Creativity this week in January.... plaid portfolio

 

For this week's creativity round up I present

 "Plaid Coat" about 13" X 14" 

Project quilting prompt was plaid . What's a Scottish Dog supposed to wear if not plaid?

I saw a few renditions of scotty images, and 

I'll share a few pics as I tell you about making it

I often need to transport cut blocks to the sewing table so I like a portfolio with flannel to drive them over  to the machine

lavender flannel on the back

I used the cardboard insert from my recent calendar as a stabilizer this time

I have another one to make a second carrier... 

sewed the pieced block, quilted it to cotton batting, trimmed and sewed around three sides to do an envelop turn slipped in the cardboard. Then turned under the bottom opening and did an invisible closing stitch to seal the deal

time to embellish! I found a plaid button for his coat, and a shiny button for the eye. The nose is colored in with black marker. 

time for some photos! 

Oh look, a bit of tiny blue scrap piecing also done this week, for Rainbow Scrap challenge color blue

sew small rectangles together into 5 rows 

overlap and cut curves, sew together keeping flat, press and voila!

I think I'm going to make something fun with this!  

now to clean up my plaid and homespun fabric drawer, pull out lake colors to add a row to my SAHRR

dragonflies... one thing at a time even though I want to do it all...

finishing with a photo taken on a walk this week.... that sky is blue blue blue! and looks great with the stone colors in this pillar 

hmmmm learning color theory from a walk.... the stones skew to yellows, (and some blue grays).... opposite on the color wheel which mean complimentary. 

linking with

Project Quilting Plaid entries

https://superscrappy.blogspot.com/

patchwork Sunday   

oh Scrap Sundays

 slow stitching Sundays

https://melvalovesscraps.blogspot.com/

design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts

https://songbirddesigns.blog/

http://www.sewcando.com/ 

https://myuncommonsliceofsuburbia.com/inspire-me-monday-335/ 

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

http://www.myquiltinfatuation.com/

finished or not

https://myblog-lunchbreak.blogspot.com/

https://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/

friday face off  

https://www.pamspartyandpracticaltips.com/2025/09/its-time-to-dare-to-share_0372312595.html