Last of the Red Hot Projects?

 Welcome to Treadlestitches!

It's the last red Saturday for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  I have enjoyed making these 16 patch blocks.  I often make them in just two fabrics, using the quick and easy tutorial by Cynthia of Oh Scrap fame (Click HERE), but this year I'm making each square in each block a different fabric.  More variety, more fun!

For some reason that I can't remember, I started making 5 of these each month, so here's the other one.  I'm throwing in new prints, old prints, anything red.

Even the cell phone bag I made for my Mom is red!  (Click HERE for the YouTube tutorial I used.)

The lining is a red and cream print.  I adjusted the directions to use a Velcro closure instead of a snap, and even though I had to do a little ripping, it all worked out.

When I was hunting around the internet for a good cell phone bag tutorial, I found an easy one for these cell phone stands.  The directions were very straightforward and quick to make.  (Click HERE.)  The title says "beanbag" but there are no beans in these, just poly stuffing in the top and rice in the base.  I sent the one in the center to my Mom and kept the blue one to use in the kitchen and the sewing themed one in (where else?) the sewing room.

Lined up like this, they look like hats to me.  Wouldn't they be fun in red with a pompom on top for Christmas?

Speaking of hats, I've started knitting winter hats for kids again.  PBS used to have a yearly drive, so I got used to knitting hats and mittens while traveling in summer and fall.  It keeps my hands busy while waiting in airports or riding in a car.  I got these three done while visiting my Mom.  The handy Moda bag was a prize I won a few years ago as part of the Hands 2 Help quilt drive (thanks, Sarah!).

 At the beginning of this month, I made the red blocks for this baby quilt, and I've been using the rest of them as leaders and enders while doing other sewing.  The block is a Buckeye Beauty variation in a six inch size.  I snapped this photo of the layout, something I do often so I can refer to it if blocks get moved or turned around (looking at you, Snicklefritz!).

Yet more red, and one of the reasons more quilting is not getting done!  One of today's goals is to make these cherries into jam.  Wonder if there will be enough left for a pie?

And then there's the pickle relish, shown here with "some assembly required".  I always buy the "misfit" pickles, since I'm just chopping them up anyway and they don't need to be pretty.  Neither do the peppers, which suffered some hail damage in a storm this week.

This is lots to do, I'd better get on it!

One last red photo, of Buddy and Snicklefritz, two of my favorite guys.

Have a lovely week, doing the things you love to do!  Happy quilting!

Cheers for reading,

Sylvia@Treadlestitches

Linking up with:

Sarah at Can I Get A Whoop Whoop

Alycia at Finished or Not Finished Friday

Angela at So Scrappy

Cynthia at Oh Scrap

 

 

Blocks, Bags, and Books

 Welcome to Treadlestitches!  I'm glad you stopped by.

Today's red blocks for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge are my Uneven Nine Patches, aka Puss in the Corner.  Instead of a cat, this block has dinosaurs and books in the corners which is even more fun.  I'm not sure what sort of snake is in the middle, but it looks friendly.

There are twelve of these blocks:  six with dark centers and six with light centers.  When I set them into quilts at the end of the year I will alternate between light and dark, which makes a sort of 4 patch where they come together.

Here's the second set.  The blocks finish at 8.5 in. and are made from 4 charm squares each.  (Click HERE if you'd like more info on how they're made.)

I just LOVE this love fabric, cut from a fat quarter I bought at a quilt show.  I paired it with a Valentine teddy bears print from the 1980s.  All cottons are welcome!

I tried something new this week.  I made a Cross Body Cell Phone Bag from a You Tube tutorial.  (Isn't You Tube amazing?  There are lessons and tutorials on almost anything you can think of!  And also some things you'd never want to know about!)  Click HERE for the link to the one I used, which is on The Sewing Room channel.
 

Here's what it looks like inside.  My phone fits snugly in any of the openings, but I like the one in the back best.  It's easiest to get the phone out quickly, plus the pockets in the front serve as padding.

I used a Velcro closure instead of a snap, which I like, but I needed to add the Velcro before I sewed the side seams in order to easily sew it on the machine.  Next time I'll know better.  And there is going to be a next time later today!  I'm making one for my mom so she can have her cell phone handy when she's gardening.

That's all the sewing I got done this week.  It was the good kind of busy around here.

My grand kids, Mr. H and Miss E, were here on Tuesday while their mom was in town taking a test for her job as a second grade school teacher.  We went to the park in the morning.  My dear old dog was overjoyed, but very tired at the end of the day.  By the way, that red thing on Little Guy's leg is a cast.  He broke his leg playing on the trampoline in his back yard a couple of weeks ago.  He's doing well with it, but it's a challenge.

My little guys could hardly wait to go to the library.  Buddy was so excited to find books on fishing, his favorite pastime.  

Little Guy's favorite is Thomas the tank engine.  We have read these books over and over, but he never gets tired of them.  He also loves the Pigeon books by Mo Willems, especially The Pigeon Needs A Bath.

I checked out this book (Kaffe Fassett's Quilts in Wales) at my mom's library while staying with her, and really loved it.  There are some good patterns in here.  My library doesn't have it, so I'll order it from Barnes and Noble.  Bonus--I'll get to keep it!

The kids picked these flowers in the yard, and I have been enjoying them for days.

What's ahead for you this week?  I hope you have time for the things you love to do.  Like quilting!

Thanks for reading,

Sylvia@Treadlestitches

Linking up with:

Alycia at Finished or Not Finished Friday

Angela at So Scrappy