Monday, April 12, 2021

Take me to your leader!

 Finally! The Aliens flimsy is finished. 

Not sure what the final name will be

but it turned out well. 

The hints of wheel colors in the border

pull it together and the grey seems to be very unifying.





The little corner spider webs couldn't be cuter!





A few learning/reminders 

during the finishing of this top. 

first reminder~ Press press press. 

The pressing on the blocks and borders 

really assisted in helping achieve a flat top 

second reminder~ measure the center to fit the borders.




Measuring and fitting the borders to 

the top makes the quilt body nice and square. 

Any additional borders go on like a

 breeze if the quilt body is all squared up. 



learning~all my flimsies have the edges 

stay stitched.  The seams open up while 

marinating if they are not secured. 

This time , the feed dogs were pulling on the 

seam edges and they were being pulled 

open and stitched down. Argh!

The solution was to stitch with the seams up 

and with the body of the quilt completely in 

the machine throat. 



The 1/4" foot blade

pressed the seam down and the stitching 

was perfect without bunching or pulling!



This was a great quilt to make and 

looks nothing like the original inspiration!


Stay safe and sew on!


Update ! 

This is now quilted and spent a month on 

the bed in celebration.  Aliens almost went 

out the door as a retirement gift but the

alien them appealed to inner space nut too 

much and it just had to become a member of my 

Cozy Collection.


Linking up with :

Design Wall Monday


Patchwork and Quilting


Monday Making!


Wednesday Wait Loss


Midweek Makers


Stitch, sew and Show!


Can I get a Whoop Whoop!

Oh Scrap!











To do #4

 My to do list from last week 

~ Chose  joining blocks for spiderweb ~X
Done and dusted! The Aliens quilt is finished!




Definitely got a good finish!

~Trim square dance blocks~

~Plan and assemble a few cobblestone blocks ~X


But I got distracted by blues. Looked in my 



Block bank and found 26 - 16 patch blocks !



They turned in to this!


and now this!
The center is together!




So this week's list is :

~Finish up Blues for Baby  quilt~

~More Cobblestone block and scrap taming~

~Trim square dance blocks~

~Finish planning 2 bluesy quilts for the teal ladies~

Sounds like I have a busy week planned!

I should add " Stay focused"!

I think this Blues for Baby is going to 
one of those drop everything
and make projects, I couldn't resist 
the call of the sixteen!

Stay safe and sew on !