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

A little green play

Soscrappy has chosen green for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge for the month of March and I was able to play with my green scraps.  First making the fronts and backs for two green bags.

Then I was actually able to finish one of the bags, I might even get the other finished in the next day or two, however not in time to participate in the Rainbow Scrap Challenge this month. Here is the first finished green bag.

  

These bag instructions are complements of Anne Iback’s Frankenbag Tutorial.

Thanks for stopping by my blog and I hope you are finding time to play with fabric.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. ~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Recent graduates

A big welcome to the world of quilting to my latest graduates of Quilting 101!

Over a couple of Sundays in February and March I taught the Quilting 101 (beginning quilting) class at Out of Hand, a local quilting store.  Learning a lot of quilting lingo we covered everything from fabric selection right up to binding and after two intensive days of learning and sewing these ladies had a crib size quilt about 95 to 100% finished.  Most were at the point of hand-sewing the binding onto the back of their quilts.

Here they are with their beautiful quilts: 

 

Maryann and Donna

Michelle

Carolyn and Marilyn

Friends Carolyn and Marilyn have taken Quilting 101 before, as well as spending some friend time together Carolyn was using this time to make a baby quilt for her first grandchild expected in May.

Thank you all for taking Quilting 101, I know we have some new (or renewed) quilters thinking about their next project, Maryann has already picked fabric to start a twin size quilt for her daughter, and all are talking about taking Quilting 201!

The beginning is always today. ~ Mary Shelley

OMG Time Flies

Time to post my March One Monthly Goal (OMG), as Elm Street Quilts blog post tells me there are only 11 hours left.  Making a quick decision and having something I would like to get finished soon, my goal for March will be to turn these squares into two pink bags.

February at Soscrappy’s Rainbow Scrap Challenge was the colour pink, so these tops were just finished last month, however I have a few bag tops completed and it’s time to finish them.

Generally I quilt little items on my domestic machine, however I plan to quilt these on my long-arm and then decide on which method I prefer.

Quilting may not solve all your problems,

But then again, neither will housework.

Rainbow in the Snow

 

Last night I finished sewing the binding on my Rainbow Slab quilt, just in time to take part in Elm Street Quilt’s One Monthly Goal (OMG).  It was photographed it outside this morning while it was lightly snowing. 

I found a lovely rainbow print on white for the back of the quilt 

And then shopped my stash to find a fun rainbow print on black for the binding. 

Quilted with the Circuts pantograph by Anne Bright. 

This quilt is loosely based on Cheryl’s pattern for The Missing U in the book Sunday Morning Quilts by Amanda Jean Nyberg and Cheryl Arkison. I used both Cheryl’s slab making technique as well as my Mile a Minute technique to make the slab/blocks.

QUILT DETAILS

 Rainbow Slab quilt 2023

The finished quilt measures 80 inches by 80 inches

Started: 2014

Finished:  February 2023

Be everything that you are unapologetically, most of you will find out that you are not just one color,  you are a rainbow. ~  Mridula Singh

A goal for February

I have a quilt which I would like to complete for February, and take part in Elm Street Quilts One Monthy Goal (OMG). My Missing U Rainbow Slab quilt.

This quilt top was completed in December and it now time to quilt and bind it. It is loosely based on Cheryl’s pattern for The Missing U in the book Sunday Morning Quilts by Amanda Jean Nyberg and Cheryl Arkison. 

I found a nice rainbow fabric for the back. 

I have no idea how I’m going to quilt it, so I’ll have to take a look through my pantograph designs and see which one feels right.  Drop by at the end of the month to see what pantograph spoke to me.  I’m also going to have to find the right fabric to bind it with.  It’s a short month, so I’d better get started.

 

Life is like a rainbow:  You need both the sun and the rain to make its colors appear