About Kathryn

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Eyes on March Patchwork and Quilting

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Well haven’t posted for a couple of weeks, kept sewing but feeling a little blah so haven’t been doing heaps.

Last time I posted I want to

A few Weeks Ago

Work on my March UFO number – which was number 1 on my list.  This turned out to be a sew along that I did with Pat Sloan – Sweet Dreams. So the goal is to further it along. As the top was made, I used a few bits of the same fabric and made a backing and am in the process of quilting it. March quilting

Work on Sewcialites blocks.  I am up to date with these. I only do the three inch blocks when they are really simple patterns. I do all the six inch ones!

Work on BOM from FQS.  I have done the number nine block and sewed two log cabin blocks so that I could put together row 2. I have row 1 done. I have changed the finishing a little because I don’t want a big quilt, it will be big enough as it is! Always thinking ahead to having to quilt it!! FQS BOM blocks

Plans for the Coming Week

  • Sort out a pattern for a baby quilt and then start to think about fabric. This is for one of my sisters to give as a gift to someone special to her. It is going to be a girl. So far she has given me the size she wants, now I am messaging her about colour and pattern.  Baby arrives in June.
  • Continue to quilt Pat Sloan quilt.
  • Some piecing – Sewcialites blocks for coming week and some work on FQS Mystery BOM.

Good bye February

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Plans for the Last Week

  • Hand sew binding to J Steves Bom ’21 and so finish. Done. And was my February Month Goal
  • Make Sewcialites Block #17. Yes made the six inch and three inch.  The Simplicity Block designed by Vanessa Goertzen. Sewcialites #17
  • Add final border to the NICU top. Done.  I found enough fabric to make the required size for the border so I didn’t need to make a patchwork one.  So this takes care of the 6 inch blocks I made from A Quilting Life’s BOM.6 AQL 2022

Plans for the Coming Week

This week I think will be a “whatever week”. I have blocks I can make in a few projects. I will wait to see what my March month goal will be and then start to work on that. I have a list of 12 things to progress, but am following along with Sherri at a Quilting Life for giving us the number in  her Patreon group. Of course Sewcialites #18 block for sure.  Possibly wash a quilt or two depending on the weather.

Happy Little Things Finish

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My February goal was to finish up Happy Little Things – a BOM designed by Jacquelynne Steves in 2021.  I made the top then but just put it away.

I took the top and found a backing for it from a left over wide backing and quilted it and put binding on it.

It measures about 43 1/2 inches by 53 1/2 inches. I am not into putting quilts on walls so what could this be used for?  Fabric is by Sherri and Chelsi.

I think it would make a good knee quilt or something you could put on the floor for a baby to lie on. Apart from that I am not sure.

Happy little Things

To Do Tuesday. February 21st

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Plans for Last Week

  • Make binding for BOM quilt by J Steves and sew the machine part on.  Done
  • Make Block 16 of Sewcialites sew along when it publishes. Done.This was designed by Corey Yoder and was certainly one of the more challenging blocks. I  made it in the 6 inch finished. I’ll leave the 3 inch alone! One day though I’d like to make this block in various sizes. Block 16 Sewcialites
  • Sew the blocks together of the blue and yellow blocks from sewcialites – made 12 in this combination as want to make NICU quilt top with them. Done as far as getting to the final border which I need to think about. I don’t have one piece of fabric for it so guess I’ll have to do something scrappy. NICU Sewcialites
  • Anything that might come along, like maybe another block with the Scrappy Irish Double Chain. Made one.  If I make it full size its going to be very big. At this stage I am not sure what I will do. Irish Chain

Plans for the Coming Week

  • Hand sew binding to J Steves Bom ’21 and so finish
  • Make Sewcialites Block #17
  • Add final border to the NICU top

Lots of Small Accomplishments

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Plans for Last Week.

  • Pin and start quilting the BOM with Jacquelynne Steves  from ’21. It is a smaller quilt so will be easier to move around.  To finish this is also going to be my OMG for February.

This is coming along nicely, I have completed the quilting part.

  • Make Sewcialite block for the coming week when it posts on Friday. Done  Pattern by Minki Kim.  Block 15   

Sewcialites

The six inch version and I am using Nantucket Summer fabric by Camille Roskelley, the scraps left over from the Mystery BOM below.

Sewcialites 3

And the 3 ” version.

  • Make Designer Mystery BOM ’22/’23 block from FQS.  Done Mystery BOM block
  • Anything else that makes itself known to me.  One block done for the Irish Double Chain quilt I am making with Corey Yoder’s scrap along.  I also made the six inch version of Sherri’s A Quilting Life. BOM. I am using scraps and will turn it into a boy’s quilt.

Feb BOM AQL

Plans for the Coming Week

  • Make binding for BOM quilt by J Steves and sew the machine part on.
  • Make Block 16 of Sewcialites sew along when it publishes.
  • Sew the blocks together of the blue and yellow blocks from sewcialites – made 12 in this combination as want to make NICU quilt top with them.
  • Anything that might come along, like maybe another block with the Scrappy Irish Double Chain.

A Finish To Celebrate

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I missed last week, we have had some hot (for us) humid weather. The other day I came out of shop into it and thought this is like walking out of the airport at Singapore. Thankfully it has lessened since then. However I was too hot to sew or do much reading. However will see what this week brings.

Plans  Were

  • I am going to work on the final border for the Chilhowie top and then I can call that part of it finished.  Done and now I am not sure I really like it, will put it away for awhile and maybe one day quilt it! Chilhowie top
  • Sewcialites block of course when it publishes. Done and two weeks worth.  Two latest blocks in the foreground. Sewcialites blocks
  • Continue to quilt to BOM from A Quilting Life 2022 Done – all finished and love this one. I mostly stitched in the ditch around everything and added some fmq in sashing and borders.  Fabric was designed by Sherri & Chelsi.BOM AQL Quilt 2022Quilting up close '22 
  • Anything that takes my fancy.  I made one more block for the Double Irish Chain and now have to wait for fabric.

Plans for the Coming Week.

  • Pin and start quilting the BOM with Jacquelynne Steves  from ’21. It is a smaller quilt so will be easier to move around.  To finish this is also going to be my OMG for February.
  • Make Sewcialite block for the coming week when it posts on Friday.
  • Make Mystery BOM ’22/’23 block from FQS.
  • Anything else that makes itself known to me.

Finish Up a Quilt Left Languishing

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I haven’t participated in this for quite a few months, having taking part in Sherri McConnell’s UFO challenge in her Patreon group where we have each listed 12 items to work on – not necessarily finish but to give some sewing love to during the month that its number comes up.

This time it was #7 and that was the BOM ’21 with Jacquelynne Steves.  When I had made the top – yes, I didn’t like it! Still don’t really, but it would make a knee quilt perhaps or if you like really bright a baby could lie on it. Anyway February is its time to be quilted.

So my goal is to quilt and bind it by the end of February.

BOM JS '21

One Block at a Time

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Last weeks plans

  • Quilt my BOM A Quilting Life 2022 – just a bit every day, mostly going to do stitch in the ditch and something in borders. I’ve made a start and doing a block or so a day. Nothing fancy, stitching in the ditch – and I want a fairly soft feel to it. 
  • Make sewcialites blocks when they are published. Done. Didn’t do the 3 inch for this one. This is number 12 I so we are about half way through.  Designed by. Barbara Groves of Me & My Sister Designs.  Sewcialites 12
  • Make BOM Mystery quilt from FQS block that arrived last, about six or seven I think. Done. FQS Mystery Block
  • Whatever takes my fancy.     And as well I sewed together the blocks of No. 2 BOM from A Quilting Life 2022. This was a very scrappy one, made mostly from half square triangles I had left from other projects. Will leave it now, want to put a border on it but I don’t have any fabric to work in with it at present.Scrappy AQL BOM 2022 I also made one more block in the scrappy Irish Chain, so now I have three. I can now make one more block and then I have to wait a few weeks for the accent fabric to arrive. Scrappy Irish Chain 3
  • I also stitched together and put on the inner border on the Chilhowie Bonnie Hunter QAL.Now there will only be the outer border.Border 1 Chilhowie

Finally my calendar arrived from Snapfish, I was about to email them when it dropped at my door today!  NZ Post is very very slow!  Calendar 2023

This Week’s Plans

  • I am going to work on the final border for the Chilhowie top and then I can call that part of it finished.
  • Sewcialites block of course when it publishes.
  • Continue to quilt to BOM from A Quilting Life 2022
  • Anything that takes my fancy.