Family Day Fun

 Here in Canada we have a newer holiday

called Family day.  We contact distant 

family and spend time with those 

nearby.  It is a great time midwinter 

to delight in the joy of belonging!

We connected with 3 of 4 offspring sets

and really enjoyed the day!

The quilt vault is getting crowded and there 

are occasions that need to be noted so a bunch of 

backs need to be stitched up pronto!

I  pulled out fabrics and started cutting

20" squares.  A grid of 5 x 5 gives a 

nice sized 100" back. Unfortunately,

I had one of those evenings where my 

color sense failed me and I ended up 

with an incohesive mess, so back to 

the drawing board. Here is my

pile of rejects!

Refocusing and some thought later and I now 

have one complete back and 2 more stacks

of 25 squares ready to stitch.

Learning from the the failure:

pick saturated colors, avoid large 

novelty prints and if I like it , use it!

A weekend pinning party should get 

at least 2 flimsies pinned up for 

quilting in March. 

The pile of teals for February , had 

me sewing up some 25 patches for the block bank. 

They match size-wise with a goodly 

pile of wonky stars I have. 

I see another top ready to create in there!

Of course with the backs being pulled out, 

I want to finish up another top. The center 

portion for the APQ sew along has been 

in the vault since last summer. 

Like many UFOs I have, it was missing some 

blocks. It appears I failed to cut the strips 

for the border! 

 A dedicated few hours of 

cutting and two zoom meetings stitching, 

has only netted enough border for one side!

It is a doozy of a top tho! I did expand 

the border by a few inches to make it more

suitable for the modern trend of king sized 

beds. After a morning walk it will be 

back to the mat to cut/trim out some 

additional border strips. Some of the 

reject pile will make perfect additions to the border!

I have a wonderful quilt card at a local shop for 

longarm quilting and used it to finish up 

my Aliens Have Landed quilt!

This quilt finishes up at a comfortable 84" X 85" 

and will soon be gifted out for a house warming gift. 

It does have one of my favorite border treatments, a 

great piano key. 

I am still amazed that I had this much grey fabric!

This quilt was inspired by a magazine article

but looks entirely different than the design. 

I rarely follow directions but I do play well with others!

The corner treatment worked very well and 

almost designed itself from leftover bits. 

It should look wonderful in its new modern home!

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