Quilting it Up!

There is quilting happening at the Quiltville PO!

It feels so good to see this top finally becoming a real quilt.  The blocks were started last year – they were kind of an “on again, off again” thing.  It was a travel project for a while – grabbing bits of hotel room sewing time while teaching on the road.

When we really hunkered down to do the last of the big jobs at Quiltville Inn, these blocks languished. They were also pushed aside during the time our Frolic Mystery became my main focus.  It’s understandable. Some projects just do that – fluctuate in and out of productivity mode.

The biggest job yesterday was pulling yardage sized pieces of lesser loved fabrics and piecing a back that wouldn’t look “TOO TERRIBLE” with the scrappiness of the blocks in the quilt top.

Oh, these are some doozies.  And I laughed and giggled all the way.

Fess up if you have ever had this – or even used it?

Bouquets and bunches – kind of floral-y, but also very directional.  I can’t see this being in a quilt front at all.  Maybe kitchen curtains?  Circa - any ideas?  There were 2 yards of this gorgeous stuff.  Better on the back than on the front!

A Debbie Mumm kind of check print is also down at the end.

The stuff I am using up is more in the “What color is it really?” category.  The kind of fabric that just doesn’t cut up into small pieces well.  It’s not that anything is wrong with the fabric (besides the fact that it rates high on the ugly scale! LOL!) but it just doesn’t work with the scale of piecing that I like to do.

Approximately 7 yards of "Meh" went into the backing for this quilt yesterday, and I am doing the happy dance of quilty joy.

50 years from now – ALL the fabric will be outdated and “ugly.”  Or would the proper description be “charming?”

No one is going to care that it was “current” at the time I used it.  I am bound and determined to keep making raucously weird backings for my scrap quilts in the future.

This fabric can’t just hang around any longer waiting for a better opportunity to use it.

I made it to about half-way -

Let’s see if I can finish up the rest today!

Impeding my binding production!

Dresden!

Japanese Daiwabo yard dye.

I was thinking of a scrappy binding, but I had this piece of  grey woven that will be perfect as binding.  I’m not crazy with the fabric as it has somewhat of a wobbly hand.  It looks great on the front – but those large “trail over” threads on the back catch on everything and pull the design on the front out of whack.

It, too, will be out of the stash and gone!

The block pattern for Jack’s Delight is found in the current March/April issue of Quiltmaker Magazine – in my Addicted to Scraps column!  I set the blocks with simple sashings and cornerstones, but you can choose whatever layout you like best.

You have a chance of WINNING that issue along with a selection of other goodies – Drawing to happen TOMORROW, so get your entry in ON THAT POST.

The making of the Sugar Loaf blocks continues.  This obsession now has a stack of 21 blocks set machine-side. I don’t even know how I am going to set them – I am just making them. Like potato chips – one after the other.

Dentist appointment this afternoon– basketball game at Oak Hill Academy vs Franklin Prep of Charlotte NC this evening.

What do you have in store for your Wednesday ahead?

Quiltville Quote of the Day -

Vintage double wedding ring quilt found in North Carolina.

Take a good hard look at the things that are stopping you.

Are there valid reasons? Or just excuses?

Remember even a little bit of progress is moving forward.

Have a wonderful Wednesday!