I walked past my sewing room today and was amazed at the mess of it. It is a big mess of projects, fabric, bins and boxes of fabric, piles of fabric, rulers, papers/patterns, and…more fabrics. I am working on three main projects right now, Mrs. Millers Apprentice, Live Simply and Frolic. All are large and all are in various states of done-ness. I am at the put-together stage of MMA, all the blocks are done, the setting blocks are done too. The borders need to be cut, but I can’t do that until the main body is sewn together. I also need 88 more 3-triangle blocks to do one of the outer borders. Yesterday I worked on months 10 and 11, today I want to get the center part together. It’s sort of a mini quilt, using nine, 3 1/2 inch blocks that were made each month. The background story of this quilt is Mrs. Miller (farmers wife) teaches her neighbor’s daughter to sew. These little blocks are supposed to represent her work. I like the blues and tans of this quilt, it is one I am making for me.
Mrs Miller’s Apprentice
The Frolic pieces are coming together too, although I am a bit low on Aqua colored scraps. I was forced to buy/order more fabric to alleviate this deficit. While looking through my current stock of scraps for more aqua, I came across a large bag of mixed solid scraps. They had fallen behind some other piles and had been quietly multiplying themselves for the past few years. These scraps are from my Amish with a Twist 2 quilt (circa 2015), I think if I combine them with the scraps from my Gravity quilt and the Live Simply quilt, I’d have enough for a bed size quilt. The colors are compatible in “real life”, what I have in mind is similar to this leader ender quilt that KatyQuilts is making. I am hoping all the jewel tones will sparkle and shine, AND there will be three less bags of scraps.
I have a scrappy top made from 2 ½ inch squares, from Wedding Dress Blue called Growing Up Odd. I thought I had a picture of it, but not on this computer. Not sure if I want to do something with the sashing strips or just go free range squares.
This is my design wall today, it is the least chaotic area in my room today.
Linking up with Judy at Small Quilts and Doll Quilts for Design Wall Monday. She has a post about finding calm in December. I think I need to read it now.
Touch of Grey 