cinnamon holiday workshop: 2023

Monday, December 25, 2023

Merry Christmas

Wishing everyone a joyous Christmas and a happy new year!

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Sunday, March 5, 2023

Slow Sunday Stitching

This past week I finished a small Kawandi mug rug

And I started another Kawandi. I have watched YouTube and The Quilt Show tutorials and did it different this time. I folded over the backing seam and did not stitch it down as i have in the past. I am also going to wait to add the batting AFTER the first row of pieces of fabric are added. These are two changes from the earlier small Kawandi quilts.

AND the next photo shows a way of adding the pieces to tuck the seam under so the edge looks neater. I like to take photos to share tips and also for a reminder to me in the future!!

I cut up some pieces of the following fat quarter to put in this quilt.

I had a birthday February 16the........83! Not sure how I got here so fast...the years fly by!!!

The photo was taken at Marie Callendar's in their library room.

I am linking to Kathy's Quilts

https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2023/03/slow-sunday-stitching.html

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Sunday, February 12, 2023

Slow Sunday Stitching

I started another Kawandi....number 8 and it is a mug rug like the last two I made.

I am not not concerned about the rows being straight or my stitches being the same. I like it perfectly imperfect....makes it so much more fun then perfect stitches!

Here is the last Kawandi that I finished.

Last Tuesday at my quilt group I learned about a fun improv method of making blocks. The photo shows the blocks I have made so far.

Check out Terry Rowland on You-Tube. Color wash quilt scraps challenge. These are so fun to make with scraps and each block is trimmed to 3½". She has several videos about these blocks.

Last Sunday late afternoon we drove down to the La Jolla to watch the sunset at the ocean. I had checked the time of the full moon rise and it was close to the same time as the sunset time. So we thought it would be an awesome thing to watch. AND it was. We watched as the sun disappeared into the ocean and then on our way back home we saw the full moon low on the horizon as it had just come up. The sky was clear so we were able to view both of these....very special time for us.

I am linking to Kathy's Quilts Slow Sunday Stitching

https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2023/02/slow-sunday-stitching_01804329813.html

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Sunday, January 29, 2023

Slow Sunday Stitching

I have been working on my Valentine Kawandi mug rug that I started I mentioned in last week's blog

sorry for the dark photo. This is where I am today...almost ready to add the center..

Every morning I check YouTube for interesting videos. I have a fire stick on a small TV at my desk. This morning there was a video about momigami. I have never heard of it before. For those who don't know it is a Japanese papermaking method described as kneaded paper. It makes the paper soft like fabric. In the video she did some slow stitching on it.

I wanted to try it. I did some experimenting.

The first photo is watercolor paper that I had painted. I used a small Japanese saucer with some lotion and used a clear plate for laying it out to smooth between times of rolling it up and squashing the paper.

Next photo is the piece of paper I tore off a piece to compare before and after.

The next photo shows some denim I am stitching with perle cotton and will be used for a journal cover. I might be adding some paper inspired by monogami to this piece.

AND I am working on the January lessons from my Joanne Sharpe class 2023 Artfully Inspired Life online course. Next is a photo from my class book. In the photo is the alphabet from one of my journals of NYC checkered cab alphabet from Joanne Sharp book Artful Alphabets.

I am linking to Kathy's Quilts Slow Sunday Stitching

https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2023/01/slow-sunday-stitching_0329602671.html

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Sunday, January 22, 2023

Slow Sunday Stitching

This past week I finished the Kawandi mug rug and started another one.

Here is the finish with a saying stitched in the cneter

The center saying says Create Joy Every Day.

Here are some photos before I stitched it to the center. I felt it needed something so I added the words.

Now I am working on a Valentne Kawandi mug rug with pinks and purples and reds. I did the same different start like the last one with sewing machine zigzag around the edge. I described how I did this in my January 8 Blog post.

AND the last photo....sharing a favorite snack I discovered several months ago. They are so good. LIghtly salted and crunchy...yum!

I am linking with Kathy;s Quilts Slow Sunday Stitching

https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2023/01/slow-sunday-stitching_0676946238.html

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Sunday, January 8, 2023

Slow Sunday Stitching

I had a glorious time this afternoon sitting on my patio and stitching on my Kawandi mug rug.

I used a different procedure on this Kawandi. Here is how I did it:

I started the mug rug by doing a zig zag stitch on my machine on the outside edge. Lay the backing right side down, then the batting then the top fabrics. I used a jelly roll. The way I did it was to hang the first strip off the edge and fold the edge of the backing over the batting and the jelly roll raw edge on top. Start zig zagging and each new piece of jelly roll I folded the edge under. When I got back to the beginning I folded under the first piece and stitched back to the corner. It is a very fun and fast way to get a Kawandi style quilt started. The rest is all hand stitching around and around. I really really enjoy this type of hand stitching...........perfectly imperfect!

This last week I have been going through scraps of fabric and sorting in piles according to size. I stitched various scrap sizes on a muslin base starting with a 5-sided center piece. The following photos are the first before trimming and the second trimmed to 9".