No usage this week due to travel, although I did get caught up on my Harry Potter blocks!
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Although Charlotte advised us to proceed at our own risk, I took that as a challenge and assembled my Scrap-in-a-Box top using my own layout. It wasn’t hard to do the math and figure out with the number of blocks constructed and setting triangles what the shape was. The trick was then whether there was sashing and why there were leftover parts, which is what gives it the mystery, I suppose.
I soldiered on since mine is an end-of-school year teacher gift, and phd the honors ceremonies when teacher gifts are usually given are the week the last instructions are scheduled to be given. Out of respect for Charlotte and the mystery process, I’m not going to post finished photos until after her last clue goes up.
I did buy 2 yards of solid gray fabric this week to finish up the project for my guild swap (most of that went into stash). I think that will be finished next week!
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This week I finished up the other two Sew Together bags, my Harry Potter block, and a small quilt at my daughter’s request.
First, the Harry Potter block. I went with Harry’s wand in a wood grain fabric. I forgot to check the sizing when I printed, so my block came out 3/8″ too small and required some spacer background pieces to bring it to the right size. Alas! Fortunately this is a fairly forgiving block for this sizing issue, so it wasn’t too bad.
My daughter’s “doge” quilt is based on an internet meme that started with a captioned photo of a Shiba Inu using the Comic Sans font. It is her current obsession, and she desperately wants to go to Japan as a result. I’ve tried telling her that you don’t see Shibe’s frolicking in a field right when you get off the plane in Tokyo, but she is so far undeterred. She’ll have to settle for her doge quilt in the mean time.
I found a vector art file of the doge face and traced the big chunks onto paper backed fusible, using 5 different fabrics for the face. She specifically wanted the face on 4 squares, so I stuck to simple piecing and quilting and finished this in a day (but didn’t tell her it was done until after I showed it at my guild meeting this morning!).
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A lot of stitching on blocks this week and a little bit of finished yardage since I managed to finish one of the Sew Together bags today after family Easter celebrations. I’ve got the other two halfway done, so they should be easy to wrap up this week. My machine is acting a bit suspicious with some skipped stitches so I think I’ll have to take it in to be serviced sooner rather than the end of June when we’ll be on vacation. Hmm.
Finished blocks include the Monster Book of Monsters for the Harry Potter POD, and the to Saturday Sampler blocks from Tiny Stitches!
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A banner week this week as I finished THREE quilts. Woohoo! The first is One Block Wonderful, which is a twin size, and the other two are smaller donation quilts. The weather is nice out so I’m going to photograph all my recent finishes while my husband grills the steaks for dinner!
Tonight I need to finish cutting out the bits for some Sew Together bags, do my Harry Potter block for the week, and replace a zipper in a totebag for a family friend. And watch some zombies for the finale of Walking Dead and fold a billion pieces of laundry.
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This week, I finished another baby quilt similar to the one from last week. I also had to make a storage bag, and two small projects, so I’m still slowly inching up in usage.
In additions to the stash, I bought fabric for the borders for my one-block wonder quilt since I didn’t have enough of any one fabric that matched enough for the outer border. When my parents visited, my mom brought me some fat quarters that I’ll use for my class on Thursday (to make a quilt for them!).
This week I also stayed on top of the Project of Doom - here’s my Hedwig block.
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Lots of stitching this week compared to prior weeks. I managed to stay on top of the Project of Doom, although I think my block is slightly upside down. Hmm.
I also finished up Step 3 for Scrapitude Scrap-in-a-box, without any mistakes! I pieces these as leaders and enders while making more progress on my One Block Wonder quilt. I think I’m about a quarter of the way through piecing blocks together, but it’s hard to tell since I haven’t unrolled the portable design surface (read: flannel backed tablecloth) all the way since last weekend.
I also finished up a baby quilt I was piecing from 5″ squares from my scrap stash as leaders and enders for the OWB, too, and started a second. Slowly chipping away at that net usage number!
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Well, I’m back in the ol’ quilting saddle again, and have been making some progress this week. Not a ton of finishes, but I’m ramping up on some bigger projects and feeling relieved without the impending conference for work hanging over my head and all the submissions I’m entering for the East Cobb Quilters’ Guild show submitted. Whew.
First up, the Saturday Sampler blocks from this month! My Solid as a Rock block kit was missing a piece of fabric (I called the shop to let them know in case someone else had the same thing happen, and the nice woman working the phone sounded very worried, and then relieved that I was *not* ripping her a new one - I just wanted to give them a heads up!). I fortunately have a number of solid green FQs from some Minecraft quilt dabbling so I just subbed in one from my stash. I don’t think I have enough contrast in tone between the dark and medium, but oh well. It’s a design choice!
I was pleasantly surprised the double square-in-a-square for the center of the Bonnie and Camille came out okay! Usually I mess those up pretty good. I’m also excited to start working on the applique center I’m designing for my B&C quilt.
I also caught up on my Harry Potter block for last week. FYI, Jaye, the Project of Doom Bookshelf quilt was one run back in 2011, but some of the patterns have been updated for this version. It was a popular series and I think Jen from SewHooked got a lot of requests to re-run it as a block-a-long.
Last Friday was also Book Character Day at my kids’ school, and my son wanted to be Gandalf from Lord of the Rings (he and my husband have been reading it together at night). My daughter wanted to be Bucky Katt from the “Get Fuzzy” comic strip since she found the stash of collected comic strip books when I cleaned out my bookshelf in the bedroom. Anywho, for Gandalf, I use some fleece for the hat and some cotton for the lining. For his robe I had a piece of grey suiting gifted to me from a friend’s destash. I’m pretty sure Gandalf would rock a subtle pinstripe given the chance. Of course I had to try on the hat and beard for quality control.
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Well, in addition to the Speaker Kits this week, I finished up two baby/lap quilts Friday night to unwind after work. That officially dug me out of the hole! I also worked on the latest Harry Potter POD block so I’m caught up on that, and ready to spend the rest of my quilting time today prepping my handwork for the trip. I attached row 9 to the Tula Pink quilt, so I’m preppy row 10 for my travel time.
And packing. Yeesh, the packing!
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I feel as if I’ve stitched on a lot of projects this week, but didn’t really finish much. On the actual finish pile, we have 2 travel drawstring shoebags and 2 storage bags for quilts I’m entering into the show this June (assuming they are accepted!). On the “things I worked on but didn’t finish pile”, we have these things:
Harry Potter POD block 6:
Scrapitude Scrap-in-a-Box Step 2. Sewn incorrectly, of course, but when I was 60 into 82 finished, I realized my mistake and just plowed forward. This is in the tradition of Scrapitude quilts-alongs for me since the one last year I inadvertently left off the sashings in my first attempt.
And finally, my One Block Wonder in progress! I took the class yesterday from Melinda at Tiny Stitches, and made pretty good progress.
I started with 6 panels, which makes finding your repeats pretty easy! I have an extra one for the back of the quilt so I can remember what it looked like.
And here’s how far I got in class - probably about a third of the blocks I’ll end up with in total.
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