What We’re Working on

 We have ourselves a couple of finishes. The Pat Speth sampler I did towards the end of last year is now bound. And the Pat Speth pattern called Balancing Act is also bound and finished. There seems to be a focus on Pat Speth designs lately. I really enjoy her style and the fact that she puts out a new block at least once a week, if not more often. It’s a wonderful source for sampler quilts, which I also really enjoy doing. I have 8 blocks done towards the next sampler of 12. I am doing them quilt as I go, which is a great way to enable detailed quilting on the individual blocks which wouldn’t be possible without a long arm machine. I sold mine before we moved up to Muskoka. Sometimes I wish I still had it, but where we are living now there would have been no place to put it. And anyhow, I’m past being able to stand at it for long periods. But still there are days when it would have come in handy. I guess it’s a way to force me to learn new ways of doing things, like the quilt as I go techniques. Here’s the front of a block, and the back. I quite like the way it looks. My last Pat Speth design, for now, is Cross Creek, a quilt along that she hosted on her Facebook page, which is also where she posts all the new blocks. The quilting is finished and it is just waiting to have the binding sewn on. Marg at the Prayers and Squares group has been doing all the bindings. She says she’ll do this one next Thursday. Back in the summer we purchased some animal scene panels to use for giving away and also, hopefully, for some fund-raising this summer when the cottage and camping people return to our area. These will eventually turn into a pattern called Step Into Moonlight. It has a way to go yet. 

And finally, the starship enterprise is finished. One of our ladies is away on vacation. When she returns we are going to do some lessons in paper piecing and hopefully get the rest of this quilt under way. The patterns for this quilt will all come from the Fandom in Stitches Star Trek page.

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