrics

I started machine quilting on another quilt but stop and study this one as I re arrange the quilt because it is still pinned to the wall.  My eye is always drawn to the rabbit fabrics, I might name this quilt Rabbits Run Like the Wind.  Our previous house was on the edge of town with a pasture out our backyard, on a couple occasions when there was snow I could see three jackrabbits near the fence line and they would race from one end of the pasture to the other and back again. It was the funniest thing.  Who do you want to be your buddy when the fox or coyotes are watching? The one you can outrun.  I can't decide which fabric is my favorite......they all are that's why they are in my stash.
 --Ann--

ta da da done #3

 It seems it is either miserably hot outside or overcast and rainy. Everywhere is green again.  Sew to the sewing room instead of running around.  I can get a lot done when I stay home in my sewing room. After considering lots of possibilities I did a free motion feather in the border.  It just wasn't wide enough for a baptist fan like I did on a similar quilt a couple years ago click.   Those fabrics are so cheerful on another gloomy day.  --Ann--