RSC Flimsy completed

 I saw an idea on Cathy’s Sane Crazy Crumby Quilting blog several years ago, Friendship star blocks which she called Twinklers. I’ve been making them ever since as part of the RSC Challenge and have made 2 quilts from them before, one in 2017 and another in 2021. A week or so ago I decided I would like to make a quilt for Etta,  one of the younger members of our family and hopefully in time for Christmas.

I knew I had a bag of Twinklers so got them out and decided to make 3 more purple blocks. Quick to make from my box of 2.5” squares and a bag of already cut out muslin centre squares and even smaller squares for the star points. I discovered I had 76 blocks and could use 72 of them in an 8  x 9 setting.

I finished sewing the rows together yesterday and now need to make a pieced backing and get it basted.

Lighting is not the best as we have a very grey morning today. 

A little close up of a section of the blocks:

I wrote my Christmas 2022 Letter on Friday so now I can photocopy it lots of times to add in with the annual Christmas Card to friends and family. I always find writing Christmas cards rather daunting - it seems to take me longer and longer each year but I really should start to write them this afternoon, unless I get sidetracked making the backing for my Twinkler Stars flimsy!

Linking up with Angela’s So Scrappy blog.

18th birthday gift

 One of my Great nieces, Lily, celebrated her 18th birthday last Saturday. She had a party for her friends but tomorrow there is an Afternoon tea party at her house for the family. I’ve just realised that since I lost my dear big sister Pat (Lily’s grandmother) two months ago I am the eldest member of the family. A sobering thought. 

We will be giving Lily money as a gift so she can put it towards a gift of her choice but I also decided to make a pretty cushion. All finished and ready to be wrapped up.

Everything came from stash including the cushion pad which I had previously made from spare stuffing. A few years ago I had a phase of making cushions for gifts and bought the pads from a local shop. However I felt they were always stuffed too much and used to open up one of the seams and take out a few handfuls of stuffing. Every now and then I made these into my homemade cushion pads. It appealed to my frugal nature!

I tried  a new (to me) way to make an envelope back for the cushion. I had always made the envelope opening lie horizontally across the cushion but a few days ago I watched  the daily Pat Sloan YouTube video where she made a cushion and made the opening go vertically. I tried this method and I like it. I don’t think the cushion will gape like my others tended to do. I’d be interested to know which method you use - horizontal or vertical? That is the question!

Oh my stars!

 Lots of star blocks this week. 

Firstly some Wonky Stars:

Then a few more Twinkler blocks:

I counted my Twinkler blocks and I now have 72. Need a lot more brown and purple ones to even up the colours.

I finished ofF the 24 padded heart Christmas decorations my Granddaughter and I made:

Linking up with Angela’s SoScrappy blog for the 2022 RSC Project.