Raising Cane is now finished. I sewed the binding on Wednesday night and popped it into the washer. This is another UFO I can cross off my list.
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Progress Report
It’s nearly complete. This is Raising Cane, a Dorothy Young mystery quilt from 2009. I started quilting it shortly after I got the longarm with no idea of where I was going with it. Then it got pulled off the frame to be completed later. Later was this weekend. Is it perfect? No. Is it done? Yes. Well, it still needs to be bound and washed, but that shouldn’t take that long. The binding is already made.
Also this weekend I attempted to make a reversible napkin with mitered corners. The instructions I started with made absolutely no sense to me, so I watched a couple of videos Finally figured it out. I have enough of the yellow left over from the backing of Raising Cane to make 6 napkins. The insides will all be different — whatever I can find in my stash. But nothing will happen until I put my sewing machine back together.
I noticed skipped stitches on the napkin, so I pulled the needle plate off the machine to clean it. When I put the last screw back in I realized I left the bobbin case out. So, I called it a night.
Raising Cane – A Dorothy Young Mystery Quilt
This morning I added the borders to Raising Cane.
Originally, I had a beautiful butterfly print for the border, but it just wasn’t working when I finished the center of the quilt. Then I remembered a stripe fabric I bought that didn’t work for it’s intended purpose. It was perfect. The top now sings.
While I was debating the border, I finished up Part 2 of Carolina Christmas.
Merry Christmas, Snow and Wind-Up for the Weekend Quilting
Merry Christmas!
A blizzard was predicted so instead of venturing out to my mom’s and brother’s for Christmas, my husband and I stayed home and called our families today. Looking out the front window the roads don’t seem too bad, but then I watched the weather report and last night’s storm is supposedly going to whip around and get us again.
We are considering ourselves snowed in (we could get out if we had to, but are choosing not to get out on the roads), I’m working on a couple of quilts. The pink, yellow, lavender and butterflies is Raising Cane, a Dorothy Young mystery. This is up through step 8 which is the last step posted so far. I have no idea where this is going and can’t wait to see the finished quilt.
The pink on the bottom right are my ‘bonus HST’. The dark fabric is what I’m using as my leader/ender project. They are for Oklahoma Backroads, a Bonnie Hunter quilt. I’ve got the 4-patches made and I’m 1/4 of the way through the ‘picket fence’ pieces.
Since I’m waiting on clues, I can either baste the music quilt together and start quilting it, or go back to Carolina Christmas. I finally decided that I really want to finish Carolina Christmas with the bright white instead of off white. So, I bought 6 yards of a bright white on white. I think it’s more than I need for this quilt, but since I only have the two pieces I’m saving for my redwork snowmen, I could use some WOW in my stash. I’d like to get both Carolina Christmas and Raising Cane to the top stage, so I’m leaning toward more piecing.
Tamara at tamara quilts is starting a Wind-up for the Weekend Mr. Linky to see what everyone is planing on working on over the weekend. I’m going to play along – of course it will be interesting to see what actually gets done because I’m a great one to plan one thing and do something else entirely.
I Must be Crazy
I just found out that Dorothy Young is doing a Christmas Mystery called Raising Cane. I’ve made several of her mystery quilts – Spring Breeze, Diamond Links and The Chain Event and have loved all of the quilts/tops. (Only have Spring Breeze Quilted). I’m in the middle of Carolina Christmas and I know everyone thinks I’m crazy with the list of quilting stuff I’d like to get done by the end of the month.
I must be crazy is the only explanation I have for why I’m even considering starting a new quilt before the end of the month.
