Quilter's Yoga!

Okay guys -

A bit of a short post today.  I overslept.  I need to be at the inn at 10am to start a Spanish Rose workshop with Debbie's Bitter Bees who arrived yesterday afternoon for their retreat.

It feels like being late for the first day of school.  Auuuuughhghhghh!

Anyway - here's a bit of what happened yesterday -

I began laying out the blocks for my off-center log cabin and sawtooth sashings project.  Finally!

I monkeyed around with layouts, left and right, turning and twisting and this is what I finally came up with:

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Ready to sew together!

But somehow I have two sashings left over?

Better too many than not enough?

Amazed (not not really) at how much things shrink when seam allowances are taken in.

As the sashings and blocks turn, I am not webbing this one.  I don't want to get off.  I am checking each and every row and piece to make sure that things are turned the right way before I sew the rows together.

I already had to unstitch two of the sashings because they got rotated somehow in th epick up stage.

This is going to take a while!

I got this far -
And not only did I oversleep this morning - but man, oh, man are my hamstrings feeling all of this laying out activity from yesterday!
As I was unstitching the ones I had sewn on wrong - I came up with a name I think fits.
This quilt has EVERYTHING in it. Going all the way back to the first fabric I bought when dating Hubster Dave in 1981. And as a newly married gal our first Christmas together.  And all through my boys' growing up years.
I'm calling this one ABUNDANCE because it came from the ABUNDANT scrap stash that holds so many dear memories.  And funny ones.  And the memories of harder times as we worked through them and came out the other end of the dark tunnel into the light in so many cases.
Abundance will be available as a PDF pattern perhaps late summer.  We'll see.
I have not decided on borders yet, but I do have some ideas. Hopefully that will use up some more of my burgeoning abundance.

Our Spanish Rose workshop will start with the hand applique in the center today.
Tomorrow we'll work on the string pieced borders (Even though the applique will still take a while to complete and not be completed while on retreat.) 
Saturday we'll work on triangles and checkerboards.
At least this is the plan!
What do you have going on for today?

In case you missed it - this happened and is on-going!

My Waterford PDF pattern is now available in the Quiltville Store with an automatic 25% introductory discount good through 3/31/25.

It was inspired by a tile floor I photographed on my last trip to Ireland, when we took our Craftours group to the Waterford Crystal showroom in Waterford.

Waterford measures 80'' X 80'', but is easily made smaller or larger just by changing the number of blocks.

And yes, there is a Gift-Away!

I'll be drawing for two winners who will each receive a Waterford PDF pattern from me and a Notable Neutrals fabric roll from our friends at  Cotton to Quilts 

Get your entry in on That Post!

We'll draw for those winners THIS SATURDAY 3/29/25. Whew!

Did you catch this from this post?

My friend Bruce Leonard's newest Hadley Carroll novel Quilt City: Safety Second is joining the line up of other fun quilty mystery titles, continuing the story of Hadley's adventures in Paducah Kentucky.

I'll be giving away 3 copies of Quilt City: Safety Second so head to that post and get your entry in.

I think that catches us up to now.

Quiltville Quote of the Day -

I would say on most days this fits! 

And then I get hit by a wave of Domesticity and need to clean all the things and cook something yummy. 

I'm glad that passes quickly!

Have a terrific Thursday, everyone!