In the past two weeks I have not worked on my tulip wall hanging (fabric from my sister arrived on the Tuesday after my last blog post) or my block of the month bed quilt. I had to get ready for guild. I managed to get the fabric cut out for six pillow & bags to go to the Cancer Clinic here in Orillia. We spent the last part of the meeting getting lots of bags & pillows sewn. Four of my pillows are done, but I still have two more plus all the bags to do. I promised them for the next meeting. This also meant that I didn't get last years charity quilt blocks sewn together. That I managed to do today. It took me over two hours this morning to get them squared up and ready to sew. The sewing I started right after lunch and finished around five PM.
This is the one I had to sew all the blocks together after squaring them up.
This one had four rows completed, so I just had to sew on the top row. I think that I will quilt one of these and see if I can talk someone else into doing the other one. I really want to get back to my own projects. We also learned how to make a new square, from two 10" squares of fabric. Mine is the orange one and I have four others that got completed at guild. We have asked that they all be completed for next month. We will have a draw & the winner gets all the blocks. This will go nicely with our Christmas in June theme, as some lucky person will receive over twenty completed blocks, all colour coordinated, as the colours are all from one "layer cake" package (10" x 10" squares precut), with all the white on white fabric the same. They work out to be about 12" square.
These blocks haven't been trimmed yet, but it gives you an idea of what they look like.
It has been a busy weekend with gardening Friday and Saturday, a bit of housework on Sunday and then sewing on the holiday Monday. I don't know how I managed to read all of Dan Brown's new book that I just purchased Thursday night. I didn't even start it until Friday night as I was determined to finish "The Historian" first. I also managed to get the first four rows of my afghan sewn together while watching the final matches of the Italian Open Tennis from Rome. Now you know the truth of why I was not more productive in the past two week in my quilt studio! I will take a picture of the afghan when it is finished! I probably won't have anything to show you next week, as I will be away to my sister's Friday & Saturday and then have a date with my youngest daughter on Sunday, to pick up some annual flowers to add a bit more colour to my perennial gardens. It should be safe to plant them outside by then. Have a great couple of weeks and enjoy whatever you are up to!
This is the one I had to sew all the blocks together after squaring them up.
This one had four rows completed, so I just had to sew on the top row. I think that I will quilt one of these and see if I can talk someone else into doing the other one. I really want to get back to my own projects. We also learned how to make a new square, from two 10" squares of fabric. Mine is the orange one and I have four others that got completed at guild. We have asked that they all be completed for next month. We will have a draw & the winner gets all the blocks. This will go nicely with our Christmas in June theme, as some lucky person will receive over twenty completed blocks, all colour coordinated, as the colours are all from one "layer cake" package (10" x 10" squares precut), with all the white on white fabric the same. They work out to be about 12" square.
These blocks haven't been trimmed yet, but it gives you an idea of what they look like.
It has been a busy weekend with gardening Friday and Saturday, a bit of housework on Sunday and then sewing on the holiday Monday. I don't know how I managed to read all of Dan Brown's new book that I just purchased Thursday night. I didn't even start it until Friday night as I was determined to finish "The Historian" first. I also managed to get the first four rows of my afghan sewn together while watching the final matches of the Italian Open Tennis from Rome. Now you know the truth of why I was not more productive in the past two week in my quilt studio! I will take a picture of the afghan when it is finished! I probably won't have anything to show you next week, as I will be away to my sister's Friday & Saturday and then have a date with my youngest daughter on Sunday, to pick up some annual flowers to add a bit more colour to my perennial gardens. It should be safe to plant them outside by then. Have a great couple of weeks and enjoy whatever you are up to!
