Last night I finished my latest quilt top.  The one from this collection of fabrics.

There are several deadlines associated with it. The first one I met. Now to get it quilted so I can meet the second deadline.  But first I’ve got to figure out what to use for a backing.

J is for Jacob’s Ladder this month’s block of Dorothy Young’s alphabet block-of-the-month.  If you wish to quilt along, join the group by clicking on the “Join Now!” button.

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Last week I quilted Syd’s latest quilt — this time with butterflies.  Well, they sort of look like butterflies if you squint and are looking at the quilt right side up – but look at it from the side they look more like flowers.

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This morning I attended the Quilters Guild of Greater Kansas City‘s quit show.  The quilts were wonderful. No pictures since I didn’t take my camera.  They also had numerous vendors.

At one booth I found the Quiltsmart Cell phone Bag.  I bought a panel of the interfacing, came home and made the black and white with red lining.  It went together quickly.

Syd dug through my fabrics and came up with fabric for two. I think she plans to give them to her friends.

I promise I’ve been sewing — in fact I spent the vast majority of my vacation sitting at my sewing machine working on a test quilt using the fabrics I picked out last week. Ironically, what looked good in the picture of the fabrics is not looking so good in actuality. Perhaps when I get the borders on the quilt the green will pop a bit more.

But in the meantime, Syd got the borders on her quilt this past weekend. Rummaging through my stash, we found a lavender and this darker purple fabric. As you can see, she picked the darker purple – adventurous kid that she is. I love it. Now to find a backing and to quilt it. She wants it quilted in butterflies.

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I managed to get through half of my paper piecing before I made this mistake.

Every once in a while I have to do a bit of paper piecing. It’s not something I enjoy, but the precision is sometimes worth the effort. I’ve done all of the easy piecing for my deadline project and now it’s time to do the paper piecing. Since I need 80 units, I’ve been working on them in groups of about 10 or so.

Temporarily glue the brown to the paper, mark the first stitching line with a couple of pins, pin the gold in place and then when I have a stack, stitch, clip apart and trim.  It was going just fine, then I ended up with a stack of left over gold pieces. Since the gold pieces are cut in mirror image and yesterday I came up short, I thought I had either misplaced the pieces or cut them wrong. I set the stack aside and started chain piecing my units.

It was when I got to clipping them apart that I realized what had happened.

I pinned the sewing line — but I failed to then go back and pin the gold fabric in place.

Sheesh!

Well at least now it will be easier to figure out exactly where the gold goes.

Nothing has changed on my design wall from last week. There’s another block out, but I haven’t gotten to it yet. So, I’m showing you Sydney’s project. I’m so proud of her.  She took a sewing machine home last weekend and finished sewing the squares into rows and most of the rows together before coming back. Before she comes back I’m supposed to square up the quilt and cut the border fabric.

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Nothing like a deadline to throw the quilting room into chaos. All the floral fabric I was picking from for the Aiming for Accuracy Quilt-Along has been tossed into a box. A scrappy quilt with 4 colors is in the works. But I’m not feeling the gold/yellow now that I’ve got it home. It may be too bright.

If you don’t hear from me it’s because I’m working with these fabrics.

This week I did a bit more treadling – I think I have all but a handful of blocks completed, but I  ran out of bobbin thread. I wind my bobbins on my Genie since the treadle bobbin winder doesn’t work right. Only I had loaned the Genie out this week. It’s back, so I think I’m going to wind several bobbins.

Bottom line, there’s no stash out or in. But I did purchase a subscription to The Quilt Pattern Magazine a monthly on-line quilting magazine.

Anyway, my numbers haven’t changed in several weeks.  But, that may change – I have a couple of quilts I need to make that I don’t have fabric for in my stash and I’m considering going on a shop hop at the end of the week.

Fabric Added Since Last Report: 0 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 127.087 yards

Fabric Used Since Last Report:  0 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 75.212 yards

Net Used for the year -51.875 yards

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