Instead of patchwork blocks or even the beginning of a new quilt top out of the Parts Department I've repurposed a vintage handkerchief. I didn't think to take a picture before I embarked on this...
https://sewingmagpie.blogspot.com/2024/04/something-little-different-for-scrap.html
In case you didn't know, I'm keeping a stitch journal with Kathryn on YouTube this year. We're not learning new embroidery stitches though. It's more of an opportunity to do some relaxed hand s...
https://sewingmagpie.blogspot.com/2024/04/weekly-stitch-entries-for-march-photo.html
I've been doing some more little stitched panels of late, just for the heck of it. 😊 This first one began with that triangle of pink silk on which I placed the key at the very end. I s...
First off, I have a couple of scrappy finishes to share. This Scrappy Trips quilt had to wait a while to get quilted. When the time came James used a variegated thread and a simple meander to d...
https://sewingmagpie.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-very-catty-scrap-happy-day-in-march.html
I'm keeping up with k3n's weekly stitch journal very well so far. I've tried to do this sort of thing in the past but without this level of success. Let's hope I can keep it up for the rest of...
https://sewingmagpie.blogspot.com/2024/02/february-stitching.html
When I'm cutting scraps into patches the smallest shapes I cut are 1.5" squares. They are what I use to make the postage stamp centers for some of my scrappy stars. I have a little box into ...
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Tori's (koolkookykreatures) postcard stitch along prompt for February is Zodiac Mind Warp. That really threw me for a loop. Tori said we could use anything from astrology to astronomy. My mind w...
https://sewingmagpie.blogspot.com/2024/02/a-quick-stitchy-update.html
I completed the scrappy Remixed Geese quilt top I began for Scrap Happy Day. You can see that post here . In the end I chose to keep working until I had the full set of geese called for in the or...
https://sewingmagpie.blogspot.com/2024/01/january-round-up.html
When I realized Scrap Happy Day was coming up I also realized I hadn't done any patchwork to speak of for a month or more. That's shocking in a way. Well, surprising at the very least. There's ...
https://sewingmagpie.blogspot.com/2024/01/scrap-happy-in-january-24.html
So far, so good! I've managed to stay on schedule with the weekly prompts I've undertaken for the year. One may not be weekly, but has been so far. The second week of Kathryn's Weekly Slows...
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I have to preface this post with the fact that my new year did not begin auspiciously. Subsequent days have been much better, thank goodness, so now I feel a bit better about the whole thing. �...
https://sewingmagpie.blogspot.com/2024/01/introduction-to-2024.html
The little hearts I've been making are the only gifts I've made this year. I've also been making little stitcheries for an international swap I'm involved in. I'll show you what I've mad...
https://sewingmagpie.blogspot.com/2023/12/merry-christmas.html
When I'm cutting scraps into patches for future use there are inevitably tiny scraps that are too small for the piecing I do but are too big to be thrown away as far as I'm concerned. So they g...
https://sewingmagpie.blogspot.com/2023/12/scrap-happy-in-december.html
Last month I shared the palette I'd pulled for a new project. I made up a handful of blocks right away. The first was this Four Corners block (all of these blocks will finish at 12"). ...
https://sewingmagpie.blogspot.com/2023/12/just-beginning.html
I needed something relative simple to sew recently. That led me to my collection of 3" wide strips. The strips are one of the things I cut from scraps and leftovers for blocks that go into my P...
https://sewingmagpie.blogspot.com/2023/11/scrap-happy-day-in-november.html
It's time for a new quilt project. Something not made from the Parts Department or mere scraps. I have been collecting historical reproduction prints of late. Prints and colors that put me in...
https://sewingmagpie.blogspot.com/2023/11/moving-forward-and-going-back-in-time.html
I have finished a slow work in progress in time for Halloween and the Days of the Dead. I'm really pleased to have it finished and on display. It's hard to photograph because it's long and narro...
https://sewingmagpie.blogspot.com/2023/10/inspired-by-halloween.html
I feel like I should have something seasonal to share for Scrap Happy Day but, I don't. Instead I have another quilt top created from the Parts Department. Frankly, my sewing mojo has been pret...
https://sewingmagpie.blogspot.com/2023/10/scrap-happy-in-october.html
I've had some new-to-me items come into my space recently. I try to only acquire second hand textiles that can be laundered and made safe for me. Sadly, there are laundry products out there that ...
https://sewingmagpie.blogspot.com/2023/10/stitchin-through-stress.html
I've had a hankering lately to do a quarter-square log cabin quilt, sometimes known as a chevron log cabin. I figured the easier way to do it, rather than totally scrappy - which can involve mu...
https://sewingmagpie.blogspot.com/2023/09/farm-fresh-flimsy.html
I've done some of my usual scrap cutting and subsequent block making for the Parts Department since our last Scrap Happy Day. But more exciting than that, my great grandmother's Lady of th...
https://sewingmagpie.blogspot.com/2023/09/scrap-happy-in-september-great-grandmas.html
I've debated whether to save this for Scrap Happy Day - which is right around the corner - but wanted to share before I forget to do it at all. Suddenly we've had a rash of worn out blue jean...
https://sewingmagpie.blogspot.com/2023/09/just-because-in-denim.html
Whew! Our temperatures have dropped again to a more normal level for this part of the world at this time of year. We might even get some much needed rain in the next few days. I've been nibbl...
https://sewingmagpie.blogspot.com/2023/08/junk-journal-quilt.html
Up here in the Pacific Northwest our temperatures are generally more mild than elsewhere in the country. We are currently having a little (I hope!) heat wave. Nothing like the temperatures being ...
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I went across the street to our mailbox yesterday to discover that the birds had planted a blackberry bush nearby. It was laden with fruit ready for the picking. I went back to the house, got a s...
https://sewingmagpie.blogspot.com/2023/08/peaceful-sunday-morning.html