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Community Quilt (2015)

Quilting

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Yes, I fell way behind on finishing up my annual Community Quilt. This quilt was my Leader and Ender project for 2014-2015. I used a scrappy combination of one and a half inch squares for the 16-patches. Those patches were interspersed with scrappy brick blocks.

img_9674I originally pin-basted this over the island in the kitchen but it didn’t take me long to realize that this just wasn’t going to work. I had to remove all the pins (and folks at the Guild laugh at me for the large number of pins I use), tape the backing to the floor and get on my hands and knees to re-pin.

IMG_9753I used my ruler templates for the free motion quilting; this was my first attempt with the simplest of rulers – the 12″ Arc. Because of the size of the panels I wasn’t able to get a good overall design going so there were a lot of knots to be tied in and buried.

At the end of the day I had to use a fabric marker to cover up some of the blemishes on the back of the quilt.

Happy Birthday Will

Cards, Needlework

January 18, 2017

Will

 

Since the Thomas’s will be heading to Disneyland later this winter I wanted to make something Disney-ish as a card. I had lots of Disney Princess patterns but I had to pull this Pinocchio pattern from a Christmas in Disneyland booklet. It was the least Christmassy pattern I could find (and I left half of it off).

I love a day at home

Journal

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

I love having a day at home, and today was a day-long continuation of yesterday’s sewing bee. I have almost finished the borders for the centre medallion on my Celtic Crystals quilt and, hopefully, I will be ready to sew the individual blocks together tomorrow. That is if I have any time for sewing tomorrow.

I also managed to get the first block finished for my Bingo quilt – my leader and ender project for this year. I still have to quilt my project from last year and, as you will see in a day or so, I’ve only just finished my project from two years ago.

I finished my first book on the Kindle that I borrowed from the library. I’m not sure that I will purchase one, but I like reading from it. It would probably cost a fortune but one way to get books off our library shelves would be to purchase them on a Kindle and get rid of the hard copies. We aren’t that short of space just yet though so I don’t think I’ll follow that path. I will definitely borrow the Kindle again should I be taking a trip anywhere. It was hard to find a book on it that I really wanted to read but I’ve only flipped through half a dozen pages (of almost 40) in the contents.

I’m off now to see if I can get five more seams stitched before dinner.

 

Almost there

Journal

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

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As expected I took way more to do than I had time for at today’s bee. The blocks for the centre medallion of my quilt are finished but I didn’t have time to stitch the four of them together. This will be my sewing project for the week and I hope to have the top finished by the next bee.