Time to catch up....

Sew in with some of the guild members was this weekend but we ended up only sewing on Friday since there weren't enough of us interested in coming back on Saturday.  It's a holiday weekend and I'm sure that most had other things to do.

I finished my final Vintage Tin block at the sew in!!  Sew excited to see it finally done. 

It's back in the bin with the rest of the blocks and fabrics where it will sit and 'age' for a bit before I take the blocks out and remove the basting stitches, press and then trim them and then start cutting the sashing and border blocks.

I had started working on this doozy Thursday, I think... yeah, that sounds right. 

There was lots of machine quilting before actual construction began.  It would have been a bit easier if I could learn ( and remember) the numbers needed for cutting out the bottom corners to make box squares.  For the lining, I ended up doing it the way I've almost always done it and didn't cut out corner squares.  I matched seams and then measured up 2.5" and stitched.  This was just something that I thought I could maybe learn a new technique on ( I only learned that cutting out bottom corners is not a good idea in my case) and use up some fat quarters at the same time. 

And then I started on this.... the "Deal from Hell"... I bought two of these that were 60% off on Bluprint thinking that I would give one of them to our youngest daughter who is interested in learning to quilt.  It looks simple enough for a beginner -

- and it would be if the pieces had been cut correctly.  You have a luscious supply of Kaffe Fassett fabrics all precut for you, you just need to follow the directions and stitch them together....  now, here comes the problem....

The pieces are roughly cut.... and I do mean roughly.   I don't know if you can tell by this photo or not... the blue block cut curves inward about half way up the left side.

Then you try to stitch a quarter inch seam and you can't because then the block won't measure the required 2.5".    I know that one seam I did was 1/8" and I still couldn't get a 2.5" block.  I am so upset about this....  so it got packed away and will be used for something that requires 2" blocks. 


About that time, I was distracted by a 'squirrel'.... something that I've been wanting to get started on, but not right this minute....
Well, I guess I am starting it -- right this minute lol.

After consulting with friend, Katie, I decided on border fabrics yesterday and finished them this morning.  And then added my first 9 patch 'fella'...

I dug out my 'old' scrap 'bucket' with the plan to use fabrics from it for the 9 patch bodies. 

I should have thought about it before I did the first 'fella', - those were scraps, too, just not from this bin/bucket....

I think the last time I used anything from here was when I was making a string quilt for my son when he was  truck driving cross country - and then all I used was blues.  It was so long ago that I can't even remember when it was - maybe 8 years ago?
 I've already found some strips that appear to be 21/2" wide and I've now put aside and some really narrow strips that can go into string blocks and I've put them in one of the string block bins ( yes, I have more than one... I have two  1. strings  2. finished blocks..

Once this quilt top is done, I plan on working on a cute little turtle quilt... I already put the bag of supplies & pattern in my sewing room so that I know that's next in line.


Guess that's it for this weekend .... Hope you had a nice Easter :)

take care...

ttyl...........