October 2024 Handwork

Completed Projects: 

Groovy Gert

for Homeless Blanket Project

Finished afghan:  

129 sts. per row/ 53 stripes in length

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September 2024 Handwork

Completed Projects:

Exuberant Ellsworth Afghan

for Homeless Blanket Project

Finished afghan:  124 sts. in each row and 54 sets of tc/sc in length

On-going projects:

 Indigo Hexie Flower Quilt

39 appliqued onto indigo (that's +16)

3 pinned on, ready to applique

10 flowers ready for pinning

42 other hexies complete & ready to form into flowers

total flowers: 52 (up 15)     total hexies: 406 (up 107)

Grey Hexie Quilt

23 rows (x28) all sewn together = 644 hexies

1 row ready to add = 28 hexies

25 triples,  18 doubles,  86 single hexies waiting

841 HEXIES TOTAL (that's up 75 hexies)

Finnicky Freddy

Homeless Blanket #32

two row pattern - one row of triple crochet, next row of single crochet

pre-wound yarn of 2 short bursts of color, then longer burst of mediium sage

166 sts. per row

30 (set of 2: tc & sc) rows

August 2024 Handwork - Finished

New-this-month projects:

Indigo Hexie Flower Quilt

23 appliqued onto indigo

4 pinned on, ready to applique

10 flowers ready for pinning

42 hexies complete

(total flowers:  37, total hexies: 299)

Ongoing projects:

Cotton Dishcloths

knit 6 fairly good-sized dishcloths in Calfifornia, need to sew in ends.

Grey Hexie Quilt

20 rows (x28) all sewn together = 560

1 row ready to add = 28

36 triples, 19 doubles, 32 single hexies waiting

766 hexies total

Completed Projects:  

None in August, but plenty of headway on hexie projects!

Eleven Scrap Quilts Using 2 1/2 Inch Strips of Any Length - from The Quilted Forest

The Quilted Forest is a quilt shop in Iowa.  It's my favorite online quilting channel.

 First in a series of 11, The Quilted Forest (Iowa) shows how to make this simple (oh,so easy!) quilt:  I think its a variation of the Rail Fence?

YouTube video of instructions

The second was pretty cool, too!  And super easy.

YouTube video of instructions

The third quilt was a version of the Rail Fence Quilt.  It wasn't quite a simple because you have to really pay attention to colors, making sure the two main colors are REALLY different.

You Tube video of instructions.

Her fourth in the series was the standard jelly roll race quilt.  She used homespuns and flannels for both of these.  For the first she sewed the original strip together end to end, and for the second she sewed the strips together diagonally.  She had a huge amount of strips for the first quilt - it ended up being 120 inches long - so she cut off some of the bottom rows to add to each side to make it wider.  I love the black strip she added.  Brilliant quilt!

YouTube video of instructions.

Strip Quilt Number 5 is using a Moda pattern called Half Step.  On the first she used a jelly roll, on the second she used scraps.   She chose pastels and divided them into like colors.

You Tube instruction video.

The sixth strip quilt is made from a Moda  pattern called Smoothie Time.

She made two - one from her leftover Halloween strips, and one from her leftover Christmas strips.

She made the Christmas one bigger than the Halloween, and added a black border so that it didn't appear too "busy."  I like it.

Unfortunately, there never seems to be a photo of the whole quilt.  Oh well.....

YouTube instruction video.

Her seventh quilt was from her Block of the Month series, December 2022.  It makes a 16-inch block, and uses all scrappy fabrics.  She had so many squares finished that she made this one a REVERSABLE quilt!

And here's the reverse:

YouTube instructional video here.

The eighth quilt is made from a pattern called "Let's Dance" and she made a baby quilt using pastel colors.  It's a HST quilt.

Here's the.YouTube instructional video.

The ninth quilt is a little more work, lots of small pieces with sashing that has cornerstones.  It's really pretty, though!  The pattern is called "Quadrangle

Here's the instructional video with all sorts of hints.

Quilt 10 is a pattern called "Spiny Peaks," and is quite striking, especially done in two very different colors like the black and bright pink.  I think the pattern calls for one of the colors to be white, but I love the idea of using scraps.

Here's the YouTube videoYouTube video showing how it goes together.

Number 11 is called "Type It."  Put together in an interesting way, without a lot of fussy measuring to get the lighter color in the middle to have an interesting "path."

YouTube instruction video.

Summer Jaunt #1 - York, PA

 Forced myself to get up and going, looked to be a beautiful day!  Final destination was the "Every Quilt Has a Story" Quilt Show presented by York Quilters Guild.

First Stop:  Gifford Pinchot State Park.

I needed to replace my Park Passport which got drowned in a flood.  All out a the visitor's center, but they knew that they had the available at the Campground.  It was Friday late morning and people were starting to arrive to camp for the weekend!  Drove down to see the cabins and yurts, the modern cabins (kitchen stuff and bathroom).  The last time you can get a 2-night stay is next Friday, after that it's weekly and it's actually quite expensive.  Lots of picnicking opportunities.

Haven't stopped at The Finishing Touch in FOREVER, and I'm glad I did because they're closing in a couple of weeks.  Huge sale....60 % off remaining fabric.  Bought 2 yds of a solid orange Moda to add as cornerstones to my Jordan fabrics strip quilt.  $6.60!

"Every Quilt Has a Story"

York Quilt Show at Grumbacher Sports & Fitness Center 

York College of Pennsylvania

3D Vibes

Cindy Leen

Loved it!

Close Up.

Deb Wilhide

EPP Flowers

Table runner.  Smaller hexie than I generally do.  Very cool!

Sue Royer

Just amazine!

Sue Royer

"Mountain Quilter"

Inspired by a photography by Dorthea Lange (public domain) taken in 1937.  The Dresden pate quilt was an artistic addition to the original photography of a "southern Lady."

GORGEOUS!!!

Scrap Strips Diamond Trip

 

Saved under "Patterns" on computer AND here: Scrap_Strips_Diamond_Trip.pdf (shopify.com)

You can watch her put it together on her YouTube video, too!

Potato Chip Blocks

Conquering Mount Scrapmore with Brenda

She does a series of Potato Chip Blocks that are AWESOME!

The first video in the series is here.

Darlene Michaud also has a YouTube video about this, doing it in a tiny different way, with  2 1/2 x 4 1/2 inch rectangles.  She calls it Scrappy 9" block using mini bricks.

Rows of Gray Hexie Quilt

Tried this out to see how I liked it, so that I could use up random orphan hexies:

This is 20 rows  and measures 25 inches (wide) by 30 inches (long). 
This took just a bit less than one yard of gray fabric. 
There are 200 gray hexies and 90 orphans in this size.

8/20/2024

Well, I pulled this out again, looked for the extra gray fabric I bought, and started sewing more together while I was at Dede's at the beginning of the month.  As of today I have:

15.5 rows of 28 hexies sewn together (504 hexies total)

     NOT TOO BAD, but so many more to go.

I plan to iron it and take a new photo for the next update.

I also, at this time, have 68 triplet sets sewn together, 21 doubles, and 16 singles, totaling 262 hexies waiting to be added.   Grand total of 766 hexies prepped or already in quilt.

Christmas Hexie Table Runner - The FIRST!

I'm going to surround Christmas hexies in black, so they'll pop.  And I think I'm going to loosely base it on this:

As of today I have 35 flowers sewn together and ready to go.  Some of these have been swaps from my friends from Hexies and More.

And I just started on my black hexies, I basted 18 of them last night.  So, as of today, January 1st, I'm ready to start putting this together!

Let's watch it grow!

1/1/2020 first set of two hexies, looks good!

1/2/2020 Day two of sewing this lap quilt together:

1/3/2020  A couple more hours sewing black hexies....slowly but surely.....it's starting to look interesting....

1/6/2020  Got a little more done today and yesterday...

1/7/2019  Snowing tonight.  First snow of the year, so I guess I shouldn't complain.  Got a bit more stitching done.  It's growing! (The flower that looks pink isn't - it's thin red on white stripes.)

3/24/2020

I went on a hiatus for a couple of months, but have picked this up a couple of days ago, about a week into the coronavirus quarantine. 

     I'm up to 16 flowers, and wondering how long to make it.....

3/28/20  Finished the top!  Now to figure out how to quilt and finish it as a table runner!

5/13/2020

All quilted, faced, and finished, front and back: