** Hang in there my friends! **
Friends I know this is an unusual and trying time for all of us. I just want you to know that I'm going to do my best to keep talking about quilting to help us focus on our quilting and relieve some of the stress.
My friend Amy of Diary of a Quilter shared this quote by Grace Coolidge which speaks so truly to how sewing soothes our souls and comforts us. It gives us a way to anchor our feelings and lucky for us, we have a quilt at the end of it.
Hang in there friends, we can do this hard thing. I believe in you!
Gregg and I thank you for helping each other and being part of our quilt family. We love you!
** Crazy Quilty March Challenge #18 **
I am excited that Challenge 18 is 'A Pattern'.
Your assignment
- Take a look at a pattern you want to 'do soon'. Something you bought and thought.. ok.. this will be next in line
- Get it out, and then look for some potential fabric for it. If you already have the fabric then be sure it's all together. Take a read through the pattern to get familiar with it
- Put it on your calendar for when you'll start on it
- And Work on a current project today… like Childhood Games!
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- Legendary Pattern https://shrsl.com/25lf0
- Jelly Roll Rug Patterns & supplies https://shrsl.com/267mi
- Jig for rug https://shrsl.com/267mt
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** Block #8**
Does every home have a Monopoly game? Tell me your favorite fame piece in the comments!
Monopoly games are so cool now with so many variations!
** The fabrics **
Two fabrics, I'm, in LOVE with the bunnies!
Reminder ONLY cut what you need
Bunny Fabric at https://shrsl.com/267n1
** The Details**
Important details
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Dearest Pat, Thank you so much for your creative website and pattern downloads. It is especially cheering to get “a present” in the mail. We are now on “shelter-in-place” orders here in Colorado. It’s wonderful to read all the correspondence from others. Our local “sewists” I guess that the name word are making masks for the hospitals in the area to have as reserve supplies.
I never enjoyed playing Monopoly. It just got too long, and my sisters were better at strategy than I was! 🙂 Of course my in-laws didn’t know I didn’t like it and gave my kids first a Children’s Monopoly, which didn’t take as long so I enjoyed playing with them. Then they got an electronic Monopoly, which was just as lengthy as the original.
I have a table runner to bind, and then I have a “Birthday Presents” pattern and fabric that I purchased almost two years ago. I don’t think I have backing fabric, but I can use squares of scraps.
The thimble was my favorite piece to play with on the Monopoly board, although I wouldn’t begin to like anything to do with sewing for many years! I didn’t particularly enjoy the game as my older brother always dominated and won every time, no fun to play a game you can’t win. I have made one oval jellyroll rug and had issues with it laying flat, didn’t press instead of iron and didn’t do it often enough, ended up taking off several rounds to make it flat, so not as big. I will attempt another in the future. I have made several of the jellyroll slice rugs and they are easier to me. I am really enjoying your daily videos with tips and encouragement! Happy Quilting!
I tried the rectangle one but got so bored with it that I cut it up and made casserole sized potholders with it.
Hi Pat. I would love to make a jelly roll rug! I hope you will do that. I do not have a pattern for one, though. I have a lot of things to make during this crisis. The news is alarming, daily. Prayers for everyone’s saftey.
No favorite game piece as that is one game that I absolutely refuse to play in any way, shape or form! I have an intense aversion to it and just thinking about it brings out the worst in me. Now quilting, that is a different story. Anything involving fabric, needle and thread, is on my to do list any time. Have so many projects to choose from, don’t know where to begin.
I’d love to try a jelly roll rug
I have a cute pattern for placemats I have been wanting to do. I think I will kit it up and make them
Pat, we must be on the same wavelength. It seems in quite a few of the quilty days I’m a day or two ahead of your topic. LOL A few days ago I finally started my Moda Love Layer Cake Quilt — it’s been in my “TO DO BASKET” for a long time! I believe the free pattern came out about a year ago. I’ve had the layer cake for several years and I secured the background yardage a few months ago. It’s coming along quite nicely. Guess what! It has HST’s!!!!! Thank you so much for keeping us — your community — on track AND OCCUPIED with Crazy Quilty March! YOU ROCK!!!
My daughter does denim rugs. She tears old jeans into strips, braids them, and hand sews them. I want to get a jelly roll with colors I like to have her make one for me.
I have been wanting to do an arrowhead quilt, but I haven’t been able to find the fabrics I want to use. I’ve got the colors in my head and how I want it to look.
Yes. We can survive.
Mine wouldn’t lay flat either, so I took off several rounds until it did! Try the jellyroll slice version, I found it to be much easier.
Jelly rug is on my list also. Plus your Crush pattern. Love seeing it in your studio. Red is my color too.
My favorite Monopoly pieces–dog, show, and thimble. I love dogs, the shoe had a built in little handle for moving it around the board, and my mother collected thimbles. I’m not a super competitive person, so this game is not really my favorite. But it sure taught us a lot!
No, I have not made a jelly roll rug nor do I want to tackle one. I did the fabric crochet rugs and that is enough for a life time.
I love you too!
I have the rug pattern too! But have not started it, but would love to. So, let us know if you are going to do it as a lesson!
Yes I have made a Jelly Roll Rug. Actually I have made 5 or 6, all different shapes. I recommend using best press or something similar. Iron it often to keep it flat. Good luck.
Thanks Pat for being so real and a positive voice ! I look forward to your videos everyday!
Stay well everyone ! 🙏
i HAVE ALL THE STUFF TO MAKE A RUG JUST HAVEN’T STARTED, WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOU DO ONE!
I loved the quote! We play a lot of games as a family, board games and card games, but monopoly is one we didn’t play often, mostly because it always took so long. My favorite piece was always the dog or thimble if Mom wasn’t playing cause it was hers if she was. I am currently working on a project that will be a gift for someone, after that I have one Aurifil block to do and I am all caught up on my sew alongs. That means I can pull out one of the kits I have made up already (Thank you Pat for your great organizing tips the last few months!) and start this week on one of those patterns I really wanted to get made!
I saw that quote on Amy’s blog & forwarded it to the one who write’s our guild’s newsletter as our meeting was cancelled this week. I’ve been looking at the jelly roll rugs as I grew up watching my grandmother braid rugs. She made me one when I got married. Using it in the kitchen & having a dog the stitches holding the braid eventually broke. I had plans to take it to my grandmother to learn how it was stitched but when I came home one day my husband had discarded the rug. “It was broken”. You can guess what I had to say. Anyway, I am going to start on a quilt for my niece’s Christmas gift. Planning on cutting it tonight.
Quote is perfect- spending time in my sewing room always soothes me, especially now. I’m working on my personal projects, as well as QOV, Community Service, and the other non-profits I make quilts for. On my to do list is to begin and catch up my BOMs, BOWs, and other online sew/quilt alongs. I have been able to keep up with the daily March challenges, and it is so much fun. My favorite playing piece in Monopoly has always been the thimble – go figure. Thanks so much for all the fun and creative distractions you are sharing, and your wonderful smiling face with us each day.
I have my next pattern chose and have the fabric I need. I also have the jelly roll pattern. I looked at the jig, and I think I need to buy one. Now to go work on my Wednesday block.
Thank you for the quote Miss Pat. So very true and comforting. Also, thank you for keeping us busy. Which in turn, keeps you busy too. I pray in a good way.
Stay safe and thank you again!
yep, get off the dime and pick a jelly roll
Hi Heard that Robin, be safe!
My favorite monopoly piece is the hat. Thank you for the inspiration to make it through this time.
Not doing a jelly roll rug. I went to a demo for one and it was all about don’t do what I did if you want one that lays flat. Well, duh! Of course I want one that lays flat. As a senior, it it best not to have rugs that will slide under my feet, so this is not something I will be doing in the future. SOOORRRRY!!!!!
I would love to have a sew along for a jelly roll quilt. I have patterns for the oval/round and the half circle. I have the batting strips and have a hard time choosing a jelly roll to use (I have to step on it?) Thanks for all you are doing. I caught up with the daily vlogs Sunday evening. Calendar is filling up. I love you, too!
I loved playing monopoly as a child but often the game went too long for me to finish! I was ALWAYS the Scottie dog when we played. Guess my obsession with Scotties started at an early age! I was “owned” by one for 7 or 8 years and loved it. It is the only breed for me now. 🙂
I definitely believe that craft of all kinds sooth the soul.
I crochet as well as quilt and calm my mind with busy mind.
The quote you posted spoke to my soul. I am always soothed when I’m sewing, but especially this week. Along with all of the worldwide stress I lost my mother last Saturday. The only way I can stop the wheels from spinning out of control is to sew. I thank my Grandmother for instilling the love of sewing in me. She taught me to hand sew when I was 4 and gave me a treadle machine for my 10th birthday. Sewing calms my soul and brings me joy.
Love you too and keep up the great work.
A thimble is my favorite piece of course! However, they don’t make that piece anymore. I have enjoyed playing cheaters’ monopoly (a real game!) with my teenager. Since we all are at home, more games to play! 🙂
I have not made a jelly roll rug (although braided rugs are part of my history) and would really like to do one.
Thank you for the motivation once again. I will put the college quilt supplies together and it will be next in line. However here in Utah Wasatch front there was a noticeable quake with numerous aftershooks so quilting is not current priority.
To answer your question regarding the Jelly Roll Rug, I made one and I will NOT make another one. The rug did not turn out flat, had waves in the rug–ready for a trip and fall. Hope your jelly roll rug turns out beautifully. I will cheer you on from the sidelines when you do the Jelly Roll Rug.
At one point we had Monopoly games from South Africa, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Britain, one based on hockey (Hockopoly), Edmontopoly (based on Edmonton, Alberta), and of course the original from the 60s and an updated one from maybe the 80s!
I love playing Monopoly with my grandchildren. They have so many new game titles and game piece choices, it’s more fun. There are new names for the property pieces also. It’s so much better than the old days. You still go to jail and collect your $200 but its a new world for children they’d days, and my grandson always beats me!
I haven’t posted any of my blocks this ho around! I’m lazy! I’ve been doing my blocks with a twist, I Call it Childhood GamesDown on the Farm. You see I’m doing them in cute farm fabrics. I have posted a few in FB just not here! Any way with that being said we played marathon Monopoly when a winter storm would hit and shut every thing down fir days or even weeks! The game would be started on a Saturday afternoon and left on the dining room table for the duration! No on dared touch that game! Different ones would come n go! There were 8 of us including mom n dad! As chores and other things Interrupted a player another would take their place! We used money from other games, built little houses n hotels out of blocks and toy soldiers! We were very creative! Till eventually we either got board playing or school started up again(then mom would come in clean up the mess and life would resume as normal)!