Joy's Jots, Shots & Whatnots

Tuesday Tutorial: 2nd Daughter's Bday Card 2026

noreply@blogger.com (JOY @ http://joysjotsshots.blogspot.com/) — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000

After I finished the quilt for my daughter's up and coming new grand daughter, I made her a belated birthday card from the tiny leftover scraps.

You got a sneak peek of the quarter inch hexies HERE. This post offers a few more details.

I call it a quarter inch hexagon, because the finished edges are a quarter inch. The actual template has half inch sides. Anyway, in comparison to my thumb you can see how big it is.

Tracing and cutting isn't too hard.

It would be difficult to use a rotary cutter.

Still using the "Grandmother's Flower Garden" pattern,

the first round wasn't too tedious.

It only took 2 to 3 stitches in a seam.

First stitch with a knot is a back stitch,

and last stitch is a back stitch finished with a tie off.

Using a dryer sheet for foundation,

odd scrap pieces were overlapped to

show raw edges

and pinned using my tiny pins.

I can't believe I used to make garments with them,

because that was the only size sewing pins back in the day.

They are invaluable for working with tiny pieces.

Each visible raw edge was stitched around.

The background piece was trimmed to be

slightly larger than the cover of the card stock card

which was half of a sheet then folded in half.

The finished hand stitched

Grandmother's Flower Garden Flower

was machine stitched onto the background.

I enjoyed seeing and hearing her reaction.

Sun Best~Provoked Thought: Jonah 2:1 ASV

noreply@blogger.com (JOY @ http://joysjotsshots.blogspot.com/) — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Quilt Shot 195~ Elkhorn Creek Quilt of Valor May 30, 2026 Awards: Part 1

noreply@blogger.com (JOY @ http://joysjotsshots.blogspot.com/) — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Sun Best~Provoked Thought: Proverbs 14:13 CSB

noreply@blogger.com (JOY @ http://joysjotsshots.blogspot.com/) — Sun, 31 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Quilt Shot 194~ Grandmother's Flower Garden (Hand Stitched)

noreply@blogger.com (JOY @ http://joysjotsshots.blogspot.com/) — Sat, 30 May 2026 22:01:55 +0000

"Grandmother's Flower Garden"

A 36 in x 36 in approx quilt

for my new Great Grand Daughter.

Hand pieced and quilted.

I've attempted a few by hand back in the 1980s.

This is my first one completely finished.

To review the process:

1. Cutting the pieces and starting the flowers

Wordless Wed 426~ Getting Ready to Welcome New Great Grand Daughter

2. Putting flowers together

Fun Fri~ Grandmother's Flower Garden Keeps Growing

3. Finishing the flower layout

Fun Fri~ Expanding Grandmother's Flower Garden

4. Extra time was put into adding pieces to square up the quilt.

Quilt was sandwiched with batting &

backing (which was machine stitched together).

Then layers safety pinned together.

No shots were taken.

5. Hand quilting

Fun Fri~ Let the Hand Quilting Begin

6. Binding was sewn by machine for first step,

then hand binded second step like many have been done on this blog.

I made a label for the quilt and hand stitched it to the back.

How to make a label.

When I gift a quilt,

I try to make a pillow case or bag to present the quilt.

My grand daughter tells me she likes the bags as much as the gifts.

She reuses them a lot, which is what I hope for.

There was just enough of the flower fabric and flower center and binding

to make the bag.

And of course with a scrap tag.

Many at the shower said tags didn't come on gift bags anymore.

Should I make some for Christmas gifts?

Sorry I covered up her smile.

I believe she was happy with the colors.

They are often found in her home.

Lots of the new baby clothes were of the peachy orange color.

Sun Best~Provoked Thought: Titus 3:1 NIV

noreply@blogger.com (JOY @ http://joysjotsshots.blogspot.com/) — Sun, 24 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Fun Fri~ Quarter Inch Hexies

noreply@blogger.com (JOY @ http://joysjotsshots.blogspot.com/) — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:24:21 +0000

The length of the side of these hexagons

are one fourth inch.

I used slightly less than a quarter inch seam.

Each seam only took 3 very small stitches.

Can you guess what I made?

Tues Tutorial Tip~ Second Grand Son-in-Law BDay Card 2026

noreply@blogger.com (JOY @ http://joysjotsshots.blogspot.com/) — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000

He has ownership in race horses.

I did a search online for

"Black line clip art horse"

Traced an outline from my phone screen.

Added some "hair" lines.

Pinned the paper to the fabric.

Set my stitch length at 1.5.

Stitched on the drawn lines.

Tore the paper off.

You can see a couple of spots of paper

I didn't get off.

I decided to leave them for texture.

Then sewed the fabric to card stock around the edge

matching thread color to the fabric.

Happy Birthday!

Sun Best~Provoked Thought: Deuteronomy 11:15 ESV

noreply@blogger.com (JOY @ http://joysjotsshots.blogspot.com/) — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:20:48 +0000

Fun Fri~ Let the Hand Quilting Begin

noreply@blogger.com (JOY @ http://joysjotsshots.blogspot.com/) — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:47:04 +0000

Tues Tutorial~ 1st Daughter 2026 BDay Card

noreply@blogger.com (JOY @ http://joysjotsshots.blogspot.com/) — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Just type in "dog clipart" (for my dog loving daughter) into a search engine and you get several images to give you ideas.

There was one close to this idea, but I gave it a bit of a twist to try to be my own. Thanks to the person that had this one line idea.

FYI, years ago I took a 101 art class for my elementary degree. We learned about several types of art. Two that I remember were Pointillism and Single Line Art. I wondered then, who really uses those? Guess what? They do come in handy for fiber art.

Stitch length 1.5 to tear away paper more easily.

I still like the control with the straight foot

instead of the free motion.

Sun Best~Provoked Thought: Matthew 11:28 ESV

noreply@blogger.com (JOY @ http://joysjotsshots.blogspot.com/) — Sun, 10 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Fun Fri~ Expanding Grandmother's Flower Garden

noreply@blogger.com (JOY @ http://joysjotsshots.blogspot.com/) — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000

According to my research,

A "Grandmother's Flower Garden" consists of

2 rounds making a flower,

set together with one other fabric.

The days of my grandmother, set their flowers apart

with white.

Today, any color is used.

I chose this peach color that new Mommy's today

seem to like.

I was short of fabric for 5 hexies.

I did have fabric to piece 5 of them together.

It was common for our grandmother's to

piece together pieces,

because they usually made these

Flower gardens with fabric of old clothes.

This is what was left over.

Even though they look like large pieces,

they actually were not big enough to cut a whole hexie.

Now to even out the edges.

The hardest part, because it twists my brain.

Each night I go to bed,

I tell myself I'll have the top done in another day.

Somehow that doesn't happen.

The top was to be done in my plans by April 30!

I need to have it hand quilted by May 24.

Will it happen?

Sun Best~Provoked Thought: Proverbs 27:19 EASY

noreply@blogger.com (JOY @ http://joysjotsshots.blogspot.com/) — Sun, 03 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Fun Fri~ Grandmother's Flower Garden Keeps Growing

noreply@blogger.com (JOY @ http://joysjotsshots.blogspot.com/) — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:45:00 +0000

Sun Best~Provoked Thought: James 1:4 GNT

noreply@blogger.com (JOY @ http://joysjotsshots.blogspot.com/) — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Wordless Wed 426~ Getting Ready to Welcome New Great Grand Daughter

noreply@blogger.com (JOY @ http://joysjotsshots.blogspot.com/) — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Sun Best~Provoked Thought: 1 Samuel 17:45 NKJV

noreply@blogger.com (JOY @ http://joysjotsshots.blogspot.com/) — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Tues Tutorial Tip~ Hiding Pin Ends to Stop Stabbing

noreply@blogger.com (JOY @ http://joysjotsshots.blogspot.com/) — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:09:00 +0000

When binding a quilt,

I only use 1 pin ahead

to hold down the binding

as I hand stitch.

I got so tired of that

one pin stabbing me

when manipulating the quilt.

Here's the tip I use.

Bury the tip of the pin,

in between fabric layers.

Push the pin as far in as possible

(more than here)

so you don't accidentally

push it in further and still stab yourself.

It's saved me from a lot of

surprise stabbing.

Sun Best~Provoked Thought: Psalms 104:14 ASV

noreply@blogger.com (JOY @ http://joysjotsshots.blogspot.com/) — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Sun Best~Provoked Thought: Luke 24:8 NKJV

noreply@blogger.com (JOY @ http://joysjotsshots.blogspot.com/) — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:40:00 +0000

Sun Best~Provoked Thought: Genesis 32:28 NKJV

noreply@blogger.com (JOY @ http://joysjotsshots.blogspot.com/) — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:19:00 +0000

Fun Fri~Triangle Scarf w/ Border from Knitted Dish Cloth Pattern

noreply@blogger.com (JOY @ http://joysjotsshots.blogspot.com/) — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000

I have so enjoyed

knitting cotton dish clothes

during this past winter.

I started making them

for a house warming gift.

Then, as long as

I had the cotton yarn

I kept going.

Here's the simple pattern.

One day I was watching a You Tuber

making a triangle scarf.

The beginning stitches

seemed very complicated.

Realizing the beginning part of the

dish cloth was a triangle,

I wondered why a scarf

couldn't be that simple.

The dish cloth pattern

has a border I really like.

So I pulled out a soft yarn of a

spring color.

It does remind me of the "new"

Christmas green too.

So I started with the directions of the

dish cloth

through row 2

and just kept going.

Did not move on to Row 3.

I kept increasing and

got to where I had enough

to bind off.

This is what I had left.

Actually, I went a row to far

and had to undo a row

then bind off.

I have no idea

how many rows were knitted.

So there is a simple triangle scarf

with a border

knitting pattern for you.

Have fun.

Sun Best~Provoked Thought: Proverbs 13:15 ESV

noreply@blogger.com (JOY @ http://joysjotsshots.blogspot.com/) — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:06:00 +0000

Sun Best~Provoked Thought: James 2:17 ASV

noreply@blogger.com (JOY @ http://joysjotsshots.blogspot.com/) — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000