I am very impressed with myself and feel it is safe to say, "I'm back in the (sewing) saddle again"! I have been stuck in a quilting rut and not able to find time to get things done in my room. However, more recently I have just left things around the house and gone to hide with my quilting paraphernalia to keep me company. That is of course not to say that I have forgotten things around the house entirely, only a little. If the dishes aren't done now, they will still be there for me after 60 minutes of fabric play!
Yesterday I had fun finishing a small project that sort of happened by accident. I was cutting the fabric to finish my Valentine quilt and realized that many of the colours I was using would go well with a lone block I had that needed to be finished into something. The block is from a friend who was proposing to toss it in the trash because it didn't turn out as it was supposed to, so I gladly offered to save it from it's apparently demise. It sort of looks like and umbrella or, as was noted that evening, a circus tent, but is actually a rendition of a Dear Jane block.
The Valentine quilt project is a pattern from Kathleen Tracy's Yahoo Group and has a ton of 1.5" (unfinished size) squares. Whenever I have to cut this size for a project I always cut extra to put into my scraps jar of 1.5" squares for use in another project. However, I ended up using them all to keep this lone block company instead! I only had to add one square to complete the project. Perfect! Now to figure out how to quilt it! The binding will be the crazy pink too.
I managed to make a significant dent in the aforementioned Valentine quilt by sewing it's pieces as leaders and enders between the ones from the Circus Tent quilt. I am hoping to finish it Friday or Saturday in time to meet the Valentine's Day deadline. (Gotta love the striped ironing board fabric!)
Plus, since there really were a TON of 1.5" squares to deal with, I got most of my 19 signatures blocks ready to go as well. It was great to essentially be sewing 3 projects at once. I thought it may be difficult to keep everything separate and organized, but it was actually quite easy and made me feel like I was getting much more done than if I had sewn each one individually.
Now I just have to sew the top and bottom on and sign everything before they can be mailed away. Likely they will all get completed as leaders and enders (or maybe they should be called spacers since it's for space in between each piece of another project) while I work on the Valentine's quilt. I have a great fear of getting the pen out and writing on the fabric - what if I mess up and have to remake a whole whack of them!? ACK! Cross your fingers for no fabric or pen mishaps!
Happy Stitching!
Heather
4 comments:
I must ask... Do you know the trick for writing on fabric? Lay the fabric on a piece of very fine grit (like 000) sand paper. When you write with your Micron Pigma pen, or Gelly Roll pen, the fabric won't stretch while you're making pen strokes. If you already knew this, I'll apologize in advance for TMI (too much information). If you didn't know this, I hope it help!
Wow, look at you go girl!! Love what you did with the "tent" block!
Glad to hear you have returned to being creative once more, I find it a saviour when I want to ground myself again!!
Love what you did with that orphan block! Good luck with your siggie block signing!!! Have a great weekend!
Love your creativity wih the block gone bad! I only have 20 siggy blocks done. Better get busy. Good luck with your autographing session!
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