What we are working on

 We had multiple projects come to a finish yesterday. We have found over the past few years that the quilts we have a hard time keeping up with are those that are needed by men, especially men who are/were very outdoors orientated. So we try to keep some outdoors themed quilts on hand. Most of the time, as soon as we have one of them done, it is gifted out. So our focus lately has been to get more of them done. We also have found that they are the ones that do well for selling as fund raisers. We finished 2 tops and their backings yesterday that will fit either of those uses.  We’ll get them layered next week. We have a couple more of these beautiful animal panels to do. The Star Trek quilt is fully finished, with a fun star themed binding. And then Janet found a partially finished baby quilt in our to-be-worked-on pile and added a couple of borders and then did the quilting to finish it. The borders took it from “meh” to wonderful.

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What we’re working on

 This is going to be a very quick post. I only have one photo, of the finished Star Trek top. we didn’t get a lot of sewing done yesterday. Almost as soon as w got to the church at about 1 pm yesterday, the power went out. Marg had a thermos of hot water and some tea brought from her house just down the street and we had a relaxing and fun tea time. When the power wasn’t back on by just before 3, we decided to call it quits and go home. And of course, that’s when the power came back on. In the time between 3 pm and 5:30 pm we layered 7 quilts. The backings all needed to be pressed which is why we couldn’t do them while the power was out.  Anyhow, here’s the Star Trek quilt.  It is one that was layered yesterday. I’ve brought it home and will get it quilted sometime this week. I’ll link up to Finished, or not, Friday

What we are working on

 I have 1 quilt top finish and 2 progress photos to share today. There are quite a few more that are so close. I hope to have photos of those next week. We are hoping to do a mammoth layering session next week. But for today there is this lovely piece that Janet finished on Thursday. The colours in the body of the quilt were chosen based on the colours in the border. And then I have a progress photo of the Star Trek quilt. It is one of those that I hope will be finished by Thursday. It just needs a few more borders added.

Over 10 years ago I started the McKenna Ryan quilt called Aurora Ridge. I pulled it out a couple of months ago and started back in on it. It is now all quilted, free motion on my domestic machine in a quilt as I go style, one block at a time. It is all sewn together now. There is a cover strip left to hand stitch down along the long crosswise seam on the back. And then it will get some borders. This is going to be used as a fund raiser for our Prayers and Squares group. 

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What We’re Working On

 We had the full complement of our Prayers and Squares ladies present yesterday, so it was a good time to finally do our demonstration of Foundation Paper Piecing. Janet, Barbara and Marg participated. And by the end of the day they had the letters for the Star Trek quilt finished. Pat worked on another quilt which isn’t far enough along for pictures. And Susan worked on the last of the fabric organizing. Sharon was there as well and also worked on a quilt, but no pictures of that one either. So far the finished pieces of the Star Trek quilt look like this. There is one more of the Alpha symbols to finish and then the whole thing can be put together. All of the paper pieced components of this quilt came from the website Fandom in Stitches. I’m hoping to have the top finished by next week so we can then get it layered and ready for quilting. Although thinking of it now, I’m not sure if we have anything that will work for backing. How sad..... We’ll need to go shopping... LOL. Something with stars on it seems like it would be good for it. 

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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.

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