Thoughtful Thursday 166~ Lots of Bobbins

 Seems like it takes more bobbins to 

make masks than quilt a quilt.  

I've almost used 2 large spools of cream colored thread

while also using black.

Lots of thoughts run about in your head while making masks

during this pandemic.

**

Think about it.

Memory Monday 113~ Remembering 2020 Florida Souvenir

 Each winter I spend in Florida,

I buy a souvenir

for my sewing room.

This year was the little 6 inch "Row by Row" ruler.

This souvenir came from Titusville, Fl

when we visited Kathy's Quilt Studio

in the old Titusville Mall that is almost empty.

We try to go to a couple of movies there 

which used to be 1$ movies and now 5$ 

which still isn't too bad.

Quilt Shot Block 114~ Variable Star

Variable Star

From:

 An old magazine I bought back in 1989!

I just can't part with my old quilting magazines.

 I decided to use the newer method to make Flying Geese.

This Variable Star was made from the scraps from the masks I've been making.

Fun Friday ~ Sorting Colors

 What's almost as much fun as sorting buttons by color?

Sorting scraps.

Yes, I think it's fun

Wordless Wednesday 293 ~ Upcycled Shirt Masks

Sun Best~ Happy Easter: Pandemic Version

Fun Friday ~ Easter Bunny Yard Banner

I took a short break this morning from making face masks

and created an 

Easter bunny yard banner.

I pulled out a quilting magazine with a rather detail bunny

to use to make the banner.

It just wasn't working out well,

when I got an email from 

The Sewing Garret

in Daytona, Florida.

The email included a schedule for May classes that 

included making a pillow with a simple bunny.

So I started sketching.

 It turned out to be only 2 pattern pieces,

because I just flipped the ear.

 I'd better not share the pattern

since I got the idea from someone else.

Yellow fabric didn't shadow too well.

 Darker pink worked better.

 I'll have this roll of green outdoor fabric forever.

The bunny was made from the 

mask scrap pile.

Used painters tape to hold the pieces flat.

 Just a single stitch around all the edges.

Zig zagged the whites of the eyes.

To finish construction of the banner

I had to turn to my tutorials

@

DIY Spring Yard Banner

&

Basketball Yard Banner

From the street 

the bunny seems to peak from the bushes.

Happy Easter Everyone!

Have a fun SAFE this weekend!

Thoughtful Thursday 165~ #200

That's not hash tag 200,

that's number 200 mask

I've made.

I've never THOUGHT of having to do this.

My quickest way to Make Cloth Masks with Ties

Quilt Shot ~ Possible Beginnings of 2020 Quilt Challenge?

Our quilt guild's challenge for this year

was emailed to us on March 15 before we left Florida.
I had the whole drive home to think about it.

It read as follows:

All Things 2020
 This year’s challenge is very open ended. Put your thinking caps on and come up with a 2020 inspired quilt. Think outside the box, your artists statement will be what tells your story and how your quilt re- lates to 2020. 

Ideas to ponder:

  20 x 20 inches in size or number of blocks in your quilt

  20 different blocks or fabrics used in your quilt 

 Eyeglasses help provide 2020 vision - Have you seen those cute bespectacled animal quilts? 

 2020 the year - build a quilt around something that happened or you’ve seen this year that you want to commemorate. 

It could even be a new technique you learned in 2020.

 Is/was there such a thing as a pandemic quilt? How will you remember the year 2020? 

However, I've been so busy like many quilters

across the nation

 making cloth masks

and hadn't given the challenge much thought. 

(The above mask was for my daughter, the nurse. I really wonder if she wanted a reason to secretly check on me? So sweet.)

Then about a week ago when

 I was cutting pieces to make masks

and tossed more scraps onto the accumulating scrap pile..........

 

 AT THAT MOMENT 

my light bulb came on!

Do you know the idea I have for my 2020 Challenge Quilt?

Thoughtful Thursday 164~ Sunbonnet Sue Back to Sleep

Back on March 23, 2020

I was returning to a quilt 

I had started working on in 2016.

The very next day I got a request to make

masks for different places,

family & friends.

As of today I've made

137 masks.

Thinking and hoping people stay home

if possible.