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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Slow Sunday Stitching

 I tried to stay focused this past week and work on getting my octagons finished. It is almost there. Just one more corner to add and it can be sewn together and put aside. I’m not 100% sure what I am going to tackle next. I should get out something that is already started and continue with finishing things. However, there is a squirrel that is loudly calling my name. It will use half hexagons and graduated colours. I have lots of Kona solids to use up that would work wonderfully with it. I also found some acrylic templates that I made back when we had our laser cutter. So I can hand piece them rather than needing to get papers for them. It’s a pattern called Inner City, found here. I’ll make a definitive decision about what I am going to do sometime this week. I’ll link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching

What We’re Working On

 Another productive day was spent yesterday at our Prayers and Squares group. We were all concentrating so hard that it was even uncharacteristically quiet in the room, aside from the hum of the sewing machines. Barbara finished the charm quilt she’s been working on. She is planning a skinny border in brown to completely finish it. Tammy has been working on sampler blocks from a kit. We finally laid out the finished blocks for a picture. The original design for these blocks was a queen sized quilt. We will be making 2 lap quilts from them. I finally finished sewing together the basket blocks that I’ve been working on during some of our Thursday sewing times. They will be getting a couple of borders. I brought it home with me in hopes of getting them sewn on sometime this week. Here at home this past week I finished the blue flying geese pinwheel blocks and got them sewn together and 2 borders added. It needed a third border in a dark blue, which I didn’t have here. We found one in the P&S fabric stash at the church and Elizabeth sewed it on. It may get layered next week. And finally, and best of all, we have 15 out of 16 blocks of Northern Wilderness Renewed finished. We will be heading out on a shopping trip next week to get the fabric for backing and sashing.

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