October RSC Round up

 I made a few more Twinkler Stars this week. I have a box of ones left over from the last RSC quilt I made with these fabulous blocks and would like to add to those as I have an idea to make a quilt for a young relation. I sorted through my box of 2.5” squares and found piles of colours to use. 

Here are the blocks I made:

I will continue to make a few more of these next week.

I also finished quilting and binding the Maternity Ward Wonky Stars quilt I started quite recently:

It measures 24” square and looks so cheerful. When I showed it to my husband he immediately said he loved it!

This was made from my stash of  RSC Wonky Stars blocks. 

The backing I used goes so well with the reds and yellows in the stars and is a piece of fabric I bought years ago. I think it was 3 yards - I don’t usually buy any larger when I purchase larger pieces of fabric. I have used this delicious Strawberry fabric in several quilts or in backing several baby quilts. A real favourite of mine and I’ll be sad when it’s all used up. Still a bit left!

The rest of my sewing time was taken with making lavender bags and stuffed fabric hearts in Christmas fabric for Christmas  tree ornaments with my lovely granddaughter. We’ve made a lot. We also intend to make some Christmas gift bags for her to sell for her Girl Guides stall, to help with funds for a special camping trip happening next Easter. Great excuse to spend time together and talk about every thunder the sun. 🤗

Linking up with Angela’s So Scrappy RSC blog.

These are my favourite things - in the quilting world, of course!

 I was busy getting things ready in my Sewing Room for my granddaughter this morning when I suddenly thought about my favourite things in there. 

So I took a picture of them!

From left to right.

1. My cylindrical tin of plastic binding clips. I love these as when I used straight pins to hold binding I always stabbed myself many times over. As I take blood thinners this is not good! Got tired of sponging blood spots out of fabric by dabbing with rags dipped in cold water.😢

2. Back row: One of my many labelled tins and plastic boxes now labelled clearly so I know exactly what’s inside. Spent a long time doing this when I reorganised my newly refurbished  Sewing Room last year but so worth it.

3. A Clover thimble, a soft rubbery one with a dimpled metal top with a ridge around the top to stop my needle skidding off. It sticks to my finger and doesn’t drop off too often when I’m hand quilting whereas my old silver ones did.

4. My wonderful wooden poker which I use when turning things inside out and poking out the seams and for stuffing with kapok.  This was a found item I picked up when I passed a building site in New Zealand. Houses are framed out with wood and I think these might be used instead of nails. I have found it so useful over the years and each time it reminds me of happy times living in that wonderful country.

5. Pair of Singer scissors which I’ve had for years but have managed to keep them solely for cutting fabric so they still cut like cutting through butter.

6. My collection of different sized rulers, so useful and quick when trimming blocks. Very precise.

And last but not least, my revamped Sewing room.

Please note my lovely double strip light behind my sewing machine. So easy to use, you just tap each end 4 times to get the brightest light setting and one tap to turn it off. Made my sewing corner so much brighter.

Also I love that I now have my cutting mat on top of my sewing table. I used to cut all my fabrics downstairs, either on the kitchen table or dining table. It made such a mess with bits of lint and threads  and tiny scraps all over the place. Less vacuuming now. Win win!

And a view of some of the labelled boxes. The top one came from New Zealand too!

So, my favourite things. Care to join me in the song?

More RSC scrappy blocks

 I basted and machine quilted my Wonky Stars RSC quilt but I want to add some hand quilting around the stars. That’s a nice project to have for Patchwork meetings.

I have made some Windmill blocks after seeing them on Cathy’s Sane crazy quilting blog. I just used pairs of 2.5” strips , whatever colours I found.

Then I made three Wonky Stars, again using whatever colour that was to hand.

And 4 green and 5 blue String blocks. That’s pretty much all the strings in those colours I had in my bag of strings.

The light was starting to go when I took this photo, the actual blocks look much brighter.

Linking up with Angela’s SoScrappy RSC blog.

A baby quilt gifted to Freddie.

A while ago I made a lovely baby quilt using  some blue scraps and RSC Wonky Stars which I put aside to gift to my Great niece Becky’s baby boy expected mid October. As I said, my sister Pat died a month ago and baby Freddie would have been her first Great Great Grandson. Pat knew Becky and Max were intending to call their son Freddie and I showed Pat the quilt I had made for him. Freddie was born on 8th October and my niece gave the gift to Becky and Max yesterday. Becky was thrilled with the quilt and especially happy that her Nannie had seen it before she died.

I’ve called the quilt “A Star is Born”. Little Freddie is a star who has come into our family at a time of sadness so he is a new focus for our family.

I have really depleted my stash of Wonky Stars so when I have some leftover scraps I’m turning them into new Wonky Stars.

I made these the other day:

2 RSC flimsies made

 I’ve had a more productive week, sewing two Wonky Stars flimsies using a lot of blocks made over the past couple of years during the Rainbow Scrap Challenges. I love making these blocks and will continue to use my 2” scraps and bonus triangles to make more. I’ve used several in borders on two Medallion quilts completed this year and this week I created two Wonky Stars flimsies.

This quilt will measure 24” square when it’s finished and will be donated to our local hospital’s Maternity Unit. Our Patchwork Group has donated lots of small quilts over the years but recently the hospital asked for larger ones ( 24” square instead of the 15” x 20” they used to prefer) I don’t know why they have changed the size, perhaps they have bought bigger cribs?

I also put together a 40” square flimsy which will be a Project Linus donation quilt.

My stack of Project Linus quilts is steadily growing and this week I added another Crumb Coins quilt to my stash . It measures 43” x  45”.

 A close up of some of the blocks:

And the pieced backing:

All the RSC projects are using lots of my scraps and so far I have managed to bind three Project Linus donation quilts with pieced leftover bindings. They look great.

I enjoyed arranging the three finishes for this photograph:

So, onward and upward!