sewing saturday

 

for this week's sewing round up I present wine bottles made from red scraps for the RSC.

these seem a bit pink but in person they are definitely red! And the labels are silly!

One from a valentine fabric and one from my alcohol fabric collection! Seeing pink elephants???

Mostly this week I have worked on my tumbling block quilt, fine tuning colors and arrangements.

I pin them in place and carry it down to the family room to stitch in front of the tv. I made a felt covered cardboard tray to use, the pin cushion was from a youtube cathedral window free pattern.
 

 I made a few more blocks to bring more color into the predominantly black and white ones, and added a row on the left side. I am sewing the blocks together in pinned sections at night while listening to tv. 

I also spent some time on my red scrap wall quilt, or table runner, or banner. (time will tell which)

 

I added in a purple scrap on one side, and the beloved red with gold circles vintage scrap next to it and chose a binding fabric of gold with red circles.I almost put a black strip on the right but last minute I decided to keep it somewhat symetrical, thinking if I did that your eye would be drawn to the center to see the fun piecing instead of looking at all the different borders. 

I'm not sure I like it but figure red thread quilted in the purple scrap strip, or beads will mitigate the color pop. 

here's a video I found this week:

 some interesting ideas in this video, free  and useful in quilt making

Linking to

off the wall Fridays
can I get a whoop whoop Fridays 

finished or not

http://frombolttobeauty.blogspot.com/  

 myquiltinfatuation Thursdays

http://www.inquiringquilter.com/ Wednesday wait loss

Midweek makers wednesdays 

 design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts

lovelaughquilt.mondays

scrap happy Saturdays

oh Scrap Sundays 
 slow stitching Sundays