Design Wall Monday (week 33)

Here is my wall.

On the right are my block-a-days, I think up until 8/15. I'm not sure as I only stepped into the room a few minutes ago to snap the picture. 

The squares are laid out for a 2nd Quilts 4 Kids quilt. 

Last week my sister invited me to go to NYCity for the weekend! 

I'm working on editing my pictures from the trip.

view from the Stattan Island Ferry:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Brie, Sam and me in Times Square!

I finished quilting this quilt a few days ago.  The quiltmaker is a hand-piecer!!
 I used to be a hand piecer.....long, long time ago. The whole time I quilted this I kept thinking 'holy moley, I can't believe she hand pieced this'-- all 94 x110 inches of it-- mitered borders and all!

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I'm going to NYC this weekend, well actually tomorrow!  I've never been there before, I'm very excited. 

We're going to see Mary Poppins  and do some touring-- I'm very excited!

Quilt 4 Kids

I found two partial used charm packs: one is Boutique and the other is Clementine.   I started putting all these charms on the wall. And I had enough for a Quilts 4 Kids donation quilt.  I timed myself  and it took me 1 hour 10 minutes to sew this together.

It measures 41 x 46.  I used up all the charms (yea!) and the border fabric was all leftovers too.

Design Wall Monday (week 32)

This is my finished Jelly Roll Sew Along top.

Yesterday, I changed out the dark brown fabric in the churn dash block (lower left corner of layout)

and I'm much happier.   

I sewed this together. It measures 44 x 44. So now I'm thinking about making some more blocks maybe 10 more 8" blocks to add a row on top and on bottom.  A border all around and it will be a better size for a throw.  

I also put up my Jelly roll blocks and thought they would be my DW Monday post.  But once I had the sashing fabrics picked and started putting it together I didn't want to stop and it went together so easily--wonderful!  I had a one yard cut of one of the Daiwobo fabrics that I wanted to use for the outer border, but of course was about 1/4 yard short.  So Saturday evening I decided I would go to the quilt shop that carries this line and see if she had any more-or pick something else out.  Well, this morning after I got home from church and a quick trip to the grocery store. I went back into my room and thought it was silly to go buy more when I have enough leftovers to piece a border.  So that's what I did.

LUV it.

The jelly roll was Evening Mist from Moda with a few leftover (and the sashing and pieced border) DAIWABO selection for EE Schenck Eo.--it says so right on the selvege!

I also pieced and pressed the binding for this quilt and for the Morris quilt.

Quiltathon Day 2-final update

Well, this was a fun and productive 2 day adventure. 

 I am tired. 

This evening at 7:15 I finished the final border on Morris (we're on a first name basis now that we've spent so much time together).

I didn't have enough yardage of Morris wkshop fabric for the outer border but I did have something in the stash that works well.  The top measures 81.5 x 90.  I have the binding strips cut but will sew them tomorrow. 

I didn't get to my Jelly roll blocks.

But I did get these arranged.

I brought the big churn dash block up with me (block in lower left)-I just can't take that dark brown---toooo dark.  So I'm going to un stitch the block tonight while staring at the TV and re-sew it with a less dominating fabric tomorrow.

Spineless Feathers

Ok this is just real basic.

If you look at the top diagram; that's how I start them. 

The first one went to the top (or left) then the 2nd one I made on the bottom side. You can touch the feather to the previous or just come close it didn't matter when I stitched it out.

In the  2nd diagram I tried to show you how I curve them, I put a little bracket to show where as you're going along and want to curve up make 2-3 feathers on the bottom side.

 Count my numbers 8 was on the top then 9,10 and 11 were on the bottom then 12 back on top and then continue top, bottom, top, bottom.

If I would have made that #12 feather curve back on the #8 feather more I would have had a deeper turn or curve.

This 2nd picture is just another one of the curving, I think I curved better this time.

Oh dang, I just realized I forgot to show how you can shoot off in a different direction. So I will just say it. 

Ok, you just finished stitching that #28 feather, which I put in the center and ended that line of feathers.  You can back track along your spine (or where the spine would be if you had one, just follow along the feathers.)  The nice thing is since you don't have a spine there already, going back doesn't cause a bunch of thread buildup, which I don't like if I'm using a contrasting thread.  And since these are informal feathers, you don't have to stress over hitting the feather lines perfectly.  (yea.)

If I went back to the spot between feather #16 & 18, I could start a new line of feathers from there and either head back towards the beginning or out and around the end to the right.  It would depend on how much room I had left before I needed to roll the quilt.