Showing posts with label All About Strings Blog Hop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label All About Strings Blog Hop. Show all posts

Monday, March 25, 2019

All About Strings Blog Hop


Welcome to the All About Strings Blog Hop!  This is the first day, and also happens to be my day!  Many thanks to Carla of Creatin In the Sticks  for organizing this hop, and it also happened to get me to finish an old, old UFO!  I really have had fun with my strings and using up leftovers. 

 When I first signed up for this blog hop, I was thinking I would make baskets out of my strings.  

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Then I got side-tracked by this squirrel.  I have shelves up along the ceiling in my sewing room, and there are containers up there I was not sure what they contained.  I found one container and it had this primitive project in it.  Really primitive stitching on this, though not finished.

I apparently had thought of doing 2 of these for some reason, and had pieced 2 crazy backgrounds.



This was what it was supposed to be.  It is called Sweet Annie from this book. 



 I kept thinking about this, and thinking about it.  After about the third time of pulling this down from the container near the ceiling, I realized there was another baggie in the container, containing blocks from a swap from 1997.  I know, because some of them are signed and dated on the front.  It was a swap with brown and pink Civil War reproduction fabrics.  I didn't get side-tracked yet by Sweet Annie project, but the basket blocks.

 These were the blocks in the baggie I found.  

I had these other blocks too which was how I was going to originally set them.


I wanted the baskets set on point, so I looked up how to calculate my setting triangles, and I found it here on All People Quilt which has a PDF.  My blocks were 8 inches so I needed to have 6-5/8 inch squares to cut in half. 



I started sewing my strings together with a foundation.   I had a lot leftover, but I planned it that way.



My trimmed up block.


Cut in half.


This was the top finished.  These blocks were from 1997. I started quilting around 1994.  I discovered the blocks I made are awful, though I went ahead and put it together anyway.  My points didn't meet.  I sure hope these were the rejects and I sent better ones to the other participants!

In looking for other pink and brown fabric in my Civil War reproduction drawers, I got side-tracked again and ended up reorganizing them, and found these reject Dear Jane triangles.  I decided to incorporate them, along with all my leftover string pieces into the backing, plus the leftover baskets, and the other blocks I had originally intended to set the baskets on point with.  



Finished front flimsy


Finished back flimsy


Front after it has been quilted


Back after quilting.


Label

Thanks again to Carla @ Creatin in the Sticks  

This makes the second UFO I have gotten finished this month. 

Stringing Up Baskets:
Put together with swap basket blocks and set on point with string triangles.
Civil War Reproduction fabrics
Batting was Hobbs Heirloom 80/20
Thread was Aurifil 50 wt.

Be sure and visit the other participants in The All About Strings Blog Hop.  The schedule is below, and thanks so much for stopping by!





Monday, March 25th

Just Let Me Quilt

Kathy's Kwilts and More








Karrin's Crazy World


Tuesday, March 26th









ShirleyC


Wednesday, March 27th










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Saturday, March 23, 2019

All About Strings Blog Hop Coming Soon, Days with Klara.



I have been busily working on my project for the All About Strings Blog Hop starting on Monday, hosted by Carla at Creatin in the Sticks.    I've got the whole schedule listed below at the end of the post. 

I got to spend a two days with Klara, my youngest granddaughter this week.  She is 5 and her daycare provider had other plans.  She let me work on quilting for a couple of hours in the mornings and then we had the rest of the day to do some activities.  She helped me straighten out my applique threads, we sorted out the toy cupboard, and weeded out some baby games and toys, which I sent along to the daycare provider to use.  Also, on one day when it was sunny we enjoyed the park across the street for a couple of hours.  We also had a good time coloring some mermaids to send to her cousin Kyleigh who is at college near Boston.

Then I got out my bag of leggings Klara has outgrown and made a couple of outfits for her babies.  This is Dot, a dog she apparently made at one of those Build-A-Bear parties she went to.  I made Dot a pair of leggings.




Front of Leggings


Back with a hole for her tail.  Bad lighting this day, it was a rainy day.


I cut out a sleeveless t-shirt.


This was all of Klara's leggings I had left.


Klara and her babies.  


I also made some leggings and shirt for this baby.  Can't really see it, but there are unicorns on these leggings.  I also used one of Klara's tops that had a ruffle on the sleeve, and put it at the bottom of this shirt.  Her mother suggested I make some clothes and put them in her Easter basket.  

In our neighborhood, we are across the street from the 5 acre neighborhood park.  We have about 30 turkeys in one group that wander around everyday.  They start at the house across the street from me.  I'm standing in my driveway looking over.  





Then they come across the street to my driveway and front section and wander around eventually to my neighbor on the right.


Thanks for stopping by!   Again, below is the All About Strings Blog Hop Schedule.  





Monday, March 25th

Just Let Me Quilt

Kathy's Kwilts and More








Karrin's Crazy World


Tuesday, March 26th









ShirleyC


Wednesday, March 27th









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Thursday, March 07, 2019

Hand-Pieced QAL, Upcoming Blog Hops


I've really been enjoying the Hand-Pieced Quilt Along hosted by Patty of Elm Street Quilts and Kristin of Simple, Handmade, Everyday.  This week's block was named Eula.  A couple of my points are cut off where they meet the center block, but I am having a hard time getting them to come together easily and have my points in the end.  



I'll be linking up with the Hand-Pieced QAL link-up at Elm Street Quilts.

Also I'm in a couple of upcoming blog hops:  Their tentative line-ups are noted below:

The first is the Quilt Qwazy Queens Blog Hop hosted by Marian at Seams to be Sew. I'm currently working on my project for this.  Hope to have it together in the next couple of days,  My day is March 20th.








The second one is All About Strings Blog Hop hosted by Carla at Creatin in the Sticks.  I have my string project for this pieced, just needs to be quilted.  My day on this one is March 25th.





Monday, March 25th










Karrin's Crazy World


Tuesday, March 26th










ShirleyC


Wednesday, March 27th










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