Monday again

 I think I told you last Friday about our adventure down to Shipshewana not only to hear & see The Booth Brothers perform, but we left early so that I could have time to go to Lolly's in hopes of finding more of the fabric that I was using for this quilt.

 The pattern was for a baby size bowtie quilt but I wanted to make one bigger.  I had two yards of the 'newsprint' fabric but it wasn't going to be enough.  When we went back again on Friday afternoon, it was gone.  Since they were having a sale on fabrics in the 'clearance room', I shopped anyway ( of course)... didn't buy much... 4 yds of a lovely yellow tone on tone type, 3 yards of a green that I thought might work for this current project ( when I got home I realized that it wouldn't work) - oh, and then as I was paying for my purchase, I saw some printed fabrics and the saleslady was more than happy to show them to me.... they are printed with various themes... music and the Bible verses are the only two I remember... I bought three of the panels with the Bible verses.  I've had a project that's been rolling around between my two ears and when I saw these panels, I knew they would be perfect.

In my search for SOMETHING that I could use to help enlarge the quilt, I remembered that I had some 'newspaper print' on my fabric bolt shelf.  After checking to make sure that I had some of the same print in my bin with the fabrics for the dresden plate quilts I want to do, I grabbed the bolt and went to work....  by Saturday evening, I had the top finished.  Sunday, I took the remainder of the fat quarters I had cut into for the bow ties and cut them into two and a half inch strips and, along with three strips of the newspaper print off the bolt, stitched them together and pressed them for the binding - now I just need to find backing fabric.

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Sunday, I also put the border onto the lone Zebra that I made and made the binding for it, too... I think there's still enough of the purple fabric left so that I can layer it all with batting and quilt it.

Next up, was working on another 'new' project.  I had seen this on Sarah Craig's blog-http://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/ and really REALLY liked it... 

This is how far I was when I called it a night...

Two more stars were done, but not up on the design wall.

Here it was this afternoon....

This is all sewn together, but it's not done - yet.  The pattern calls for 5" block borders and I'm running REALLY low on the squares from the charm packs I had so went and let my fingers do the shopping when I found more were available on Amazon ( they should be here between Nov. 2 and 7).

I'm still loving it... no backing or binding picked out for it yet, but will all those colors, it shouldn't be hard to find something. ( And, yes, I have to climb that ladder to get up to my design wall)

Then, I started playing with one of the fabric panels with Bible verses....

Here's what I have so far... 

Each block is 9.5"... not all will have verses... I want each one to be large lap quilt size and there's  1/2"not pieces to use a verse for each block.  The verse blocks themselves are 3 1/2" x 3 1/2" and 3 1/2" x 6 1/2" and I'm trying to only use what I have here in my stash.  I'm using scraps for the blocks and will use yardage for sashing ( if I need it).  There is no set pattern for these... I'm just going to 'play' - one block for one quilt at a time.  I have until Jan 5th, 2019 to get them finished.  Hardest part for me will be the quilting.

Off to watch my Monday night program... Long Lost Family.

Take care...

ttyl

afternote:  I went back and re-read this post today (11/16/18) and found a couple of typos... I'd fire my proofreader if it wasn't myself.  I have no idea what I meant by .....there's 1/2" not pieces to use a verse for each block.  Sorry about that.