.....between waiting for the new baby call (still waiting... we're just a few days overdue but with a late baby, we've all been prepped for weeks!)
...and being snowbound....
I've been sewing up a storm!
I had promised myself after the first week of the month, that I would work on projects already started... and I have ALMOST done that :-) But I wanted to share what I have been working on for the last couple of days. I'll get some pix before I post :-)
I wish I was the kind of person who could work on one thing.... and then say - voila! There you have it! Look what I completed!
But if you have been following me, you know that is not the way I work. And I do get a kick out of looking at the line-up as I pass through these sewing days...
So - here we go....
Writing-wise.. I completed my quilt stories! There is a new page on this blog with my Quilt Completions and the stories to go with them. I have a little story to go with each quilt that I have finished.... each quilt got a blog post... each year has a post with all the links.. and there is a page with links to each year. And here is a link to that page... Finished Quilts .Whew!
My first FINISH! for 2016... Sandcastle..... I still need a photo and will be able to post that story.
I quilted the second quilt in my stack - Toy Box - and it has made it to my handwork basket for embellishments.
El's Kitchen.... a quilt class from 2014.. it's been languishing for a year while I stopped to take the time to figure out how to do the borders. I have laid out the borders and applied a vine. And I prepared applique flowers for it.. drawing and applying fusible, cutting them out, etc. [I also spent a day drawing and preparing fusible for 2 other upcoming applique projects that I have set aside for now]
I changed from natural to white thread in my machine with the intention of working on quilting my next prepared quilt.. Snowball... but I don't have a proper set-up for quilting yet and it hurts my shoulders to do too much of it. So I moved on....
.. to my white quilt. One of my daughters expressed an interest in a white quilt.... and I have a log cabin in progress that is mostly white with very slight variations in ecru. I need 80-some blocks and am up to 35 now. A long-term project since I can't seem to work on one color for very long :-)
... and while I am piecing log cabin blocks..... I cut and prepared more churn dash blocks. I assembled one of those last week and it was too narrow. I had enough fabric to make another 8-10 blocks for both quilts and am preparing those at the same time. I have stitched all the HSTs for them in the last couple of days. About half are pressed and trimmed....
...... began the scrappy piecing on one of the Ireland Sampler blocks I began last year [20 1-inch 9-patches!]
..... started the Modern HST Sampler sponsored by Blossom Heart Quilts.
... worked on my orange scrappy 9-patch stars..
.... made hanging sleeves for 3 wall hangings and done the machine stitching on them.. They have now moved to the handwork basket.
.... while the handwork basket is increasing.....
......I stitched the binding on the Toy Box quilt..
......I finished my second Hawaiian applique (need to prepare both for hand quilting and start stitching the next one - I have two more cut and basted)
..... and am working on finishing a crochet afghan... did the blocks last year and am putting borders on the squares and stitching together...
So... lots done.... a little completed.... much moving along...
So.. today since there is too much snow to go to work.... and, as yet, no baby....
I plan to ..
......lay out the El's Kitchen applique flowers, press and fuse them on the 4 border pieces... perhaps begin the applique stitching (perhaps set aside and stitch on the other stuff)
.....cut the strips for the next 20 or so log cabin blocks and perhaps begin piecing
..... cut out the pieces for Block 2 of the HST sampler
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