Warmfolk

22/09/2026

13/09/2026

At this point, no one should believe me when I say I’m making a quilt. I never, ever, finish them. But I enjoy the process of *thinking* I’ll finish them, and that’s where I am on this Sunday while I sit at the hockey rink and plot my next project.

These little scraps are left over from cutting quarter circle square pieces on the laser cutter. So they’re all a bit weird, but they’re weird in consistently identical ways. And these are blue… and the challenge is pick-a-color scrappy…

I’ve sewed a bunch of them now into little groups. I’ve sewed them pointing in the same direction and oriented in opposite directions. I keep trying to find the way to sew them together so that the pieces look like they fit... So they make a nice, flat seam.

I spent a while wrapping my brain around the fact that as off cuts, the convex edge of the scrap matches the concave edge of the original piece. And the opposite is true: the concave edge of the scrap is really the same as the convex edge of the original. The radii of the pieces I’m sewing with now are swapped. Which sounds like gibberish, so I’ll just say this: for a curved seam to lie nice and flat, the convex edge needs a radius that’s bigger than the concave edge… because seam allowances. These scraps don’t have that. But I digress…

Knowing this math though… and knowing that it’s not worth it to me to manually cut scraps that I probably should have tossed in the trash anyway, I’m making tiny adjustments as I sew. I want to compensate for the fact that these pieces technically shouldn’t fit together.

Anyway, tomorrow, I’ll dig them out of a box and let them breathe (like the triangles in my story 🤣). If they inspire me, I’ll see what can be done about a challenge quilt. What’s the hashtag we’re using? or maybe ?

11/09/2026

During a short visit to England this week, I got a chance to go to Liberty London. I slowly wandered the floors and admired all the pretty things.

I have some Liberty fabric from years ago that I’ve barely touched. And more recently, a friend brought me some fat eights from her trip that I still haven’t unrolled.

I tried to tell myself I needed a memento to mark the occasion of actually *being at Liberty.* A voice in my head said I needed a souvenir. But another, louder voice said, “you need to enjoy what you already have.” What a silly, sensible voice. 🤣

I did come away empty-handed, but maybe I’ll mark the occasion by seeing how I can thoughtfully use what’s on my shelf. 💕

Any suggestions for me? I can’t decide if a project has to be Liberty-only or if it can be mixed… 🤔

(For what it’s worth, I’m thinking I might start with making some cases for my various pairs of reading glasses.)

08/09/2026

Come and stitch with me.

Scrappy Circle Quilts (with surprise bonus project)
March 20-27, 2027.

07/09/2026

Come and stitch at Clos Mirabel.

Scrappy Circle Quilts with
March 20-27, 2027

03/09/2026

Pinning a lot of bulk here.

My pin cushion holds several types of pins. Without realizing I had picked a favorite, I found myself reaching for those green tipped Taylor Seville pins. Something about the diameter is perfect for bulky seams. They’re pretty strong but also really thin.

The second image is a partial view of the intended layout. Kind of knitted… kind of netted… maybe a little pegboard. Anything else in there? What do you see?

02/09/2026

Bits and pieces.

The anchor color in this palette is Regal. I had a bolt, and I didn’t bother estimating what I would need or use before putting it in my last two projects. (As one does when considering a plentiful bolt on the shelf 🤣).

But then I ran out and was short about 6 block’s worth of pieces. 😳I randomly grabbed a two-yard cut from my stash that predates my bolt by at least 10 years, and, WOW, I am lucky. The selvedge-to-selvedge measurement was at least an inch and a half off, but the color matching was 😚👌. You can see in the last slide how I’m mixing it in.

I’m kind of on a purple kick (and plan to use it in future precut kits), so I’ll be ordering more today…