15 Minutes to Stitch ~ 2/5/2023

 

One of my "plans" for 2023 is to spend 15 minutes a day stitching.  That might entail sewing, quilting, crocheting anything else I might come up with.  I'll be joining in with Kate @ Life in Pieces.

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The past week or so I've picked up the Blue and White Quilt I've been (not) working on for my Mom for the past 1.5 YEARS!  I am determined to finish hand quilting it and finally gifting it to my Mom.  I would say I'm about halfway through the hand quilting.

Something new I've been working on is for another swap.  The swap is for 6 of the heart blocks below.  It is a centralized swap so I will be sending 12 blocks to the hostess and receiving 12 blocks of varying colors back.  I decided to sew my blocks using purples.  One down, eleven to go!

Below are some of the swap blocks I've made for the Friendship Block Swap.  I've sent them off to their owners.

What are you stitching this week?

Colletta

15 Minutes to Stitch ~ 1/8/2023 ~ After Pictures!

 

One of my "plans" for 2023 is to spend 15 minutes a day stitching.  That might entail sewing, quilting, crocheting anything else I might come up with.  I'll be joining in with Kate @ Life in Pieces.

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Last week I showed you the BEFORE pictures of my sewing/crafty area.  (Click HERE to see those pictures).  As promised, below are a few AFTER pictures!  I love having my area back :)

I used a lot of my 15 minutes this week to work on getting my Friendship Swap packages ready.  I decided to go with this pink vine fabric to send out to my swap partners.  (Sorry the pictures are so dark...)

I picked the quilt block "Pennsylvania" from www.quilterscache.com to send with my fabric Fat 8ths.  

I am so excited to get these packages sent out and start receiving packages back!  It will give me something to look forward to during these dark, dreary days of winter :)

I also spent some time stitching on Sunny Blue Hawaii but didn't get any progress pictures.  I found that it takes me just about 15 minutes to crochet 1 granny square.  Plugging along!

What are you stitching this week?

Colletta

Sewing Saturday (on Sunday) ~ 3/20/2022

I'm going to be featuring my sewing, crocheting and crafting projects on Saturdays.  Some weeks this will include a finished project, a FNSI or FNWF or just a WIP.

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I'm going to try to sew at least one block a week in the Pat Sloan sew-along called "Sweet Dreams". I'm using the fabrics below:

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The 10th Block  of the Sweet Dreams Sew Along is actually a border called:  Pastries.

The week before I accidentally misunderstood and thought we were to put the outside borders on.  The inside dark gray border was fine but the outer light border was not.  Needless to say, I had a date with my seem ripper.

The border that was supposed to be put on was actually a pieced flying geese border.  I debated leaving the light gray and just moving on but I just couldn't!

I am so happy with how it turned out and so glad I took the time to rip off the light gray border and replace it with what the pattern intended.

My favorite pastry is a Cinnamon Roll with Peanut Butter Icing!  Yummm...

You can find the patterns at www.ilovetomakequilts.com .

Colletta

Sewing Saturday ~ 3/5/2022 ~ Dessert Bread

I'm going to be featuring my sewing, crocheting and crafting projects on Saturdays.  Some weeks this will include a finished project, a FNSI or FNWF or just a WIP.

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I'm going to try to sew at least one block a week in the Pat Sloan sew-along called "Sweet Dreams". I'm using the fabrics below:

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Here is my version of the 8th Sweet Dreams Block:  Dessert Bread

I like to cut out the pieces and then take a picture of the "before" :)

And this is the "after"!

This block took me a bit to figure out the layout and how I wanted it to look.  I needed to use some of the darker gray to balance out the center of the quilt.

I love how it turned out!  Only one more block to go and then I can sew the 9-Patch (blocks) center together.

My favorite Dessert Bread is Banana Nut Bread OR Chocolate Zucchini Bread :)

You can find the patterns at www.ilovetomakequilts.com .

Colletta

Sewing Saturday ~ 2/19/2022 ~ Chocolate Chip Cookies, Sugar Cookies and Cake

I'm going to be featuring my sewing, crocheting and crafting projects on Saturdays.  Some weeks this will include a finished project, a FNSI or FNWF or just a WIP.

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I'm going to try to sew at least one block a week in the Pat Sloan sew-along called "Sweet Dreams". I'm using the fabrics below:

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I took some time and finally got caught up on blocks 1-6!

Block 4 -- Chocolate Chip Cookies.

I like my Chocolate Chip Cookies with walnuts in them :)

Block 5 -- Soft Sugar Cookies

I like my Sugar Cookies with pink icing!

Block 6 -- Cake

My favorite Cake is hard to pick.  Some of the top contenders would be:  Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Icing, Oatmeal Cake, Texas Sheet Cake or Coconut Cake!

I'm hoping to stay up-to-date from here on out but sometimes life happens :)

Here are my blocks so far:

You can find the patterns at www.ilovetomakequilts.com .

Colletta

Friday Night Sew In ~ February 2022

"Friday Night Sew-In" is hosted by Wendy Bertello at Sugarlane Designs .  FNSI is set for the 3rd Friday of each month (Australia-time) but as participants are joining in from all over the world, you can participate any time from Thursday - Saturday, depending on where you are.

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This Friday is the Friday Night Sew-In.

I'll be working on hand-quilting my Mom's Blue and White Quilt.

I'm roughly 1/4 of the way done with quilting the body of the quilt.  I'm hoping to get a lot accomplished Friday Night!

Colletta

Sewing Saturday ~ 2/12/2022 ~ Angel Food Cake

I'm going to be featuring my sewing, crocheting and crafting projects on Saturdays.  Some weeks this will include a finished project, a FNSI or FNWF or just a WIP.

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I'm going to try to sew at least one block a week in the Pat Sloan sew-along called "Sweet Dreams". I'm using the fabrics below:

The first block was called Brownie Love and I loved piecing it!

The second block was Boston Cream Pie and it gave me fits.

The third block is called "Angel Food Cake".  Yummy!

It was easy to decide the placement because I have 3 reds and 3 blues and needed 6 rows.  Yay!  It worked out simply for me :)

This block was super easy to piece.  I can see why some people who are sewing along have made entire quilts from this one block pattern.

I love the simplicity of the heart and so appropriate for this time of year!

This is definitely a block I can see myself making again :)

You can find the pattern at www.ilovetomakequilts.com .

Colletta

Sewing Saturday ~ 2/5/2022 ~ Boston Cream Pie

I'm going to be featuring my sewing, crocheting and crafting projects on Saturdays.  Some weeks this will include a finished project, a FNSI or FNWF or just a WIP.

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I'm going to try to sew at least one block a week in the Pat Sloan sew-along called "Sweet Dreams". I'm using the fabrics below:

The first block from last week was called Brownie Love and I loved piecing it!  Piece of cake :)

The second block is called Boston Cream Pie, which I'm not overly fond of...

I should have known this block would give me fits!  I almost had to walk away and come back to it another day!  But, it was Friday Night With Friends and I wanted to participate :(

I think one of my main problems is that I was in a rush and that is when mistakes happen.  Mistakes in measuring, cutting, piecing, etc., etc., etc.

And then when I had ***1*** seam left to sew, I ran out of bobbin thread!  Argh!

I'm not totally in love with my fabric placement, but it is done and that is what matters most.

In all, this was NOT easy as pie!  At least for me....

You can find the pattern at www.ilovetomakequilts.com .

Colletta