Tear Out Tuesday

Yes, the title of this post sounds negative.  I was quilting along singing my song on my Full Stop quilt, when all of a sudden I advanced the quilt and realized I had a bunch of loose stitches.  

I unrolled the quilt and started picking the loose stitches from the back vs. from the top.  Oh this process went so much easier.  The stitching is fine through the green brackets on this quilt.  The issue is because it was super cold in the quilting room.  When the machine is cold, the tension just isn't that perfect.  Now I'm not sure if I'll be able to re-wind it and start quilting after the room is heated really good, or if I should pick out all the area by the green brackets.  We shall see...  If I leave it in and roll the whole quilt on the bottom roller to get it stitched from almost the top to that point, I will do that.  I didn't move it left or right yet, so the rows should line up ok.  We shall see.

See, not every day in longarm quilting world is perfect.  It's always a learning process for me.  

I should have known it was too cold when there were little ice chunks in the water bottle that I keep up there to let me know how cold it is in the room.  My husband always tells me to just turn on the furnace.  But I'm a tight wad and don't like to pay the cost of fuel oil to quilt a quilt.  I'm okay to turn on my kerosene heater for a short amount of time to get the room warm.  (I only run it about 20 - 30 minutes.)

Full Stop on the Frame

 Each Sunday I dedicate to working on a specific quilt until it is finished.  Currently I am focusing on Full Stop.  Yesterday I loaded it unto the longarm.  I will continue quilting it after church today.

Again I have chose to use my Circle Lord giant template board called Egyptian Eye.  I am quilting this one with bright yellow thread.  I forgot to measure this quilt before I loaded it on to the frame.  I think it's going to be a short, twin-sized quilt (in answer to Maggie's question from last week.). I found a re-purposed sheet for the backing.  

This quilt was designed by Angela who blogs at SoScrappy and is the hostess with the mostess for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  This quilt was a sew along during the RSC21.  You can learn more about Full Stop on her blog at SoScrappy: RSC21Sampler.

I'm linking up at Quilting is More Fun Than Housework for Oh Scrap!

Last Scrappy Saturday in February -- RSC22

I made a lot of progress of cleaning up my desk with the strips and left-over pieces from bindings, blocks, and random light blues and teals.  Many of them were made into 3.5" rail fence blocks.  127 to be exact!

There were 107 of the light blue and teal -- woohoo... and 20 of the miscellaneous fabrics.

If you've read this far you are in for a treat.  My largest aqua/teal quit that I started last year during the RSC21 was completed this week!  This is Gobble Gobble by Lori Holt.  You can read all the details about my Gobble Gobble quilt here.

More teals and blues were used on the back along with some Thanksgiving/fall novelty fabrics.

I also used some bright blue 1.5" squares in my Table Scraps Challenge quilt at Joyful Quilter.

I started cutting and sewing a new project called Ice Lollies.  It is a design by Latifa Safari.  I am going to start small and make the crib quilt first.  I won a prize pack with the template last year for OMG at Elm Street Quilts.  I did have to purchase a pattern to go with what I won.  I started cutting and sewing the blocks using a light blue fabric for the background.

All of a sudden I realized that I didn't have enough of the blue fabric for the sides of the blocks. Bummer.  Now I need to dig in the scrap bins to see if there is more.  Stay tuned.

I'm linking up at Angela's blog, SoScrappy, for the RSC22.

Table Scraps Challenge @ Joyful Quilter

 Here's my little table topper for Joy's Table Scraps Challenge at The Joyful Quilter TABLE SCRAPS Challenge.

These are improv butterflies or hourglasses -- whatever.  I'm not really an improv person, but it was fun to make little blocks.  I probably should have rummaged in the scrap bin longer to get a better border, but this will work.  The binding also came from the left-over binding bins.  It was the one that was just the perfect length.  There was only 7" of binding left over when this was done.  That's one 3.5" rail fence block to me.

I'm linking up at Joy's blog, The Joyful Quilter, for the Table Scraps Challenge.

Gobble Gobble is Complete

 I'm excited to share that I finished my Gobble Gobble quilt this week.  Gobble Gobble is a pattern designed by Lori Holt.  Mine measures 75" x 75".

It was just getting dark around 6pm when I finished this last night.  But with the weather the way it is this week and the prediction of possibly more snow, I took my chances to get some photos.  I didn't use the regular sashing pieces.  I just kept piecing 2.5" strips of miscellaneous teals and bright blues.  I LOVE IT! All the of pieces that make up the turkeys are either circles or dots of some sort.  I was super excited when I found that border fabric in my stash that someone gifted to me a while back.

I quilted it with bright blue thread using my Circle Lord giant template board called Egyptian Eye.  I used a small dot red fabric for binding, but a solid red for the inner border.  Man, again... I just love the way the sashing fell.  I'm going to definitely do this scrappy odd-sized sashing idea again on another quilt.

The back is a fun mix as well.  I gathered my two Thanksgiving/fall novelty fabrics.  I didn't have enough.  I added the other "Gobble" block that I didn't use on the front because I didn't think there was enough contrast between the green fabric and the blue background.  It's perfect for the back.  Then I added more bright blue with dots that seems to be landing in a bunch of quilts right now.  It's a fabric I bought a ton of at a garage sale.  I remember someone cut weird shapes out of it.  They may have used it to make a clown costume or something like that.  There were weird jagged edges and long pieces missing (like they made long pants.). Either or, it was a perfect deal and fun to have it land on this quilt.

There's even a recipe for pumpkin bars on the novelty fabric that looks really yummy!

I'm linking up with:

Off the Wall Friday  with Nina Marie

Brag About Your Beauties  at From Bolt to Beauty 

Peacock Party  at Wendy’s Quilts and More

Friday Foto Fun at Powered by Quilting

Finished Not Friday at Alycia Quilts

St. Patrick's Day Table Topper

I saw a similar mini quilt on Instagram this week.  This is inspired by Primrose Cottage Quilts.  Check out their cute holiday-inspired designs in the Primrose Cottage Quilts Etsy Shop!  They are sooooo much cuter than mine!  I decided I would use some of my favorite shades of green and make this cheery table topper.  

It measures 20" square.  I quilted it experimenting with free-hand loopy loops.  Hind sight I probably should have put those darker squares in each corner.  I think it's still cute the way it is.  I had enough of the  hat green print for the back and binding. 

Ta-dah!!!  I started this project on Tuesday night when I took my fabric to cut and my graph paper to the school parking lot as I wanted from 6-8pm while our son was at the school dance.  (He got into trouble and lost privileges to having his phone.  He thought he would get it back if he went to the dance... NOPE.). He had a great time.  I'm so happy he can maneuver and be independent to enjoy events such as a dance.  I sat under the big lights and made good use of my time.  This project went so fast it never even landed on my WIP list.

I'm linking up with Midweek Makers.

OMG February Finish Link Up

It's time to link up your completed projects at Elm Street Quilts for the One Monthly Goal February Finish Link-up. I'm showing off my little mini that I made.  It's the Kathleen Tracy Valentine Mystery, 2022.  You can find all the details at a group on Facebook.  The group is called Kathleen Tracy Quilts on Facebook.  It measures 13.5" square.