SAHRR '24, Round 2

 

This week's round was hosted by Anja @Anja Quilts.  Her prompt was to use two colors, you can make any block you chose.

Last week the prompt was to make signature blocks, and I just made them for the four corners as stars.

As I explained before, my center blocks were from a baggie I picked up on the free table at a guild meeting.  Everything is blue and white in the baggie.  What I chose to do for this round was add some more of those blocks on this round.  This was the result.  

I will be linking up with Anja @Anja Quilts.  

Below is a list of all the co-hosts for this SAHRR, from the beginning.

This is the schedule for the SAHRR:

• January 22: 1st Round:   Wendy @ Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life
• January 29: 2nd Round:   Anja @ Anja Quilts
• February 5: 3rd Round:  Emily @ The Darling Dogwood
• February 12: 4th Round:  Brenda @ Songbird Designs
• February 19:  5th Round: Gail@ Quilting Gail
• February 26:  6th Round:  Kathleen @ Kathleen McMusing
• March 18: Parade: showing all of your finished SAHRRs

Thanks for stopping by!

Slow Sunday Stitching

It has been a couple of weeks since I checked in.  I have been busy with guild activities.  We have had some rainy days here recently.    Most of our community service fabrics are stored  in a commercial building owned by one of our members husband.  He has a train store.  Our fabrics are stored in the very back of the old, old building that unfortunately has a leak in the roof, mostly where are fabrics are stored.  And a lot of our containers apparently had no lids on them.  My co-chair Cathy and I went over several weeks ago with some new containers with lids.  We found 5 containers without lids and sitting in water.  I brought them home and spent 3 whole days washing, drying and ironing the fabric.  Some of the fabric we had to toss as it had stains that did not wash out.

We went back over this week and there was even more water than last week.  We relocated some of the bins to another area that doesn't seem to be leaking.  The owner is looking into getting it fixed we have heard.  

This week was the White Rabbit Blog Hop, hosted by Carol @Just Let Me Quilt.   My day was here.

I also had workday at my house this week.   We cut batting and binding for the tops and backings we have and pack them up into kits.  The first of the month I will take them to pin basting day and then to guild meeting for people to take home.

This past week I also finished the 1st Pumpkin Village block.  I had miscut the sheep's body and head and legs, and had to go into my leftover wool and luckily found enough to recut those pieces, but it is finally done.

This week I also finished  this section of the Blessings Quilt. I now have only the last section to complete.  I am hoping to get this completed, quilted and entered in our quilt show in May.

This week we also celebrated my oldest daughter Kristen's birthday.  We had a family dinner and later in the week I went out with Kristen's friends, and my other daughter Katie and celebrated at a local bar.  It was music bingo night and we played 6 rounds, but didn't win anything, but had a lot of fun.  I had pictures to show, but I can't seem  to get the pictures to download from my Iphone into my windows computer tonight.  

Another fun thing I have done this week was visit a guild member's home.  She collects doilies and laces, old linens, and she invited me to come over and pick out what I wanted.  She calls it "rescuing them".  I use things like this for my crazy quilting.  She also gifted  me an antique crazy quilt, which is disintegrating in some places.  This is the stash I brought home.

What I will be working on for Slow Sunday Stitching is my redwork Sunbonnet Sue.  I just prepared 6 blocks.  Next year our guild's show is going to be red and white quilts, so this will be my first one.  

I got the iron-on patterns from this old book I had in my collection.

I will be linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.    Head on over and see what everyone has been up to.

Thanks for stopping by!

SAHRR '24, Border 1

 

This week Wendy @Pieceful Thoughts  hosted the first round of the Stay At Home Round Robin.  She chose a signature block.  I tried to look for a different version of the signature block and finally made a decision.  I made the basic signature block and then made it into a star. 

I made the four corners signature blocks, and I will wait and see what next week's prompt is.

I'll be linking up at Pieceful Thoughts of my Quilting Life.  

This is the schedule for all the SAHRR co-host bloggers.  

• January 22: 1st Round:   Wendy @ Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life
• January 29: 2nd Round:   Anja @ Anja Quilts
• February 5: 3rd Round:  Emily @ The Darling Dogwood
• February 12: 4th Round:  Brenda @ Songbird Designs
• February 19:  5th Round: Gail@ Quilting Gail
• February 26:  6th Round: Kathleen @ Kathleen McMusing
• March 18: Parade: showing all of your finished SAHRRs!

Thanks for stopping by!

White Rabbit Blog Hop, My Day

 

The White Rabbit Blog Hop is started on Monday, hosted by the fabulous Carol @Just Let Me Quilt.     Many thanks to Carol for another great challenge.  

The Challenge this Time:  On the first day of each month there is a tradition for people to say "White Rabbit" first thing in the morning.  The phrase is supposed to bring good luck.  Even President Roosevelt did this.  

We are challenged this time to make something with white fabrics, rabbits or white rabbits. 

When I heard of this challenge I knew exactly what I wanted to do.  Many, many, many years ago I started a quilt with a group of online friends.  It was the Blessings Quilt Series by Jennifer Lokey and Karen Roosien.   You could make each of the 4 sections as separate quilts, or put them all together into one quilt.  I had made first section "All Things Bright and Beautiful".  Then the whole works went into the closet since 1999. I had pattern, my completed section, and all the fabrics bagged up in a zippered bag.  The first section had an embroidered rabbit in it.  

I plan to have this quilt completed for our quilt show in May, so I got busy trying to complete the rest of the sections.  I completed the "All creatures great and small" section and sewed it to the other section.

I almost got the "The Lord God Made Them All" section done, with another rabbit in it.  

Be sure and visit the other bloggers below and leave a sweet comment.  

                                                                      JANUARY 22

Just Let Me Quilt

Inflorescence

Quilt Schmilt

Sew Many Yarns

Days Filled With Joy

 

JANUARY 23

Quilting Gail

Beaquilter

Ms P Designs USA

Words & Stitches

Lake Girl Quilts

Homespun Hannah's Blog

 

JANUARY 24

Selina Quilts

Karrin’s Crazy World

Quilted Delights

The Life of Grammy

Quilting Between The Rails (Facebook Page)

Quilted Snail

 

JANUARY 25

MooseStashQuilting

Vroomans Quilts

Domestic Felicity

Pattern Princess

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Highroad Quilter

Kathy's Kwilts and More 

Thanks for stopping by!

SAHRR '24, Center Block

 

Gail @Quilting Gail is hosting her Stay At Home Round Robin again this year.  This is one of my favorite yearly activities.  You start out with an orphan block, and each week one of the co-host SAHRR gives you a prompt of what the next round will be.  

This was my finished quilt from 2023.  I donated it to Community Service at my guild.

This was my top from 2022.  I donated it to Hands2Help

This was from 2021, and I also donated it also to Hands2Help.

This year I was looking through my odds and ends basket and didn't see anything that caught my eye.  Then I caught sight of this baggie of blocks and flying geese I picked up from the free table at my guild.  

I put together 4 of the blocks.  Don't know what this baggie of blocks and bits was supposed to be, but this is the center block I came up with.  I want to make it lap sized, and will be donated to the Community Service at my guild and I want it to end up rectangular.  It is starting out at 17.5 x 20.5.  

This is the schedule for the SAHRR:

• January 22: 1st Round:   Wendy @ Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life
• January 29: 2nd Round:   Anja @ Anja Quilts
• February 5: 3rd Round:  Emily @ The Darling Dogwood
• February 12: 4th Round:  Brenda @ Songbird Designs
• February 19:  5th Round: Gail@ Quilting Gail
• February 26:  6th Round:  Kathleen @ Kathleen McMusing
• March 18: Parade: showing all of your finished SAHRRs

I will be linking up at Quilting Gail.  

Thanks for stopping by!  

 

White Rabbit Blog Hop Coming Next Week

                                                                        

The White Rabbit Blog Hop is coming next week, hosted by the fabulous Carol @Just Let Me Quilt.   

The Challenge this Time:  On the first day of each month their is a tradition for people to say "White Rabbit" first thing in the morning.  The phrase is supposed to bring good luck.  Even President Roosevelt did this.  

So we are challenged to make something with white fabrics, rabbits or white rabbits. 

This is the line-up for the hop.  

                                                      JANUARY 22

Just Let Me Quilt

Inflorescence

Quilt Schmilt

Sew Many Yarns

Days Filled With Joy

 

JANUARY 23

Quilting Gail

Beaquilter

Ms P Designs USA

Words & Stitches

Lake Girl Quilts

Homespun Hannah's Blog

 

JANUARY 24

Selina Quilts

Karrin’s Crazy World

Quilted Delights

The Life of Grammy

Quilting Between The Rails (Facebook Page)

Quilted Snail

 

JANUARY 25

MooseStashQuilting

Vroomans Quilts

Domestic Felicity

Pattern Princess

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Highroad Quilter

Kathy's Kwilts and More 

Thanks for stopping by!

ScrapHappy January

It’s again time for showing off our scrap projects!  ScrapHappy is open to anyone using up scraps of anything – no new materials. It can be a quilt block, pincushion, bag or hat, jewelry, dolls, socks or a sculpture.   Anything made of scraps is eligible.

If you'd like to join us and use up your scrap collection, instead of sitting around in bags, etc, why not join us on the 15th of each month? Either e-mail Kate at the address on her Contact Me page, or leave a comment on her Scrap Happy Post.

You can also contact Gun via her blog to join. We welcome new members, and you don’t have to worry about making a long-term commitment or even join in every month. Regular contributors receive an e-mail reminder at least three days before the event.  

I have continued to work on my potato chip blocks.  You can get the instructions here at Conquering Mt. Scrapmore with Brenda.   I worked on these at our 5th Wednesday Community Service workdays for my guild.  We have about 5 hours of sewing time.  I actually made the blocks for one more small quilt and it has been pin basted and ready for someone to pick up to quilt at our next guild meeting.  I didn't get a picture of that one, but I have some more blocks in the making. 

I need to make 6 more blocks for another top.  We have another 5th Wednesday coming up the end of this month, so I will be working on these again and finishing another top.

I was going to start Bonnie Hunter's latest mystery Indigo Way with scraps but decided against it.  I looked at the finished quilt and decided it had too much red for what I wanted to do.  I have some treasured indigos and I want them to be more of the highlighted fabric than the red.

I decided to make another Winter Blues quilt.  I finished and gifted one last year.

These are the bits and pieces I had leftover from that quilt.  

I got them out out of the baggie and ironed and sorted them out.

I love the the labels on the back of indigos.  

I gathered up more neutral and blue scraps, and my indigos and cut more strips up.  I have these ready to work on as leader/enders.  

Check how others have been using their scraps.

Kate, Gun, Eva, Sue, Lynda,
Birthe, Turid, Susan, Cathy,  Tracy, 
Jan, Moira, Sandra, Chris, Alys,
Claire, Jean, Dawn, Gwen,
Sunny, Kjerstin, Sue L, Vera, 
 Ann, Dawn 2, Carol, Preeti,
Nóilin, Viv, Karrin, Amo, Alissa,
Lynn, Tierney and Hannah

Thanks for stopping by!