Sun Best~Provoked Thought: Titus 3:1 NIV

 

Fun Fri~ Quarter Inch Hexies

 

The length of the side of these hexagons

are one fourth inch.

I used slightly less than a quarter inch seam.

Each seam only took 3 very small stitches.

Can you guess what I made?

 

 

Tues Tutorial Tip~ Second Grand Son-in-Law BDay Card 2026

 

He has ownership in race horses.

I did a search online for

"Black line clip art horse"

Traced an outline from my phone screen.

Added some "hair" lines.

Pinned the paper to the fabric. 

 

 

Set my stitch length at 1.5.

Stitched on the drawn lines.

Tore the paper off.

You can see a couple of spots of paper

I didn't get off.

I decided to leave them for texture.

Then sewed the fabric to card stock around the edge

matching thread color to the fabric.
 

Happy Birthday!

Sun Best~Provoked Thought: Deuteronomy 11:15 ESV

 

Fun Fri~ Let the Hand Quilting Begin

 

Tues Tutorial~ 1st Daughter 2026 BDay Card

 

Just type in "dog clipart" (for my dog loving daughter) into a search engine and you get several images to give you ideas.

 

There was one close to this idea, but I gave it a bit of a twist to try to be my own. Thanks to the person that had this one line idea.

 

FYI, years ago I took a 101 art class for my elementary degree. We learned about several types of art. Two that I remember were Pointillism and Single Line Art. I wondered then, who really uses those? Guess what? They do come in handy for fiber art. 

Stitch length 1.5 to tear away paper more easily.

I still like the control with the straight foot

instead of the free motion.

 

Sun Best~Provoked Thought: Matthew 11:28 ESV

 

Fun Fri~ Expanding Grandmother's Flower Garden

 

According to my research,

 A "Grandmother's Flower Garden" consists of

2 rounds making a flower,

set together with one other fabric.

The days of my grandmother, set their flowers apart 

with white. 

Today, any color is used.

I chose this peach color that new Mommy's today

seem to like. 

 

I was short of fabric for 5 hexies.

I did have fabric to piece 5 of them together.

It was common for our grandmother's to 

piece together pieces,

because they usually made these 

Flower gardens with fabric of old clothes.

 

 

This is what was left over.

Even though they look like large pieces,

they actually were not big enough to cut a whole hexie.

 

Now to even out the edges.

The hardest part, because it twists my brain. 

 

 

 Each night I go to bed,

I tell myself I'll have the top done in another day.

Somehow that doesn't happen.

The top was to be done in my plans by April 30! 

 

 I need to have it hand quilted by May 24.

Will it happen? 

 

Sun Best~Provoked Thought: Proverbs 27:19 EASY

 

Fun Fri~ Grandmother's Flower Garden Keeps Growing

 

Sun Best~Provoked Thought: James 1:4 GNT

 

Wordless Wed 426~ Getting Ready to Welcome New Great Grand Daughter

 

Sun Best~Provoked Thought: 1 Samuel 17:45 NKJV

 

Tues Tutorial Tip~ Hiding Pin Ends to Stop Stabbing

 

When binding a quilt,

I only use 1 pin ahead

to hold down the binding 

as I hand stitch.

I got so tired of that

one pin stabbing me

when manipulating the quilt. 

Here's the tip I use.

Bury the tip of the pin,

in between fabric layers.

Push the pin as far in as possible

(more than here)

so you don't accidentally 

push it in further and still stab yourself.

It's saved me from a lot of

surprise stabbing.
  

 

Sun Best~Provoked Thought: Psalms 104:14 ASV

 

Sun Best~Provoked Thought: Luke 24:8 NKJV

 

Sun Best~Provoked Thought: Genesis 32:28 NKJV

 

Fun Fri~Triangle Scarf w/ Border from Knitted Dish Cloth Pattern

 

I have so enjoyed

knitting cotton dish clothes

during this past winter.

I started making them

for a house warming gift.

Then, as long as

I had the cotton yarn

I kept going.

Here's the simple pattern.

One day I was watching a You Tuber

making a triangle scarf.

The beginning stitches

 seemed very complicated.

Realizing the beginning part of the

dish cloth was a triangle,

I wondered why a scarf 

couldn't be that simple.

The dish cloth pattern 

has a border I really like.

So I pulled out a soft yarn of a

spring color.

It does remind me of the "new"

Christmas green too.

So I started with the directions of the

dish cloth

through row 2

and just kept going.

Did not move on to Row 3.

 I kept increasing and

got to where I had enough

to bind off.

This is what I had left.

Actually, I went a row to far

and had to undo a row

then bind off.

I have no idea 

how many rows were knitted.

 

 So there is a simple triangle scarf

with a border 

knitting pattern for you. 

 

Have fun.