Also yesterday I posted a summary video on my Youtube channel to share the projects I worked on in July. You can view that video here.
Anyway, I finally finished this quilt while visiting my sister at her cottage this summer.
The Princess Charlotte quilt top was finished on Feb. 15, 2021. This might have been the fastest mystery quilt top I have sewn in all the years of doing Super Bowl mysteries with Kris of Scrapdash. And then it sat in the "to be finished" pile.
This is a close up photo that shows the "lazy quilters way" to make faux mitered corners which I like to do.
Finished size is 50" x 62".
And how do you get the glue off the needle? Well, if you wipe it with a tissue, it gets more gummed up with tissue fluff - everything sticks to it! If you try to pull the glue off the needle with your fingers, the glue stays and your fingers get covered in glue!
I did finish the bookmark but learned an important lesson - sdhesive backed felt should not be stitched through! But it's finished (although the corners are terrible) and the needle went right in the trash never to be used again.
Did anyone else have a successful finish this week? I'd love to hear about it - link up your blog post below!
Last week's idea to start a camping stitch that the family could participated in was a total fail! Not one single person could be convinced to put in a stitch! 😞I admit I was disappointed, but I understand that everyone was having a great time being at the beach, playing games together and enjoying campfires. It was so busy I hardly had time to add any stitches myself and I'm not sure what will happen to this start.
When I returned home I immediately re-started a new project called Pink Wren. The photo is odd because the background fabric is actually lime green!
This weekend I am visiting my sister, and there will be some stitching time and maybe some baseball and soccer watching. What are you hand stitching today? Please share your slow progress with us below!
I have started a new project to take on a family camping trip in the hopes that some folks might be persuaded to try stitching.
I'm really looking forward to stitching more on this new summer camping themed project today.
What are you stitching today? Please link up your blog post below!
I am at a cottage this weekend with some of my favourite people. The weather has been glorious, and the stitching time has been fabulous!
Some of us started the Stitch North Biscornu pattern by Sarah Anne Stitches (you can download the pattern on Sarah's link tree). I am stitching my version on a light blue fabric (on the left), and my friend Kathi has finished the front panel which includes 8 Canada Geese, 3 pairs of scissors, 4 small leaves and 4 large maple leaves, and a star design in the middle.
What are you hand stitching today? Did you start any new projects in June?
Welcome to the weekly hand stitching party!
If so, the 3 new quilt starts will be a guild summer mystery, the new Meadow Mist Marigold, and the Fat Quarter shop's free christmas mystery called Jolly Tree Farm.
Are you stitching binding on quilts that are way past the time they should have been finished!?!? What are you hand stitching today?
Whatever the season is that you are currently in, or whatever the weather is that you are experiencing, it is the perfect day for stitching!
Last week when I was visiting my grandbaby, I had some time to stitch and of course I had brought along my project bag (just in case).
So I went to the nearest Michaels (wasting a half hour of my stitching window) and bought the smallest needle they had for hand stitching. It was a package of Gold Needles size 1-3-5 whatever that means. I usually use a size 26 or 28. Ugh! It was like stitching with a stick. But I still managed to get some stitches in and learned a valuable lesson - always be sure you have your favourite needles and scissors in your hand stitching bag!
What are you hand stitching today? Please share you slow progress with us below!
Welcome everyone! We meet here on Sundays to celebrate hand stitching in all its forms.
Yesterday I started this project called "Kind Words Cost Nothing" by Modern Folk Embroidery. I love it so much that I put 300 stitches into it before I could do anything else. It's so beautiful and I love it!
It just so happened that the beginning of the text are my initials so I stitched that right away. Also I was trying to count my way over to stitch the birds of course!
But even while I was stitching this beautiful project, I was thinking about what else I was going to start this weekend. Craziness! What do you do when this happens to you?
Please share your hand stitching projects with us. Do you find yourself starting more thing these days, or is it just me?
Today I want to share about the journey of 2 finished baby quilts.
My sister and I have developed a tradition of making a quilt when our nieces and nephews announce they are expecting a baby. Usually my sister begins the process, finding a pattern and buying the fabric, then she sews the quilt top and I do the machine quilting and binding.
When my nephew announced he was having twins this spring, my sister jumped into creative overdrive. She made 2 quilts tops that were similar yet different - just like twins! Both quilt tops use bright fabrics with elephants (a childhood fascination for our nephew). Here is my sister working on the layout on the design wall when we were at retreat.
This is a photo of the quilt before it was sent off to the parents-to-be. You can see some of the line quilting extending into the borders. Very simple quilting, yet it does the job.
And this is the photograph every quiltmaker waits for... to see the new owners using their quilt!
I finished this little Tiny Modernist project called "Midnight Ocean". It was stitched on 16 count aida using 4 colours of variegated thread, which made it very fun to stitch. It measures 3.5" square.
Yesterday I posted a video reviewing the projects I worked on in May and some things I might tackle in June. You can view it here.
This week I have 2 stitching projects that are not mine that I am adding stitches to.
The first one is a Canadian round robin project called Flosstube Friends. I am working on Sarah's project (The Rocking Chair Stitcher) right now.
That's okay - it's an easy fix because I caught it early and it's not too much to rip out. I'll be finishing it up soon and get it in the mail to the next stitcher to enjoy.
Do you have any stitching projects that you have lost interest in? A bag of unloved, half finished items in a bag behind your chair? Things in closets in tote bins? Remember that you used to love each one of them and maybe they just need some fresh eyes and a little TLC to become something you can finish? Or pass on to someone else who will be delighted to have it?
I am attending an online stitching event called "Spring Mingle" (organized by Lindy Stitches) this weekend and have been jumping from project to project. I have started a couple of things, and have not made much progress on anything! I am "spinning my wheels" as they say!
What are you up to today? Please share the projects you are hand stitching below.
This has been a very full stitching week as I am participating in "May Maynia" which just means starting lots of things and making yourself crazy happy! My plan is to start a new project every week in May. This week's start is a Tiny Modernist design called Midnight Ocean. It is a lovely underwater scene with a whale, jellyfish, coral and tiny little fish.
I am using 4 colours of Cottage Garden threads from Australia and really enjoying them. It is fun to experiment with new products. I like the creative packaging and how easy it is to use the threads and keep them organized. I did not like the price ($48 for 4 threads!) but it was a special treat I bought for myself. We all need treats from time to time!
I posted yesterday about a quilting finish that I am very proud of - click here to see that post if you missed it. And today I'll be putting a binding on another quilt so I will have some binding to enjoy in between family time.
What are you hand stitching today? Please share your slow progress with us!
It's not very often I get to celebrate a finished quilt since I have so many projects in various stages of completion. But today I have a special finish to share!
This is one of Bonnie Hunter's mystery quilts called Chilhowie started in November of 2022. It was during the throws of covid lockdowns when this project was started and I did not want to shop for any of the fabrics. So I used scraps from my stash and sorted them by value (not colour).
I finished my quilt top in September 2023 and then it sat in my UFO closet. My friends Annie and Lynn finished their quilts and donated them to my guild's community comfort project and they are gorgeous quilts. Annie made her quilt the size that the original pattern was with 16 blocks, and Lynn made hers a bit smaller with 12 blocks. My version is even smaller using 9 blocks, and the finished size is 59" x 59".
It's always amazing how quilts can be made from the same pattern and yet look so different!
Can you see the variety of reds in the binding? It was such a pleasure to use up so many scraps and to see this quilt to the finish line! It has inspired me to move more projects toward completion before I start the guild's summer mystery project (and maybe I should finish last summer's mystery first?!?!) 😜
