Timeless Tutorial - Square in a Square

 Hello Everyone,

Busy days here at Sew'n Wild Oaks.  I've been making tutorials on ZOOM for my Timeless quilt and posting them on Honeybee Fabrics FB page.  To make the videos available to all, I'm posting them here on my blog.  

The first component I cover in my tutorial is the Square in a Square.

There have been so many times when I've made a square in a square and I either lose my points, or one of the 'wings' decides to go rogue and just doesn't align properly.  The tutorial will give you a couple of little tipsies to make a perfect square in a square.  I also show you how to align stripes, because I have to have everything in perfect alignment. If one of the stripes is off, I will notice.  Perfectly aligned stripes is not just a goal, it is a lifestyle for me.

To watch the video, just click HERE and enter the Passcode: 54+Uuwk4 

The videos will walk you through the process of making Timeless.  This is just one of many tutorials that I will be posting here on my blog. The pattern is available in my Etsy shop HERE.  You can choose between a digital download or a paper pattern. 

I'm expecting another shipment of Timeless Stitches fabric today so I can replenish my Etsy shop.  I've run out of some of the bolts and others are getting very, very low.

I'm going to try and post the remaining bolts of Hearthstone and Laurel Ridge in my shop this week so I can make room for the new line. Rearranging the bolts is like playing a high stakes game of Tetris! One wrong move and I'm buried under bolts of gorgeous fabric. Out with the old and in with the new and possibly out with my sanity while I'm at it!  It's a real balancing act to keep inventory fresh and make room in my tiny sewing room!

I also have a few kits available.  Please send me an email (sewnwildoaks@gmail.com) if you are interested. I'm not listing the kits in my Etsy shop as the fees are outrageous on higher priced items.

Have a fabulous week quilting your heart out. May your seams be straight and your bobbin never run out, and your fabric stash magically shrink.

Soon,

Lynn

Lucy Boston Blocks and Zoom

 Hello Everyone,

I made a commitment to myself to work on my Lucy Boston blocks.  I started making Lucy blocks in 2015 and I have about 20 finished.

This is the block I was working on last night while watching TV with Mr. Joe.  I made the decision to applique the blocks onto a 12-1/2" fabric square. I will put them together on point, possibly with a sashing.  The blocks are just too pretty to sit in a bin the rest of their life and the rest of mine.  I'm teaching this for a guild workshop later on this summer and I want to have more to show for my efforts over the past 11 years.

 

Speaking of teaching, I taught a class on Saturday to quilters from Texas to New York via Zoom on Saturday.  I connected my overhead camera to my computer and 'shared' the image from the overhead camera to Zoom and it worked beautifully.

I set up my studio in the dining room, so Mr. Joe and Mazey were tippy toeing around the room for about four hours.  Mazey never barked once!  My Internet connection isn't the best in my sewing room, so I had to set up closer to the modem for a more stable connection. The signal doesn't travel well through solid logs walls!

So, quilters, my question is, would anyone be interested in attending one of my classes on Zoom at a nominal cost?  The possibilities are endless now for reaching out to quilters around the world.  I can record the session and then provide the link to the class to view again later if you want.  The only issue is, the videos need to be viewed on a computer and not a hand-held device.

I'm going to set up my studio again tomorrow and start making tutorials for the Timeless quilt which I will then post of Honeybee Fabrics FB page.  

My poor little pea brain has been swirling with ideas on using this technology.  This is nothing new, but it is new to me.  

This last weekend was the kickoff of the annual migration of the 'summer people' to the mountains. Our little community nestled in the Sierra Nevada mountain range is a magnet for those traveling to the high mountain lakes and hiking along the Pacific Crest trail.  It was a beautiful weekend with nice warm temperatures.  I remember not too long ago we had a light snowstorm on Memorial Day which put a damper on holiday plans.

In anticipation of the invasion of the summer people, we did all of our grocery shopping early in the week, gassed up the cars, (which put us in debt) then waited for the hoard to arrive like a swarm of bees.  Our neighborhood was very busy since we live so close to Snowflake Lake and the Lodge.  I'm on the Board of Directors for our HOA, so I went to both lakes and the pool to check things out to make sure things were running smoothly.....and they were thanks to the great staff running the organization. 

Now the clouds are rolling in, and snow is predicted over the mountain passes and rain and thunderstorms are in store for us at the lower elevations.  I'm sure this change in the weather is going to ruin some vacation plans.

The rain won't dampen my plans for staying inside and quilting my heart away.

Soon,

Lynn

Fabric Sales

 Hello Everyone,

I just put 15 bolts of Cheddar & Coal III on sale in my Etsy shop (yes… FIFTEEN—I may have gotten a little carried away! I will be adding to the sale items as time allows. You can access the sale HERE.

To find them, just head to my shop and click on the SALE ITEMS section on the left-hand side—like a fabric treasure hunt, but without the digging.

They’re priced at $8.00 per yard (1-yard minimum), which is basically my way of saying, “Please take some of this fabric before I start stacking it in the bathtub.”

I’m clearing out inventory to make room for new lines… and possibly reclaim a little personal living space.

Several of the bolts are down to one yard and you will get a bit extra, whatever is left on the bolt, I'm not saving any little bits.

Do you remember when Erma Bombeck said, ‘The grass is always greener over the septic tank’?

Well… today we decided to put that theory to the test because this just so happens to be the day we’re having a brand‑new leach field excavated and connected to our septic tank.

This is some very serious plumbing. And the trenches? They’re not just trenches, they are so impressive they double as a potential Olympic luge course, running straight through our yard and curving into the lot we own next door! The trenches are so deep, there is no way on God's green earth that they will ever be filled, by us and forty of our neighbors frequenting the powder room over the next 30 years! The county inspector came by and said they needed to be deeper.  We could put bodies in them standing straight up they are so deep!

Do you know just how much fabric I could buy with the amount we are paying the contractor, the engineer and the county? I could make a quilt for everyone reading this....along with matching curtains!

Soon,

Lynn