WIP ~

layout ~ using Modern Workshop Scraps

Little Leaves ~ completed

 Who runs out of thread?
Answer....me!

While stitching the panels of 'Little Leaves' no less. I need a stash of thread so this never happens again. But today, it is no longer a WIP but a FIW...just being weird. 

The scraps in the first picture are definitely a WIP. These are the leftover strips from the Modern Workshop quilt that I have trimmed down, arranged into 9 patch squares and 4 patch squares. It looks like a mess but hopefully it will be my FIF. The dog has nicely tiptoed around the layout, good dog, because typically he lays or walks right through.

Need to play around with my Juki because these quilts will be my practice 'canvases' for learning free-hand motion quilting.

 Wish me luck.

Finishing it Friday ~

leftover strips from Modern Workshop quilt

9 patch square

cutting

assembled

layout and ideas sketch
inspiration from Pleasant Home

strips cut for 4-square

piles to stitch

I feel like a clever little bunny. Rubbing two brain cells together I figured out a way I could use my never-ending scraps from my Tea with the Queen fat quarter set I purchased from Alewives so long ago. Yes, I am officially done with this set of fabric, after I complete this top or back, I am giving the rest away! But I thought I would share how I figured it out with the inspiration coming from Pleasant Home's blog. I looked to see if it was a pattern to be purchased and haven't found anything in my search. I do not want to step on any toes. The Modern Workshop Quilt was a free pattern. The strips that were leftover were 2.5 wide and the square attached to the white strip is 2.5 square.

So in brief ~

 For the 9 patch ~ using 5 of the strips, I cut down 4 strips so that the white strip now measures 2.5. I used a seam ripper to remove one print square from the 5th white strip and stitched it to one of the 4 print/white strips. Save the white...maybe it can be used. Then arrange 3 of the print/white strips so that you have a print that will wind up in the center. Then stitch the print/white/print to the 3 stitched print/white rectangle...so confusing. Please lay out before beginning and it will all make sense. For my purposes I set aside 60 strips for the 12- 9 patch squares.

Using the remaining strips for the 4 patch squares ~ This also required some mental math. I kept looking at my graph to figure out the best way to arrange and cut the remaining strips. So what I came up with is that half of the remaining strips I cut so that the white was 2.5 and the other were cut down to 4.5. The only fabric I am missing will the be 8-2.5 by 6.5 white pieces for the sides and 8- 4.5 by 6.5 for connecting the 9 patch squares. I am looking for my stash of white. I know it is here somewhere. 

So my finished Friday is that I finished figuring it all out. If this is a pattern for purchase please let me know.

I will be taking this project to the San Diego Modern Quilt sewing day...so Maybe Monday

Have a great cool weekend

It will be rather hot here in So Cal. It is the never-ending summer

WIP ~ cook, sew, bake

cook ~ skillet macaroni

sew ~ 9-patch & 4-patch quilt from leftovers of Modern Workshop quilt
Inspiration found on Pleasant Home blog

stitching ~ Little Leaves
8 down 8 to go

sewing ~ Halloween costume

bake ~ transitional whole wheat raisin bread

Finished ~

Mara Shawl on a little girl
She looks like a butterfly

Modern Workshop quilt pattern
Tea with the Queen fat quarters from Alewives

I guess it all depends on what is considered finished. All things are a work in progress or in a state of completion in this home of mine. These two projects I began some time ago. Now I feel a little bit better starting something new. I love the toes peeking out.

Have a wonderful weekend

Works in progress....

 

I have a hard time choosing fabric.

 It does not matter the project, I lack confidence or expertise knowing what colors, pattern or print will go with any given project. I chuckle at myself because perhaps anything goes. I think that I will try an Alexander Henry fabric for the Tova top and , if money was no option, a Liberty fabric for the dress. 

In the mail this week I received my orders from Sew Mama Sew, Miz Mozelle Dress pattern and from Jimmy Beans Wool, Coastal Kits book. Presents!

I began a little garden with tomatoes, thyme, cilantro, green onion and basil. The bugs have eaten our basil and don't know if it will recover. The tomatoes are growing an inch a day. So with this success I thought I would try a bigger project in the backyard.

Here is an layout from the Country Living Magazine that might look nice in our backyard??? Ambitious! 

Due to where we live some of the trees and scrubs will not grow well here. But it is a plan and design that looks like a quilt, provides access to the gardening beds and if we choose our plants well , might be a successful little garden. More pictures to come

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