The quilt is DONE... binding, label and all. No picture yet as I want to take it outside but don't have whatever it takes to take it down the front steps, lay it on the lawn, climb back up the steps, take the pic then walk back down the steps to pick it up and take it back into the house. Maybe later today :).
After I finished the quilt, I decided I'd better get to working on the Summer Quilt a long with Julie Cefalu... the one my friend, Katie, and I have both been working on. I THOUGHT that she had already started hers on Saturday from the way she was talking about trying to do the sunflowers a different way.
Leaves done... not TOO bad, although I had a bit of a problem trying to figure out the orientation of one of the blocks and then I think I made three going one way and had to cut new pieces for one leaf so that I could get it to go the correct way.
Then came the sunflowers.... bleah!... I THOUGHT I would do English paper piecing - something I hadn't done in awhile. Well, I have, I think, two sizes... a one inch and another size that I don't know right off. Anyway, neither seemed to look like they would fit 'right' when I laid them out on the background block. In the pic above, the background blocks are larger than needed because I knew that there would be some sort of appliquing involved and that can cause background fabrics to 'shrink' some and they needed to 6 1/2" unfinished after stitching the sunflower on.
yada yada yada... so the e.p.p. didn't look like it was going to work for me but I didn't want to trace all those little pieces she provided for another version of the sunflower. I found my dresden blade ruler and decided I'd try it at 2"... it worked! Of course, I didn't know how many I'd need for each flower so it took some time to figure that all out... and, silly me, went and stitched wedges together without stitching each wedge along the top so that I could turn it and make a point......... so spent quite a bit of time ripping stitches out and redoing....
Oh yeah, and then I sewed the two pieces together without checking them first and this is what I got....
All better now.
The second one is done to the point that it's ready to be sewn down... it's pinned, but it was dinner time and then phone calls started coming in, and I just lost interest in working on it after that.... I'll finish it today.
After the phone calls and dinner, I loaded a 'charity' project onto Mo'e... and started working on it... yeah, I know, I should have gone back and finished that freakin' sunflower, but I didn't.
One of the guild members brought me some star blocks and fabric that she had used for the background of the star blocks and said that she decided she didn't want to finish them and would I want them?... well, sure... I'm usually up for a challenge. I took three and bought some fabric to border them, set them on point using some of the fabric that she gave me and made a table runner. I like it and think it just might sell at the church's bazaar this fall. I've got two of the stars quilted...
This is the second one ( the one in the middle), which looks better than the first one. There's a bump in the center that I ended up having to raise my foot up a teensy bit for - otherwise I was getting stuck on that bump. I'm not sure yet how I'll quilt the background, of course, I'm thinking feathers, but that still leaves a lot of options.
There's a fourth star that I'm thinking I'll make it into a potholder or hotpad to go with the table runner; I was hoping that I'd be able to lay it on the backing & batting along with the table runner and quilt it at the same time, but nope, there wasn't enough room. I'll focus on it AFTER I finish the sunflower block and the table runner.
All that being said.... guess I'd better get at it...
take care....
ttyl
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