I stayed up too late to finish the embroidery on the 4th last border. Now final decisions need to be made on how I’m going to finish it so I can start quilting.
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There’s all sorts of stuff going on in my sewing area. Eeyore is still hanging there — well Piglet is. Eeyore is still to be done. The baby quilt is still in process, but no additional work has been done since I finished the embroidery on the second border. That’s Sydney’s red, black and white rail fence on the right. The backing fabric is laying over the DWR on the left.
So why haven’t I done more? Saturday I ran to Jo-Ann’s to pick up a spool of thread to bind this quilt for a friend.
I had a 40% and a 50% coupon, so I wandered around the store looking for something to buy – not really something I normally do. I end up using coupons on the two spools of thread – the green for the binding and a gray for piecing. Additionally I picked up another skein of black embroidery thread for the baby quilt and this:
This is a the X-Large Fiskars Hexagon punch. It measures 1″ across each edge. Needless to say, there is a not a junk mail card that hasn’t been punched. While I was at it, I cut a ton of hexagons from 2 1/2″ strips and put together a busy bag.
This bag was given to me a few years ago. Previously I had sewing/quilting notions in it, but then migrated to other solutions. It’s perfect for what I need now.
Left to right: the punched cards and a small bag of paper clips; cut hexagons; basted hexagons and a few clipped to cards. The next page is has a whole stack of neutral hexagons on one side of the page and the black embroidery thread for the baby quilt on the other side of the page. That’s where I’ll put the the next two borders once I get them traced off.
I have a few hexagons stitched together — I really need to nail down the pattern before I go too much further. On the right is a panel of Winter Wonderland – a long term project that I’ve been working on.
I also have the hexagon template in that sleeve – which I will probably pull out. In the next to last pocket just shoved willy nilly is the thread for the hexagons and the red work, scissors, nail file, needles, pens and who knows what else. The last pocket has the next to last block for the Christmas BOM and thread plus those applique flowers I did a couple of months ago.
Since everything is together it will be easy to grab and go. I don’t even have to worry about getting bored working on just one project – there’s 4 in this bag.
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Friday night was Stitch & Chat at the LQS. Normally I would take my DWR, but I am in desperate need of finishing the baby quilt. I wonder how many notes I can stitch this evening?
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It’s been such a long time since I’ve done any sewing beyond piecing quilts, that it took me a week to figure out how to hem a prom dress. It needed a narrow hem – easy enough – but I couldn’t use heat on the material, so it was a challenge. Finally ended up using a super fine machine embroidery bobbin thread in the top and bottom to stitch each fold in place and then a slightly heavier thread for the final stitching.
After the dress, I decided to work on my Jared Takes A Wife top. I stitched all of the star points and now I can’t do anything else until I cut more fabric. The green is going to be the sashing and the inner star points. There will be a narrow pink border between the sashing and the outer paisley border.
Before I do any more on JTAW, I’m going to finish the music baby quilt.
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After finishing the embroidery on first border, I discovered that I didn’t get it centered. I’m considering this border treatment. Although the embroidery, which looks good by itself nearly fades away when put next to the quilt. So who knows what I’ll really do.
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There is a lot going on these days. Just barely showing behind the black & gold is Eeyore, pinned up so I can work on the black & gold quilt. I still need to finish the borders and then it will be on to the quilting. I have a cool idea for the quilting in the border (which my husband loves) so I hope I can pull it off. That bit of cream on the right is from the 2 color binding.
The baby’s parents are musicians, so isn’t this the perfect fabric for the backing?
I’m going to have to do some piecing as I only have a 2 yard piece and there is a 10″ and a 5″ square cut out of it. I really like the gold with it and I bought more than I needed, so maybe there’s enough.
While I was piecing the quilt, I managed to make 40 + 4-patches for my Jared Takes A Wife. For the record, they were already paired up into 2-patches. I think I have 10 more left to make.
I’m still cutting fabrics, but that’s OK. My goal is to finish it by the end of April.
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I’d love to say this is on my design wall, but I seem to be in a slump – that happens when I finish up a project, and in the last month I’ve finished 3 quilts. I’ve been doing a bit of reading and I have finished the shawl. I’m ready to do some more quilting. I would have raced to the LQS Saturday to buy fabric for this quilt if I hadn’t decided I needed more sleep.
It’s small 44″ square and I know I don’t have any gold fabric in my stash and don’t think I want to make it scrappy. Very unlike me. On the other hand, this is what I’m planning for the backing:
Cut 10″ squares.
So, on Saturday as I head out to a few LQS with my friend, I now know what I’m looking for. I do so much better when I have a plan.
As for my slump, it’s time to pull Eeyore out of the box. Perhaps after I get off work this afternoon.
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Friday night and all day Saturday, I attended a local PhD retreat — Projects Half Done — sponsored by a local quilt shop. In keeping with the theme of Projects Half Done and to work on this year’s UFO list, I took my Orca Bay to work on.
No, I did not do all of that this past weekend. I just those purple string triangles that I have stacked up in a square. Yesterday I took stock of what I had done before packing the project away for another retreat. I was afraid that I had more star blocks to make, but it turns out I have nearly 70 +/- QST extra units. Whew!
So, now I have completed all of the clues up through 6. In clue # 7, I have 4 more black & white triangle units to make and I need to cut neutral triangles for the border. The box has not been put back on the shelf, so I may go ahead and cut the remaining pieces so it will be ready to go for the next retreat.
The shamrock is either a wall hanging or the first block of a new quilt – I haven’t decided yet. It was made as part of the fun and games at the retreat.
Next week, I hope to show progress on Eeyore, but we’ll see. I’ve started the border on the shawl….
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This past week I finished both Deadline III and Baby Deadline III. It will be some time before I can reveal the quilts.
The month started with 4 definite goals and a bonus goal. So far I’ve met two of those goals. There are only 5 days left in the month. I best get in gear. And somewhere along the way, I need to figure out what I’m going to take to the PhD (Project Half Done) retreat Friday and Saturday — that is if it still works out that I can go. It may come down to the wire before I know for certain.
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The quilt is on the zippers and I’m ready to quilt it on Wednesday. In the meantime, I dug out the fabrics I’m planning on using on this month’s Alphabet BOM. I also re-evaluated the yellow batik I have and decided it would work on the flowers. The yellow is just glued in place – I haven’t stitched it yet.
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