Bear Hug # 6

 It may not look like a lot was accomplished this week, but I do have several things in the works.  So, for today I can share little Bear Hug # 6.  I am still working with the recent RSC colors of blues and yellows.  I used the same print fabric on the back.  I fmq swirls and used a ruler for the straight line grid in the center.

and here he is all bundled up and ready for gifting ...........

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday -  soscrappy

                        Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

Wishing everyone a happy and productive week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 3-7-2025

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

BubzRugz: My Tutorials and Tips

variety of tutes; qayg sashing, easy christmas cards,

charm pack baby quilt; easy applique & more

Quilted Twins | Free Patterns | Dade City, FL

refresh yourself with this wonderful collection of

scrappy quilts

Small Wonders: Mastering Tiny Nine Patch Blocks Without the Fuss

a method for making teeny tiny 9-patch blocks

How to Make Scrappy Four Patch Quilt Blocks in Minutes

making tiny 4-patches scrappy and efficiently

Wishing everyone a happy and productive week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

 

Mod Flowers - a Q4K

 This dear little quilt languished in the laundry basket for eons, aka a few years.  It began as a 3-yard quilt project from a free pattern  I got at Wood Valley Designs website.  I must have been experimenting with a new binding method because when I washed it,  the fabric frayed away from the binding.  Hence, the living under a laundry basket.

I finally decided to pull it out,  cut away the attached binding, a begin again.  It now has fresh binding and is ready for the 'quilts 4 kids' collection.  It now measures 42 x 48.

The backing is a soft fleece print.  I free motion quilted it with rulers and also played with other free-style designs.

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday -  soscrappy

                        Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

Wishing everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

SAHRR '25 - Round 6

 When the specs for round 6 was released,  I spent my morning in EQ, playing with options for the new round.  It just made this quilt far too big. I already have several queen size tops to quilt and finish.  So I stayed with my first thought of using Round 6 for my corner blocks to round 5.  I love how it finished because my border on round 5 just looked to me like a finishing frame to this quilt.

I used the kite block times 4 for each corner.  I used an accuquilt die (thank you very much) to cut these pieces.  My biggest problem came where the 4 blocks join together in the center...too many points which needs a hammer to make it flat.  Each kite block only finishes at 3 inches making the 4-patch unit finish to 6 inches.

This is not a good photo.  DH could not hold up the entire top since it measures something like 72 x 78?  I hope to get a better photo this Sunday with help from others to hold it up.

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

The Darling Dogwood to see all the SAHRR 2025

Saturday -  soscrappy

                        Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

Wishing everyone a happy week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 2-28-2025

 

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

free patterns

several quilt designs;  kite flight quilts use

strips, tumbling cats....lots more

Free Patterns - Gray Barn Designs

quilts: really love Drops of Rainbow and Sofa Siesta;

lots of designs for holidays using small squares or alphabet

Free Downloadable Patterns – Page 6

7 pages full of free designs; goes thru shopping cart

mostly quilts, a few smaller items; wide variety of styles

Wishing everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Bear Hug # 5

 More delightful little bear hug quilts to share this week.  For bear hug #5, I pulled some bricks, blues for RSC and yellow for an accent.  I sewed them as leader/enders while stitching on my SAHRR project.  I had to trim down parts of the bricks to make the blocks.  Then finishing up by cutting alternating squares from a piece of leftover wide backing. It is a nice soft blue print.  It measures 24 x 28.  

The backing is another piece of that royal blue fleece.  I used 80/20 batting and quilted it with Glide threads using one of Natalia Bonners templates.

I also finished bear hug # 2 made last month using pink leftovers from the pink and brown flimsy.  I quilted it with very large swirls.  The backing is a red fleece. It measures 22 x 28.

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday -  soscrappy

                        Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

Wishing everyone a happy and productive week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 2-21-2025

  

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

free patterns — Threaded Quilting Studio

an unusual strippy heart, a no y-seam feathered star

and a scrappy brick quilt

tutorials — Threaded Quilting Studio

tutorials for the techniques mentioned above are

found here

Aurora Feathered Star Quilt Block Tutorial - WeAllSew

a feathered star with showcase quilting

Confessions of a Fabric Addict: Tutorials

a large collection of lovely quilt patterns; many using up

your leftovers

Wishing everyone a safe and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

 

SAHRR '25 - Round 5

 My quilt is getting larger than I wanted it to be.  I will have to make Round 6 to be very small.  Round 5 called for some form of half log cabin block design.  I play in EQ, you would have to in order to do the border you will see here.  Initially I began with assorted log cabin style blocks all around the quilt.  It was just more labor intensive than I was aiming for.

You gotta love how EQ can create over the top and still make it easy for you.  I started with a half log cabin block and popped them in assorted border styles.  Eventually I cut it way down to just 4 blocks each side.  My quilt right now is 70 x 78.  Then I had to re-draw them in the size I wanted because I wanted to eliminate the center seam and make them each one full block.  Figuring out the cutting dimensions was confusing trying to convert the two blocks into one, (eliminate seam allowance here; add one on there, etc).  

So I re-drew these crazy blocks, there is a different size for the top/bottom border from the side borders.  I made my blocks yesterday and sewed them on the sides this morning.  I am not going to sew on the top/bottom blocks until I decide what I will do in the corners....trying to not grow it larger at this point.

Not the best photo, too cold to make DH stand outside and it is too large for him to hold it up properly by himself.

You can see what the other participants are creating for their Stay at Home Round Robin at this  LINK .

Have a great week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Lil Blu Bear Hug #4

 I pulled 2 leftover pieces from the shelf that went together but not with anything else. The navy was a 15 inch piece and the celery green had 18 inchs,  there is still a bit left of that.  I had fun constructing this little bear quilt which took every bit of the navy blue print, finishing with a narrow binding made from 2 inch strips.  I rounded the corners just a teeny bit, so easy to bind.

I used a dark royal blue fleece on the back and included some batting scraps; quilted with cream Glide thread using the walking foot.  What a mistake with dark glide in the bobbin as it kept poking up the top no matter what adjustments I tried.  Eventually, just went with it as is.  It finished at 22" square.

This little stuffed guy was generously sent to me by an online friend, Dee.  Many of you here will know of her.  lol.

Wish I could get the blog page to permit side by side photos.  May be if I try a different template.

But for this week, I'm joining these fun linky parties.  Be sure to visit them to see what other quilters are sharing.   

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Saturday -  soscrappy

                        Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

Friday Quilt Hop * 2-14-2025

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

Star Chain {a FREE Layer Cake quilt pattern} — Material Girl Quilts

scrappy and gorgeous is this Star Chain quilt

Fun quilting projects

click a category on the right side bar to be taken

to it's free options

free-easy-batik-quilt-patterns.pdf

a booklet of 3 patterns

Batik Split Rail Fence Quilt - Freemotion by the River

a batik 4-rail fence quilt; quick and colorful

Wishing everyone a happy creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

 

SAHRR '25 - Rnd 4

 Every Monday morning I spend in EQ8 playing around with possible borders for the new round.  This time I settled on a pretty quickly.  Now I know there is a quicker, stripset method for making this block style, but I stayed with the plan to cut the fabric apart, insert a strip or two, re-assemble and trim to size.

I started with 4-1/2 inch squares plus the accent strip to be inserted:

Cut them apart to be re-assembled:

I decided to keep it simple and avoid doing angled cuts.  Here is my round 4 border.  I really like this round!  It's now up to 56 x 64.  Trying to not let it get much over 60 x 80.

I'm linking up with pieceful wendy .  Be sure to visit there to see all the other stay at home round robins being created this year.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Baby Blue Batiks

 I seem to be getting ahead of myself with tops lately and neglecting my machine quilting.  This top is unusual it how it came together.  A few years ago I was sent a small bundle of batik strips won in a blog drawing.  Wish I could remember who it was.

Anyway I know I made something (another flimsy inspired by AlyciaQuilts) from the strips.  It's stored somewhere.  The cutoffs ended up with diagonal cuts at one end of each and they were saved in my blue scrap bin for ages.  This month I decided to do something with them so I joined them all together 'jelly roll race' style.  This made up the center panel.

Now what?  I had only this one piece of batik that would work with the center.  It is very light with blue tints.  I searched my stash for something to offset these light shades, so you'll find a mix of fabrics making up this top.  The pieces of the light are so large and look awkward.  I plan to do some fancy quilting there to make sense of those areas.  It will finish about 47 x 56.

I'm joining these linky parties this week.  Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday -  soscrappy

                        Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

Wishing everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

SAHRR '25 - Rnd 3

 I have round 3 of my Stay at Home Round Robin project assembled.  You can read all about the project and check out the latest creations   HERE  this week.

I have  SO MANY  projects on the go because its the beginning of the year and a little birdie whispered in my ear that I could keep up.   Hmmm,  wonder who that birdie was?  He needs to fly south.

Wishing everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 2-7-2025

 

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

Buzzing and Bumbling: Tutorials

lots of small projects and gift items; a technique for

drawing faces, make your own satin labels, some assorted

useful bags * more

Threadbare Creations: free pattern

lots of scrappy block patterns; love the strippy hearts on page one,

follow thru with the 'older posts' button for several pages 

of more free patterns;  LOVE the candy apple blocks on page 2

Quilt Patterns and Tutorials — Crafty Staci

lots of unique blocks and projects

Wishing everyone a happy and creative week.  Thank so much for stopping by.

Bear Hugs # 3

 Angela of Soscrappy gave us plenty of notice for the RSC challenge that the color for February is blue.  I also made a personal challenge this year to make lots of things with rails or bricks AND I joined the Feb & March challenge at Heartstrings  making smallish quilts for a bear/stuffed toys donation drive.  Funny how a new year makes you think you can take on lots of new challenges.

Here is bear hug # 3 (#2 pink one is not quilted yet).  All cut from the blue scrap bin finished at 24" square.

The backing is a royal blue fleece.  I always use batting, so I make sure to not quilt it too densely so it stays cuddly.  I used a large arc ruler to fmq quilt diagonally over each 4 patch unit and royal blue Glide thread.  I purchased some labels to stitch to all the items I make for our church Foster Children Closet.

and finally  here is Bear Hug # 3  all ready for gifting.

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday -  soscrappy

                        Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

Wishing everyone a safe and productive week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 1-31-2025

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

My Quilt Infatuation: Tutorials

nice variety and lovely scrappy patterns

Kat & Cat Quilts: Tutorials

lots of different string quilt designs, a really fun method for

making a 4 fat quarter baby quilt;  fold a quilt for gift giving

and more 

Felicity Quilts: Tutorials

a few here; a nice holly berries christmas pillow;

a fabric star ornament,  lined tote & more

Wishing everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

 

SAHRR '25 Round 2

 I pressed onward to get round 2 done for this years Stay at Home Round Robin, so I could return to other projects waiting for attention.  I am really enjoying this colorful, bright project as this is not my typical palette.  The focus fabric helps me pull out all the colors to work in the new rounds.  Fun.

I'm linking up with Anja at Anja Quilts for this weeks challenge.  Be sure to visit there to see what other creative quilters are sharing this week.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

SAHRR 25 - Round 1

 Uh oh.  I know I will confuse everyone.  I did change my center block ............ again!  I just couldn't work with those first two blocks, no contrast, just a mush of prints.  So here is my third and final version of the center block.

Round One was to use the Kings Cross block or any block whose name begins with the first letter of your own name.  Well, that is still a  ' K '  for me.  So I stayed with the Kings Cross block.  I didnt want to make a ton of those blocks, so put them as corner blocks.  Now I had all the rest of the border to fill in.  I carried thru with the geese and love the black with dots print.  So geese are traveling all around the center.  Lots of opportunity for borrowing color from the main print.  I hope it doesn't look too busy.

You can join in or follow along with the 2025 SAHRR by starting here at 

                               SAHRR ’25: Centre Block | Quilting Gail

I'll be joining he SAHRR linky party this week over at Anja Quilts.  I was confused when and where we should link up,  so this is my round 1 entry.  I will be sure to link up Round 2 at Anja Quilts before the end of the week, as well.

Wishing everyone a week full of stitching and creativity.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Squared Pink - RSC QOM

 January is made for fresh starts and new goals.  I have participated for years with Angela at Soscrappy for the RSC color challenge of the month but only managed to follow along these past two years.  Obviously I jumped out of the gate running this month.  Early in the month I made a pink and brown 'bear hug' quilt.  This week I have been working on this scrappy quilt.  It is 46 x 55 and waiting its turn for my quilting marathon.

I had 2 extra blocks and built up scraps around them until it reached bear hug size.  This one is also waiting for quilting.  It will finish 22 x 28.

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday -  soscrappy

                        Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

Wishing everyone a joyful and productive week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 1-24-2025

 

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

Patchwork Star Baby Quilt Tutorial

adorable 40x40 star quilt made from layer cake squares

Freebies – Kitchen Table Quilting

a few really great quilts plus some 

quick and easy quilts with GIANT blocks

Coryn Flower Basket by Lisa DeBee Schiller, Free Projects, Windham Fabrics

a lovely quilt with lots of applique

Free Patterns Basics - Tildas World

a few free projects;  the first is a huge quilt of a complicated flower

all made from little squares

Wishing everyone a joyful and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Carol's Topper

 I re-created this topper from a photo that was shared on one of my quilting groups years ago when we were still on Yahoo.  I don't remember much except I called it Carol's Topper.  So if you are the Carol who first shared her topper, be sure to let me know.

Here is the photo I kept in my quilt gallery folders all these years.  It pays off not to have a clear-out.

Here is my topper.  I eliminated the background pieces.  I made mine to measure 36 inches. I want it to hang over the edge on a smaller end table.  It is not quilted yet until I decide whether to birth it or bind it.

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing with us.

Saturday -  soscrappy

                        Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

Wishing everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 1-17-2025

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

Lee Heinrich Designs modern quilt patterns — Lee Heinrich Designs modern quilt patterns

3 pages of blocks for interesting quilts - click "older posts" for

the additional pages

Free Patterns – Lamb Farm Designs

a few freebies here, need to go thru shopping cart;

Pieced Lodge is sweet and a nice border on the pillow

Alamosa Quilter: Tutorials

bags, a puzzle quilt, foot petal mat,

stars and scrappy stripes quilt, lattice quilt 

plus more

FunThreads Designs: Free Quilt Patterns

a nice variety of patterns, some with applique; 

some made with squares; some simple quilts too

Wishing everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

 

SAHRR 2025 Con't

 Evidently I couldn't tolerate my first block.  I thought it was a good idea to choose a fabric that had a variety of colors to work from.  This happy fabric with the orange is just getting lost with my other choices.  On my second attempt, I eliminated the very dark busy print.  The yellow with rose color dots go so well with my main print.  Now my second attempt here,  there is an equal balance of fabrics,  but the yellow dots still overwhelm the block.  This block measures 16-1/2 " unfinished. I know when additional borders are added, it will calm the overall effect.

Linking up again with the SAHRR group.  Be sure to visit the other participants.  There will be some interesting creations being shared. InLinkz - Linkups & Link Parties for Bloggers

See you soon ...........................