Monday, July 3, 2023

Crazy times here!

 My black log cabin is gettin' a lot of stitchin'!

All the blocks are at the black border stage and 

I have finally figured out a process for them. 


First, after trimming the extra color strips, 

measure up and place an appropriate strip on the side. 




An assortment of the bordering strips seem to make it 

easier to bring the blocks up to size. 

Lining up all the pieces to be sewn makes 

the stitching faster and satisfies my need to 

see some organization in the mess!


There is still the occasion to piece on a bit of the 

edge but the only alternative is to cut a 5 x 9 in rectangle 

to fill in a sharply angled edge.  Both techniques are used 

in these blocks. 

The next step after all 2 sets of blocks are framed in black, 

will be to stitch up every nearby scrap of color into a 

variable width sashing.  This may present a problem as 

the art quilt that is shown in my pattern is much smaller and 

possibly has some fused or appliqued sashing! Forging 

ahead will be an adventure, wish me luck. I am going 

to make getting these all to the sashing stage my 

goal for July !  

Stay safe and sew on !

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First stash report of July !

Well look at me go, finally another finish!

 2023 STASH TOTALS

  Used last week:     22 m (2 queen finishes)

Used year to date:       51  m

                                      Scraps out               0 m    

                                   (1 bag=/.5 k=.5m)  

                                      Scraps In                  0  m

Added last week:        0 m

                                  Year to date:            52 m bolt 27m, bucket batiks 15m

Net added in 2023          5.5 meter


So my net fabric in is now a manageable size!


These two queen quilts really took a chunk out of 


my numbers!



Working on a selvage project will help move some more 

scraps out the door too, so I am well on my way to 

small numbers! I am planning on making July 

a quilting month to layer and quilt up the 

wealth of items in the vault!


Thirteen flimsies between here and 

spread around the sewing room need some finishing!

I will have to have a back making marathon soon!

Stay safe and sew on !

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