Showers

Things I worked on this week.

  • Message in a Bottle
  • Tilda Applique Quilt
  • Binding 5 quilts
  • Quilted X&+ quilt
  • 3 Bucket hats
  • Finished woodland friends small quilt
  • worked on the log cabin/fabulous house

Seemed like I was more busy than that, there were a lot of rainy days. I squeezed in some weed pulling and garden maintenance too. I probably should have taken more in progress photos of the MIB and Tilda projects, but I forgot and put them away. I had a fun time making the little bucket hats. The pattern is from Tie Dye Diva called “Pepper street baby and kid bucket hat”. Easy to follow and lots of pictures on the PDF downloaded from her Etsy store.

I downloaded and printed the next Starry Skies block, and the center block(s) for the quilt. Lots of paper foundation piecing to do. Maybe tomorrow, as today I am going to lunch with a friend. This months block is the Aires constellation. It’s pretty simple, only four stars and lots of background. The center is a bit more involved with 10 stars and a crescent moon. The version (see photo on left) I am making has the mountains border on the bottom.

I received 7 table runner quilts for a custom quilt job. They are all the same pattern and size, halloween themed pumpkins. I figured out that I can piece the backings together with long strips of scrap backing fabric. That way I can load four at a time, and save my lower back from the ache of pinning each backing on separately. Typically, I would use the same whole backing for this, but each runner is different colors and has a coordinated backing. Once my customer chooses the pantos I’ll get started. I am trying to make a bit of money, and stream line the process, time is money.

I finished the Manor house cross stitch and got it sent to the recipient. I was sorry that I didn’t have time to frame/finish it properly. I stitched the simple border in a backstitch using a gold-ish brass floss, I imagined a matting and narrow black molding for framing. I’m curious to see how it turns out. I am back to stitching the Fabulous Houses again, making headway on the cabin. There are lots of details in the logs, with color changes a plenty.

Be Kind.