Scrap quilt finish and To-Do Tuesday #37

 My version of Kawandi quilt is finished!  I am calling it Birds in the Moonlight.

I have blogged about it in the past several weeks after I was inspired by Sujata Shah on TQS #2705.  I love the improv way of deciding as you go what comes next.  I used #12 Aurifil purple thread to meander my way around and around!!  It is 13 x 17....a small wall hanging.

My 37th week of linking to Home Sewn By Us for To-Do Tuesday

Here is the list from last week

To-Do Tuesday week of September 22 through September 28:

1. Get at least half of the Cool Cat pieces cut out ✅
2. figure out where I was on the Apple Crisp quilt and finish cutting and start sewing ✅
3. decide on a fall project to make ✅

16 of 30 cut out....still need to find lighter blues.  The photo of the blue fabric I showed last week is all so similar SO  I ordered Peacock fabric Kaffe Fassett and I would like to use some of that in this quilt.

Apple Crisp all cut out and HST sewn using the paper...now to sew the blocks together  

This fall fabric is offset and I decided to cut it apart and add some black leftover strips and added a back and some batting and I will use it to practice FMQing.

To-Do Tuesday week of September 29 through October 5:

1. FMQ     Angela Walters has a new class on YouTube about using rulers
2. Apple Crisp blocks
3. start another Kawandi quilt

I am linking to Roseanne's 

http://homesewnbyus.com/to-do-tuesday-linky-60-and-weekly-update/

Be sure to see what everyone else is doing and join in the fun!!

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

To-Do Tuesday #36 and mini quilt finish

 My 36th week of linking to Home Sewn By Us for To-Do Tuesday

Here is the list from last week

To-Do Tuesday week of September 15 through September 21:

1. finish hand quilting mini three crazy sisters quilt ✅
2. start Cool Cats quilt in blues ✅
3. FMQ 4 days this week ✅

1.   I have blogged about this before in previous posts.  The pattern is by Joe Cunningham on Craftsy.  I wanted to make a small version of the quilt in the class and needed a little quilt on the wall in a space next to my Beatrix Potter collection.  I started this collection of figurines 45 years ago!!  A friend and I enjoyed collecting the little books and then after we had all of them we started collecting figurines.  My favorite character is Hunca Munca.  

I hand quilted using Aurifil #12 purple thread.

Photos of my Beatrix Potter mini three crazy sisters quilt.

2.   I gathered as many blues that I have collected to use for a blue Cool Cats quilt to make for a friend.  I started cutting out some of the pieces.  But I need to find more lights to go with these fabrics.

Did anyone do a jelly roll quilt on Saturday....Jelly Roll Day?  I started sewing some strips together but not definite on a pattern yet.  The roll I used was Handmade by Bonnie and Camille which I purchases on sale several years ago....with no definite plan!  I have made several of the shortcut quilts from tutorials (Jelly Roll Jam I and Jelly Roll Jam II and Slice) from the fatquartershop online.  There isn't a lot of contrast with the strips in this jelly roll.   

And this past week we celebrated our 59th wedding anniversary!!  It doesn't seem possible that many years have gone by.....soooo fast!

To-Do Tuesday week of September 22 through September 28:

1. Get at least half of the Cool Cat pieces cut out
2. figure out where I was on the Apple Crisp quilt and finish cutting and start sewing
3. decide on a fall project to make

I am linking to Roseanne's 

http://homesewnbyus.com/to-do-tuesday-linky-59-weekly-progress-update/

Be sure to see what everyone else is doing and join in the fun!!

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Yellow Brick Road finished!

 This post is full of photos...of this quilt I just finished!

The first photo is being held and the second one is laying on the concrete.

This pattern is by Terry Atkinson of Atkinson Designs

I started it Januarry 21, 2014 and have blogged about it.  I had bought a 6 fat quarter bundle several years before I started this quilt.  I blogged about it 1/25/14 and then again 2/01/14, 2/08/14 and 6/27/14.  At that time it was a quilt top and it hung on my quilt rack for years as I did other quilts.

Then this year I decided I needed to finish it.  I used Diagonal Dots for the backing.  There are photos in 2/25/20 post of the start of FMQ.  I used designs by Lori Kennedy mostly.  The designs I used are flower power, Claire's peony, Faye's flower, Easy Peasy.  I also used wiggles, loops, heart leaves and spirals and meanders.  The first border I used lazy 8 Christina Cameli.  The outer border is #4 serpentine stitch on my machine 2.5 x 2.5.

The other blog posts with photos from this year 6/30, 7/14, 7/19 and 7/21.

Here are photos I took all over the quilt...starting at the top left and down and all around.  Since these photos are on my phone and then in my computer....they do go away....but this blog is where I can come to see them if they are gone other places!!

And the last photo is with a corner turned over to see the back.

It feels good to have this done....I had thought about giving it as a gift....but it has practice FMQ...but then that is what I usually call all my FMQ as it is hard to get it to look perfect.  OH that's right....I forgot I gave up being perfect and I am now striving to be perfectly imperfect!!!

Rebecca Grace has started a linky party and this is the second week.  She has invited me to join.

http://cheekycognoscenti.blogspot.com/2020/08/lal2-one-where-thoroughly-modern-millie.html

Be sure to check out the other posts......so many very interesting blogs to check!

AND I am also linking with Free Motion Mavericks

http://lizzielenard-vintagesewing.blogspot.com/2020/08/free-motion-mavericks-week-293-another.html

Be sure to check their posts also.....it is so fun to see what everyone else is doing!

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

crazy improv quilt mat finish and other projects

 I made this little mat to sit on top of a cabinet in our bedroom.  The cabinet belonged to my dad.  I used the same fabrics and technique as I did last summer with the other mat I made for our bedroom furniture.

 It is crazy improvisaional and from a Bluprint class.  The next photo shows the back with the crazy matrix quilting.  So fun and so easy!

 There are so many interesting classes online.  Several weeks ago I watched The Quilt Show #2310 with Lynn Carson Harris.  She was using tiny bits of scraps.  Her liberated log cabin caught my eye and I couldn't stop thinking about it and had to start piecing little pieces together.  This is what I have so far.

 Sew Sampler this month had a pressing mat that I really like.

 I enjoy classes by Joanne Sharpe online.  I got the idea from her of cutting out letters out of magazines to use for journals, scrapbooks....and I used some for a card.  Very fun to search for letters larger than a penny.

 The following photo is the two pages of assignments from the class...2019 Artfully Inspired Life with Joanne Sharpe.  The background is acrylic layering.

 I used a practice journal to check out different acrylic paints for class projects and decided to use a white pen and doodle!  The following photos are of two pages I have done.

That's it for now!!   Smiles and hugs....Caryl