The Year of the Horse

 This week's Project Quilting theme is the Chinese New Year and it is the year of the Horse.  I made another  charity quilt.

I first thought to do a silhouette of a horse in fabric.  My problem with that is this is a quilt that could get washed every week and fused applique doesn't always hold up to washing.  My solution was to do outlines of horses in thread based on a petroglyph.

Thanks for looking,

Nancy

Plaid!!

This week's Project Quilting Challenge is "Plaid".  I don't have plaid.  I even went to the clothes closet to see if I could steal a shirt.  Nope.  No plaid.  I knew I could of sewn something that looked like plaid, but honestly, that was too much work.  I stopped at a thrift store and spent 99 cents on a men's shirt. 

I had done a cat for a birthday card earlier in the month and so had the template already made.  I need a card for a lady with Parkinson's and so those two got combined.

Until next time...

Nancy

Clean Slate, Sort Of

 It is once again time for Project Quilting.  The current challenge is based on the 2026 Color of the Year, which is a white.  Obviously, the people that do this are still enamored with the White/Black/Gray color palette (sterile, boring, cold).  Shoot me, I like color.  Even the author of the challenge couldn't just say the challenge was white.  She gave it the name "Clean Slate".

I have been cleaning in my sewing room.  We won't discuss how much I needed to do that.  I knew I had a box of orphan blocks, but I found another large tray of orphan blocks.  I decided in 2026 I need to make charity quilts using orphan blocks.  Here is the first one.

I used up 6 orphan blocks and ended up with something I think a 2 year old would drag around.  I also found polyester batting and used some of that.

And to prove I have been cleaning:

Thanks for looking,

Nancy

ps.  I don't really have a clean slate as I haven't finished the birthday card for the girl that turned 11 on December 31rst.

 

Button It Up Challenge

 This Project Quilting theme is "Button It Up".  I actually thought of that phrase's younger brother, "Zip It Up".  So I went with a zip bag from a coffee bag.

The fun with this challenge was to be the various ways you can interpret the phrase "Button It Up".  I realized that I didn't want to take the button word literally.  I could only think of one place I would use the phrase as an idiom and that would be in the context of condensing a presentation.  So I went the route of the ZIP.

Thanks for stopping.

Nancy

Arrows Challenge

 

This week’s Project Quilting theme is “arrows”.  It didn’t take long to figure out what I was going to do.  Last weekend I took my sister and sister-in-law to the Port of Miami.  They went out on an eighties cruise.  My SIL was really into it.  She brought a cheerleading skirt and pompoms as that was her identity in the 1980s.  What I learned was my SIL who travels a lot for work and likes nice makeup brushes, but doesn’t really have a good way to take them in her suitcase.  So, I made her a makeup brush roll.

I had brought my flying geese trim ruler to Florida as I need more practice.  My flying geese are not as wonky as they used to be when I did the sew and flip method, but they still are not perfect.  Once again, I had to play the game of what is in mom’s leftover stash that I can use.  I kept finding things that went together, but the pieces were not large enough.

I'm not the person with the makeup brushes, so I have no idea how long the ties need to be...

Nancy

Birthstone Challenge

 This week's Project Quilting's theme is a color challenge.  Use the color of your birthstone as a starting point.  My birthstone is sapphire, so blue it is.  My mother turns 92 on Thursday, so I did a card for mom.

I do need to stop and pick up a travel iron for the Florida condo.  Once again I was not liking the lack of control using the big iron my mother had.

 

Nancy

Three Common Blocks Challange

 This week's Project Quilting theme was 3 Common Blocks.  I had no idea what I was supposed to do with that.  So my grand plan was to wait until I got back to Milwaukee and look at orphan blocks.  I never found the box of orphan blocks as I found 6 blocks really quickly that never made it to the orphan block box.  Once I laid out my blocks, it read landscape to me and I just went that direction.

It's been a busy week and I go back to Florida on Wednesday.  First I have to get my challenge done for my Guild Challenge and take it by someone to enter it for me.

See you next time.

Nancy