A fairly productive week all around; the kitchen got painted, two quilts for charity got both tops and backs pieced. One is sandwiched, and once I get more batting I can sandwich the second one. I also had my class on feather quilting with Sharon Schamber (eee!), so I’m looking forward to practice some of that on one of the charity quilts.
I learned last week that the East Cobb Quilters Guild is doing a block drive for QoV, so I made a couple string blocks to contribute and have pieces cut for four pieced blocks to mail in.
Meanwhile, Nina has been expressing herself on my fat quarters.
- Used this Week: 3 yards
- 2 yd for accessory tote
- 0.5 yd for QoV string blocks
- 0.5 yd for practice FMQ sandwich
- Used year to Date: 215 yards
- Added this Week: 0.5 yards
- 0.5 yd of black Kona for future class with Esterita Austin
- Net Used for 2014: 141.25 yards
- YTD Used for Charity: 72.5 yards (34% of total used)
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P.S. - Bonus shot of Nina painting watching from the newly painted kitchen. Nina painting by me, bird on slate (just below Nina) painted by Grama Eddie.
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My kids are spending the week with my in-laws, so that means… well, not a ton of sewing. You’d think so, but I got a brilliant idea to paint my kitchen since I don’t really have to cook full meals for the entire family. So that’s what I’ve done.
There will be 5 columns of the focus fabric, and four pieced columns. This is the center, and the flanking columns use a slightly larger patchwork square.
One charity quilt finish this week, plus a pillow cover for my parents. I need to get the quilt out of the dryer (in the daylight) to take pictures of it, but in the mean time, here is a picture of the beanbag finish from last week. Yes, it looks like a lump. Or a beanbag.
I am surrounded by piles of cats in various states of laziness.
Exhibit B: Nina, atop a charity quilt that needs to be bound (and obviously washed to remove cat hair!). She has not actually moved since taking this picture.
And, because I can, a gratuitous picture of homemade cherry cobbler (from scratch!), which was part of my husband’s Father’s Day present.
Last week I finished my demo quilts for the Disappear Nine Patch versions I did for my guild, bringing my total of charitable quilts for the year to nine. Plus one under the needle to be quilted. Woohoo!
The second D9P Classic layout I call the “Windmill” layout, where the sliced red-orange bits come together like a windmill.
I used a charm pack for this one so the values are all pretty similar, making it hard to see how the blocks actually look. I could also blame the humidity here, but aside from my Very Large Hair that almost made it into the picture as a shadow, I suspect I’ve run the course on that excuse.
So… how can you win this quilt? I’m glad you asked!