What We’re Working On

 We had lots of finishes yesterday. Marg was the binding queen and managed to get 4 quilts bound. Obviously, we do them entirely by machine. Janet also bound one yesterday, for a total of 5 finishes in one afternoon. Yay us!!! I think I’ve posted pictures of these quilts before, but this is them in their finished glory. I also remembered to get a picture of the garden themed quilt that Tammy has been working on. It is so pretty that we are seriously considering adding this to our fundraising this summer. And here at home I was working on going through our stash of green fabrics and sewed up a bunch of exclamation mark blocks. I laid them out yesterday and started sewing the first batch of them together. There are enough to make 2 quilts. They are going to get white one inch finished sashing in between the rows and a white narrow border and a wider green border to finish them.

I’ll link up to finished, or not, Friday

Card Shuffle Progress

 About a year ago I joined a bi-monthly fabric club that gave a selection of Kona solids. I can’t remember exactly how many were in each bundle, at least 12 perhaps even 15. Anyhow, I decided then that I wanted to do a Judy Martin pattern out of her book Stellar Quilts called Card Shuffle. It’s a variation of the Card Trick block using star points in the blocks. I started this quilt a year ago, after receiving the first fat quarter bundle. I picked up the last bundle a week or so ago. I’d had to put the quilt on hold until I was able to get this bundle, and pick up a few additional colours to give a greater variety. Here’s where it was the last time I worked on it, back in November. Since then, I’ve gotten all the star sections made and have started adding more rows. After I finish that bottom corner there are still some borders to add. Then I can think about getting a backing for it and what I am going to do for quilting. I’ll likely do some very simple straight lines following the piecing. I want the stars and the colours to stand out rather than the quilting.

I’ll link up to Wednesday Wait Loss

Slow Sunday Stitching

 I’ve finished the bottom third of the Bear for The Year in the Woods series and have now moved to working on the middle section. I find it easier to keep track of where I am when I break it down into these sections. And somehow the amount left to stitch doesn’t feel as overwhelming when I can’t see the whole thing. I’ll link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching and then go find something to do, likely quilt related, to take my mind off the amount of snow that continues to come down. I am so past ready for winter to be done! Unfortunately, here in Muskoka, it often lasts well into April. We aren’t reliably frost free until the beginning of June....... sigh......

What We Are Working On

 I missed doing a post last week about our group. I didn’t have a lot of pictures to show and the afternoon was spent layering quilts. We did exactly the same thing yesterday. Between Janet and I, we layered 6 quilts. Our group has obviously been very busy. I actually have pictures to show today. Beverly has been up for a couple of weeks from her home in the States. They left green grass to come to Muskoka for snow and an episode of freezing rain leading to power outages. During her couple of weeks here she took home 4 quilts that needed binding and finished them. Janet has been working on this beautiful controlled scrappy quilt for a while now. Yesterday was its turn to be layered and quilted. It will be bound with the large scale floral that is in the blocks. Marg has been working on samplers lately. I think she is hooked on that style of quilt. She finished this one a few weeks ago and I finally got a picture of it. She already has another one started. I’ll link up to Finished, or not, Friday.

Slow Sunday Stitching

 I’ve been absent from the blogging world for a couple of weeks. I had a case of the crud with a nasty sore throat and just as nasty cough. But all is well now and I can get back to doing things I enjoy rather than vegetating in my recliner. I have gotten lots done on my next animal in The Year in the Woods series, the Bear. This one is a bit different than the others. The texturing is curves rather than the straighter lines on the rest that I’ve done, but I like it just as much. And I just discovered by looking at the picture of the finished piece along side what I’ve done that one of my colours is wrong. So there is some ripping to do on the bottom of one of the feet. It should be a light tan not a dark brown. As Winnie the Pooh would say, “Oh bother!” I must have labeled the floss bobbin wrong.

I’ll link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching.

Stay at Home Round Robin, prompt #5

 Last Wednesday’s prompt was “two colours to make anything you like”. That one didn’t take much thinking at all. I wanted something simple and also something in scale with what I’ve already done. That led me to the Simple Blocks library in Electric Quilt 8 where I chose Diagonal Strips to be done in 4 inch finished blocks, the same as the previous borders. I am running low on the colours I picked for this project. Ideally the blocks would have been aqua and orange, but I’m out of the orange, so I did aqua and yellow instead, alternating with aqua and white. It now measures 44 x 60 which is very close to the size I’m aiming for. Depending on what the next prompt is on Wednesday, I may declare this done by adding a couple of plain borders to it. I’ll link up with the rest of the round robin participants here.

Slow Sunday Stitching

 My goal from last week was to finish the stitching on the Ferret from The Year in the Woods and to start o the next set of three critters. I am happy to say that I met that goal. The ferret is finished. And the first section for the next set of three is gridded off and the Bear started. I haven’t much else to share at the moment, so I’ll link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching and return to my stitching.