Scrap use up Project Bags

     I was distracted midweek and honestly did not feel well, so I started going thru my quilt room cleaning a little. The scrap bin for batiks was one of the first things I hit up. The bin was rolling over. 

So I took out all the cut off half square triangles. Turned a lot of them into 2.5 inch squares and laid them out. Made this little piece.  

My sons girlfriend liked it, so I asked her what color to go with it. She picked Orange. So I picked another orange out of my scraps. It happened to be in the piece!!  Made a top and a back.  

The inside. Some cheap batik I bought years ago. Thought this would be a good way to get rid of!! Yep, I can’t waste, but love getting rid of what I have in a project! 

I used the Sashiko to quilt it down.  The machine did not like the thick seams of the fronts.  But did really well on the back plain fabric and batting. 

This was an easy sew. Ended up about 11.5 x 14. Put one of my cheaper cute labels on it and there’s another Project Quilting, All the Color finish!! 

And then I made another.  All scraps from a like 7-8 year ago Project Quilting Challenge. Love the fish on the back!! May keep this one! Yep, that means 3 projects done for this challenge and a few scraps cleaned up! 

And the backs!! Love these! Easy sew! No real pattern! 

Picking up Cross Stitch again!

I decided to pick up cross stitch again at the end of the year. Not really sure why, but someone gave me a kit and it started a new mad obsession. Oddly a calm one. 

I find myself sitting at night stitching before bed or actually in bed. I try to stitch at least one thread before falling asleep for the night. 

Well, I went online and saw my local Cross Stitch store Fire Poppy Stitcherythat I have never visited had a sew along kit for the year. The Quaker Months by from the Heart NeedleArt by Wendy. I loved the simple look. 

Well, I told them to give me the called for and kit it. Little did I know it would be 40 count, 1 over 2 (I had to look that up) on linen. The Threads, simply 3 shades of blue from Classic Colorworks. I guess I am starting a nice collection. Yeah, of another hobby, 

This stitch is not perfect, but it’s a start and I am excited for the next adventure!! 

2022 Goals

I picked up Cross Stitch again in 2021. Will post on this maybe in a minute!! 

Starting 2022 just like we did with 2021. Covid has invaded my house.  Actually giving me the time to sit and make another list. It actually helped me keep on track and reminded me of some goals for the year. There are a lot of quilts that rolled over from last year on here and a few more I added- 

1- Bee Quilt-blocks started

 

2- Red and white cheater quilt- cheater blocks cut

3- Harvest Road- tops done, needs borders

4- Selvedge Quilt- top done, needs borders

5- Fat Quarter Shop scrap square quilt 

6- Kaffe Embroidery- Tops done, needs border and I corner block

7- Animal Embroidery- needs a few more blocks

8- 2021 Guild block of the month- few blocks done

9- Debbie row by row

10- Rooster on board

11- Pumpkin Quilt 

12- Pineapple placemat

13- jelly Roll Quilt

12- Moma quilt

13- Bow tie quilt

14- Sewcialites- Top done needs borders 

15- T quilt

16- Stained Glass windows

17- Animal Embroidery

18- Kaffe Embroidery Quilt

19- Batik Embroidery

20- Jumbler Quilt

21- Crown of Thorns

22- Scrap Log Cabin

23- Selvedge Aqua Quilt

24- String Block Quilt

25- pineapple sampler quilt

26- Batik HST quilt (Bonnie Hunter)

27- jittery wings quilt of the month

28- Golden Eye quilt #1

29- Golden EYe quilt #2

30- Lori Holt cheater quilt

31- lori holt churn dash

32- Pat Sloan Star Quilt

33- Liberty Box Quilt

34-valentines Quilt

35- Cider Quilt

36- Pinecone Quilt

37- chicken Quilt 

38- Jean quilt 

39- Bea Lea test quilt 

 

40- The Fisher Quilt

And maybe a few challenge and quilt alongs along the way!! 

American Flag Shirt Quilt

I started this quilt with my Guild group, way back in June or July. It’s a copy of one I saw on Jo’s Country Junction. We all collected shirts and cut them and sewed them.  The hope was to make a few quilts for Quilts of Valor and a few quilts for a few of us.  

The realization though, was that this was a lot of work!! I probably bought 20 shirts and others bought 20 more!  I know as of now we have completed 4 tops and are piecing 1 more.  Then started scrapping some of the leftovers to make what I hope is a few smaller nursing home quilts. 

Honestly, this quilt to make with shirts, takes a large variety of shirts and lots of cutting.  We did figure out early how to chain piece most of the blocks.  100s later, I am tired of them! 

This quilt is a really big quilt and takes over 250 of these little block sets.  That’s over 1000 pieces in total.  Sadly, we made a big mistake and did not realize in the beginning that the whites were directional or that the white stripes really needed to read as white.  So we had to buy and cut up a few more shirts!! 

Then it honestly takes a full day of seeing to lay out, piece and quilt this top. As in probably a full 12 hours. 

I used my new Sashiko machine to quilt the top. The machine mimics hand quilting.  I did one set of stitches down each row.  I originally thought I was going to do white stitches. But then there was red thread in the bobbin.  I decided I really liked it! So I finished out all the stitching in red! Love it! 

For the binding, I used some woven cotton.  This helped with the flow of matching the binding with the shirts in the top. Strategically planning where the red and blue was located on the quilt. This is my first time doing a split binding to match color sections on a quilt! It made me love it a little more!! 

Of course I am on the right track again with labeling all my quilts!! Love these sweetwater labels.  I may have to start writing the year on them! 

I usually don’t keep many of my own quilts. Truly, I give away about everything I make.  But I decided it’s time to decorate my house abd use some of them myself.  This year, I have kept more quilts instead of giving them all away!! 

So this is another Luthridge finish!! Now to get motivated at home!!

I thought this was the perfect cotton field quilt. The crips of America, picked blossom by blossom to firm our country. The shirts worn by the hard working men of our country!  I am so proud of the work of the men of the past! And I love the crops that built our land! 

Peter Pan triangle quilt

Eight years ago, the cutest and sweetest PA came to work with me.  For the last 5 years or so I keep asking her when she’s going to have a baby.  Her answer keeps being not yet! Well, she just gave birth to a little Boy named Waylon.  A little spelling change from my Waylon. I am sooo excited for her, she will be the perfect mom! 

Only a few people ever get to pick out their fabric. But of course, she’s special!!! This is a Peter Pan fabric that I found on Etsy! 

I held on to the fabric for probably what seems like a few months! I did not know what I wanted to do with it.  I then set aside the first week in September to make it and life changed for me that week. Waylon was in a bad accident and the project was pushed off.  So with little time to finish this quilt, I decided on the triangles. 

The triangles highlighted the fabric and allowed the big prints to show. I went just as simple with the quilting.  Just straight lines on the inside of all the triangles! 

The backing is a triangle that kinda matches and has a triangle print on it! The binding sadly, is a solid, but the only thing I had that I felt really matched. So I had to suck it up.  And another awesome label.  Trying to be good with putting a label on all of them. 

And with that, as Peter Pan says “All the World is made of Faith, trust and Pixie dust”!! 

Scrap strings With that odd color.

Yep, I said odd color.  Not my usual background color. Really going out of the box with this.  But it was a friends scraps.  They were free, so I went with it. 

This honestly started as a crazy batch of strings that I sewed up over the last year.  I randomly sewed them and squared them up into 8 inch squares.  Then they kept multiplying and sat in a bin for the last year. 

Well, I set a date last week to finish. I jumped in my big scrap bin to find a background.  What did I find but these already cut 8 inch squares!! A friend doesn’t do scraps, so of course I took them!! 

 I had to add a few pieces of  another Aqua fabric that kinda matched it was all the cut off backing from another quilt.  It was a little interesting cutting all the pieces from scraps, but it worked.

Then the backing some of the last fabric another friend gave me. Doesn’t match, but my goal is sooo getting rid of stuff.  The label from my growing collection!! 

So excited to finish another quilt out of a pile of scraps.  I just have too much more to do!! On to next months challenge! 

Scrappy Timber Trees

It’s another finish, just in time to enter the Persimmon dreams, monthly Scrap Quilt Challenge!! The June theme, was trees!!  This quilt is like usual, a design of  my own! 

This quilt top is made completely out of scraps!! All of the triangles are cut offs from multiple things, but mostly binding.  They are seen together using a flip and stitch method then squaring up. 

Each tree triangle section ranges from 1 inch to 3 inches high, by 3.5 to 4.5 inches wide. The trunks are honestly about the same dimensions. 

The trees each have 5 sections and each row is 5 trees wide! I kinda love the odd number in most things.  The rows are stacked from the shortest tree to the tallest tree. I then added a section to even each row out to match the tallest tree. 

The quilt seemed to need something else.  So the star was introduced. Honestly they added width to the quilt and the perfect finishing touch!! The star centers are 3. 5 inch squares. The points are also made with the flip method. 

The rows were then trimmed for all to have matching widths.  To finish it off, I added a 2 inch strip of white to the top and bottom. 

I quilted it with grass like rows across the bottom of all the trees.  Then swirls around each tree. 

The binding, is made out of leftover binding pieces from other quilts. 

Then there is this cute little tag!! It was part of my Christmas collection.  It matched perfectly!! 

Then look at this cute family of bassets!! On some if our recently cut trees!