Scribbles and Scraps: 2016

I did get another quilt top done. I used some of Auntie Louie's fabrics along with my own. It is called Aunt Gracie's Garden from Love of Quilting.

I bought a new machine from Craigslist. It is a singer 99-13. I paid $50. What I like is that it is in a cabinet. It has a knee control and no foot control which takes a bit to get accustomed to.

http://www.victorianaquiltdesigns.com/VictorianaQuilters/BlockoftheMonth/VintageHankieButterflyBlockTutorial.htm

This is a quilt tutorial for using those vintage hankies. I have some of my own from early teaching years and some from my Aunt Louie.

Here is a sample from the Oregon Quilt Show. No mention was made of the quilter.

2016 Finishes

Finishes for 2016.

I started this in 2008. It is taken from the book, An Updated Supplement to Sulky's Secrets to Successful Stabilizing, I had to take off a border I had around it in order to get it to lay flat. The squares around are more heavily quilted. I couldn't make the square smaller because some of the tree limbs are stitched on it. Here is the poem written by Patience Strong (aka Winifred Emma May)

If you stand very still
by Patience Strong

If you stand very still in the heart of a wood
you will hear many wonderful things-
the snap of a twig, the wind in the trees,
and the whirr of invisible wings.

If you stand very still in the turmoil of life
and wait for the voice from within-
you'll be led down the quiet ways of wisdom and peace
If you stand very still and you hold to your faith
in a mad world of chaos and din.

you will get all the help that you ask.
You will draw from the silence the things you need
-hope and courage, and strength for you task.

Finally, this is done, Entwined by Evelyn Sloppy.

Narragansett Blues by Bonnie Hunter from her book More Adventures with Leaders and Enders. I did use 2.5 inch squares and adjusted the rectangles. It ended up too big then so I couldn't do her spiffy border. I did use blue and green for the bigger pieces. This started out for Cindy, but then I gave her a different one instead,

My friend, Betty, died on Sunday, January 31. She had Alzheimers, so I have been missing my good friend for the past couple of years.

I finished the Allietare top.

I was ready to start machine quilting some of the tops I have ready. I watched a Leah Day you tube video and picking thread. She suggests you practice quilting on a practice block. I couldn't find any of the green I used, but I did have a 1.5 strip in my bin, so I pieced it together.

These are all 30 weight varigated sulky. I wasn't crazy about any of them, so I looked at the blue and neutral quilt on my wall, and decided I liked just plain neutral thread.

I have an additional table set up behind my sewing machine table and Gabe can't get in.

2015

I bought a new rug at Montana Lumber Liquidators. It is bigger than my old one, but very similar in color. It is 10.5 x 15. Gabe is finding the thicker rug very comfortable. He is worn out from trying to help by sitting on chairs and the couch as I was trying to move them.

Here is a quilt from the past when my sewing room was in my bedroom and I had four foster children. This is Sunny, my first wire haired fox terrier, enjoying herself on my Tulip Log Cabin. I made this quilt with others on line from a yahoo group called IQ. They people from that group were my adult social outlet at the time.

Here is a scrappy quilt using 2 inch squares.

Today I went through some pictures and found some of things I had made. I will post them one at a time, so I have a record of what I've made.

I made a mistake putting the rows together on my Allietare. I pinned the blocks together, but not the rows. I should had laid it out again once my rows were done. I know I get left and right mixed up, but I must get top and bottom mixed up too.

I did get it ripped and resewed.

Wahoo! Now onto borders.............

Bonnie Hunter said she didn't want to be predictable, so I was sure that she would not have the mystery quilt 2015 reveal on January 1, 2016. I worked like crazy to get caught up by December 31st. to be ready for the new clue on January 1. So, I was ready to start assembling blocks when the clue was the reveal. Here is what I have assembled so far.

Of course, now one thing depends on another. I can't lay the quilt out until I finish undecorating because I need the floor space to lay it on. I can't get the rug cleaned off untiI get some paper work done for the refinancing of a loan done. Of course, my paperwork situation is a horrendous mess. I would make it a New Year's goal, but I have been trying for years to improve my system. Maybe this is the year I will succeed. We'll see.

I post on this blog so seldomly that I have to relearn how to do it every time. That is a goal that I plan to achieve. Just a baby step. Write more blog posts than I did in 2015. I didn't even get pictures of all the items I have sewn. Part of the blog problem posting was I updated to windows 10, and itunes didn't keep up, so the computer would not read my iphone, ipad, or ipod to easily transfer pics. After much to do I reverted to windows 8, so now it is much easier.

Here are my two separate blocks. I used Bonnie's colors, but my neutrals are not varied like hers.

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2016 Finishes

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