What a Week!

 

Well it's been a very busy week.

All the units for the sew long were completed.

They managed to get stitched up during

the visits with family,

a bit of yard work,

some sewing workroom cleaning,

and a lazy, rainy afternoon with small visitors.

We had a dinner out with one offspring.

a golf tournament with another,

cat care for a third, and the lazy rainy day

with the last. 

Looking back, it was quite productive week.

All the sew along units are done.

It turns out there are two blocks for this quilt, surprise!

Block A used the pinwheels,

and the blue peaky and spikes,

as well as a large stack of four patches!

A few sashing blocks were thrown in for good measure,

The small diagonal string units

finish up block A as cornerstones.

I did a lot of catching up over the past two weeks,

 and some of  the units I've been making,

went together nicely to create block B.

 There were some small challenging pieced kite blocks,

and even more peaky and spikes.

The center feature block is a

commonly used scrapbuster block,

a small square surrounded by strips.

Put them all together with a 

few inverted sashing blocks and 

they spell anything but mother.

Whoops!

There's still a few pieces left.

A complicated pieced diamond rectangle,

four solid blue squares, hourglass units and and some two inch

strips of accent fabric. There are also some sashing 

units and some diagonal squares. 

I think a pieced border was mentioned

 so unless I over-sewed a lot,

these should be the components to finish  off the top.

In the midst of all that, I won spool chicken!

I managed to sew up my block and 

still have a few inches left on my upper thread.

Tada!

I also got to experiment with a different layout

for those prize winning blocks from last week.

Very fun!

We even picked some early cherries.

Have a great week stitching!!

Stay safe and sew on. 

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8s & 10s Together!

 This adorable stashbuster was started a few weeks ago,

after a sample shown by a friend and 

a visit down the rabbit hole of Pinterest.

Here is the beginning of the project.

Strings of assorted sizes have collected over last a little while

and many have come in the door from other quilters.

I had a some enjoyable days stitching up 

lots and lots of strip sets. 

Sometimes, it feels good to just get the machine humming!

The strip sets were trimmed to roughly 11" in in length,

and exactly 8 1/4" in wide.

Then one and a half inch wide strips of the unifying colour, 

in this case black, were added to each side.

A final trim  to 10" X 10 " and the blocks are ready to assemble.

I made 57 blocks for each of the twin quilts I'm assembling,

Each quilt will be seven blocks wide by eight blocks long .

The twin a nice size and will make great gifts or donations.

Fortunately, or unfortunately I still have lots of strings left.

I ended up with enough strip sets and blocks to make

three twin size quilts! My gift closet will be a restocked!

Here we go! 

I'm at the joining phase. This stack is alternated in 

direction and should sew up quickly!

Stayed up late and here is the first top!

It finished at 67" x 77".

It is quite dramatic and gave me a few challenges

A few of the blocks were 10 1/4".

It sounds like a very small variance but it did add up.

I ended up fixing a few issues by getting out the ripper

and trimming off that extra quarter inch.

The next set of blocks will be verified before I start stitching.

Only two more tops to go!

Have a great week!