Monday, January 18, 2021

For Christmas I gave Stacia and Deloise a little package of “postcards” – one for each month of the year. Each of the postcards was actually instructions for a miniature quilt. During out virtual retreat this past week we all made the January quilt. Although Stacia and Deloise finished theirs much earlier, I committed to finishing mine today.

I quilted the centre and corners of the project with my quilting rulers. I’m only on the first lesson for the first ruler but I was happy to be able to put it to use on something larger than a card.

Even after the limited quilting in the borders was done there was still a lot to do. I trimmed the edges and prepared the binding. Since I planned to hang the piece on the stairway up to my sewing room I added a sleeve. Finally I added a label.

After lunch I sat and stitched down the binding just so I could have it ready for today’s post.

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

After seeing some of the 12 Days photos Christy has sent me I’m not sure why I thought she might need some more placemats. But placemats are what she got, and at least they aren’t Christmas. I made these during an online stitching session with Stacia and Deloise.

Monday, December 28, 2020

Elizabeth saw a picture of a donation quilt I made and she really liked one of the fabrics because it reminded her of their eel. I didn’t have any extra of the fabric but after ordering from a couple of different shops I was able to get something that I thought would work.

Just in case the eel wasn’t what she really wanted, I put a fabric that I know she loves on the back.

The Guild held this class in 2019. Most of the participants made an oval rug but I thought a rectangular one would be easier. Most of the participants used lovely fabric already pre-cut into a jelly roll but I cut my own strips from some novelty fabric that wasn’t getting used up very fast.

I worked the entire class and I thought I had made good progress but when I opened the bin this week I sadly had only a few tubes made. Fortunately I had all the fabric strips and batting already cut so I could start sewing right away.

I was very surprised at how quickly it went together. Now that it’s done I’m wondering why it took me so long to get back to it.