Friday Night With Friends ~ January 2023

"Friday Night With Friends" is hosted by Cheryll over at "Gone Stitchin".  FNWF is set for the 1st Friday of each month with participants joining in from all over the world

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For January 2023's "Friday Night With Friends", I'm going to be working on getting my Friendship Swap hosted by the facebook group  "Quilt Block Swap 2023 ready to send.

It is a boomerang swap and I am so excited to participate!

How it works:

1- Choose your main fabric ,you’ll need 1 yard, cut it into a fat 1/8th (9x22 inches) and mail each person in your group a printed copy of your block pattern and a fat 8th (you'll send the same fabric and pattern to each girl in your group). Keep one for yourself to make your block.

The person receiving will go through their stash and complete your block using the fat 8th that you sent them and something complimentary from their fabric. Mail your finished block back to the girl who sent you the fat 8th . It’s always fun to see what you get back from the girls in your group.

2-Pattern-your choice 12 1/2” unfinished (12” finished) Make 8 copies, you'll be keeping 1 for yourself.

3-In choosing your pattern, please keep in mind that it should be a fairly easy pattern since some of our members are just beginning. Don’t choose a pattern that contains y-seams or partial seams, applique, no paper piecing etc. Be careful of copyright materials. Although we are not doing this for profit so we should be ok but some designers get upset about copying patterns.

4-Use fabric in your stash that compliments the fabric from your swapper .

I've picked my quilt block pattern out:  Pennsylvania

I haven't decided what fabric I want to send out yet.  I plan to go fabric shopping after work on Friday, so I hope to update this post with pictures of my fabric.  Do you think I should send out a background solid or a print?

Sign-ups end January 7th so there's still time to come join in!

HAVE A HAPPY FRIDAY NIGHT, FRIENDS!

Colletta

Sewing Saturday ~ Advice Needed!!! ~ 6/4/2022

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've been working on "Sunny Blue Hawaii 2" (SBH2) lately.

To see my first post about this afghan CLICK HERE!

Before I go any farther with sewing squares together, I need to decide whether to make the final afghan 6 squares X 8 squares  (6X8) or 7 squares X 9 squares (7X9) or even 7 squares by 10 squares (7X10).

The length isn't as important right now as the width is.

Above is what the main body would look like with 6 squares.  It just doesn't look quite right to me.  It doesn't seem wide enough even though I know I'll be adding borders.

Here you can see what it would look like with 7 squares across.  (Sorry it is tilted so far but that is the only way I could get the whole width in the picture.)

So what do you think?

6 OR 7 squares across????

Your opinion means a great deal to me and I would love your advice :)

Colletta

Friday Night With Friends ~ March 2022

"Friday Night With Friends" is hosted by Cheryll over at "Gone Stitchin".  FNWF is set for the 1st Friday of each month with participants joining in from all over the world

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For March 2022's "Friday Night With Friends", I'm going to be working on hand-quilting my Mom's Blue and White Quilt while watching the new "West Side Story" on Disney+.

It is my One Monthly Goal to get this top completely quilted.  Big goals!   Wish me luck :)

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

Sewing Saturday ~ 12/4/2021

I've decided to start 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 did it!  I finished the Linen Afghan :)

It was made from 35 granny squares with a Cozy Stripes border and I love how it turned out :)  I used Hobby Lobby I Love This Yarn! in Linen.  It took me just about 9-ish skeins of yarns.

The hubby delivered it to his coworker, Stacey, and I'm on to the next project!

The next crochet project is a Sage Afghan in Attic 24's Cozy Stripe pattern.  Such an easy, comforting pattern to work on.  I worked on this project for December 2021's Friday Night With Friends.

I also made the 6th quilt block for the Fall Frolic sew along by Pat Sloan.  I didn't get a picture of it yet so I might wait and feature the next few blocks next Saturday...

What project are you working on this weekend?

Colletta

Friday Night With Friends ~ December 2021

"Friday Night With Friends" is hosted by Cheryll over at "Gone Stitchin".  FNWF is set for the 1st Friday of each month with participants joining in from all over the world

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For December's "Friday Night With Friends", I'm going to be working on my "One Monthly Goal" project which is the Sage Afghan.  You can read more about it HERE.

I may also work on sewing Block 7 & 8 of the Fall Frolic pattern by Pat Sloan.  I'll let you know if I do :)

Colletta