Midnight Garden

May 29th

Well I'm taking a break and playing, well kinda. I cut out the fabric masks I wanted but switched to what I think is a lovely UFO from March 2015! Yep time for another finish! BUT before starting the quilting, I had to rewind from my Kenmore plastic bobbin to my Brother metal bobbin and just as it started, the plastic split in half leaving me with a 6" long 1/2" wide thread slinky!!! NO NO NO I'm not throwing this one away like the last one! Nope, I very carefully held the ends and slowly let it wind up with lots of stops at knotted areas which did come loose till this last one which I gave up on! Now onto quilting!

May 30th

Yeah!!! Another fun couple of days and another UFO from 2015 completed. This was a family sewing day with Sylvia and Pat and we're all itching for another one once we've our vaccines and restrictions are lifted!!! At least I can visit Sylvia as I'm in her bubble but nicer when we can get together, maybe with Edna too! 

So it's from the Oh Sew Charming design line called Midnight Garden by Barbara Persing and Mary Hoover, CH-0817.

A game I've played a few times at quilting retreats!  Hopefully they will return!

OMGG I think I'm losing my mind in this Covid year! 🤪 See I've taken a 6" finished pieced block size down to 3/4" finished size! Sorry no puctures until it's gifted! 😉

RCMP Project

May 27th

Ohhhhh I've got the RCMP accent pillows' issues figured out finally BUT NOW sewing in the zipper is giving me grief! Tomorrow's another day!!!

May 28th

I'm a totally happy camper inspite of some Manitobans being selfish Covid-wise recently!

See I've finally completed the RCMP quilt and two accent pillows finally. This was started I think December 2019, summer 2020 deadline delayed because of Covid and set aside because of my mask/scrub cap sewing and finally January 2021 resumed amongst my other projects to finish! Next week I'll find a large machine laundry and wash all oils etc off before delivering this sweet baby!

My friend asked me to sew a family wedding gift for their family. YIKES! But as it happened all worked out in the end!

The RCMP project story! Well we started planning late fall of 2019, I started sewing blocks early 2020 as it was needed for a summer wedding. Then Covid hit and it was postponed to 2021 and good timing as my life was consumed with mask and scrub cap sewing till end of the year. Then January 2021 I reconvened and found I was short some fabrics because of matching the hexagon shapes and binding. Dang it no fabric to be found locally, but I had some hexagon fabric and I bought a black tone on tone for the binding, so that's good, full speed ahead!!! Once the top was completed I sent it off to Stitched Art to be quilted. An awesome job was performed and I then prepped the label and binding to finish off. Lastly the matching accent pillows were sewn up and now both are complete and waiting to be laundered next week before delivering. YEAH!!!

Fabric selection and planning with family for the quilt

for the pillows

Taped fabrics for family OK

Taped

Taped

taped

Computer layout - 5 yard quilt pattern enlarged

Sewing has begun

RCMP quilt blocks sewn

Accompanying blocks started

Hexagon matching began - took ages!

Turned out better than I thought - joins are just about perfect!

Side by side layout

Quilt layout assembly - yes one block was reversed but corrected afterwards

Quilt block layout all sewn up

Now attaching the borders at Sylvia's where there's more room to cut and sew.

Challenging holding all that fabric in place

VOILA it's ready for the quilter

Looking for the backing

Looks like a good match

Now I'm all read to drop it off

Chosen quilting design

Chosen quilting thread

OHHHHH boy it's on the rack!!!

AWESOME!!!

Love the texture showing up

I couldn't resist when received

Beautiful!

Looks awesome on my bed!

Maybe I should keep it?!

Matching pillows

Both backs

Awesome!

Sisters Scrap Challenge 2021

Brain Child of Brandy Maslowski, Quilter on Fire, along with scrap sisters Kathy Paul and Bonnie Hooley.

Yahooooieeee!!!! During the May MPQ ZOOM meeting I succeeded to hand stitch 3/4s of the binding on the Sisters Scrap Challenge quilt and later that evening at home, totally finished all stitching! I truly didn't think I'd ever get those flippin' HSTs sewn up from the scrap package received to actually sew up a top never mind "finish it"!

I tried to find a scrappy quilt pattern while waiting for my package to arrive but all the possibilities were "scrapped" once I saw them!!! Yep none of those patterns were going to be usable for me, so I decided to go with my tentative idea of smaller sized HSTs sewn together into a larger HST block and see how many I can make up! So once working with my scraps this took ages to complete and then I had no idea where to go from there! Then I bit the bullet and decided windmill type blocks, hmmmm, not enough so then decided to use the centre cut aways from the sewn HST blocks to be incorporated in the wide sashing, then a mix of 1.5 metre and sashing fabric windmill cornerstones! Yep that worked and continued using as much as I could with only two smaller scrappy HSTs left over and the one larger HST block, so I practiced my quilting on it and have a dining tray placemat too! OK I felt I could handle the quilting on my Brother 1500 quilting machine (retirement gift from coworkers and family) but soon found out this size was definitely a NO NO for creative designs, maybe only edge to edge quilting in future or lap and smaller sized quilts.

This is my first original quilt design (except for HSTs), graphed out three times before settled and honestly may be my last!!! At one point I was just going to lay it aside but you three egged me on inspiring me to keep sewing and had more confidence in my finishing than I did! Thank you ladies!

OHHHHH and who knew that my CRV would come in handy to hold my quilt steady on my insulation board!!!

Also the group presentation will be on Pinterest, Quilter on Fire, Sisters Scrap Challenge hopefully on the weekend or next week.

#sistersscrapchallenge

Starting with HSTs

Trimmings and leftover HSTs

One HSTs block equals 2 - 6" planned HSTs and excess strip

Teaser post photo

Planned layout

Horrible mess at centre

Tried hammering it away!

No Dicerooie!!!

Here's the culprit - excess seams

Googled and VOILA!!!

Lying flat now

Two sizes of HSTs

Cornerstones

Excess scraps plus my 1.5 m gold fabric

Helter Skelter piecing together

Centre layout complete

Inner border etc in place

Yahooie!!! Top is complete

First plan of quiting, slightly changed

Sample quilting idea

Made into my tray placemat

Quilting is progressing

Changed HSTs quilting

My label

My CRV is good for quilt displaying too!

On display in my living room!