L3 – 54-40 Or Fight
This block has a template for the background triangle, but I’m not a big template fan when there are other options. Quilt In A Day has a set of Triangle in a Square rulers which I use, but since this a a six inch block, they were too big.
Then I remembered. I have a set of Tri-Rec Tools. I don’t know when I picked these up or why, but they worked great for this block.
C2 – Wedding Ring I
I stumbled upon some ‘onion skin’ paper this weekend. It made a decent foundation paper.
I promised I worked on my DWR. I sewed the arcs to nine melon sections and added the corner stones to two of those. Then I quilted. Since this block was so easy, I pushed myself and kept working on it during the news and the first part of the Tonight Show.
Tomorrow I need to work on this week’s SBS BOW.
J7 – Pinwheel 2
I made this block a few weeks ago when I was picking the blocks I was willing to make for the Blue and Brown SBS swap. So, more time for me to work on my DWR this week
I’m still bringing in fabric from the pile my friend gave me. Last week it was 11.5 yards. I tell you it adds up fast.
On the other hand, I cut most of the remaining pieces for my DWR. I also made the weekly SBS block and the last of the SBS swap blocks. I used the top piece of fabric in those. It was just perfect.
Fabric Added this Week: 11.5 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 226.25 yards
Fabric Used this Week: 2.708 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 70.694 yards
Net Stash: +155.556 yards
Check out how others are doing over at Patchwork Times.
D-7 Robbing Peter to Pay Paul
There are many ways to do this block. I decided to piece mine.
J3 – Farmer’s Daughter
I’m cutting it close this week. Paper piecing is not something I necessarily enjoy, but it sure comes in handy when working with odd shapes. I drew the block in EQ6 and printed it off on Monday. Tonight I finally pulled it out to work on.
L6 – Steps to the Altar
All the sets are now done — and well ahead of the deadline. I need to make my labels and get them in the mail.
This block went together so much easier than the last one — none of those 1″ finished HST units. The brown fabric is some that came in last week from my friend. The blue with tiny dots was some I picked up to see if it matches a DWR I picked up at an estate sale (it doesn’t). Who knows when I picked up the background fabric.
Now to get this week’s BOW made!
G10 – Arizona
This is the fourth of the five block sets I’m making for the SBS swap. I needed to make 5 to swap and a 6th to keep for myself, but I ran out of the beige fabric. I’ll dig around in my stash to find something similar to finish my block — but not tonight. I haven’t made this week’s SBS BOW. I’ve got another 23 hours to get it done and turned in. But first I’m headed to bed.
Since it appears that listing my quilting goals here and on a large printout by my computer helped, I’m doing it again.
This is a relatively modest list this month. But I’m itching to start something new and I have several kits so that might happen as well. On the other hand I realized today that I have more quilt tops waiting to be quilted than I do quilts in various stages of progress, so maybe I can talk myself into quilting 2 quilts instead of starting something new.
