I’ve started sewing blocks into rows for the Green Disappearing 9-Patch. This is 1/4 of the blocks. Since Monday is a travel day for the Royals, there won’t be a baseball game to distract me after work and I could get this top finished. That is unless we end up going through the clutter in the basement, in which case I’ll carve out enough time to at least get this section done and the next one up on the wall.
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A little bit of progress. This is the stack of 3-patches for 13 of the big 9-patches. After I get these made, I still have 13 more to make. I think tonight I’ll listen to the ballgame instead of watching it on television and see if I can make any progress on this quilt.
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Truthfully? Nothing. But that’s because I finished the Red Disappearing 9-Patch late Friday night. Here’s a better picture than the one I posted Saturday morning. But have no fear, I’ve got my rotary cutter out. I’m wading back through my shirts, cutting 9″ squares to make backings for the DP9 quilts, tumblers for the leader ender challenge, tracing star points and trimming up the scraps to go into my pre-cut boxes.
When I started cutting for the backing, I thought I’d be lucky to empty half a box, but if I’ll go ahead and take care of scraps instead of folding them back into the box, who knows how much space I’ll have when I’m done.
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This is the 3rd section of the Red Disappearing 9-Patch. Those white squares are labels I pinned on the blocks to help me order them on the wall. I have the first two sections sewn together and hanging on my shelves.
As I look at the top hanging, it seems to give off a different vibe that many of my other quilts. This seems like a summer quilt – lightweight & cool. It reconfirms my desire to back it using more shirting fabric. Once I get the green one done, I’ll pull the shirts back out and piece backs for all three Disappearing 9-patches — although I may have enough backing fabric left from my DWR to do one back.
The quilting will be simple – 3 lines of cross hatching through the blocks going both ways – in red thread.
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Hey, hey. There’s a change on my design wall this week. Ok, not much of one, but I’m not using the same picture. Last week I took down the Sew Scrappy blocks as I made more progress on the Red Disappearing 9-Patch. Show me the progress you say?
Those 4 huge 9-patches will become 12 DP9 blocks. The stack in the top right corner are 52 blocks waiting to go up on the wall. I still have 10 more big 9-patches to sew together. Of course my wall is not big enough for the whole quilt – 11 x 13 blocks – so I’m not sure how I’m going to lay it out. May just sort the 4 matching blocks into 4 sections and make sure each section looks good.
I started the Tumbler leader/ender Challenge quilt on July 1st as well. I’ve repurposed the strips I had cut for Rectangle Wrangle to cut tumblers using my Dresden Plate ruler.
My tumblers are 2-1/2″ tall and so far I’ve got 12 pairs made. I want to be able to mix the colors up in the quilt and so far most the ones I’ve made are red. My guess is that after the first of the year I’ll start sewing them into rows once I have ton of pairs made. I need over 1100 tumblers for a small lap quilt and twice that many for twin. I have 24 sewn together.
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Don’t look now, but Star-A-Day # 112 & #113 have been completed. For those keeping score at home, I will not have the top done by August 31st/Sept 10th. I would have to make 3 1/2 stars a day and I don’t see that happening. But, I might get it in gear and get a few more stars done this month.
As for my design wall, nothing has changed — except 2 DP9 blocks have fallen off the wall. I have the next set of 13 9-patches stitched into rows, but have not managed to sew them into blocks yet. Perhaps this week.
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This past week I worked on two projects. The blocks at the top are for Sew Scrappy using my Kansas Troubles fabrics. There are another 20 of the blocks like the one at the bottom of the design wall which need the sashing and cornerstone added, then it will be time to make those 25-patches and get them sashed.
But Saturday evening I decided I needed something a bit more mindless to work on, so I pulled out the red Disappearing 9-patch. This is about 1/4 of the blocks, so they are not in the final order. Given the size of my design wall, I guess I’m going to have to work on this quilt in quarters. The quilt will be 11 blocks wide and I can only get 8 up on the wall.
Finally, I’ve been debating whether or not to join the 2015 Leader & Ender Challenge – Tumblers. I have a L&E project – my postage stamp quilt and I have plenty of pieces currently cut so I really don’t need a new project. However, aren’t these so cute? Maybe if I can find a quick and accurate way to cut them – preferably without buying a template.
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Well, actually, this was on the design wall at the retreat Friday night. It’s the small of the Disappearing 9-Patches. It does lay flat, but we here having trouble reaching high enough to pin it to the wall and it’s over the iron cord (It was only on the wall long enough to take the picture).
Now on my design wall here at home, I’ve put up the completed blocks from Sew Scrappy – an Evelyn Sloppy design from her 40 Fabulous Quick-Cut Quilts book.
This was the other quilt I worked on over the weekend. It doesn’t look like much, but I have lots of parts assembled – the modified flying geese were done previously.
This UFO has been hanging around for two years, but I want to finish it this year – hopefully get the top done this month and have it ready for quilting.
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I sometimes wonder what triggers my productivity. I started this quilt in April 2013. The flying geese like units I managed to knock out “quickly” and I started in on the 9-patches. I even took it to a quilt retreat that summer, but I can find no mention of me working on it since then until last week – although it’s been on the list of UFOs to finish for both 2014 and 2015.
Anyway, last week something was triggered and I’ve spent my sewing time working on the quilt top. It’s a similar feeling to when I finally was able to knock out Orca Bay – only this time, I’ve known all along who I’m giving the quilt to.
So, what have I accomplished. #1 figuring out where I left off. #2 sewing and cutting all of the strip sets for the 9-patches. Now I’m working on the strip sets for the 25-patches. I get up and press after I sew 10 strips. Hopefully this will keep me from getting stiff and it allows me to stitch another leader/ender. For the moment I’m using another part of the quilt as my leader/ender
Perhaps next week I’ll have a quilt top to show.
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My design wall hasn’t seen anything since I finished Eye Fooler. I’ve spent the past week cutting fabrics for not one, but 3 Disappearing 9-Patch quilts to work on at an upcoming retreat. I am happy to say that I’ve finished the cutting — that is the cutting before I start sewing. There’s more cutting after I sew a bit.
My shirt boxes were stuffed to the point there was absolutely no room for another cuff, let alone another shirt. Now that I’ve finished cutting my squares, I have half a box empty — out of 8.
There are three things left on my quilting list for May:
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