Slow Sunday Stitching

 Once you start stitching a Kawandi inspired quilt...you will want to keep making more!  At least that is what I have done.  

Here is a photo from today of a Kawandi I started before the one I posted about last week.

I am using a Walkabout charm pack and stitching with #8 variegated perle thread.  I just got the center pieces cut and edges folded under and placed in position.  I am stitching on it today and it is ready to take to my Tuesday group to stitch.  I don't worry if my stitches aren't the same or if they are not straight.............just enjoy the stitching.

Linking to Kathy's Quilts  Slow Sunday Stitching

https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2024/07/slow-sunday-stitching_080786552.html

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

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

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

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

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

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".

I am linking to Kathy's Quilts Slow Sunday Stitching

https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2023/01/slow-sunday-stitching_02094618467.html

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Kawandi #5 finish and ready to start another one

 It has been a long time since I wrote a blog post!  

I will link this with Slow Sunday Stitching.

Today I finished #5 Kawandi and it is placemat size.

THis is only the center part of the photo and it changed to this close mode!  OH my it took me forever to figure out how to get a photo here.  I have forgotten so much!  I will send another photo in another post.

Here is a photo of some fabrics I am using in the next Kawandi plus some of my other fabrics.  OH YES....I will be starting another one as I love doing the slow perfectly imperfect stitching!

And that photo was a lot easier to post and it actually has the whole photo I took.

I will be catching up with this year in later posts.

https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2022/11/sow-sunday-stitching.html

SMiles and hugs....Caryl

Kawandi #3 progress and links to the first two

 I am enjoying having a project to hand stitch a little bit every day!!  Today I am linking to Slow Sunday Stitching.  Here is a photo of progress....

with some pieces to possibly add.....

I had a question in my post last Sunday  about the previous two Kawandi inspired quilts I have made...........

So here are the SOME of the links from when I first heard about them

The first blog post about Kawandi is Sunday Sept 13, 2020

http://carylquilts.blogspot.com/2020/09/slow-sunday-stitching_13.html

(Also mentioned in Sept 20 and Sept 27 posts and Nov 1 post)

The first one I finished was Birds in the Midnight on Sept 29

http://carylquilts.blogspot.com/2020/09/scrap-quilt-finish-and-to-do-tuesday-37.html

Start of the second Kawandi post was Sunday October 4

http://carylquilts.blogspot.com/2020/10/slow-sunday-stitching.html

The blog post with a photo of both of the Kawandi quilts finished and hanging on my dining room wall was Nov 17, 2020

http://carylquilts.blogspot.com/2020/11/to-do-tuesday-40.html

I like these projects because I can do it however I want to do it....

I am making each end of the tablerunner the same and I will be repeating some of the same fabrics in the rest of the table runner...

Not sure how the center will be done..........

I am linking to Kathy's Quilts

https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2021/01/slow-sunday-stitching-my-oldest-ufo.html

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

 

Starting Kawandi inspired tablerunner

 I am starting my third Kawandi inspired quilt.  The first two were small wall hangings and they are hanging side by side on my dining room wall.  This one will be a table runner for the top of a cabinet in our dining room.  I have missed the hand sewing and this will give me hand sewing to work on every day.

I have basted the backing folded over to the front over the batting.   I have posted about the first two in previous posts.  I will have different rules for myself for this Kawandi.  The first two I tried NOT to repeat any fabric.  

Now for this Kawandi I WANT to repeat fabrics more than once.  AND it will be more planned.  That is the way it is starting anyway....I may change my mind as I go along!!

  The photo shows the fabrics I will be using to select pieces as I slowly stitch around and around.  The fabrics I am starting with have purple swirls in the corners with blue on each side.  Then there will be more purples, blues, teals and some dark pinks.  I just love those colors!!!

I started stitching these today and it is a actually a little different than the photo shows.  

I am linking to Kathy's Quilts             Slow Sunday Stitching

https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2021/01/slow-sunday-link.html

Now I am going to check out what everyone else is stitching today....join me in checking!

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Slow Sunday Stitching

 Today I am stitching on my second Kawandi that I started a month ago.  I included the needle puller in the photo that I ordered after Kathy mentioned it in her blog.  I have pieces of fabric pinned in place.  I don't want to change this now....but the zigsag design fabric piece stands out a lot!

I am enjoying stitching on our patio on a nice warm day....not too hot and not too cold!!

The tall plant in the foreground was a small plant from a neighbor last Christmas.  We transplanted it to a larger pot and it just keeps getting taller!

This is my purple rose bush and it was totally bare with no leaves several weeks ago.  I thought it was gone.....but still watered it and it has come back very healthy looking.....makes me so happy!

I am linking to Kathy's Quilts    Slow Sunday Stitching

https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2020/11/slow-sunday-stitching.html

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Slow Sunday Stitching

I had to start another Kawandi quilt....several days without hand stitching and I needed a hand stitching project!  I wonder what this one will be like.......as I search for fabrics to add to this little quilt.

And I finished this little Stitch Meditation today.  I was looking for fabric scraps for the Kawandi quilt and the orange rectangle wanted to be in a stitch meditation.  OK...I will start one of those...it has been awhile since I did one.  The selvage piece wanted to be in it also...OK...so I needed one more piece and the dot fabric was sitting there.  I like the zen stitching with no plan.

I am linking to Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts

https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2020/10/slow-sunday-stitching.html

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Slow Sunday Stitching

Oh...the joy of hand stitching.  I am so glad to have such a fun project to do.  My Kawandi quilt is almost done.  The last pieces are pinned in place and I am stitching around and around!  I explained about this in this blog post  http://carylquilts.blogspot.com/2020/09/slow-sunday-stitching_20.html 

Here is the photo today

I am probably putting my rows closer together than necessary but I like it.  My stitches are wavy and not even....but I like it.  There is something about this that is fun for me to choose fabrics as I stitch and not plan too far ahead.  AND then just live with the decisions as being good!

I am linking to Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts

https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2020/09/slow-sunday-stitching_27.html

Be sure to check what everyone is doing on the link.

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Slow Sunday Stitching

Last Sunday I blogged about the project I started using scraps of fabric.  It is a very different way to make a quilt.  I have researched this Kawandi type of quilt and there are photos but not a lot of direction on how to make them.  As I explained you hand stitch the scraps of fabric starting on the outside.  I am figuring it out as I go.  Some of my stitches are running stitch and some are back stitch and some are short and some are longer.  That is the way I want it....and I am enjoying this process and it is so much fun!!!

Places to research about Kawandi quilts.....TQS episode 2705 with Sujata Shah 

                                                               and You Tube stree3.....Margaret Fabrizio

Here is a photo taken today of my Kawandi type quilt.  I am also working on my mini three crazy sisters quilt.

I am linking to Kathy's Quilts  Slow Sunday Stitching

https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2020/09/slow-sunday-stitching_20.html

and to Quilting is More Fun than Housework   Oh Scrap!

http://quiltingismorefunthanhousework.blogspot.com/2020/09/oh-scrap-bit-by-bit.html

Be sure to check out what everyone is doing and join in on the fun!!

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Slow Sunday Stitching

 Today I am stitching on a new type of quilt that I started this week.  I was watching The Quilt Show episode 2705 and Sujata Shah was showing the Kawandi scrap quilt method.  It is so different than anything I have seen before and I had to start my version.  Here is what I have done so far........

 You start by hand stitching pieces from the outside and go all around.  I am deciding the next patchwork piece as I come to each.  So far.....this is so fun!

The start is using a very thin piece of cotton fabric and folding it over a piece of batting and baste stitch around the edge.  

I am not putting the corner pieces on as the true Kawandi quilts are done.  Research this if you aren't familiar.....besides TQS (which might be free if you aren't a member?) there are videos on You Tube.

Sujata Shah has a web site called The Root Connection.

I am linking to Kathy's Quilts  https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2020/09/slow-sunday-stitching_13.html Slow Sunday Stitching

Be sure to check out what everyone is doing.

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Slow Sunday Stitching

 AND today I am hand stitching on THREE different projects..........

I am happily hand quilting my Beatrix Potter mini 3 Crazy Sisters quilt that I have mentioned before. This is from one of Joe Cunningham's classes on Craftsy.

I am hand quilting with the same quilting as Joe used by machine.  I am thinking I might need to do some machine quilting in the ditch along the block edges.....not sure if that would take away from the total design.  I don't want it to look blocky....more an overall design??

And I am also working on the binding on the dolphin runner and it is almost done..........

I just finished Stitch Meditation #20

I am linking to Kathy's Quilts  Slow Sunday Stitching

https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2020/09/slow-sunday-stitching.html

Be sure and check what everyone else is sewing today.

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Slow Sunday Stitching

Today I worked on two projects that are stitched by hand............

The first one is a project I started this last week and is a little mini wall hanging....

I blogged about this last Tuesday........

I was watching Joe Cunningham on Bluprint/Craftsy and decided I needed to try one of the projects...

The 3 Crazy Sister quilt was the one I chose to start........

I need a little quilt for the wall in my bathroom    next to my Beatrix Potter collection...

Soooo....I decided to use some of my Beatrix Potter fabric and I added a shiny blue fabric as an accent.

I got it together and had planned on quilting it by machine....but changed my mind and decided to hand quilt it!  I started quilting it today and took a photo....

I was having difficulty with the thread twisting and knotting and then I discovered some loops as I hadn't pullted the thread tight enough.....I finally ended up pulling out all the quilting I had done!!

AND NOW I am using 12 wt purple.....that I wanted to use to start with....but it shows more....BUT it makes me so happy.....no photos yet.

In the meantime....I was also working on binding of the dolphin runner I have blogged about previously.

I am linking to Kathy's Quilts  Slow Sunday Stitching

https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2020/08/slow-sunday-stitching_30.html

Be sure and check what everyone else is sewing today.

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Slow Sunday Stitching binding

I have been hand sewing the binding on this quilt sitting on the patio the past few cool mornings...... 

and today enjoying some slow stitching!

There is something so relaxing about hand sewing a binding on a quilt...

I like all parts of making a quilt.....but this is satisfying as the quilt is almost done....

But then.....it is sad sometimes because the enjoyment of making this quilt is over.....

Kind of hard to explain.............

This is my yellow brick road quilt I have blogged about the FMQ.

I am linking to Kathy's Quilts  Slow Sunday Stitching

https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2020/07/slow-sunday-stitching_19.html

Be sure and check what everyone else is sewing today.

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Mother's Day Slow Sunday Stitching and a finish

It was quite a different Mother's Day not being able to get together with our family!

I spent the afternoon on the patio stitching the binding on a mini quilt and got it finished.

I am linking this post to Slow Sunday Stitching.. 

The mini quilt is asymmetric log cabin.  It is from a Bluprint class by Suzy Williams.   I blogged about it in April and also I blogged about it last year.  It is from the class

Fabric Play:  Sewing Mojo Minis   

The class is a series of four little minis and not done with binding.  She framed them with the batting showing.  

There is machine quilting and hand quilting on this quilt and I really like the combination.

I decided to add a binding and not leave it with just batting showing.  Most of the quilting was done with just the batting.

Here is the back of the quilt

Here is a photo of the 2 mini quilts taken last month and I blogged about them then.

They should both be about the same size..........it was an improv quilt and I kept making my strips too large and it got larger than the first one!  

It doesn't look balanced....but will look better on the wall when I put another one next to it!!

I am linking to https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2020/05/slow-sunday-stitching_10.html

I am also linking to  Oh Scrap!

  http://quiltingismorefunthanhousework.blogspot.com/2020/05/oh-scrap-green-is-color-for-may.html

Smiles and hugs....Caryl