Category Archives: Quilting

Happy Birthday Laurie

Cards, Quilting

September 26, 2024

Big Stitch Hand Quilted Mug Rug (from the Polkadot Chair)

I’ve only made a few attempts at hand quilting but one of the mug rug patterns that I’ve been using for cards was a chance to try it again.

The instructions used an extra layer of cotton rather than batting in the centre. This made it easy to try my big stitches but it also makes for a very flimsy finish. Fortunately the thread colour doesn’t show up much on the fabric as my stitches aren’t very even or evenly spaced.

I’m late getting this project posted to my website but I hope Laurie received it in time for his birthday celebrations.

Congratulations Asher

Cards, Quilting

June 2024

Our first trip in a very long time was to Asher’s Grade 12 graduation. It was a lovely day and Asher appeared to be enjoying himself throughout all the festivities.

Asher was the performer at the reception following the graduation ceremony and he did a wonderful job, even though they didn’t have appropriate sound equipment. Asher is self-taught on the guitar and Pat says he is very talented.

Asher is also a very talented artist with his paintings and many other hand crafts. I’ve been very happy to be able to share some of my cross stitching supplies with Asher so I made her this cross stitch as a gift.

As always there was a graduation card.

Happy Birthday Alex

Cards, Quilting

September 13, 2024

I didn’t make many cards this month but I wanted to be sure to send one to Alex. None of the mug rug patterns really suited so I went online to see what I could find. Obviously I was looking for golfing patterns but I didn’t have any luck. I switched to looking at images and was able to find something that I felt I could copy and this is the result.

In hindsight, I wish I could remember to do some cross hatch quilting prior to adding the appliqué pieces.

I hope Friday the 13th is a happy day for Alex.

Emma

Quilting
From Little Handfuls of Scraps by Edyta Sitar (Finished 9.5″ x 11″)

For our monthly sewing day in August this was my project.

I would have thought I had enough four patches and squares pre-made but that was not the case. I had a few larger four patches that I was able to trim down but for the majority of them I was starting from scratch. I had the small squares in my stash though so that gave me a head start. I’m re-thinking my scrappy projects; I’m trying to make them a bit more organized. I had the border strips on my cutting table from another project so I dug in my bins to get the red squares.

After everything was organized actually putting the project together was quite easy. The quilting is very simple – no thread colour changes involved.

While we were discussing each other’s projects I realized I had missed one project in my alphabetical listing so I guess that one (Carol) will be my next project.