Quilting

This is my big rainbow accomplishment for the week. All my strings went from big boxes labelled Neutral, Warm, & Cool, to these smaller bins. Now they are sorted into colors so I can easily find what I’m looking for & even though they’re not as cute as Angela’s baskets, I’m happy. Bring on the string projects!!! I also did a major overhaul of the closet now that I’ve been working from it for a year & know what I need to get to more often. Hard work, but nice fall cleaning.

Not much sewing this week as we were on a little trip for part of it. But I did get a few more stars done for my Breast Cancer quilt. Need 15 total as they alternate with some strip pieced blocks that need to be made. These are wild.

There was car sewing, however, as I worked on wool ornaments & finished binding Jamestown Landing by Bonnie Hunter.

It got a red rock photo shoot since I finished it on the way down. I got this pattern book for Mother’s Day & got going right away on this quilt. Now it’s done, which is fast for me to go from start to finish, as flimsies get caught in the TBQ pile, then the To Be Bound pile & often languish for quite a while.

Since this month is black, plus Cynthia announced the charity block drive for this quarter & it has black squares, I decided to just spend the week sewing as many as I could get done. It turned into 57! I thought it would use up these color chunks I have hanging around, but all those 5″ squares didn’t finish them off! Scraps forever! LOL

If you want to make some Jewel Box blocks, all the info is here: Block Drive-Jewel Box blocks.

Design wall mania! I’m all done with orange so this week was dedicated to working on a WIP: River Log Cabin by Amy Ellis. I got about half the blocks made from all the cut pieces that have been languishing in a box for more than a year. Also showing off is my progress on the blue & green 2024 Leader & Ender Challenge: County Clare blocks from Bonnie Hunter. In true L&E fashion, I’m just putting them together as I go & if the same blue ends up side by side, I’m not fussed. Since I hate sewing sashing & especially long rows of it, I’m sashing the blocks as I go, then sewing a row to the whole. Very satisfying.

I dug into my previously cut pile of 2.5″ squares to produce 4 rail fence blocks. These are fun sewing & I’m thinking about a quilt layout. Rainbow order or mixed up? Sew the 4 of each color into a block with sashing surrounding? Hmmm.

And the design wall at the end of the day Friday shows 8 wonky FPP Lori Holt hearts on the right in 2 shades of orange, with some blue & green 2024 Leader & Ender Challenge: County Clare blocks from Bonnie Hunter. On the left are Patchwork Hearts by Quilty Love. I made a plan at the beginning of the year of how I wanted the rainbow to flow down the quilt, so there are 3 coral, 2 peach, & 4 orange hearts this month, thus running the gamut of orange. The scrappy block on the far left is a test block of Ocean Waves from The Little Mushroom Cap using leftover HST’s trimmed into 2″ squares. I watched her class at the recent Scrap Summit & thought it would be a great way to slowly use up my piles of cut-off HST’s. I like it & think it will stick around. Look for a quilt in a couple years!

Tula Pink 100 Modern Quilt Blocks-Sliding Scale got to the flimsy stage this week & to the quilter, so I’m very, very happy to have another RSC2022 project almost done.

My orange scraps yielded four Split Nine Patches made of 2.5″ squares. I love the look of these & still haven’t decided how I’m going to lay out the quilt.

I finished the orange blocks for Sliding Scale & sewed all the blocks into rows. I need to cut & sew the grunge sashing to go between all the rows, but I’ve been enjoying looking at it on the design wall so haven’t been in a big hurry. And yes, my homemade design wall is too small, so painter’s tape is holding up the ends.

I got another RSC2022 project done this week! Shine is done & I’m very happy with it. Any quilt with the metallic ombre & an Irish Chain variation is a win!