Monday, February 12, 2024

Happy Birthday, Abe/Tribute Quilt to Our Fallen Marines

This Patriotic Quilt will be quilted/bound/labeled and Awarded to one Our Beloved Area Marines:

Patriotic Quilt utilizing Remnant fabrics w/Abe Lincoln Panel

 This is one of many that are being created incorporating 'remnants' into blocks and sashing, combined with various Patriotic panels to create Beautiful Patriotic Quilts to Honor our Amazing Service Members and Veterans for their Sacrifice and Service for our country.

Here's another recently created Patriotic Quilt from 'remnant binding strips':

Patriotic quilt
 

We fondly refer to these Patriotic 'Remnant' blocks as 'potato chip' blocks, as the Creator of these wondrous blocks/quilts does, too: 

...because once you get started making them, You simply CAN'T make Just ONE!

Not only are they FUN to create - they give us an outlet for our binding remnants that allows us to utilize even the smallest pieces of fabric to create Beautiful Patritic Quilts for our Beloved Vets and Service Members...win/WIN!

A few examples of these blocks:

Blue Center 'Log Cabin/Potato Chip' block


RED Center 'Log Cabin/Potato Chip' block
 
There are MANY ways to assemble these 'remnant/potato chip' blocks - we chose the Log Cabin style to reflect not only our Lincoln Log cabin state but, because of the simplicity of piecing this block.  We use 2 1/2" strips throughout cut to 4 1/2" lengths because once again, that's what we have the most remnants of, because that's the size we typically use for our bindings = simplicity ;-)

2.5" x 4.5" Patriotic Logs

ALL cut from these:

Fabric Remnants
 Turn into these:

Patriotic Logs ready to assemble into blocks


Happy Quilting!

Later,
~Deb


Sunday, December 17, 2023

Clue #4 of Indigo Way Finished!

 Ahhh - it feels so good to FINISH!

Clue #4 of Indigo Way Mystery

While I realy like the Blues in this Indigo Way Mystery Clue:

Blues of Clue #4

I LOVE those Christmas REDS!

The REDS of Clue #4

While cutting out this clue, decided to convert one of my rolling carts into a 'cutting' cart - and it works great!  I can move from pressing to cutting stations w/ease:

Rolling cart using for 'cutting' cart

It can hold two (2) baskets on each shelf.  Once the baskets are full of their cut units, the baskets move easily to my sewing area.  Now my cutting work is much more efficient and organized...win/WIN!


Have a Wonderful Holiday Week!

~Deb


Please Note:  ALL of my Magnificent BH Mysteries are SCRAPPY - including this one ;-)

Sunday, December 10, 2023

Indigo Way Mystery Clue #3 Underway!

 First...the Cutting:

Clue #3 ALL Cut!


Even though 'cutting' is NOT my favorite thing to do - cutting w/AccuQuilt GO! Big is my NEW fav thing!  It makes such light and Fast & FUN work of a previously BORING task...Love it!  (Additional pics of this Fab cutter can be found from Clue #2.)

Next comes a test block...lookin' pretty good!

Clue #3 Test Block



Once the cutting/testing was done, time to sew, Mama SEW!

Chaining the 'first part' of our Clue #3



...then the Final assembly of this FUN block:

Chain piecing the 'second part' of Clue #3


...and the ultimate Pressing:

Clue #3 ready to press

The Final result:

Clue #3 Finished!

Time to get back to finishing up one of our previous mysteries - Grassy Creek.  
And I have a bit of 'Suprise Help' ;-)


Enjoy your week,

~Deb

Please Note:  ALL of my Marvelous BH Mysteries are SCRAPPY...including this one!

Saturday, December 2, 2023

Clue #2 of the BH Indigo Way Mystery is HERE!

 ...and it's ALL sewn/pressed/pruned and ready to go into the Clue #2 bag...Yes!


Clue #2 of the Indigo Way Mystery ALL Finished!


This was a FUN Clue from Bonnie Hunter's Indigo Way Mystery - these Festive & FUN fabrics from Moda made me smile while they were being fed through my sewing machine:

Chain-piecing the first side while singing Fa La La in my head ;-)


Even when I 'Did it WRONG', still had to smile at my zeal to get started sewing these FUN fabrics:

Sewing the units WRONG - notice the piece on Top is UPSIDE Down...OOPS! 
Time for 'ol Jack the Ripper' to make his necessary appearance in this clue...MORE than Once he showed up!!!

Cutting was a breeze w/AccuQuilt GO Big! cutter, Wowza!  

An early Christmas present to self - w/Cyber Monday
72% discount and my Saved Up Points ;-)

A couple of months ago, I broke my right elbow in two places and cutting with rulers and a rotary cutter or scissors has been next to impossible, just too painful after a few minutes. 

But now, I can cut a few chunks of fabric and run them thru this electric cutter:

Fast & FUN - my kinda cutting!

And when they said it was BIG - they were NOT lying...

It can even handle up to two (2) 6" dies at a time and SIX layers of fabrics!

I really enjoy watching the die w/fabric run thru this cutter:

Clue #2 neutral fabric going thru die

ALL perfectly cut units:

Freshly cut units w/little waste

...and here are ALL the units from Clue #2 ready to be assembled - fairly quickly & perfectly cut = a Joy to sew together since ALL the units line up again...PERFECTLY!

Clue #2 ALL cut and ready to be sewn

The die I used helped make quick and pain-free cutting work of this Clue!

GO! die

Some of the FUN/Festive fabric - I love what the selvages have to say:

Christmas Eve by Moda

My very fav:

What a wonderful message!


May your Week be MERRY & Bright!

~Deb


Please Note:  ALL my Magnificent BH Mysteries are SCRAPPY - including this one ;-)

Saturday, November 11, 2023

Thank YOU to Our Veterans!

 A BIG Hearty Thank YOU to Our Amazing Veterans!  

Everyone, Please Enjoy this Historyical Background on Veteran's Day...Fun!


Stay SAFE, Everyone,

~Deb

Friday, October 13, 2023

Tribute Quilt to Israel

While chatting with a Dear Quilty Friend, the War in Israel came up and we both mentioned we would like to do 'something' to show our support for Israel while utilizing our quilting skills, and naturally the idea of a Tribute Quilt was born - incorporating the 6-pointed Star to represent Israel's 'Star of David'.

Star of David quilt block - 6 pointed star

I decided to do a quick search for 6-pointed Star quilt blocks and stumbled across Jenny of Missouri Star's quilt tutorial on the Rhombus Star, which seemd just right!



Purchasing the Rhombus Star digital quilt pattern, ruler templates and a nice blue fat quarter selection seemed like a good idea ;-)

While waiting for my Missouri Star purchases to arrive, I downloaded my digital quilt pattern and while going over it, I started wondering IF I happened to have an Accuquilt die that could possibly work?

I discovered I had a 60 degree Studio Diamond die that 'seemed to' fit the dimensions of the Rhombus Star templates so, gave it a try.  

Studio Diamond die #50653




After a little trial & error and pulling out a Silver marker to add some additional markings to this die:

Studio Diamond die w/outline/boundary markings -
including seam allowance for Half-Diamond


 and sifting through my stash for some Royal Blue & white fabrics,

Royal Blue/White fabrics - cut into block pieces

I was off to the races - chain piecing the Star Blade units:

Chain piecing the units

Once Jenny's Rhombus Templates and fabrics arrive, will be creating a 'smaller' version...NO worries!

Feel free to join in and show your support for Israel and her Survivors through your quilt-making by creating your own Tribute Quilt to Israel.

Time to press those Star units...

Later,

~Deb






Sunday, October 8, 2023

A Beatiful Day in the 'Quilting Neighborhood' ;-)

 America The Beautiful II just came up in Miss Betty's quilting queue, and the perfect quilting design needed to be chosen to enhance this gorgeous patriotic quilt - and we think you'll agree.. we found it!  

America the Beautiful II - coming off the quilt frame

First Star w/pearls by My Creative Stitches was the absolute perfect choice, close-up of this gorgeous quilting design:

'First Star' quilting


Setting up this design was a piece-o-cake w/Miss Betty's computer.  While I still enjoy plenty of 'freehand/ruler work quilting, AI computer quilting is Lots of FUN:

AI computing at its finest ;-)



Just look at this Beautiful Star quilting:

Star Quilting



The back is almost as stunning as the front!

Quilting back


This finished Patriotic quilt will soon be Awarded to an Illaiana Vet to Honor their Service and Sacrifice for our country...Thank YOU.

Time to bind/label. 

Later,
~Deb