I managed to keep myself busy in the sewing room this week. Last night I took a bunch of quilted things off the long arm. Originally I had planned on doing four quilts on the 108″ x 118″ backing piece, using a king size batting. But the math wasn’t in my favor, and I had to change plans and make it three quilts and three runners. The baby quilt top from last post, the flower garden top, and the Tessa top all got their stitches done. Now I have a pile of quilts needing bindings.

I can’t remember when I bought the lemon themed border/stripe fabric, but I finally cut it up and sewed it into three runners. Using the 60 degree ruler made this simple, and I got some ideas from the pattern “Easy Striped Table Runner” by Karen Montgomery. I was able to use most of the two yard piece and only had two triangles left over.

I then moved into Halloween mode. I have sort of been collecting J. Wecker Frisch fabric, it started with the kit, The Costume Makers ball, which used a fabric line by the same name. I then moved on to the Hungry Animal Alphabet made two quilts with that. Recently I bought a fat quarter pack of the Art Journal, jelly rolls of Sew journal and Queen of ‘Ween. Some yardage of Queen of ‘Ween and Mad Masquerade also found its way into my stash. The Colors (orange white black)and themes of MM, QofW and Costume Makers Ball all go together, so I made two scrappy quilts with them. I’d like to get them finished for the shop to sell for the season of Halloween. I probably have enough scraps to do two more throws, I need to look through the pattern library. Then I may start working on some Christmas themed quilts. Although, I have bought background fabric for the Fall Foliage Quilt from Krista Moser.

The Hobbit house is done and the Tree House started. There is a lot of patterning in the house boards of this one. I think the door had five different colors in it, keeps it interesting though. I am continuing to use bees wax on the threads before sewing with them. It really does make a difference with the sharpness of the colors and the definition of the stitches. Plus the threads don’t fray or break. The Facebook group I follow for this SAL got their patterns a few days after I got mine, so I am ahead of the game there. It is mid May, and the sixth house of 12, I need to keep the momentum, otherwise this will become a giant UFO quickly.

The Good Morning blanket is growing, I started the fourth section. The rows in this section are longer, so only 8 ridges of garter for each color. The Cotton Chirp mini skeins have 58 yards in them, so there is very little waste. I may use it up for some wash cloths, the colors are very nice, and the pima cotton is soft. It’s on sale this week too.

Be Kind.