Finishing School

Are you stalled with a quilting project? Finishing School is a time to finish those projects that are waiting to be completed. Bring your quilt projects to work on in a supportive and social setting. Come and get tips on your projects that are anywhere on their way to being finished.

If you are in the Calgary area, come and join me this Friday evening (August 11th) for Finishing School, you can sign up through the Out of Hand 'Classes' page - https://outofhandquilting.com/finishing-school/

Dessert and tea will be provided. I look forward to seeing you there!

Bags for May

My One Monthly Goal (OMG) for May was to finish five bags which I had started over the last couple of months, and I’m happy to have achieved my goal.  I had to step on the gas earlier in the month as my sister was flying in to celebrate our dad’s 95th birthday and I knew she was interested in my bags, it was great motivation to get started.

A couple of light blue bags, which both have the same interior.

I really liked the fabric I found for the inside of the dark green bag.

And a couple of purple bags, a light one,

And a dark purple bag, which I forgot to take a picture of before my sister took it home, thankfully she send me pictures.  I might have to hire her as a photographer, she did such a nice job.

The pattern for these bags can be found at Agilejak’s blog by Anne Ibach, in her Frankenbag Tutorial.

Happy to participate in One Monthly Goal with Elm Street Quilts and Stories from the Sewing Room and complete a few more projects.

We will fail when we fail to try. ~ Rosa Parks

May One Monthly Goal

My goal for this month is to complete five bags which I have already begun, the tops are pieced and the quilting is done, here they are with the selected lining. I do need to prepare the handles.

I was able to find the purple lining in my stash, however the green and surprisingly the blue required a trip to the quilt store.  I am a lover of blue and my family was suspicious when I said I couldn’t find the right blue, or the right amount in my rather large blue fabric collection.

Is this too lofty of a goal?  I do hope I can get them done, the handles and the thickness of bag top, lining and handles takes patience, so not a race for sure.

Linking up with Elm Street Quilts and Stories from the Sewing Room, the hosts of One Monthly Goal.

Life is short, buy the fabric.

April One Monthly Goal finish

Happy Day, I was able to complete April’s One Monthly Goal (OMG) which was to sew my Squared Away blocks into a quilt top.  I am pleased with the brightness of it.

This quilt pattern is from a quilt along with the 2018 Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  In keeping with the scrappiness of this quilt I decided to sash and border it the same way that Angela from Soscrappy finished hers, using more little scraps of fabric for a postage stamp style border.

Happy to have this top done and to be participating in Elm Street Quilts OMG, check back in a couple of days to see what I have picked for my May goal.

When life throws you scraps, make a quilt.

One Monthly Goal April

My goal for April is to finish a quilt top.  The squared away quilt blocks were part of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge at Soscrappy in 2018, and now it’s time to sew them together into a quilt top.  

I’ve done most of the cutting for the sashing and border and I’ve started adding some sashing pieces.  I like to participate in Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal, as I find having a goal helps to keep me on track and actually finishing projects, and not just continuously starting new ones.

Let’s see how this month goes and if I get another quilt closer to completion.

Starting is not most people’s problem, staying, continuing and finishing is.

~ Darren Hardy

Purple bookmarks

A new month and a new colour for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  I checked the Soscrappy blog this morning to see what colour Angela chose for April and saw purple.  Amazingly I had begun to work on purple bookmarks in the last couple of weeks.

These mini log cabins are sewn with three quarter inch strips, which end up one quarter inch finished.

I had about half of my bookmarks finished when I ran out of purple ribbon. As it was, this week I had picked up more purple ribbon  and completed my bookmarks this morning, so I can  share my post in the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.

 Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple. ~ Regina Brett

Thank goodness for goals

Completing these two pink bags so that I could participate in Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal was my hope for March, and I am happy that I was able to accomplish it.

I added a silk-screened flower shape to the pale pink block, as originally it looked like a pink frame to nothing. 

Both bags have this large pink rose floral for the lining.

I’m finding these bags a nice little project to use up scraps and even complete in a relatively short amount of time you can find an easy to follow tutorial by Anne Iback at AgileJack.

In addition to the two pink bags, I finished a couple of others, a green bag (already blogged here) and then another bag made with leftover block and scraps from my Wanderer’s Wife quilt.

I love this Philip Jacobs Brocade Peony fabric that I found in my stash for the bag lining.

Happy to have achieved my goal and to have these bags completed, and now it’s time to think about a goal for April.

One part at a time, one day at a time, we can accomplish any goal we set for ourselves. ~ Karen Casey