Weekend Sewing

Before I started the latest round of my Gwennie inspired baskets I had started making some wonky log cabins for a Mary Lou Weidman Swap group online.  I finished them off yesterday.  We were using some grunge fabrics along with some dots and stripes. They are about 13" to 13 1/2" unfinished.

 I couldn't resist a few stars and lemons to add for the dots.  Now to pack these up for mailing to California.  Can't wait to see what comes home.

Weekend Sewing

Before I started the latest round of my Gwennie inspired baskets I had started making some wonky log cabins for a Mary Lou Weidman Swap group online.  I finished them off yesterday.  We were using some grunge fabrics along with some dots and stripes. 

 I couldn't resist a few stars and lemons to add for the dots.  Now to pack these up for mailing to California.  Can't wait to see what comes home.

Still being creative and some early signs of Spring

More corners being sewn on.


Lots of pieces.


A mail deliver, starry nights on the left, a gorgeous midnight blue with silver and angel dust on the right, a creamy colour with gold sparkling.


A walk to stretch my back and look the crocuses are blooming as they break through the soil.


This one is ahead of the gang.


Raindrops from earlier in the day.


Crow checking out the neighbourhood.


Busy river yesterday first one double barge was seen.


Right behind a second one.


Minutes later another one heading upriver with a different load.


Voila! Hearts on black and white backgrounds.


The lower half I added some snowflakes because Valentine's Day is in the winter and we've had some snowy ones in the past.


Thirty of them altogether, 20 for a swap the rest to be added as fillers. I need to square them up to the suggested size and then they head off to their new homes. I love how the colours pop against the black and white backgrounds.


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Being creative

I'm taking part in another online swap. Black with white prints along with reds and pinks. Polka dots and maybe a splash of colour. These were my initial choices.



I decided to omit the second black and white print from the top and the third pink from the top and add a few other pink/reds instead.

I sewed the pinks and reds into several different stratas.


Cross cut into sections.


Started to make some hoochy corners.


More corners to come off to start sewing for the day.

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Mary Lou Weidman Out of the Box Fish Swap

I started with this group of fabrics for my most recent on-line swap with Mary Lou Weidman's yahoo group.  The fish you see below is the result of some fun sewing.  In total I made 24 fish to send away to swap.  36 fish were swapped in 3 groups, I participated in 2 of them.  We all used the same batik for background for our fish.

This colourful floral fish was made by Linda Ahn.

Next up was made by Maree in N.C.

Edie Faile treated us to this lovely duo.

Wendy Price put this long tailed beauty for us.

Janice Larson is the maker of this rick rack guy.

Liz Linebrink got inventive with prairie points.

Pam Toombs gave this lovely green wide eyed wonder.

Dawn Tonioli got inventive with these fish lips, I met Dawn at Mary Lou's retreat in Post Falls in June.

Molly Evangelisti got inventive with polka do lips on this dotty soul.  Thanks for the scissor fob!

Mari Linfesty who acted as our swap hostess sent along this starry wonder.

Mary Lou Weidman sent two options for eyes for this striped guy with the rickrack grin.

In the second group of fish I got this flirty long eye-lashed fish from Nancy McCain.

Beth McDonald combined checkerboard with prairie point fins and a yo-yo eye.

Watch out for the long tail on this goldfish by Robin Medley.

Love the blue and yellow in this fish. Once again, I don't know who made this guy.

You've got to love the stripes and polka dots that this fish is sporting. Once again, not sure who made this one.

Love the three D ruffle on the dorsal fin. One more that I don't know who made but

Karen Schmucker had fun with polka dots.

Dots and Batiks show off this beauty, love the eye fabric.

I surely don't want this guy to nibble on my toes, those lips look sharp.  The unnamed fish were made by the following, Liz Titus, Reena Kaplowitz, Karen McCaffrey, Michalee Sloan and Sandi Fisher.  If they let me know which one was theirs I will identify them later.

Rebecka Schaffer made this boy/girl duo to share with us.

Mary Lou Sanders went all out with this toothy guy chasing after some small appetizers!

This was one of the two fish that I had fun designing.  I used a Kaffe Fasset and got this incredible tail.

Another one of mine with two more Kaffe Fasset fabrics.

To keep my two lonely fish company while the rest of the school swam away I made this turtle.  Now to figure out how to put them all together in a wonderful quilt.

Many Thanks to Mary Lou Weidman for coming up with a couple of basic designs for us to use our imagination and develop our own fish.  Come and join us in the fun at her yahoo group!