Looks like the squares should have gotten mixed up more, but it will do. Now on to the basting.
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Stash Report
Apparently it’s a good thing that I post about what I get done in my quilting, because I was convinced that the only thing I’ve been working on is the shirt backing and it’s still needs 4 more seams. But I made the Hardware top which I finished Monday night and I finished up 20 blocks to Sew Scrappy on Tuesday.
The big purchase this week was bobbins. I need the lavender and white ones for the quilts I’m quilting on the 26th and while I was at the store I picked up the bobbins the other quilt I’ll do on the long arm in November.
Fabric Added Since Last Report 0 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 193.198 yards
Fabric Used Since Last Report: 0.838 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 109.628 yards
INCREASE in Stash to Date: 82.672 yards
See how others are doing over at Patchwork Times.
TBT on Friday
Earlier this week I added the Flickr app to my smarter than me phone. I found all sorts of pictures dating back 2002 when I was still sewing garments and knitting. It also means I found the only picture I have of the quilt which gave me the Quilt Pox.
Oh sure, my first full size quilt was done back in 1980, and I made a couple of quilts as ‘model garments’ when I was working at Northwest Fabrics & Crafts in 1990-1991, but it wasn’t until I made Pastel Pinwheels for my nephew that I the Quilt Pox took hold.
The pattern is from Quilt it for Kids for 2000. I thought it was a great pattern and collected pastel flanels to make it, but back then I thought you needed to know where a quilt was headed before you could start it. — I’ve gotten over that. Anyway, the pattern and fabric sat until my nephew was born and then I went shopping for additional fabric.
I started the quilt on 7/28/2003 and finished it 8/2/2003.
Linking up to Throwback Thursday over at Krista Quilts.
Backing Progress
Watched the baseball game instead of quilting — Go Royals!
Sew Scrappy Challenge Quilt
Last week I decided to set aside Tuesdays between now and Thanksgiving to work on my Sew Scrappy quilt as part of Jo’s “finish a UFO before Bonnie’s mystery quilt starts challenge”. What I didn’t know was that I would decide a quilt toward the bottom of my Crazy Challenge II list would get bumped to the top and I forgot I was attending a school concert.
I squeezed in 20 minutes of quilting just on Sew Scrappy between the end of my work day and leaving for the concert, attaching the modified flying to 20 of the blocks and 20 cornerstones.
When we got home, I spent another 30 minutes or so and finished up the blocks. I now have all 40 of these blocks done and need to make 38 of the 2nd block.
The 2nd block will take a bit longer to make as I only have the strip sets made.
Hop over to Jo’s Country Junction to see how others are doing on their projects. My goal for the rest of the week is to get the 2 Disappearing 9-patch quilts basted. Have to finish a quilt back first.
Gracie’s Progress
Gracie (and Butterscotch) came to live with us just over a year ago — September 27th to be exact. It’s only been in the last month or so that anyone besides my husband or I have seen Gracie except in pictures. Someone knocks on the door or rings the bell and she’s off under the bed and we won’t see her for a while.
Late August friends started coming over for music lessons from my husband. These days, Gracie is out and about in 5 or 10 minutes after they leave. Of course now that I think about it, that is around time for me to feed the cats.
Last week our friends were with my husband at one end of the house for their music lesson and I was at the other end working. I turned around and saw that Gracie was on my quilt. Usually Butterscotch takes up residence on the sewing table. Then it hit me. Gracie wasn’t under the bed and there were people in the house!
As our friends were leaving, I spotted Gracie by the back window. I motioned for the youngest to come peer over the back of the chair, but Gracie ran through the kitchen and around the corner then stopped. She spotted us through the open doorway. So, we had a staring contest for a few moments – she looking at us and we looking at her. It was a cool moment given that she spent the first month or so hiding under our bed even from us.
Hardware
Why is it the simplest of things take the longest?
A friend bought this fabric on a quilt retreat I think in April 2010. A year or so later while her sewing area was ‘under construction’ I got the fabric to quickly put it together. Here we are 5 1/2 years from the purchase.
The top didn’t take me long, but I guess I wasn’t looking forward to mitering the border. I found a solution – skip the miter. Of course it probably took just as long to do the 4 pieced blocks by the time I found enough fabric.
I think this quilt will get a shirting backing with blocks of the border fabric.
What’s On My Design Wall
This weekend I started working on the last shirting backing then I got distracted by a new quilt (it’s on the Crazy Challenge II list so it’s OK). I think I still would have been OK, if I had then focused on one or the other, instead I messed with both and didn’t get either finished. Since I’m setting aside Tuesday’s to work on Sew Scrappy, I’m not sure what I’m going to do today after work — finish piecing the last two blocks and put the border on the new quilt, finish piecing the backing, start cutting more squares from my shirts to make a quilt backing for the new quilt, or baste one of the Disappearing 9-Patch quilts. Perhaps a nap is in order.
I’ve got the last two blocks ready to stitch together, shirt squares at the ready and my tumbler L/Es handy.
See what others are working on by hopping over to Patchwork Times.
Stash Report
Another week where money was spent, but it didn’t include fabric. It’s was 8-cents. Well, it was 8-cents after I used my gift card. I bought a cone of my favorite grey piecing thread and a package of rotary blades both which will be here on Monday. In the meantime the little bit of piecing I’ve done has been done in whatever thread was handy.
On the fabric front, I get to count the backing, binding and pillowcase for my Sylvia’s Bridal Sampler Swap quilt. I’ve started piecing the last shirt back and hope to get the 2 Disappearing 9-patches basted this week. We’ll see how things go.
Fabric Added Since Last Report 0 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 193.198 yards
Fabric Used Since Last Report: 5.75 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 109.628 yards
INCREASE in Stash to Date: 83.51 yards
See how others are doing over at Patchwork Times.
Sylvia’s Bridal Sampler Swap Quilt is Done
This quilt is from the Sylvia’s Bridal Sampler Swap Blue & Brown Swap back in October 2009. Looking black through the blog, it seems I made my blocks that August and September, 6 of 5 different blocks, then I made 2 more after the swap to have enough to complete this layout. The blocks are from around the world – Australia, Canada, Ireland, The Netherlands, and the USA.
I made the setting blocks at a quilt retreat I went to in April 2012, but it still took me until that November to complete the top.
The backing is a braid/cable print that I picked up while on a quilt shop run at the retreat.
- Top Started: 8/4/2009
- Top Completed: 11/10/12
- Quilt Completed: 10/7/15
- Batting: Hobbs Tuscany 100% Bleached Cotton
- Thread: Cario-quilt 100% cotton #27407 Military Gold
- Quilted on my Husqvarna Quilt Designer
- Susie’s Magic Binding
- Measures 61″ x 76″ after washing
This quilt is on my list for the 4th Quarter Finish Along – I’m sending it to Aunt Marti for the UFO Parade. It’s also being sent in for the 2015 UFO Busting over at Field Trips in Fiber. It is part of the scope creep of the Crazy Challenge II which started August 15th.
