Update on baby Karter’s quilt

The quilt arrived in Belzoni and mom Dana opened it and was thrilled.  
She sent me a picture to share. 

Karter. Vance Hall

A finish!

Krater’s baby quilt !

An oldie I’m sending to John, Amber’s husband

The back of Krater’s quilt

 Another oldie I’m sending to Amber. 

First of all, I can’t believe I quilted anything. It’s been a long time. I feel much practice is needed, but it’s encouraging to do a quilt myself.  The pattern is one from Pat Sloan website. All the fabric came from my stash, which is awesome.

The two quilts I’m sending to newlyweds Amber and John, my great niece. They got wed at the Beginning of the Pandemic. I’m so happy for them..

Stay at home continued

The last quilt top finish is a Rainbow 🌈 top from a Pat Sloan sew along.  I needed a baby quilt and enjoyed doing this one.  I’ve been working on Circa 1800’, as well as log cabin blocks. 

Cleaning up the sewing room and dealing with scrapes is ongoing. A little at a time but I am seeing results.   Pat is now doing a Free Motion Quilt challenge to help get some of our quilts done. The challenge is great and one of the major parts is to quilt at least 10 minutes a day for practice.  So far I’m hanging in there with that, just missed yesterday so far.  More on that later. 

Stay at Home

I spent 10 months last year and the beginning of this year swapping 50 2.5 in blocks of uneven 9 patch in 1800's reproduction fabric with 9 other people.  In all over 500 of these little beauties.  I have now started to put them together.There are 25 odd rows with 25 blocks on point, then 24 even rows of blocks of 24.   

When I finish this is what it will look like.  I think it will be gorgeous.

 I am working on this a little at a time.  Two sides have the triangles sewn on then you put one after another on as suggested in the directions.  I started constructing 2 rows so I can do one after another.  Doing one at a time was really slow even though I was working log cabin block in between.  I have decided to dedicate one day to log cabin to make progress and another day to another project.

All this free time and such much to DO!

All this free time since social distancing, so much time at home.  Covid 19 has us all not doing our usual activities.  Mostly I miss my quilting and swimming friends.

On the other hand I have been working on things in my sewing room.  I've gotten addicted to Pat Slone and her daily videos.  She has inspired me to start dealing with my UFO's and finish some I was putting off finishing that are current projects.

Top finished with borders added  Bristle Creek Farmhouse

A UFO from Quilts Bayou Days, long gone.  An 18 Block quilt set on point.  I had done 5 applique' blocks and chose to stop there with too many other things to do.  

Up date on Circa 1800' quilt i've been working on this year   First odd row of 25 even/odd rows

Back from Retreat at River House

So enjoyed my retreat, really nice place.  The sewing was great until my Featherweight went out on me.  For a change I finished a top.   Also bought a new machine, a 215 Bernina.  Hopefully won't keep having trouble.

A Dixie Girls Swap

Progress on Leaders and enders

Friendship stars from a pattern by Lisa  of Primative Gathering

I figured out that I have so many leader and ender projects going, I needed to change some to Works in Progress instead.  I think the last count of L and E was 5.  I start too many things for fun, call them leaders and enders, but some don't need to be.

This one in particular is 9 triangles finished at one inch, then put together to make a nine patch.  Too much sewing to be called L and E.  So now this is called a project. I stared in 1800's' but soon started with scrapes.  The black is the only constant.  Oh, did I say the little blocks finish 3 inches?  This will take a while.