What we are working on

 We have a bit of an inventory of finished quilts built up at our Prayers and Squares group, so we were able to focus on working on our fundraiser quilt for next year. It is a pattern called Northern Wilderness Renewed, found here. It is a lot of fun to work on, choosing fabrics and colours. We are trying to do colours that relate more to the Muskoka area of Ontario Canada, rather than the Alaska landscape that inspired the original quilt. This fusible appliqué technique is new to some of the ladies, so we had an opportunity for learning new things as well. We have 8 out of 16 blocks finished now. The 8th was finished at the very end of the day so I wasn’t able to get a photo of that one.

Here at home I finished the log cabin quilt blocks, but I don’t have the space here to lay them out so I don’t have a picture of them. After finishing those, I went I’ve digging through some scraps and bits of fabric here, looking for fat quarter sized bits to start cutting for a new quilt to work on. This will be the block. It can be done from one light and one dark fat quarter and will finish at 16 inches.I am planning fall colours to go with the current inspiration found outdoors all around us right now. I have enough cut to do 6 blocks now. Once I finish the basket quilt that I’m working on during our Prayers and Squares meetings, I’ll start sewing these stars. In the meantime I will go back to my blue flying geese pinwheel blocks here at home. I think I have 6 done and need 20. I don’t want it to turn into a UFO.

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