Sew Sunshine

This is the last bits of scraps from the big bag I decided to tackle. My lqg had an improv challenge and I was not going to participate because I have several improv projects already started that would not qualify for the challenge. However, when I was working on my scrap bag, I had these few that sort of looked good together.  I was just stripping them with no real plan and then in the bottom of the scrap bag was a circle already turned back in the yellow/gold fabric I had used in the strips....Fortunate? I think so. ha You might think no after you read the poem I came up with below. I am not a writer of anything and I don't like to read out loud things I have written but I did at my guild the other night...who knows why? Sundown on Scraps I see you staring back at me, from the far back corner of the room. Ignored and chastised for your girth And cursed at when I dig through you, for  giving birth. Endless times I attempt to sew you only to create more fluff. I surely can ge...

Stuck at home, not feeling great but not feeling horrible for over 2 weeks! My husband joined me about halfway through the days and I was going a little crazy. I kept eyeing this huge overflowing bag of scrap fabrics under my table.  Finally I just dumped it out and started sorting. I was able to make 2 more of my  Hexi Baby  quilts. If you go to the link for that page I have a free template you can use to make your own. I had a little fun with the giant grandmother flower garden hexi using the scraps I had to fit. It has been super windy the past few days so I took quick shots inside.  Some of the pieces in this quilt were a little larger but they were in the scrap bag because I am sort of sick of them.  I bet that one of the butterfly prints I have put in at least 4 other quilts. Time for it to get used up and gone! Then I decided to work through a huge scrap pile of 2.5" strips, leftover binding strips and so on. I quickly matched up a couple strips one light...

Just a couple weeks ago for Project Quilting season 14 I made a "Hexi Baby" quilt for 14.5 challenge 'so not square'. The one on the far left.  It was so fun and fast that I cut up a bunch of fabric and made 3 more for........ local kids charities. Patriotic Hexi Baby Various animals Hexi Baby Construction Hexi Baby These really are fast and easy. I plan to make more but taking a break to do some other things. I would like to say a lot of fabric was used up in the making of these but alas...not really. I mean some sure but ....guess I just have way to much in my stash! I wanted to photo and post these last week but we have had rain, high winds and cold temps. I did attempt to take some pics inside but they  really are more like happy accident pics trying to use the remote camera shutter.  This is my first one made for the PQ challenge HERE . It is so cheery! Quilt parade  outside while wind is down! Free Hexi-Baby templates  with directions Please give me credit...

After my sew day with my sisters a few weeks ago I have been on a mission to go through my fabrics and put in one place all the kids fabrics I have been accumulating.  I discovered fabrics everywhere...ha surprising not!   It happened that the leader of our local quilts for kids had a medical issue come up before their sew day so I offered to make some kits with my fabric to help out.  I pulled out enough fabric to make several kits...no surprise there.  When I was finished with the kits I found I had some simple panels in my stash that I had collected. I decided they needed a little sprucing up so I added some pinwheels.  Took a little bit of figuring to make the pinwheels fit the panels. I didn't want to cut too much off and keep the quilt as big as I could. I think they turned out pretty cute.  When I finished the panels..yeah off my stash pile...I looked to a free baby quilt pattern from a quick internet search.  I used some computer fabric an...

I recently came across Caroline over at  Sew Can She  making another of her Color by Number quilts. This time she is focusing on the quilting doing a qal week by week. I was looking for more kid sized easy quilts to make for my project Quilts for Kids. Her color by number is a really simple strip quilt to make. I did have to adjust the size of the strip block to make a smaller sized quilt but the concept is still the same.  When you read the directions (by the way the pattern is free on her page above) you see that for each fabric you have to cut 1 and then 1/2 of a strip. Well in quilts for kids terms that means if you cut one more strip (3) you will have enough to make 2 quilts. So .......... dig out some eh.... fabric and see what you can make that might be kid friendly.  This strip method does not take long at all. I was able to cut and piece 3 big slabs like this (above) in an afternoon.  I then decided on layout start point and cut the strips accordingly....

So far this has been a kind of a rough year for me health-wise and now it seems it will be so much more than rough for everyone. I am going to choose to keep working on my projects when I have good days because it really does make me feel better.  I started sewing some of my black and white prints together back in Jan. I wanted mindless sewing so I made 4 big squares.  I kind of think this would have made a fun quilt as is but I decided to cut them up and sew them back together.  Add a pop of red for the backing and binding and there it is.  48" x 48"  Did it make a dent in my black and white fabric...um probably not! ha Last week for PQ 11.5 I made a quilt for the theme Give it away and I washed up my current stack to Give. 

makes 8. I was able to take some time since last months sew day for Quilts for Kids and get these beauties put together and quilted.  On our sew day in June several ladies brought squares to swap with some of mine to make the 3 scrappy quilts on the left. We used  Allisons Tutorial: Easy stack cut and sew blocks  over at Cluck Cluck Sew.  These 6 plus the other two I previously made this year  HERE  and  HERE  make 8!  Happy 8th Birthday Lincoln Quilts for kids group!!! Here are some of the blocks we made during the day.  I went to visit my sister one day and she helped me prepare for the sew day. We cut enough blocks for several quilts.  You can see how fun the blocks are when they are coordinated or when they are scrappy! And they go together fast. I would recommend this as a group project.  After quilting those in 3 days I had a feeling that my sewing machine might need some love. It is c...