2024/04/11
Oh how time flies! It seems I have time to stitch but not to blog. So let’s see what’s been happening since my last post ……..
Pre-Christmas
I machine embroidered some new Christmas cards. I was so excited because our local Staples had black card stock on hand so the metallic thread displayed beautifully on it. They’re so easy to do and I even re-purposed some paper bags to make enveloped for them. How environmentally friendly is that lol.
Post Christmas
I started off the new year with a little machine embroidery play. We keep a toy box in our living room for the days we’re fortunate enough to have young guests visit. Once in awhile we update the contents and I found a delightful *Free* design collection on Kreative Kiwi to use to create a new object for it. This 6″ x 6″ polyester stuffed block is light as a feather and won’t hurt a thing if it’s tossed around and won’t get hurt if it’s sat upon.
Next up were some quilt tops…… one of our Guild members has fabulous scraps; she works in quality fabrics and beautiful colours so in a weak moment I told her I’d be happy to take a bag full of her scraps. Well…..she brought me a large, bottomless plastic grocery bags of scraps. As I was sorting and cutting the scraps to size I would pull out a handful, sort and cut them, pull out another handful, sort and cut them…..and again….and again…. and each time the bag would still be full! That was in January and it’s now April and I’ve made four quilt tops from that grocery bag of scraps and I still have some left! I have a baby quilt (mostly my scraps) and one of the tops sandwiched and quilted so far and am working on the other three. They will all go to the Guild’s Community Quilt program so it’s a very worthwhile endeavour. Here are the first two completed ones; more to come. They’re both pieced by me and free motion quilted by me on my Sweet Sixteen using mostly Glide thread. The scrappy puppies were inspired by a Facebook post by Debbie Buskirk in the group ScrappyGirlsClub. The edge to edge motif on the other quilt is inspired by StitchedBySusan.
At the same time, interspersed with these scrappy Community Quilts, I’ve been quilting some fabulous quilt tops that one of my talented sisters-in-law (yes I’m lucky to have more than one sister-in-law who quilts!) sent home with me on our last visit in Alberta. But they deserve their own post …… so keep watching….
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