Saturday, 13 June 2026

In the Sewing Room This Week

Not a lot! Monday was socialising - a lovely lunch with friends; Tuesday and Wednesday home office work. This left Thursday and Friday which consisted of basting the Modern Triangles 'Solitaire' quilt.

That's all finished now and 'basting' table has been put away until next time. Next step is the quilting. I will need to get back to the pattern to see what is suggested for the quilting pattern. 

I started putting together some of the scrappy butterflies to perhaps make a baby quilt.

I was asked to hand stitch a small coaster for my granddaughter in yellow, with her name on it - similar to one I had made her mother a few years back. This was the result.   

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Saturday, 6 June 2026

May Rainbow Scrap Challenge

The colour for last month's rainbow scrap challenge was orange. I made some butterflies and bugs. I also added three more scrap triangles to my collection.

It is such a good way to use up scraps, and I do save even the smallest scraps.I made some more 6.5" and 4.5" scrappy blocks. I have enough 6.5" now to make a nice quilt.

Only four more coasters this time.

Lastly I made some more hearts and Easter eggs for next years cruises.

The colour for June is pastels - so I might give that a miss. Instead I will start sewing some butterfly blocks together ans my leaders and enders for the next project. 

Today I will iron and trim all the above and tidy up the sewing room in readiness for my next project - which may be another triangle quilt.

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Monday, 1 June 2026

Solstice - A Make Modern Triangle Quilt

This will be the third quilt I have made using Bryan House Quilts Make Modern Triangles. The first one used only one block and I made a lap quilt. The second one was a block of the month quilt and I made a double bed quilt from a pattern called Echo, also from Bryan House Quilts. This one I made as time would allow me, and I really had fun doing it. This is part one. I used the freezer paper method to paper piece each block. 

Part two.

Part three.


Part four.

Part five 

Last part

Now all that was left was the background to make it fit a queen bed.


I still need to add borders to the sides to allow for hang over.

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So Scrappy