Sew Sunshine

I am not sure what to call this finish. I have been emptying baggies of projects or ideas of projects that I have kept together. This week I found a bag with 2 animal blocks framed up partially with the animal print fabrics. They were left over from a kids quilt I made years....ago. I decide this would be easy to just frame up some more of the animals in the panel and ...USE...IT....UP! ha So I don't know if this is a UFO or a WIP but it is now something! Between the front and the back I used up all but a strip of zebra and cheetah fabrics. I can put that in the scrap bag for another day.  I had four animals left from the panel and was able to make them into little backpacks. One of my local quilt guild is making backpacks for little ones to use for medical purposes.  The packs are lined and just need the cording yet.  So another bag gone and done. Next up...new project quilting challenge coming out tomorrow.  linking up with  Put your foot down and  Wed we...

My bag eliminating continues. If you have been following me this year I have not been cleaning and organizing per say but I have been keeping things neatly together over the years. What I am finding out is that I have tons of fabrics filed away in bags waiting for whatever it is to be finished. I keep the relevant coordinates together or shades or whatever. This does have its advantages as I can pull it up and not have to rematch etc. However, it also has its pitfalls. I just commented to another blogger that I loved her blue quilt and wondered why I didn't have much blue fabric. Well, the answer = I have bunches of it packed away with projects! sigh.... Slowly I am pulling up these project bags and deciding to continue or let go of all the fabrics held hostage!  This bag was a bag of string cutoffs of AGF. I love their feel and texture and started a improv crib quilt with them. Then got busy and moved on.  While I did not empty the bag of strings I did finish up with thi...

51 x 51 approx. This weeks challenge from  Project Quilting 13.4  is Mining for Diamonds.  You can click on link to take you to see all the interpretations. Mine came from my stash and a need to empty out some bags of chunks of fabrics I have stashed and also my sister gave me a bag of her cut offs of batting.  I have wanted to do another QAYG (quilt as you go) project. I love them. Here are a couple from my past go at them:  Under the rug and  Scrappy strings This time I decided to see if there were any other methods to use. I pulled out the fabrics I had stashed and saw that I could use the coordinates pretty easily.  With the bigger pieces I thought I could do more. I found a tutorial and free pattern with some videos  by Monica Poole . This to me looked pretty simple and accurate so I decided to give it a go.  I liked that I was able to use my big bias tape maker which was sitting in a drawer.  (one of my goals this year is to use ru...

Yay for me...another WIP bites the dust! This is the plaidish quilt tutorial by Erica @  Kitchen Table Quilting Such a fun quilt to do and mindless sewing of scraps except for light and dark.  64" x 84" approx scraps, serpentine quilting I was not sure I could quilt it myself so I tried to keep it simple. I used the serpentine stitch on my machine and with the help of the stitch in the ditch walking foot followed the lines. I did really good checking the back for tucks etc until the end of the rows. So of course I have a few at the end of the rows..ha Luckily the back is pretty busy and most you can't see only feel. sigh..... It is crinkly now because of that stitching and I hope when I wash it it will be even more! started in 2019 and made top 2020 and finished 2022...whew Linking up with Cynthia @  Oh Scrap   NTT with Kelly @ My quilt infatuation Midweek makers @ HERE   Jennifer @ Wed. Weight loss

17" x 17.5" paint on fabric hand and machine quilted This small art piece I created in the textile artist group on fb. The idea was to try all sorts of mark making tools, cut it up and stitch it back together. Since quilting is my thing I cut apart and stitched back together with hand work and machine work.  "Barbed wire and the beauty beneath" is an ode to the pasture land my husband and I have been trying to clean up. Beneath all the grass and dead trees were huge rolls of barbed wire and fencing wire. Lots of rocks and old fence posts and numerous other things.  I randomly painted on an old sheet. Cut it up and fitted it back together where some marks overlapped.  I added bits of magenta paint and found in my paint drawer a piece of sheet that my quilt bee group and I played with shaving cream and paint. It went with my layout so I used it.  I randomly hand stitch bits and then layered my pieces on a piece of organdy. I used a black batting to keep it from lookin...

This weeks  Project Quilting  over at Persimon dreams blog is 13.3 = Kitchen Influence 45"x 45" Quick Curve ruler pattern called Chic Picnic My challenge piece came about because I want to work through my scraps, by patterns and my rulers this year.  I didn't look far to find that I had Sew Kind of Wonderfuls Quick Curve ruler pattern called Chic Picnic and decided that was 'kitchen influenced'.  In the week between challenges I was working on cleaning up some baggies of scraps.  I have piles of bags and cases of scraps. I started on the black and white etc scraps cutting them up into usable bits before the challenge started. When the challenge came out I decided to see what partial FQ's and what not I had that could be cut up into scrappy goodness. I happened to find a shoe box in the corner that had just what I needed. I added some blenders and made it work.  All the remaining bits of those FQ's I used on the back and binding. All scrappy goodness AND I ...