I'm on a roll! Did not post for three weeks, now I have 3 posts in a week. I had a productive quilt weekend. I attended local quilt shop BOM then had an actual sewing quilt guild meeting all on Saturday.
Sunday I decided that my scatter brain syndrome was actually caused by having 30+ quilt tops that need to be quilted. A large portion of those are bed size quilts. So, I decided to organize them to send some out for professional long arm machine quilting. Of course, the tops I wanted quilted were not the ones I made backs for in August. So, I sat down and made backs for the remaining 8 tops. Then I contacted 3 long armers and have 7 quilts I will distribute between them. I dropped off 3 yesterday, another 2 tomorrow, and 2 more next Tuesday. Now I feel a little better. This stint even caused me to put a quilt I had already basted in my sewing chair where I cannot ignore it. So, it's either sewing on the quilt or no sewing at all.
As I was working on a back for this quilt top that I pieced in April 2006. I noticed something very strange. Do you see it?
I have no idea how the blue strips got in the pink area. I didn't do it...did I. I thought that was very funny as I have this quilt posted on my website (
http://teaquilts.com/more_wips.htm ) and didn't notice it when I took the photo years ago.
My first thought was to leave it in the quilt as is. But that small amount of obsessive compulsive behavior that resides in me wouldn't let it be. I then went looking for the fabric I used for the stars but found I do not have any more in my stash.
Then I thought, if I remember correctly, I have one or two left over strings from piecing this quilt and the star points were already sewn on the strings. So, I went to my stash of strings left over from strip piecing, you know the stuff that a lot of people trash. Oh my, I have an excellent memory. After only a few minutes of looking, this is what I found.
So I made a hole in my quilt top like this.
And filled it in and now my quilt top looks like this -
Now I'll never be convinced to throw my scraps and extra pieced strips away. This one paid off big time!
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Type-u-later,
Tea in MO
http://www.teaquilts.com
As I was working on a back for this quilt top that I pieced in April 2006. I noticed something very strange. Do you see it?
Topsy Turvy Nine Patch. I still need to add three more rows. I just got tired to making half-square rectangles. Very graphic design that depicts movement. This pattern is by Judy Laquidara.
Friends & Fellows by Jessica Smith. My quilt group is working on this mystery. It's due at our December meeting. Still need to add the 3 borders suggested by the pattern. I really, really didn't want to at this is just a gigantic quilt! (Not really, just feels that way - its about 87" square when done.)
The Mock Log Cabin was a project we started for those who stayed overnight during the quilt show. As you can see, I haven't done much more.
I worked a bit more on my Scarecrow project, but ran out of black scraps that would work with this design. I decided to wait to complete it until I get more appropriate black scraps instead of out right cutting them from stash.
Then I realized my scrap box is out of control again. I had my scraps sorted by color. However, a crafter in one of my clubs gave me some scraps and then with everything I've been working on the last 6 months have just created two boxes of scraps that are not sorted. To make it worse, I can't sort them into my current system as it is just too much. So, I decided to make a few mock blocks of patterns that I can cut the scraps for. This is the first one, Pinwheels on Parade, by Pat Speth in More Nickel Quilts.
Emerald Forest from Batiks...Inspired by Bali will be an excellent way to use my batik scraps. I'm using my Accu Go Cutter to cut the strips. Will be all colors when completed.
