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HST

Quilting
Finished Size: 58″ x 66.5″

The Guild had a demonstration on a new technique for making half-square triangles (HSTs). I wasn’t able to attend the demo and when I tried it out on my own I couldn’t “get it”. In the meantime I had a number of squares cut for HSTs so I stitched them up the traditional way.

I chose a pattern from the book Patchwork Essentials: The Half-Square Triangle (Jeni Baker) but one day I was reading a blog I follow (maryquilts.com) and she had a setting for HSTs that I liked better. I more or less combined the two patterns into something of my own.

This project was both my April and May UFO Challenge and once I decided on the setting it went together quite quickly.

I did some straight-line quilting along with some stitch-in-the-ditch. I’ve always wanted to try quilting e’s and l’s and intended to do that for this quilt. I started out with the e’s and found my mind didn’t switch easily to the l’s so it ended up being only e’s.

I debated whether the quilt was good enough to donate as a Community Quilt but I have decided that’s where it will go.


Rail Fence

Quilting
Finished Size: 50″ x 57″

My records show that I started this in 2017 and considering this was a Leader and Ender project I didn’t do too badly. Of course my records are not always accurate.

My original plan called for a lot more blocks. The blocks finish at 3″ so it would have taken forever to follow through on that plan. This project was my UFO Challenge for May so I began taking the completed blocks to my Thursday sewing sessions and it moved along quickly.

I put a black border around the centre but I wasn’t happy with it, and neither was one of my Thursday people. We came up with the plan to add the red flange and all of a sudden I really liked it.

I did some straight-line quilting on the blocks and used one of my “fancy” stitches in the black borders.

The quilt was intended as a Community Quilt but, like so many scrap quilts, the fabrics meant much more to me than they would to anyone else so I’ve decided to keep it.

UPDATE: This quilt went to Kathryn

I’ll adjust

Journal

Monday, August 12, 2019

My holiday is over. Pat and I both came back to Powell River this morning. Although I’m not completely unpacked I managed to find and pack enough projects to take to sewing tomorrow. I made a collection call on behalf of the Hall (never a fun conversation), got a package sent off in the mail, did a drop at the thrift store and stopped at the recycle depot. We also got our garbage and recycle bins out to the curb to be picked up. Pat made a run to the bottle depot and shopped for some badly-needed groceries.

I thoroughly enjoyed my time on Texada, although I didn’t get as much accomplished as I thought I would – but then I seldom do. There were no long afternoons in the hammock – the sun didn’t cooperate as much as I would have liked – but I managed to get quite a bit of reading done. Some of that reading was proofing Pat’s manuscript; it was easier to read from the book than it was to read online.

I did some quilting but most of my workshop time was spent sandwiching quilts. I’m amazed at how many quilt tops were done and waiting for this step. I have three finishes that I will get up on the website tomorrow. I also worked on some cross stitch, my knitting, and my embroidery. No wonder I didn’t want to come back.

I will eventually adjust. The mornings will be filled with cars, trucks and buses making their way up the hill rather than the call of the loons. The evenings will be filled with people walking up the hill from the bar or down the hill from Seven-Eleven rather than the hoot of the owls.

I can’t wait to get back

Journal

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

I came across on the ferry late yesterday afternoon. I originally intended to come back this morning but that meant setting the alarm and getting up early so I decided to make the trip yesterday.

I had a nice day at sewing. I worked on a couple of September cards and then moved on to a couple of Splendid Sampler blocks. When I pulled out the first package I realized I had brought the Splendid Sampler book but my package was for a block in the Splendid Sampler 2 book. I had another package that I was able to figure out how to make the block but I did some cutting wrong so only got about half of it done. Next up was a paper-pieced project and that went smoothly.

After sewing I had the usual amount of running around to do. My first stop was the Hall; renovations are underway and you can see things taking shape. After the Hall I made a trip to the Library and then to the bank to make a deposit. I picked up a few groceries and have been working at my computer since I got home.

I’ll be heading back to Texada on the 6:00 PM ferry and I expect to be there for another week.