Fall is in the air here in western Colorado! The leaves are starting to change and the mornings are brisk--it was 35 degrees the other morning when I left for work too cold for the convertible, but 82 degrees when I left work at 3:30pm. I pinned my Scrappy Trips yesterday and quilted it up the rest of the weekend. It is big--not too big to quilt with my Pfaff's 10 inch throat, but pretty much too big for me to pin--72 inches square. I may need to get another pinning table!
I quilted it on the diagonals with my big wavy stitch--it looks organic and adds some curves in the sea of squares.
This project tickles me because I bought nothing specifically for it--the pattern was a freebie from Bonnie Hunter, all of the fabrics were from my stash including the backing, and I finished off my roll of Warm and White batting (I already have another one still in the box).
At first, I thought I would use a black and white stripe for the binding, but I don't want anyone to limit this quilt as a Halloween project with the orange and white backing. I opted for a dark gray also from my stash instead.
I am not sure if I will keep this one or pass it on, but I did embroider a label for it. I will Slow Sunday Stitch the binding tonight https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2018/09/slow-sunday-stitching_23.html and tomorrow night while watching football. I sure hope that Fitzpatrick aka Fitzmagic leads Tampa Bay to their third victory!
I usually grocery shop on Sunday mornings at 8am because everyone is either at church or sleeping in. I hit Walmart and City Market (Kroger). I always make my rounds to the clearance section, but from some reason today I looped through the kitchen goodies at the Wall too. They had these 16-quart Pressure Canners for $15 instead of $65. My mom and I bought one years ago that we share, but it stays at her house, so now I have one to stay at my house if I want to can anything! They also had dozen packs of canning jars for $5, but I already have plenty in the garage, so I skipped them. I can't pass up a good, practical bargain!
Have a great week!
That quilting stitch looks great turned on the diagonal like that and the lines criss-crossing the quilt! Pretty colors in that quilt, too! I really like the scrappiness of a Scrappy Trips quilt.
ReplyDeleteSo much lovely colour and pattern in this scrappy pretty. Fabulous job with the quilting.
ReplyDeleteGreat quilt, and the quilting you did is fun and has movement. What a fabulous buy on the canner!!
ReplyDeleteI've made one trip quilt and I'm itching to make another. I also have a Pfaff. Which stitch did you use? I usually just manually wave because it's so easy. Maybe I'll branch out and actually use one of those stitches my machine offers (besides zigzag).
ReplyDeleteWhat a great pattern for scraps. I need to find it. Your quilting is great, and you did it on your sewing machine, amazing.
ReplyDeleteYour Scrappy quilt is wonderful and the quilting design perfect. The wavy diagonal design really works.
ReplyDeleteTanya your Scrappy Trips is great! Congrats on your super buy! Wow! Pressurized canning! I have only done the water bath method!
ReplyDeleteGreat job on the quilting for the Scrappy Trips quilt... the curves create a nice effect! Nothing better than binding a quilt while watching football!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful quilting, great pattern! Lovely quilt!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun quilting design for this quilt! And the quilt isn't to shabby either! Isn't if fun when we find a killer deal?!
ReplyDeleteI love the wavy stitch you used to quilt your scrappy trip. It's such a fun quilt to make isn't it? And yours turned out great!
ReplyDeleteWhat a cute scrappy quilt!
ReplyDeleteCute quilt!! Great quilting stitch to use. I never think of that one. I used to use my pressure cooker a lot until I bought a glass top stove which doesn't recommend the use of it. It's time to get a new stove.
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ReplyDeleteYour scrappy trips quilt is gorgeous... I adore it!
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