Here is the pieced backing
for my “Jelly Roll” Christmas quilt
(see prior post http://bonnieweighsin.blogspot.com/2011/07/another-top-done.html for details)
Also, please note that I have a new profile picture. My cousin took this picture and her husband kindly “photoshopped” it to remove the distracting background. Now, if he could just take some years off……..
Bonnie
Today I pulled out an old project and did a little stitching.
Christmas at Hawk Run Hollow – block #7
Finishing this block is now within reach. I might even get it finished before December. (I’ll leave the year open.)
Bonnie
This morning I finished another quilt top -
The idea came from Heirloom Creations Blog Jelly Roll 1600 Quilt. I did not have any Jelly Rolls, but I have plenty of 2-1/2” strips in my scraps. I was even able to stick with green, red and a couple of golds to make it a Christmas quilt. I don’t know if I will add borders or not, but I will piece together Christmas fabric scraps for the backing.
According to the above referenced blog, one lady did this quilt (after sewing all the strips together) in 35 minutes. Not me!!! The first seam took me one hour due to repeated thread breaks. The second seam took me a half hour, but then the rest went pretty quickly.
I have also seen this quilt idea done in batiks and scrappy (with spacers instead of joining at an angle) at Exuberantcolor.blogspot.com – scroll down to July 14th and July 12th.
It is amazing that I used 1600 inches of 2-1/2” scrap strips and yet my 2-1/2” drawer is still jammed full. I swear it mates and reproduces when I turn my back.
Bonnie
Finished – the top of this little quilt made from a charm pack – Moda’s Cherish Nature by Deb Strain.
Also put together a backing using the leftover squares that didn’t particularly appeal to me – large egg shapes.
As leaders and enders I have been putting together long strips of fabric for a new project, but after having endless problems with breaking thread, I am taking a break from that project until tomorrow.
Let me tell you, I taught that offending spool of thread a thing or two by flinging it across the room. “Take that, you nasty thread!”
Bonnie
Finished a scarf today. Black & white yarn with a silver metallic strand – Lang Wave – found in a bargain bin at a nice yarn shop for the amazing price of $1.00 per skein.
Unfortunately the picture does not do the yarn justice. The silver metallic strand does not show in a photograph and the black and white makes it look messy, however in person it looks pretty snazzy.
My cousin gave me this yarn for another scarf. The yarn is so decorative all on it’s own that all I have to do is knit and it looks lacy.
Knitting scarves on hot summer days reminds me that cooler weather will return some day. (I’m not a hot weather person!)
Once I got the binding done on friend Lindsay’s second quilt,
it was time to do something different. Since I had lunch with my friend Brenda the other day, I have been itching to start a new counted cross-stitch project.
I am thoroughly enjoying stitching this little piece – all in one color. Weeks Dye Works, Turkish Red , #2266.
After sitting for such a long time I decided to head downstairs to my cutting table and get going on another few blocks from The Farmer’s Wife – blocks 5 & 6.
Block #5 – looks easy, right? Not that many seams. Confident that I could whip this baby up in no time, I proceeded and made every mistake possible. Rip, rip, rip. Block #6 went together without any problems except that as with all the other blocks, they do not come out to 6-1/2 unfinished. Every single block is a smidge off from the other blocks. If (and that is a BIG IF) I ever get to the place of putting this quilt together, the sashing is going to be very important in squaring up the blocks accurately.
Back to my red stitching…………..
