Make It Pink/Make It Blue - a Mini Finish!

September 29, 2017

I may not be working on anything big quite yet - but I'm moving right through the mini finishes these days!

This is for my InMod Quilt Guild's booth at the Spokane Quilt Show next month. Yes, I know I moved. And yes - I've even already joined a guild here! But my InMod guild will always be my first and favorite. {BTW, you can see our finished raffle quilt on InMod's blog. Let me know if you want to buy tickets!}

The challenge was a F8 of Kona Lipstick and a FQ of Kona Stone. We could add multiple shades of one color. I knew right away I wanted to make a deconstructed churn dash like the one by Quilty Habit, that I spotted in A Quilter's Table's newsletter over a year ago.

I sized it down to the required 20" and accidentally made it a shoofly block instead. I knew I wanted to add the little blue strips to the triangles, and it ended up looking better as a shoofly on paper.

I kept Quilty Habit's spiral quilting - and boy was that harder than it looks! My first stitches are quite a bit wobbly, and the back....

Let's just say I'm lazy about pin-basting minis. Lots of wobbles, lots of puckers, lots of "oops, I just quilted the backing onto itself." Thank goodness only the wall sees the mini backing! But yeah. Next time, more pinning.

It's a bit wonky, so I'm going to give it a good blocking before mailing it. And my guild knows me so well - as incentive to mail it, they promised to send it back in a box packed with scraps!

You can see a few more of the finishes here - so interesting to see what each of us does with the same fabrics!

20" square

BOMs Away - Celtic Solstice September

September 25, 2017

Now that things are settling into place in the sewing room, I have some space to pull out bigger projects. Celtic Solstice spans three WIP boxes, so it was a good project to work on this weekend.

I cut and sewed and trimmed and pressed and trimmed and sewed...and added three whole blocks to my stack! Sigh.

To be fair, I was using up the last block pieces and trying to decipher my notes on the cut sizes. Now that I'm caught up on all the random bits and can accurately count pieces, it'll be easier to keep track of things. I can cut the fabrics for a flying geese part and piece a few during the week, or the four patches in the other block, etc.

Only 21 blocks to go!

{Not counting the border. Sigh.}

How is everyone else doing on their BOM? Or a random project broken into {slightly} more manageable monthly pieces? Link up here or at What a Hoot!

Halloween Hexagon - A Mini Finish!

September 22, 2017

Just another little finish - as I find things while unpacking, I've been putting binding on them. Shocking, really, how that moves projects along! I had this sitting by the couch and the first Harry Potter movie borrowed from the library, so binding was easy and fun.

It's the same fabric as the table runner, made from the leftover 60º wedges. It's not quite a true hexagon, as the top and bottom are somewhat longer than the sides, but it's still a cute table topper!

Same orange backing, same black binding, same loopy quilting.

Same bad cat.

20x22"

BOMs Away! - Jack's Chain Orange

September 18, 2017

Whew. I think the worst is over, and I'm finally getting some real sewing time! By blatantly ignoring the mess behind me...I have until November to fit a longarm in that spot, after all!

So I dug out my orange scraps and the Jack's Chain box and made my little nine patches.

And that one on the bottom left? That's my favorite fabric ever, and that's my LAST PIECE. Well, I think there's maybe a couple strips of it in the 1.5" bag, but it's essentially gone. I cut the selvage off years ago, so I have no idea what it is. Sniff. Bye, pretty little orange fabric.

So did anyone else work on blocks of the month? Link up here or at What a Hoot!