Monday night, I started working on the first of three quilts that I hope to somehow have done by the end of this year - in time for them to be gifted on Jan. 5.
The gospel group that my husband and I have been 'following' around Michigan this past year are going to be in Shipshewana again on Jan. 4th and 5th and I'm planning on buying tickets for his birthday again While we are there, I want to give each of the men a quilt. They have brought so much joy to my husband and are always so kind and take the time to speak with him after the shows so I want to do something special for them.
Here's what I did Monday and Tuesday....
this is just a rough layout... just to get them up and an idea of how big and how to layout when all are finished. I'm not 100% sold on that orange and blue one up in the corner... the orange is actually the back of the fabric... the front was way too bright. I may take it apart and use another color instead of the orange... we'll see. Not crazy about the two wide strips on the log cabin either... those may get cut down.
I did get a small one done today, but because it's small ( like the one with the yellow circle in the middle), I'm going to have to add sashing/borders to it so that it will match the rest in size. No pic of it yet.
I was trying to do a paper piece church from quilterscache.com, but my printer was giving me fits... it printed one out of the three pages the correct size. The small one from today and the yellow circle one also did not print out at the correct size either. but at least the two pages for each were the same size - not one at 1" and the other at 3/4".
So, then I looked all over the internet for a pattern for a church - found two on craftsy but they were either too small or too large. Found several on pinterest, but when I'd go to the page/site they were supposed to be on, they weren't there. I finally went to my microsoft office publisher and did a search and found one that, when printed out, will work... I'll just be appliqueing instead of paper piecing which is fine.
This is another one that I want to try and make... it looks pretty easy.
I also want to do at least a couple cathedral window blocks, too.
There wasn't much to blog about today.... it was kind of a ho hum day, even after I managed to get my new sewing room chair assembled and the old one into the dumpster and I spent a few minutes doing a little more organizing of the charity fabrics for the guild. I was going to take them to the meeting tomorrow night, but I received a message today that they don't have a replacement for me yet and to not bring it until Jan. I replied that I already know that I'm going to be busy in Jan and probably won't make it to any meetings - apparently, she ( guild prez) took that to mean that I was never coming back. oh well..... whatever
take care
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