Soft and serene sewing

Life handed me a hacker this morning.

DIStressing!!!

(sorry if you received one of the

unwanted emails!)

I needed some

DE-stressing.

I opened a scrap drawer.

Soft.

Serene.

Soothing. COLOR.

JUST what I needed.

This is where little scraps end up

when I'm too lazy to file them

any other way!

;/

They're KIND of by color....

I pulled out some of the LIGHT pieces.

Kind of like a dump and sew quilt.

This one is more of a DIG and sew quilt!

I made blocks.

DE-STRESSING the whole time!

I lined the blocks up into columns.

The columns are ALL different WIDTHS.

I sewed the columns together.

Wasn't SURE how much

DE-STRESSING

I needed!!!

Thought I might need a QUEEN sized DE-stress session.

Turns out....

I only needed a 48"x54"

DE-stress session.

Smaller than a twin.

Bigger than a Baby.

Hmmmm....

All in all I'd say....

Destress sewing DID the trick!

minty green

This quilt is a quilt

only

because I bought 2 little fat quarters.

They were those little bits of fabric

that you CAN'T pass up when you

ACCIDENTALLY walk into

the local

quilt shop!!!

;)

And then

ONCE you have the fat quarters...

they tug at your mind

until you HAVE TO

sit down and SEW!!!!

 

Can you find the flowery fabric triangles??

I loved the retro feel of this fabric.

I added strips of color...

and some vintage solid minty green.

It's a FINISH!!!

I even added some black calico binding.

I think it's feeling RIGHT at home in this quilt!

I made this one

Because it HAD to be made.

LOL!!!

 

I bet you've made some quilts like that too!!!

 

 

Mostly Modern

This quilt began with a very MODERN idea.

Four Large Simple blocks using half square triangles.

and.....

Straight LINES.

I'm sorry to say the straight lines and I did not get along.

There was too much puckering...

and I wasn't liking it.

:/

We parted ways YESTERDAY....

Thanks to my little seam ripper.

:)

I ended up loop-de-looping...

a quilting pattern that's in my comfort zone. ;)

So.... I guess this quilt is a little LESS modern

than I had anticipated.

When I went "shopping" in my stash

for backing fabric.......

These pieces of fabric practically FELL OUT

of my cupboard TOGETHER!!!

More often than NOT.....

I have to DIG AROUND

for quite a while until I'm pleased with

the collection of pieces to use for the backing!

Except for the TIME SPENT UN-sewing...

I loved making this quilt!

Those BIG pieced triangles have me thinking.....

Hmmm.....

So many possibilities!!!!