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

Someone once suggested that when you cut the corners off a Snowball block you should keep them to make something, so as not to waste the fabric. When I made my Eye-Spy quilt I did that exact thing and this is the result.

I will never do it again – some scraps are just scraps and should be used to stuff a dog pillow.

If I ever find someone to give the Eye-Spy quilt to, I’ll add this as a play mat.

I’m not sure how long ago I started this runner but I know it’s been at least three years. This was a Guild class on Invisible Machine Appliqué taught by Susan Sharkey (from Texada).

My machine (Pearl) didn’t work well with the InvisiFil thread so I set it aside to finish on Ruby. Although the appliqué stitching worked better I didn’t care for the technique.

Why it took so long to get the quilting done I have no idea. I enjoyed the different stitches I used and once I got started it didn’t take long to finish.

This is the first project I completed in my new Texada studio.

When I was looking for a baby quilt for a friend I came across this pattern in a book I had bought from the Guild library. I had a number of kid’s novelty prints and thought this would work well with them.

I hadn’t really intended it as an eye-spy quilt but that is what the ladies at the Guild were calling it and who am I to argue?

The baby I originally intended it for is no longer a baby; I thought it would be a give-away but Pat has persuaded me to keep it as he expects there will be other babies in my future.