Two more blocks have been completed for my Sylvia’s Bridal Sampler — H9 Weathervane and M5 Ohio Star. I also made them up in brown and blue to go with my SBS Swap blocks. I’m itching to start assembling that quilt — of course I have to make the setting blocks, which requires a trip to the quilt shop for background fabric.
All of the quarter sections of Boxy Stars are complete. They will probably stay up on the wall for a week or two as I still need to finish this month UFO challenge. I need two more blue and brown Sylvia’s Bridal Sampler blocks for the layout I’ve picked, so I’ll make the two blocks twice this week — one pair in 30’s for my main SBS quilt and a pair for the swap quilt. I’ve also started piecing Grandma’s Favorite Compass from the Just Takes 2 quilt. I could be at it a while.
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All my in and out fabric this week is related to the Ocean Waves quilt. I finished the borders, cut the binding and then bought the backing. It’s not quite a wash.
Fabric Added Last Week: 2.5 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 13.083 yards
Fabric Used Last Week: 2.452 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 23.33 yards
Net Used for for year 10.247 yards
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Better picture later.
Friday night I finished up the center of Ocean Waves and wanted to start on the borders. It will have 3 borders — a 1 1/2″ turquoise border, a border of 3″ pinwheels and then a 6″ turquoise border. As much as I wanted to move forward, I must have realized I was too tired to measure and cut.
So I counted and sorted my HST squares for the border.
I decided I needed 42 more pinwheels to complete the border. I made the HST over the weekend and finished up the pinwheels Monday night.
Then I measured the quilt, assured myself a 1 1/2″ inner border was all that I needed and started sewing pinwheels together.
In the end, there were 26 extra pinwheels. Good thing I didn’t try to measure and cut — apparently I can’t even count when I’m tired.
Stop back later this week and I’ll should have a picture of the complete top.
Although it’s not my design wall, these are the last of the HST that need to be sewn into pinwheels for the border of the Ocean Wave quilt. I finished the center Friday night.
I should be focused on this quilt. I don’t need it until mid-May, but I wouldn’t mind having it done early. So what did I do most of the weekend? I played in EQ working on layouts for my Blue and Brown Sylvia’s Bridal Sampler Swap Blocks. I don’t have the blocks drawn yet — may not draw them, so here they are up on my design wall.
They are not in the order I’ll put them in the quilt, and I think I’ve decided to set them straight instead of on-point. I’m borrowing this layout from Trisha Chubb which was in the SBS book.
(Ignore the fact that I don’t have everything colored correctly, I’m too lazy to go back and fix it–again.)
The blocks will float inside of the chains. It’s easier to picture when the blocks are outlined.
The large center block and the cornerstones will be cut from my small stash of left over blue CW fabrics. Since my largest piece is only a FQ, I’ll make them scrappy. The brown chains will come from my barely larger brown CW stash — again I don’t think I have anything bigger than a FQ. It’s the background fabric I’ve got to figure out what to do. I’m pretty certain I want the same fabric throughout, and with the possible exception of some muslin bought years ago for testing dressmaking patterns or the Kona Snow I have in my 30’s box for my 30’s SBS quilt, I know I don’t have a length of fabric large enough. A trip to the quilt store will be required.
So, I guess I best get back to those pinwheels and finish up the Ocean Wave quilt — which will also need a backing the next time I’m out.
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More HST Squares for Ocean Waves — but I think I’m done now. I also am counting the background I cut for the group quilt I’m involved in and the blocks I made from my stash.
Fabric Added Last Week: 0 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 10.583 yards
Fabric Used Last Week: 1.463 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 20.878 yards
Net Used for 10.295 yards
This is the end of the first quarter of the year and as I look back to last year’s first quarter I see that I had used three times as much fabric. But the again by this time last year I had finished three quilts, two pillowcases and a pair of pajama pants. This year, I’ve only completed one quilt — but then my UFO challenge this year has been parts/pieces of a quilt instead of full quilts.
My purchases are within two yards of each other — and had I not started the JT2 quilt, my purchases would be about half of what they were this time last year. Bottom line. I’m happy with my usage over all.
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Last night the only thing I sewed, was the three seams to finish the center of the Ocean Waves quilt. Then I spent the rest of the evening figuring out how many more pinwheels I needed to make. This box contains hundreds of HST squares of the right size — the are “bonus” triangles from several quilts I’ve made over the past couple of years. When I started Ocean Waves I went through these and pulled everything I thought I could use. A few weeks back I went through the box pulling more HST to get more variety in my quilt, as I ended up with way more black HST than I wanted in the quilt. But last night I came up 42 pinwheels short, so it was back to the box.
I pulled more pink, gold, blue, red, purple and green to add to my mix and still didn’t have enough HST squares to make 42 pinwheels. So, I will be stitching a few more tonight. Perhaps tomorrow I’ll have a border for the quilt.
Now I’m off to measure to find out how many more pinwheels I need to make.
Since my usually Friday night plans aren’t happening this week, I’m going to spend the evening working on my Ocean Wave quilt. Three more seams and then I get to work on the border. I should be ready to quilt this top in no time.
