The Winter Village houses have received their borders and all appliqués are securely zig-zagged. Into the TBQ pile it goes (reminder stitch backing together soon). Next up was the Starry Signs BOM blocks, January and February editions. These went together fairly easily, as there are good instructions and cutting lists to follow. I had an oh-no moment when I thought I may have done most of block 1 (Capricorn) on the wrong side of the paper. After checking the video, I confirmed that I was doing it right, and there was a huge sigh of relief. These blocks aren’t the easiest, but not the most difficult either. I have been using the Add an Eighth ruler for some of the inner seams to prevent too much build up of folded fabric. I am using a Riley Blake Blue for the background, a Craftsy Ombre yellow I unearthed recently, and a lighter blue piece of cut off backing fabric. Some stash reduction, but not enough to offset the recently acquired Sparrow quilt fabrics.

I started the bed size Sparrow quilt yesterday, got all the pieces cut and 108 HSTs sew together. Having everything cut and ready to go is going to make this quilt easy to put together. I did use my Accuquilt cutter to get all the HSTs and 2 ½ inch squares cut quickly. Making 36 blocks sounds easy, but each one has about 27 pieces. There is some fold and cut too, but not a lot of waste. There will be a lot of assembly line stitching today, I have to remember that there are left and right facing birds.

With all this rainy weather I have had lots of indoor time to sew and ignore cleaning house, although I did manage a bit of vacuuming and laundry. The Tilda quilt top got a bunch more appliqués sewn down. I am at the point where I need to add more basted shapes. I ended up ordering more backing fabric for the peacock quilt, a quick search found me a half yard of the 108″ wide feather print I used. It should be here this weekend, so that project will move into the binding pile soon. I did purchase a few layer cakes for a quilt wanted to make, from Zen Chic quilt patterns called Eclipse. That fabric is up in the mail box, if the rain lets up a little I’ll go grab it. Hopefully the pattern isn’t too fiddly, curved piecing Yay! – said no one ever.

Be Kind.