Not exactly on my design wall, but this is the quilt I’m working on this week. Yesterday I bought fabric for the backing. Tonight I’ll piece the back, sandwich the quilt and start the quilting.
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Yesterday I promised I’d show my progress on the Cream & Green Swap quilt. This is one of my quilts which is on several of my UFO challenge lists, including the New Year’s Eve UFO Challenge which Finn is hosting. This weekend I got about halfway through putting two rows together.
I still need to stitch down the seam allowance on the back, and then stitch in the ditch between the sashing and first row.
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Very little quilting was accomplished this weekend. After working all night Friday night/Saturday morning, I didn’t get going good until, well, I’m still not going good Sunday evening. I did get out of the house Saturday afternoon for the quilt show, then when I got home, we turned around (after a 2 hour nap on my part) and took my niece to dinner. Sunday we were out all day – church and then shopping — at a MALL. And I had new heels on. That’s a story for another time. Anyway, we finally got home about 3:30 and I put my feet up.
I worked some more on the on Double Wedding Ring, but I still have a melon, two arcs and the cornerstones and before I’ll be done with the 4th ring on the 5th row, with three more rings to get done before Wednesday. Check back Wednesday to see if I get it done.
Briefly I worked on the Cream & Green blocks — the first row is put together and I’ve got two blocks on the second row together, the backing just needs stitching down. Before long I’ll have to make a border decision.
When I bought the sashing and cornerstone fabric, I bought enough for borders and binding. I just don’t remember if I was planning on design #1 or design #2:
Option # 1
Option # 2
Both of these options makes the quilt a full size quilt. However, if I leave the borders off and just bind it in green, it will be twin size — not to mention I’ll have enough of the sashing fabric to make the body of pillow case (probably have enough to make the cuff if I go with a larger quilt).
Option # 3
This quilt doesn’t have a destination — yet — so I can’t use that as my guide. Right now I’m leaning toward no borders, but that may be because I’m tired. At least I don’t have to make that decision immediately.
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When I’ve not been working on the DWR or Cream & Green quilt, I’ve been sewing blocks into rows on Blue Ridge Beauty. The rows still need sewing together, but I think I’ll wait until I get all of the rows sewn. I ended up swapping two rows because I ended up with the same fabric next to each other when I got the last row on the wall. I think I’ve also spotted a flaw in the design with the center two blocks on the first row.
They are just like what we (my DH did the final layout in EQ7) had in EQ, but when I started to draw the quilt larger I was having a tough time extending the pattern. I think the top center two blocks is why. I’ll play with it more before I get to the last row.
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It’s something new — sort of . My Blue Ridge Beauty blocks which I started back in May in Bonnie Hunter’s class. I’m making this roughly twin size. I’m winging this as far as block placement goes. I’m starting at the top of my stack of blocks and sewing them according to my layout diagram I printed from EQ7.
This was my leader/ender project, so now it’s time for a new one. I’m leaning toward Color Play in Volume one of Sew Scrappy Better Homes and Gardens Creative Collection magazine. (I looked for a link on the BH&G website and couldn’t find one. This link is the first one that came up when I did a web search).
I’ve gotten as far as dumping my 2 1/2″ precut squares on the ironing board. I can’t decide if I want to let it be “anything goes” and just sew a lighter square to a darker square (probably the fastest way to get started) or pick a “theme”. The quilt in the magazine used green, red, yellow and blue prints, stripes and polka dots. Regardless of what I decide, I’ll have to buy the sashing and border fabric. I don’t have 3 1/2 yards of a “solid” in any color — well, maybe bright yellow, but I don’t think that’s the answer.
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Star Struck is hanging from my ‘design shelves’ today. There is a reason I only got 4 pairs of rows sewn together Saturday. See the rows hanging from the last hanger on the right? The top left star is blue — it should be red. I discovered this as I was hanging the rows up. So, instead of having to rip out a row of stars and sew them together the other way, I simply unpinned the other two rows. I can sew a row to either side of this pair and everything will be OK. Now when will I get to it is entirely another question.
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Last month week I made significant progress on the red stars. The blue ones have been done for a while. I still need to finish up another 20 red stars – just the center seam – so it won’t take long. But on the other hand since I’m doing my best to focus on the DWR, this might just take me all month.
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Today I’m deciding on the binding for the ‘Modern DP9″ baby quilt I threw together a couple of weeks ago. Yesterday I drove down to Rocking Chair Quilts and quilted it on their Handi-Quilter. I am thrilled with the way it came out. Here’s a picture of the back:
Now I have to decide on the binding. I have 3 choices from my stash:
My original intent was to use white — not that it makes a whole lot of sense as either a binding or on a baby quilt, but I like the concept of the “crispness” it would give to the quilt. The backing fabric I think is too pale, but it did send me off to my stash to search for some orange fabric which is where I came up with the pink/orange fabric. I’m not sure it’s right either. I guess I’ll dig some more through my stash, perhaps looking for a ‘pinker pink’ or a yellow. I only need 10″ WOF – but since most of my stash is FQ or smaller, my options will be limited.
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Today it’s the ironing board. I’m cutting the strips for my Fairy Frost Sunset. Since I read all of the directions and made a sample block, I know that I can cut the pieces more efficiently resulting in bonus blocks. Each strip set provides a 12 1/2 piece with a 45 degree cut, a 6 1/2″ piece with a 45 degree cut, a quarter square triangle and a 2 patch. I don’t think the 2-patches will play nicely with quarter square triangles, but I’ll cross that design challenge when I get there.
Today is the Guild mini-retreat and as I do for any retreat, I’ve over packed. This is a handwork retreat, so I’ve got my DWR. Also in my bag so I don’t get bored, is the red work I’ve been working on for 3 years – I think this block just needs a couple of snowflakes, my dragonflies and crayons and fabric to make yo-yos.
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There’s not much on my design wall this week. Since finishing Oklahoma Backroads I haven’t gotten going again. I did however pull out a new pattern I picked up called “A Mid-Winter’s Night” by Deb Eggers.
The pattern uses the Tri-Rec tools and the blocks are designed to finish at 9″.
But I have to make things difficult, so I tried making a block that finishes at 3″. I want to make a miniature quilt for the Guild auction in April. I’m not sure if I’ll make 8 more of these blocks, or go back to the pinwheels I made a few weeks ago (bottom right corner of picture).
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