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RSC2025-Sept wk. 4-rainbow Halloween

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This is my sewing for the week: I finished the Haunted House, got all blocks squared up & sewed into the top, & taken to the quilter. So happy to have my rainbow Halloween done. It was a BOM called Frightful Fun! & my hubby gave me fabric & the subscription to the BOM for Christmas. The last blocks dropped in Sept & I got it done. It will be quilted just before we leave for vacation so it will be displayed next year because I probably won’t get the binding on until the beginning of November. But it’s done & the goal of improving my FPP skills is accomplished. My blocks got better as I went & I feel like I could tackle just about any project now.

Back to my regularly scheduled sewing now.

What’s in a Name 2025 wrap-up

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I love this challenge & have done it for several years. Our host is Carolina Book Nook, & this year it took me until September to finish because I wasn’t finding a Cardinal direction book. Here are my reads:

Cardinal direction  The Winds from Further West by Alexander McCall Smith

Wanderlust  A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko

First & last name Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers by Deborah Heiligman

Alliteration Theft on Thursday (Lois Meade Mystery #4) by Ann Purser
Deity  Talking God (Leaphorn & Chee, #9) by Tony Hillerman

Crime I Only Read Murder (Miranda Abbott, #1) by Ian Ferguson, Will Ferguson

RSC2025-Sept wk. 3-Haunted House

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My sewing this week has been all foundation paper piecing on the large Haunted House. As you can see, I didn’t get it done as hoped, but the tower will get added next & the pieces sewed together. Then I can start squaring up blocks & sewing the top together. This Frightful Fun! BOM has been really great & I’ve gotten much better at FPP, which was the goal.

There’s blue & green in this rainbow house so I’m totally in sync with y’all! Happy sewing!

RSC2025-Sept wk. 2

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This week’s sewing work: the penultimate block for the Frightful Fun! BOM. Next week’s task is the large haunted house, then trimming blocks & starting assembly. Yay!

I got the binding on this small baby donation for Joyful Welcome. I made it with the extra blocks from a lap-sized donation, added strips & it’s the right size for their needs. My next evening binding project is a super old project, so I’ll be happy to get that done.

RSC2025-Sept wk. 1-odds & ends

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It’s finished with a scrappy binding, made from leftovers of other bindings. This is an RSC2024 project called Two-Step from Lissa Alexander’s book “Scrap School”. Of my 6 projects for last year, I’ve finished 3, have 2 quilted & waiting for binding, & the 2.5″ rail fence blocks spilled into a project for this year. So I feel pretty good about progress. This is not to say that there aren’t projects from previous years still hanging out, but ya know……..

If you need a fun L&E project with no stress, this is all 2.5″ squares. Two are the same color, two are scrappy low volumes, then the 2-patches are sewed together. That’s it. I laid it out scrappy, but it could be ombre, rainbow, monochromatic, so many fun ways to make this quilt.

I started on the fabric baskets I’m making for my Monday quilt group as Christmas presents. I sewed some of the mini charm square panels, then decided to add the pieces to one & see how it looks. I bought some mini charm packs to get matching sets & not have to cut, but am hoping to get all the bottom panels & linings from the stash. So far, so good with #1. I need 10 of these, but bought enough stabilizer to make 12.

I never got around to the August block for my Frightful Fun BOM, so I started on it this week. This is the B for the BOO! block. September’s block is the haunted house & then assembly. I want to focus on this with my limited sewing time so I can get it to the quilter & have it for Halloween. But FPP takes time & these blocks have lots of little pieces!

My long-time Thursday quilt group started a new project this week. We “finished” the quilt from h*$# two weeks ago, but we have to put the borders on ourselves at home. I haven’t pulled it out to finish because I can’t stand the thought. The pattern writing was such a nightmare, it was a chore every week. And the blocks don’t fit together, blah, blah, blah. I’m in no hurry to finish & I have quilt tops hanging in the closet waiting for quilting, so no rush. This is “Clippings” by Thimbles & Needles & we are doing it all from our stashes. I found large chunks of the black swirl & the LV equations/writing that is backing trimmings. I love this & have used it for several backings. Then I went through my stash & cut up all the wild prints into 5″ squares, then 2.5″ squares, then into the string bin. So lots of old fabric got processed into usable pieces & out of my big boxes & the mental guilt box of not using it. YAY! I may end up making another one next year with all the leftover colored triangles & donate it. It seems like a perfect RSC2026 project.