A Scrappy Quilter: Color Me Low Volume

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Monday, August 18, 2025

Sew Along Time Stitching

The Sew Along is finished!

That means all the clues/steps are posted,

but I am not out of the woods yet.

I started stitching rows together.

There were a few false starts.

Twosies were stitched together then

one final block added. The last block

received another border piece.

Yes, I put the whole first row

together upside down, with the

left and top border treatment

turned around. Started picking,

then restarted.

All that picking and I still

ended up with a "What?" area.

Two border blocks together

since one block is turned.

I made it thru the blocks minus

the bottom row and placed them

on the design wall.

Can I say 'Holy Hannah, this thing is huge!"

I obviously missed the dimension talk

and happily sewed on, making a quilt

that would cover my entire family!

This is when I again noticed a block

just a little different and had to

do some rearranging.

I began to notice the size overwhelming

my design wall, so only 6 blocks made it into

each row. It is now 75" wide without

the 10" border added ( 1 1/2" + 3 1/2 " on each side)

and it is 84" long,

It should finish about 96" square complete,

which is a bit out of my comfort zone.

I do like the design and other than a few

too light browns, the first and secondary

patterns are wowzer!

Soo...I think I will make one more block,

then split the top into 2

using a 5 x 5 arrangement.

Each should be around 65" x 65" and

the pieced border will be added to the top

and bottom to step up the length.

That is the current plan.

Update.

Two tops ready for the pieced border.

Yay! More stitching to come later in the

week after guild planning and enjoying

beautiful summer weather.

We even listened to symphony in the park!

Look at that beautiful sky !

Stay safe and sew on !

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Monday, July 21, 2025

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.