Oxbow Tote Started

 

In big news, I have finally started out on my Oxbow Tote making journey. After buying the required amounts of SF101 Pellon fusible interfacing and By Annie Soft and Stable foam.

After all the cutting out, I began stitching the exterior panels to the Soft and Stable foam.

I think it's working out really well so far, I still really like the two canvas prints that I chose to use. I'm so happy to have finally started on this, and I'm grateful that friend Jaye was there to calm me down and help me figure things out when I was missing a part of my main body pattern piece.

Temperature Quilt - May

I worked on the Temperature Quilt a little bit more, while catching the amazing World Series game 7. I had located an actual ironing board in the Air B-n-B that we were staying in a clever little closet. It worked out pretty well and I got the April column ironed out a little bit better. Enough so that I was able to keep going and adding on May.

And there it is, five months are now assembled, leaving seven to go...I'm looking forward to ironing this on my bigger ironing board at home. It will be easier to do there.
 

Wandering Wednesday - Rundetaarn

In the neighborhood we stayed in Copenhagen was this interesting round tower attached to a church. The Rundetaarn was built in 1642, attached to Trinitatis church. It was made this tall to be above the haze and smoke of the city so it could be used for astronomy.

It turned out you could walk up to the top (of course), and the big plus for me was that it wasn't all stairs the whole way.

It was a lovely brick floor gently angled spiral ramp.

It was a really nice walk up.

You could stop and have a look out of all the windows.

Until you were finally all the way at the top! This was after a very tight curling wrought iron staircase that had a one-way stoplight. It really worked out so that it was possible to take turns either going up or down to the very top.

It was gorgeous up there.

Wonderful views of the city.

It was said to be very crowded at sunset time.

I didn't want to go back down, it was so nice up there.

But first, I peeked up into the very tippy top of the tower where the currently in use telescope is located. You can come up and look through it on certain evenings. How fun would that be?

This was view into the bell-ringers apartment, really made me want to move in.

I had a little snack at the cafe halfway down the tower.

Down back the ramp I went.

This was a plexiglass covered view down the central spiral.

And back out the door I went, finally have conquered the tower.
 

Stamp Quilt Time

Another project to work on is the Stamp Quilt. I had all of these stamp block fussy-cut centers ready to go with the stamp strips of the right sizes.

I marked the corners and centers.
 

And then I drew the 45 degree angle to make the mitered corners.

And tah-dah!

These really aren’t too hard. 

But when they turn out well, it’s great!

More. Candy.

For the next part of the quilt I designed for the MQG challenge, we’ll that is now past due. But I really like the design and the Color palette so I’m carrying on. This part  is a big sort of pine cone paper pieced block. I’m using the fold flip method.  So, as I watched part of the 18 inning (!!)World Series game, I took the time to fold on each line before ever sewing a stitch.

First stitches and pieces of fabric.

Beginning to see the point(hah) of all this…

All three sections pieced but not sewn together.

Woohoo 🥳 done! And now for 3 more of these babies…

November To-Do

 

Here's how my design wall looks on the first day of  November. The finished Old Town Mystery quilt top is folded over but still taking up the majority of the space. And behind it but no longer quite visible is the Jane Sassaman class project, Sour Grace still pinned up there waiting for the next step.  In the foreground is the scrap box I've been working from to make the weekly Patchwork Palooza blocks. Those blocks are arranged over on the left. And pinned over everything on the right is my recently returned from being shown quilt, “Our Mistake.”

I'm continuing on with using the not-so-very-new configuration of my to-do list below, as it more closely follows the database categories that I use to keep track of all my work-in-progress. I'm keeping the Design and Finished section going forward. Note: the use of 🥏👽  by a project name indicates that it's on the 2025 UFO Finishes challenge list of six projects that I committed to finishing at the beginning of the year.

QUILTS

Design

Pantone Project - work on a overall design, either in EQ8 or up on the design wall.

Continue Assembly

Patchwork Palooza - continuing making weekly blocks

Keep working on Sour Grass Grace from Jane Sassaman class.

Old Town Mystery Quilt - make a backing & binding

AG Stamp Quilt - continue to make more blocks using the final group of fussy-cut stamp block centers from Tula Pink fabrics.

Continue the piecing of Selvedge Candy (maybe the name) quilt originally designed for the 2025 MQG challenge.

🥏👽 Sew the last 8 columns and sashing together of the 2023 Temperature Quilt together to make the quilt top.

🥏👽 Bohemian Wife -  Sandwich this and start quilting it

                                      Quilting

leaving this category right here so I don't forget to use it next time

Final Steps 

🥏👽City Sampler- the long-armer is still working on it!

HANDWORK/BAG/CLOTHING PROJECTS 

Make a Cotton Candy pouch for myself.

Oxbow Tote - cut out and begin the assembly. 

Toned-Down Circle Sampler - now that I have the appropriately sized grey background felt, arrange and appliqué the circles, start embroidering.

Y.E.S. Coat - continue making pieces/blocks. assemble on foundation, cut out lining pieces from the fabric that I dyed

Snake In The Garden - Finish hand stitching

Kawandii - Finish hand stitching/assembly

Hey! This Is All Finished!

I'm still leaving this category here so I don't forget to use it next time

Well, given my physical absence from my workspace, not a lot of finishing happened during this past month. But, I advanced a few of projects while working on a lot of these to-do’s. It was good to touch base with them and reacquaint myself. I'm hoping that I'll be able to settle back into a groove during this new month. 

Notably November

November is here and it seems way too soon to me. Surely the year can’t be almost over! I was looking through my pictures for a fall/autumn colored photo to work with.

and then I saw this awesome wool fabric draped over a couch. It would have been fine without using the kaleidacam app, but then I came up with this monthly marker.

Here's the 1sE video for last month, all thirty one seconds of it.

Monthly I-Did List ~ October 

1. I sewed together the first block of the quilt I designed for the MQG challenge.
2. I took an online class on iPad for quilters.
3. I worked on making some pieces for the Y.E.S. Coat.
4. I made 7 postage stamp blocks for community giving.
5. I sewed more weekly blocks for Patchwork Palooza and put them all up on the design wall.
6. I added on both the January and February columns to begin assembly of the Temperature quilt.
7. I added the March and April columns to the Temperature Quilt.
8. I stitched on Snake in the Garden in the USA and the UK.

October was a jam-packed travel-filled  month,  I got to travel to Spokane once again to participate in a medical study. This took almost no recovery time as I got a lot less of the shots, because it is working. And then the first week and a half of October I was still traveling with my DH out of the country. And then the last week and a half I road-tripped up to Portland with a friend. So, the amount of work I got done is fairly amazing I suppose as I was hardly at home. I was very active on social media, posted on BlueSky 35 times, on Flashes 11 times, on Instagram 2 times. That was a whole lot! On to a hopefully calmer November ...