Musings of a Menopausal Melon...mmmquilts
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Sunday, June 15, 2025
Glowing Hearts QAL - The Parade!
Welcome to the ninth annual Parade of Quilts for my Quilt Along! First of all, I want to pause, as I always do, and think of you, Dad, on this day. You always thought it extra-special when your birthday happened to fall on Father's Day. I miss you still. I know you would love that my Quilt Alongs always end with a parade on your birthday.
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Simple Satisfying Sewing
Maybe it's because my heart is aching so for the Palestinians, maybe it's because my throat feels utterly constricted with rage, maybe it's because this world seems so wilfully angry and ignorant, but I've been doing just what the title for this post says: sewing simple, quick, easy, satisfying little makes. You saw the collection of makeup bags in the previous post. Well, I made my orange churn dash block for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge colour of the month,
I'm having fun finding appropriate 5" centres in the colour of each month!
Saturday, June 7, 2025
Eight Makeup Bags!
From time to time I seem to go through spurts of making makeup bags. When I recently, as in over the past month, sold five, this was one of those spurts.
Some of these grew out of a need to make room in my 2.5” squares tray, others from a need for a gift, and still others because of sewing leader/enders, or finding a fun zipper I just had to use.
Thursday, May 29, 2025
Gratitude & Glimmers #95
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
-Ashley Montagu
That was one of the quotes this past week on the Mindfulness Calendar that Dayna gave me a couple of Christmases ago. I think it’s another perfect description of a glimmer, those moments of joy and happiness that surprise and delight us.
Welcome to my post for the month of all things I like and for which I am grateful. You can find links to more posts like this one at LeeAnna's blog, Not Afraid of Color. Glimmers are the little things that give me a frisson if you will, of joy or happiness or excitement or all three.
Monday, May 26, 2025
Rainbow Scrap Challenge Update: Green
Green is the colour for May and oh, how I do love green: the feel of green, the smell of green, how lovely it looks with blue😊, how it is the colour of magic, and how it fills my sewing room windows that look east. My Project #1 is a churn dash block made with crumbs and strips. Each block has a centre 'feature' block, either one image or a special fabric in that month's colour.
I love that green owl fabric. I won it, along with a few other scraps in that line, from Michelle at From Bolt to Beauty in a giveaway she had a couple of years ago. Speaking of Michelle, have you seen that she is now a published author? She’s just released her first book and it sure looks like a good one, Not-Your-Typical Jelly Roll Quilts.
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Glowing Hearts
The last several days have been absolutely dismal so I was able to get my Glowing Hearts quilt finished.
I am so pleased with it!
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Glowing Hearts QAL - Quilt Top Assembly
As always, when I first start my Quilt Along, getting to the quilt top assembly stage seems awfully far off. Yet here we are. I have been thoroughly enjoying seeing the variety of glowing strippy heart blocks!
It's time to put our nine blocks together.
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