Quilts in Progress - Catch Up Time

I had quite a busy week. I subbed a couple of day, helped with some sick grand kids, spent fun time with grand kids, and actually did some sewing.

Avery and Peyton were not feeling well, but snuggling up in their mermaid tails certainly helped. I know I'm prejudice, but I think they are so darn cute!

This picture makes me laugh out loud! When it was nap time, Peyton wanted to keep reading instead of lying down. This is the face she made. I had to tell her twice, and the second time I was ready with the camera.  hahaha   I can only imagine that is the kind of face I'd make if someone told me that I had to stop sewing and go to sleep. 😏  

Ronan was excited that I picked him up from school and that I was hanging out with him and his sisters. When he did the fist pump, he said, "Yes!" I'm sure I look like when someone asks me to go fabric shopping with them. 😂 

I didn't get to spend nearly enough time with this whole bunch, but I loved every minute that I was there.

I did say that I got some sewing done. I don't have pictures of everything, but I've been working on projects made from layer cakes and jolly bars. (I have a couple of trunk shows coming up and I wanted to update and replenish my quilts.)

These two small quilts actually have pieced borders now, but I didn't take pictures when they were still on the wall. They were made entirely from a single layer cake and they measure approximately 36" square.

On Monday, I posted that I was working on my Precious Gem quilt. All of the 5" x 10" rectangles are sewn, trimmed, and pressed. I've got this pile of 84 HSTs almost all pressed and trimmed too. I hope to get both projects pieced this weekend or early next week.

While I've been working,  Jack's been working on a few of his own projects. Here's the heliograph me made from scratch. He and a friend have been trying to make this work, but they need good sunlight for it to function properly. They are going to try this afternoon, even though it's going to be cold.

Maybe the decent weather will encourage me to take some quilt pictures outside. Or, maybe I'll just stay inside and sew.

Design Wall Monday

I didn't get near as much sewing done as I had hoped this weekend, but that's ok.

I did finish the Four Winds quit top, and boy is it big. I say that I finished it, but I'm actually thinking about adding a small border of the background fabric around the entire quilt because I'm afraid that if I don't do that, I'll lose the points of the flying geese around the edges. I have enough fabric to do it, so that's not a problem. The problem is that I really want to be done with this and think about the quilting. 😊

I can't get a better picture right now because it's too big for the design wall and it's snowing outside. I think you get the idea, though.

While working on sewing the Four Winds, I was sewing another set of blocks. I cut a layer cake into four wonky segments and am randomly sewing the pieces back together. This is just 16 of the 42 blocks and I just threw them up on the wall to take a picture.

They have not been trimmed yet or rotated in any specific order. I'm kind of thinking about adding a small black sashing between the blocks to make them look like stained glass windows. I'll make that decision after I have all the blocks done.

I love the colors in this!

Since I always like to be working on multiple projects and use the leader and ender concept (Ok, in reality that just means I have ADHD and need to jump around between lots of projects. There! I've admitted it publicly.), I was working on a pattern called Precious Gem.

For this pattern, you cut a layer cake into 84 - 5" x 10" units. You then add a square to one corner of each of the units (It must always be added to the same corner.) and then trim off the corner. I thought it was wasteful to throw away the trimmed off corner, so I sewed a seam 1/2" away from the original seam line. By doing that, I will end up with 84 - 3 1/2" finished half square triangles. Do I know what I'll do with them? No, but how could I waste that?  😍  

Here are a few pictures of what I did. I'm using a layer cake from The Sweet Life by Pat Sloan and think this is going to be pretty cute.

What are you working on this fine Monday?

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