Last night I finished quilting a shop sample. So now I have 3 quilts to bind! On the white bench are the pillowcases I need to finish by 4/6. I would also like to finish the Disappearing Hourglass quilt by then as well. There should be enough time – if I don’t get distracted.
My Disappearing Hourglasses are ready to assemble. It turns out I only have 16 squares in the layer cake. Now I’ve cut 2 of them wrong. The first one I made a pinwheel, but didn’t notice until I cut it. That’s OK – I’ll just have one block that is not a star. However the 2nd block I miscut and I won’t be able to use. I guess I’m making a smaller quilt.
Meanwhile, my Riviana blocks continue to accumulate as leader/ender.
and I still need to bind Eclipse and Scrappy Bargello.
It’s late Thursday afternoon. I received a call Wednesday from my LQS asking me to cut more shop hop block kits, so that’s all I did yesterday, but prior to that I was working in my 2 1/2″ scraps. I contained my strips, then started in on my bricks and squares. I really thought I had a “ton” and needed to find a pattern to use them up. (No, I have not finished Scrappy Bargello).
After separating the squares from the rectangles it’s not as overwhelming, but none the less, I’ve found two patterns.
The first the potato chip block. All rectangles. I started pulling the light rectangles. I need 180 light rectangles and I only have 90. I’ve bagged them, putting them and the pattern in the box for later.
I regrouped, and looked at my squares. This is a take on a free Fat Quarter Shop table runner. I’ve pulled yardage for the background and stared sorting the squares by color. As I needed to clear the tables to work on the shop hop blocks, I have no idea if I have enough squares precut. For now, I’ve put the pattern in the box and the yardage back on the shelf.
Which brings me back to Scrappy Bargello. The shop hop blocks are kitted and will be taken to the shop in the morning, so this evening I plan on working on this quilt and continuing Rivianna as my leader/ender. Who knows, I might even get Eclipse bound this weekend.
First a Handwork Tuesday update. I stitched a few more hexies. I should have been working on my Star-A-Day. I still have a few days to get this month’s star completed.
No, I do not have the border on Eclipse. This is not hard, but I got distracted by the Disappearing Hourglass.
This year’s continuing segment is disappearing blocks. In February I presented the Disappearing Hourglass. My sample blocks used 6″ squares cut from scraps, but I have a 28-piece layer cake that I want to use.
I bought 2 1/2 yards of Grunge in Paper White to use for the background and an inner border and made my first block last night.
I followed the Missouri Star tutorial which mean all my edges are on the bias. I just have to be careful not to stretch the blocks when I’m handling them. This block came out at 11 1/2″.
My final report is that Riviana is being assembled. I made “thousands” of HST as my leader/ender project starting in August 2022. I can’t remember If I finished making them the end of 2023 or 2024. but I knew I had misplaced 60 HST. which put a damper on things. Apparently I’ve made extra HST, as still have enough to finish the quilt. So now I’m using the split 9-patches as my leader/ender. This could take a while.
Yesterday I was feeling good enough after my surgery the previous day to sew a bit. While working on the block on the bottom right I realized it was “Handwork Tuesday”, but decided to finish the block since my shows didn’t come on until 8 PM that’s when I discovered I sewed the block turning the wrong way. As for the handwork, I picked up the red work, looked at it and put it back down. I’ll try again next week.
It’s time for a nap, but afterwards, I’ll be ripping out the block to make it rotate the other way.
The truth of the matter, I haven’t even set up my sewing machine since I got home from New Orleans. It’s close enough to the end of the month that I’m revisiting this month’s goals and setting them for the rest of the year – subject to change of course.
This is where I was on the 14th.
Well, there’s been no additional progress, so lets put together a new list.
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We’ll see how far I get. I’d really like to have all the tops listed done by the end of the year, preferably quilted & bound. Will I make it? Time will tell.
It’s Wednesday and the 1st of the month so this will be a 2 for 1 post – What I’m Working On and the Stash Report.
First up binding. On the machine is Sheryl. The binding is attached to 2 sides. Waiting in the wings are Monterrey Medallions and Cascades. The binding for the last two are sewn together and need pressing.
I’m also trying to decide what fabric to use in the Twirling Leaves class I’m taking later this month through the Gulf States Quilt Association. I plan to pull from my stash and am leaning towards batiks. The question is a light background or a dark background.
I’m leaning towards the purple.
add 37.615
used 33.33
The Stash Report
Fabric Added Since Last Report: 37.615 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 232.057 yards
Fabric Used Since Last Report: 33.33 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 180.469 yards
Net Fabric Stash: 51.588 yards
I suppose I should also report on my September goals and list my October goals, but I’ll save that for another post.
First up in Monterrey Medallions. I took it off the frame and trimmed it just after midnight this morning. That makes 3 quilts ready to bind.
Here’s a picture of it on the frame. I love the backing I ultimately went with.
While it was quilting I worked on Windmill Weave. Apparently my math was not mathing when I was figuring out how wide to cut the strips. But on the bright side I think I’ll be able to get the backing from a single width of fabric. I think next time I’ll go with 1/2″ wider strips and a larger center block. I have a stack of white & print strips sewn together.
Cascades is a top!
It always amazes me how frequently I delay getting borders on a quilt, even when it is just “slab o’borders”. This quilt is 3rd in line to be quilted. I need to finish the quilt on the frame, then quilt my SILs Vintage Christmas Sampler, then I’ll be able to quilt this one. My deadline for this quilt is November 16th, so who knows what else may get worked in before then.
Saturday a new quilt shop opened in town called Delta Threadz. It’s their second location, the first is in Cleveland, Mississippi. I missed the grand opening Saturday, but ran over there yesterday for a few minutes. They are a Bernina Dealer, they don’t have a whole lot of fabric, but what they had was cute. My plan was to buy something, but I was given the hard sell on a sewing machine when I asked about repairing the little Bernette I picked up at an estate sale I left without buying anything. Later in the afternoon I ran over to Cotton Blossom which is about 1/2 mile further in the other direction from my house, simply because it’s been a while since I’ve been in there.
They had the new Tilda Christmas line by the front of the store. I love the soft colors and some of the fabrics could be used year round The price however, well, lets just say I won’t be buying any of that fabric anytime soon. I did find some red, white, and blue fabrics which spoke to me and picked up some half yard cuts — not that I need these at the moment.
Yesterday I finished the log cabin blocks, so I sorted the blocks correctly on my design wall. In the empty spaces there will be 2 strings of flying geese, some HSTs and 13 ornament blocks, plus some spacers.
I got as far as sewing the corners to the ornaments. Tonight I hope to finish these blocks, getting them sewn into the quilt as I can and work on the flying geese.
It’s possible I might just get this quilt done by the end of the month!
