Quilting

Polar Bear Plunge

Published on January 26, 2022February 16, 2022 by Bumbleberry Stitches43 Comments

Joan of MooseStash Quilting, challenge of making something inspired by polar bears, blue, or cold got me to thinking about my Wooly Adventure blocks. They needed to be moved from the WIP’s pile to the working pile. This hop was a good time to do just that.

These wooly blocks are from 2016. So that’s like 6 years ago. Long time. Only two of the blocks are still available from the research I did. Most of the blocks were 8″ in size but a few were 10″. The backgrounds that came with the kits varied and didn’t work well together. Because I wanted to put them in a quilt, that was a problem for me. So I decided to just them on coordinating flannel backgrounds and use a cream flannel to border the 8″ squares to sew up to the 10″ blocks.

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2021 UFO Challenge

Published on February 1, 2021February 16, 2022 by Bumbleberry Stitches

This post is late getting up. I meant this to post at the beginning of January. Better late than never I guess.

I feel like my blog and project containers are nothing more than a wasteland of unfinished projects. So a UFO challenge is in order. The problem bigger than the UFO’s is that I have started challenges in the past only to end with failure. But, I am a persistent woman and will always try again.

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2019 UFO Challenge January Progress

Published on February 7, 2019January 26, 2022 by Bumbleberry Stitches4 Comments

I’m a late getting this post up but better late than never I guess. It was a busy January. Regardless, I was able to make some progress on my UFO.

January’s number to work on was 7. Celtic Hearts was my 7th project listed. Though I have stated this before I feel I must say this again. I’m not crazy about hand quilting. When I had first made the decision to hand quilt I was excited to give it a try. Didn’t take long for me to realize hand quilting is not for me. My guess this is why this project became a UFO.

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FNSI Results

Published on June 18, 2016 by Bumbleberry Stitches8 Comments

I spent most of the night cutting the pieces for the block of the Honey Bee Lane BOM that I’m getting behind on. It’s a sweet BOM that my local quilt shop is doing.

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Which Thread Should You Use?

Published on June 10, 2016 by Bumbleberry Stitches2 Comments

I wanted to share with you one of my favorite designers, Becky Goldsmith. She has a great tutorial breaking down the confusion as to what kind of threads work best with wool. This is something I have struggled with in my process of learning wool applique. There are a variety of threads available and knowing which ones to try first can be overwhelming. Reading about her experience and seeing her examples was very helpful.

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