With all my 'need to get done' projects finished for the year, I can breath and take focus of what plans need to be made for the New Year. To give my fingers some rest on the Hexie work, I decided I needed to visit a few projects that are in slow progress. One being the Postage Stamp blocks. I made a few more of the blocks using 1.5" squares and there are now nine completed.
Then I made a couple more of the 2.5" sq blocks to round these out to 12 blocks now hanging. Neither of these projects have made much of a dent in the scrap barrels.
Here they are side by side so you can see the difference in the look. These are the most popular quilts in the shop and I think I have just one left. But, these are to be worked on slowly and I am in no rush to re-stock inventory as now is the time to relax a bit.
This is another project sitting around waiting it's turn to be worked on. This is the last display board of pre-cut bits so I will work them up today. These blocks will wait for some larger projects to be finished so I have the scraps of 30's fabrics to add into this mix. Another quilt not to be rushed.
Thank you all for the well wishes on my neck pain - I found that the ThermaCare Heat Wraps are doing a better job than the heating pad; plus I am more mobile. We are into a sudden warm stretch with LOTS of rain and I think all of NYS is on flood alert. Good time to stay inside and sew the day away.
Sewingly Yours,
Sharon
There is a despirate need to sort thru the Civil War totes. Things are in a jumble and a few non-CW fabrics have floated into here. The easiest way is to just dump it all out and the slowly sift thru pulling color out, pressing, and then neatly folding/stacking back into the tote.
There is tote for the colors and a tote for the lights, which looks pretty much like 'mushy' medium browns/beige. I think I need to get some new light shirtings in the new year as well as come up with a plan for the mushy.
The reason for the gleening of the CW totes is I need these for the next step for the Temecula "Summer Scraps" quilt. 264 Broken Dishes blocks are going to take a long time and when I pulled out the project tote, I have very few finished or in stages. I have discovered in my cutting that I am suffering from 'Quilter's Neck/Shoulders' from the marathon of quilting. A few at a time will get done - slow and steady along with sessions with the heating pad.
I figured I could work on a small hand project while using the heating pad. I haven't worked on these 'tile' hexies for a couple of months. The Cheddar & Indigo project traveled all Spring and Summer, then sadly forgotten.
If I can get at least a few of the center rosettes done, the Cheddar can be done later. It will certainly travel again in 2019. I have another spindle of white thread waiting to be used. When they get down pretty far, I don't
like to use them on the machine as they 'skip' and shake your stitches. They get set into a box to be used for hand stitching only.
I finally have my car back from the garage - Mery Christmas to me. BUT, we are into the Artic Blast with extreme cold, winds, and snow. I don't go out in that. Today is to be better and Mom want's to get out, so a trip up the road to the Dollar Store and Valley Market are on the agenda. Once home I will get back to my slow progress. Slowing down seems like a good idea at this time.
Sewingly Yours,
Sharon
Something New is on the way. A very boring photo, but I thought I needed to get a jump on my project for the Black & White Hop. A step away from all the color I have been working with. There might even be a pattern and tutorial - something I haven't done in a long while.
The three 'Abundance' memory quilts laid out on the sofa in the Shop. Maybe you can catch that binding fabric - a 'border' print that I cut across so it looked more of a stripe. It was the perfect color blend match around those quilts without taking away from the pattern and flow of the design. The white was all pieces of Kona White from my scrap tote.
And the flip-side. The blue 'Queen Ann's Lace' print, the very pastel floral, and the black 'tile' print were the pieces saved for the backs and each quilt has them pieced into the back in a little different way (with one other print) so that each quilt has every one of the 32 pieces of fabric in them.
Sewingly Yours,
Sharon
I rarely work one project from start to end, so working three quilts from first cut to last stitch of a binding - that is pushing me. I really enjoyed working on these as the lovely prints and colors just worked so well with this two-block setting. BUT by the last few rows of 'cross-hatch' quilting, I was so ready for these to be done!
There were three pieces I set aside for backing and each back has these pieced in them. This wonderful border/row print was used for all of the bindings. Appropriate as it was the initial piece of fabric that all the other colors/prints were pulled from.
This gal was my challange mixed in with all of this - she LOVED the flannel (and the colors too I think). I had the worse time keeping her off anything in progess; especially when it came time for quilting. All that soft, cuddly goodness! She was scolded, shooed, swatted a few times, and even picked up and set on the time-out chair - hence the evil glare.
Hopefully the camera will be charged by tomorrow (I hate this new camera) so I can get photos of the three quilts in their finished state - and before the owner comes to pick them up.
I am ready for something NEW,
Sewingly Yours,
Sharon
