Ready for a Trip!

 The Crumbs Surrounded  is almost ready for the quilter!

I worked on  it for a good long evening and got most of it ready, 

then started doing the rows. 

A bit of excessive  ambition at the start had 

me picking out the border around the corner stones. 

Since the grey sashing goes into the upper 

part of block, I had to a bit of reworking to make it all fit.  

Once I got a process 

in line, it went together well. 

I added the grey bits to the ends of 

the  pieced low volume beige sashing rectangles 

and it really started to come together!

 Now all it needs is the two center halves joined, 

and the side borders added. 

The outer edges of the border are

stay stitched.  All the seams at the 

edges tend to separate with  a bit of 

handling.  I know tighter stitching would

keep them together but picking that out is 

troublesome. 

This will go off to the quilter 

along with the larger 8s & 10s. 

There is not a lot of backing yardage 

in my stash so I will take 4 -1m+ bits

and join them up to make the back.

I did see a larger piece of yellow batik

in the stacks so that might become the 

main backing. There is not enough

grey remaining to bind this quilt but 

I have some other grey that could slip in 

to fill the gaps.  

It is complete!

The top finishes up at 85" x85".

There is  a nice sized stack of 

pieced 4 1/2"  x 9" strips so they 

will go together with the remaining 

crumb blocks to make a top of some sort. 

It should be interesting!

Stay safe and sew on!

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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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Jumping Onto a Spring Fling

 The deep, dark hole of YouTube videos a

Facebook links, has coerced me into jumping onto 

a Canadian scrap quilter's Spring Fling sew along.

I had a pleasant few evenings stitching up

even more low volume scraps strings and bits,

into sashing to to join other unknown 

components to complete a mystery.

Sew far I am only up to clue two, but it has used up

a considerable amount of scraps and bits.

Clue number two looks like a diagonal 

string block so it should be easy to stitch up.

The design wall has been cleared and 

currently holds the start of the

sashed crumb squares. They got off to a bit of a false start,

as the frame I used for the crumb squares was

a gray that turned out to be just too dark.

It has been replaced with a gray print 

that seems to be doing the trick.

I'm excited to get more crumb blocks

into a top!

This will end up hopefully using 16

of the scrap squares.

I found even more crumb squares 

when I was cleaning up last night!

My BB is coming up for some stitching and 

a quilt show so I need to make room for two!

Have a great week stitching!

Stay safe and sew on.

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