Card Shuffle Progress

 I went to pick up the next batch of Kona Solids from the subscription I’ve signed up for. This was number 5 out of 6. So I was able to do a few more colour combinations for Card Shuffle. It is past the halfway point now and there are a few more combinations that can go into further rows. I also pulled out the paper pieced blocks for Circle of Friends, which was a block of the month put out by Carol Doak in 2024. I’m working on this one as a quilt as I go project, since it will end up too big to quilt all at once on my domestic machine. Each block has eight quadrants. I’m doing a very simple straight line 1/4 inch away from the seams of each quadrant. I’ve been playing in the Electric Quilt software for a layout and I think I have finalized what I am doing. This is what I’m aiming for. I wanted something different from the usual 12 block sampler sets. 

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Slow Sunday Stitching

 I devoted a lot of time this past week to working on our Grand-daughter’s Christmas stocking. Another day or two should get it to the front of the stocking being finished. There are 2 more gingerbread people to make. After that, I’ll need to sew it to a backing piece of felt and then get a backing and lining for it so that it can become a functional stocking, ready to be filled. I’ve also done a few more of the Inner City blocks. I have no idea how many of these I will finally make, but I’m enjoying the process. I had originally thought that I’d just use solids for this, but I’ve changed my mind a bit. If it works with the theme of light , medium and dark within a colour range, I’ll use it. I’m finding the stitching these without the English Paper Piecing shapes is much easier on my hands. It is also much faster. 

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What We Are Working On

 We had a couple of quilt top finishes yesterday at our Prayers and Squares group. Janet finished putting borders on this lovely quilt made out of sherbet type colours. I put a couple of borders onto a quilt I’ve been working on here at home in a vain attempt to use up the blue fabrics. There are still some left. But I decided to take the leftovers from all the leftovers to the church and store them there. I’m awfully tired of using nothing but blue, so I brought some reds home instead. Barbara decided to get a bit adventurous in doing the quilting on her quilt. So she was using some frixon pens to mark curved quilting lines. And finally, Sharon was able to finish her block for our Northern Wilderness Renewed fundraiser quilt. This makes all 16 blocks now finished. Let the quilting of them, quilt as you go style, commence.

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A New Start

 I’ve had to put my Card Shuffle quilt into pause while I wait for the next delivery of the Kona Solids subscription I’m in to give a new variety of colour combinations. In the meantime on the weekend, I started a new project, to no one’s great surprise. This one is called Capistrano and is a design by Judy Martin found in her Stellar Quilts book. It has lots of construction challenges, from inset seams to partial seams. I love a challenge, so it’s lots of fun.

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Slow Sunday Stitching

 I have done very little slow stitching this past week. Just enough to say I did start that new project called Inner City, no surprises there. The challenge has been getting the fabrics sorted into like fabrics ranging from very light to very dark. I finally did that yesterday and cut the pieces for the mint green to dark green. I stitched up one green piece and one peach piece and started in on another in greens. But when I wasn’t paying attention and therefore stitched it wrong late last evening I decided to call it quits. I’m not using papers, but instead I’m drawing the sewing lines on the wrong side of the fabric. No removing stubborn papers due to not using the paper piecing glue because I’m too cheap and lazy to buy more. I’ve been making do with Elmers school glue sticks, but it is fiddly to apply and difficult to get the papers out.

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What We’re Working On

 We had a few finishes yesterday at Prayers and Squares. And in between layering quilts I was able to lay out some finished blocks to start in on getting the top done. The basket quilt I’ve been working on got its borders. And it was layered as well. Janet has been working on a Carpenters Star quilt for the past couple of months. She says she is done with doing triangles for a long time. But it is lovely and worth it. This one was layered as well. And then the blocks I was talking about are the log cabin blocks I was working on at home a while back. I have no place to lay them out here at home, so we move a room divider and covered it with a flannel sheet and converted it into a design wall. I managed to sew 2 rows together yesterday. I’m hoping to get the last 4 rows done in the next week or 2.

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Card Shuffle Progress.

 I worked on my Judy Martin design Card Shuffle, from her book Stellar Quilts, this past weekend. I got quite a big chunk of it done. It is almost halfway finished. I might put it aside for a bit and wait for my next batch of Kona cottons from the subscription I’m in. My lovely husband acted as quilt holder. I’ve run out of floor space to lay it out. I need a greater variety of colours, so this one is going back into the waiting box. I have lots of greens and lots of blues, but I don’t want too many repeats in it. I can see from looking at it that it could use more red. And I have a rust and gold set aside for it as well. Until I get the new colours, I may get out my paper pieced Circle of Friends this coming weekend and start the quilting. 

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