This past week I sat down and finished sewing the bits and pieces that have been piled on my desk and cutting table for the past month. I even managed to make 6 of the alternate blocks. Those are going slower because I’m putting up each individual unit on the wall, trying to ensure the colors are somewhat separated.
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It’s the graduation quilt – Eye Fooler. There’s not much more done on it since the March recap last week. But I think I have all the pieces done, except for the triangle in a square blocks which will have the border fabric in them.
That’s not to say they are ready to be sewn into blocks yet. I still need to take the small HST blocks and piece them into a 3″ unit and the flying geese still need paired up. But they are off the corner of my desk!
The next step is to finish what I can of the border blocks. If I remember correctly, I sewed the 4-patches to the wrong side of the triangle in a square block.
Now if I can stay focused. Graduation is in 40 days!
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Earlier this week while searching my stash for the Orca Bay backing, I found a bag with this pre-quilted panel and blanket binding. I was given it back after Christmas. So, I pulled it out and finished it. What was I stalling for? And the backing? I didn’t find it.
So, this evening more digging.
Look what I found!
My postage stamp blocks. I’ve been looking for them for at least a week, maybe longer as I have more pieces to add to the bag. I’m looking for a quilt a little over twice as big and I really think I was aiming for 4 times as big. Ask me again when I get it to 48″ x 60″, another 1520 squares away.
And the backing. I finally found it. So naturally I think I’m going to work on the graduation quilt. It’s needed in 7 weeks, and Orca Bay won’t be needed until it’s cold again in Atlanta.
This past week I’ve been playing with my stars. 10 new stars. As you can see Orca Bay is not yet sandwiched. I really need to do something about that this week. Or work on Eye Fooler. It’s still sitting on the corner of my desk.
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This past week I’ve been working on my stars. Star #99 still needs a few more pieces of background attached — then I’ve got to pick more star fabric.
So, this past weekend I started working on the Craigslist scraps – the ones I got back in October and whittled down to one crate. I’ve got them sorted by color or theme except for this last little bit in the crate.
There were piles covering all of my ironing board, but I had to make room for pressing. The blues have been pressed.
To clear the space, I moved the scraps to my treadle.
I hope to get through the scraps this week because I need to get back to the graduation quilt. I was reminded that there’s just two months until graduation.
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Here are this week’s stars. The turquoise stripe and the neutrals came from my stash. The rest from the Craigslist scraps.
This mess can only mean one thing. I’m digging for fabrics for my Star-A-Day quilt — the one that’s apparently going to take at least 2 years to piece if I don’t get a move on it. I’m digging through the scraps I got off Craigslist for the prints and my stash for the neutrals. fortunately I’m finding some neutrals in the scraps as well.
4 or 5 years ago I made this quilt top from Bonnie Hunter’s free pattern Star Struck. It measures 64″ x 80″. My intention was to eventually quilt it and bind it in either red or blue when I got that far. Last night I started packing up the quilt tops I’m sending to Vicki and I thought about this one. It’s too big for the purposes of Country School Quilters, but with the removal of 4 rows it’s about right — 48″ x 64″.
But now I have 32 “orphan blocks” and there’s room in the box for one more quilt top.
I dug through my neutral stash and made this ‘Boston Commons’ layout with the rest of the stars. – 3/4 of yard of fabric from my stash, no orphan blocks and two quilt tops for the quilters to give to the veteran’s hospital.
It’s a win all the way around.
UFO Count (Quilts in Progress + Tops to Be Quilted): 63 down from 69 January 1st.
As I mentioned late Saturday night, I’ve gotten distracted. Vicki at Field Trips in Fiber suggested sending smaller quilts (48″ x 60″) to her quilt club would be a win-win. A veteran’s hospital would get a quilt and the UFO count could be reduced. I checked my spreadsheet and found one quilt top which was waiting on borders, and I found two partial block sets.
From the block sets and a couple of orphan blocks, I made the quilt top pictured above. The 2nd quilt top is on the design wall waiting for the sashing.
As soon as I get these in the mail, I’ll cross them off my “To Be Quilted” list and reduce the number of my UFOs (“Quilts In Progress” + “To Be Quilted”) by three. Then it will be back to the graduation quilt.
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