This is what occupied most of my day yesterday.
All of the strips that were too short to go into blocks - all of the odd pieces of shirts that I could cut strips from where cut down and sewn into strip sets ready to be subcut for a checkerboard border.
Scrappy everything - very few neutrals (Just enough to add a spark) and every color in the bin.
There is something so satisfying with just simply putting pairs of strips through the machine, one short pair after another short pair - creating as much variety as I could so there was little chance that the same thing should end up next to the same thing in the border -
This is me in my happy place. Click to play:
This is the first photo I took with the new phone - and I'm so excited to see where the hoop is -
Baptist fans are worked from the outside edge of the quilt in toward the center, and I'm almost there!
So if I get the Ladder Star top finished - I can pull together a backing and get it basted up for my next hand quilting project.
This one is scheduled for PDF pattern release in May - so be watching for it!
As much as I love machine quilting - and I do - there is just something that fills me when it comes to slow hand quilting and spending more time with that quilt watching it reach a finish, one stitch at a time. (Or about 5 stitches at a time - what I can fit on my needle before I pull the thread through.)
There is room for ALL aspects of quilting. Do what brings YOU joy!
Today - I'm getting those borders on. Chiropractor at 3:30pm. Time with the retreaters at the inn.
Oh, and yesterday afternoon was so nice that I spent time on the back porch and listening to the peepers singing loudly in the creek. I enjoy them so much.
And I do believe I saw the yellow heads of daffodils beginning to open!
How about you? What's happening in your world this Friday at hand?
Quiltville Quote of the Day -
If only the sewing went this fast!
(Having fun playing with my new phone.)
After subcutting by Accuquilt Studio.
Stitching subcuts into pairs -
I pressed all of the seams in the strip sets one direction, so I could simply turn one unit around to nest seams.
Twosies!
Foursies!
And just need 4 nine-patches for cornerstones.
YEP! Just what the quilt center needed to stop the busy. But keep some busy. Just the way I like it!
Meanwhile at the Inn next door:
Indigo Way in yellow and blue coming together!
Tada!
Silk Path is nearly there!
The American Nurses Association is celebrating National Nurses Week 2024 May 6 - May 12, and throughout May.
This year's theme, "Nurses Make the Difference," honors the incredible nurses who embody the spirit of compassion and care in every health care setting.
These little mug rugs are a thank you to nurses!
Stars are so pretty in purple!
Lovely long table runner!
Indigo Way is also underway here!
Embrace the growing pains!
Garden Party quilt from the Addicted to Scraps book.
There are no growing pains in this quilt, only pure stitching pleasure.
Have you made one?
Have a fabulous Friday, everyone!
Our daffodils have already bloomed. I’m in Georgia. I wish I had your ideas and mind for quilts. You do an amazing job. I thoroughly enjoy your blog
ReplyDeleteThe Ladder quilt is definitely one I'll be doing! Have you named that quilt you're stitching yet? I glanced at it and saw belt buckles!
ReplyDeleteLove the new project coming together. Have fun with the new phone & all of the learning curves that go with it! Today is my last day on campus before starting with a new district after Spring Break!! I am looking forward to just slowing down a bit and getting in some major sewing time! Happy quilting! :)
ReplyDeleteYour plaid quilt comes at just the right time for me...had been collecting plaids from my husbands shirts for years. He died two years ago and I've finally reached the point where I'm ready to make them into a quilt and experience the memories those fabrics will bring up. He loved his blue plaids, so it will be predominately blue. Fran R.
ReplyDeleteEagerly awaiting May for the pattern hopefully by then I will have gathered a few more neutrals
ReplyDeleteMy Frday is going to be some embroidery work and hopefully some quilting later. We are in the middle of a blizzard with 5 inches of snow on the ground and more to come. Springtime in the Rockies! Before the snow I saw the green tips of my irises peeking through. It will be May before we see much green here. I wll enjoy yours. Please keep the pictures coming.
ReplyDeletePeepers are up in Maryland too- almost deafening along the c and o canal towpath
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