Difference of Opinion

After church today I began another Neonatal quilt, as usual made of leftovers from another project.

I have 36 of these 3", pink and white 9-patches left from Bonnie Hunter's Double Delight. I'm hoping to get three baby quilts from them.

I hung up "Difference of Opinion" to get a better photo, even tho' I see there are quite a lot of wrinkles still.

What do you think of the "lean" of the right hand column? Will it just look like a mistake?

Or is it enough to look intentional [which it was]?

Sara

Gratitudes:

Concert in Saugatuck went well

Warm bed on a COLD night

Hot tea for breakfast

Stay at Home Day

While I am waiting for the other charity quilts to be quilted and come back from Catherine, I made two pillowcases. The red one is made to match the red and white Zigzag that was finished just at the end of 2009.

The one on the right is made of the fleece that I used to back my first finish of this year, the 9-patch and snowball Xmas quilt.

And here is each quilt packed into the pillowcase, ready to send off!

I am a member of the Libquilters group, which is having a two day stay-at-home retreat. I got out four pink and orange Log Cabin blocks I made about a year ago as part of "project improv". Right with them were some more pieces, ready for more logs, and there were also more logs! So today I made four more blocks so far. I think there will be four more, hopefully by the end of the day.

Sara

Gratitudes:

Tuesday is my "No Errands, Stay At Home Day". Makes me happy.

The bed in the sewing room is slowly re-appearing.

Rehearsal last night preparing for our concert in Saugatuck Saturday.

Twelve Apostles?

Some time ago I played with some scraps and white muslin. I made most of them into 3.4" blocks. Yesterday I found them under a pile of other scraps, and still being tired of Yellow, I played some more.

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Last night I chose the border fabric, layered it and went on to finish the machine quilting.

Today I picked out binding fabric, made the binding and applied it. Finished at 17" x 18", an odd size. Can't see that it is of any USE at all, except as an instance of "project improv". And I like it.

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There were 12 scrap pieces to start with--so Twelve Apostles? I think the three pieces I added outside of the 12 ,"in the margin", are Three Women, as usual not included among the apostles, but holding the whole together!

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Also there are a couple of "Invisible" apostles in the quilting.

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Sara

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Gratitudes:

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Brats on the deck for supper

Peter and Lynne came over last evening to play bocce

dogs thought we were playing "fetch"; hilarity!

Camera Found

Charlie found my camera on a table where he stacks the books he is currently reading. Did I put it there?

So here are a few of those projects from the last days:

These are four of the orphan blocks I sized UP with green and blue logs, and I think they will have a lot of white around them for a summer quilt. Made three more last night, so now I have 9, and that's all there's goinig to be! This qualifies as a "project improv".

And this is the layout I am thinking will use up a lot of 6.5" scrap squares once I have made them into 9-patches and hourglass blocks. This will be a form of Leaders and Enders as I work on other things.

Today I hope to make the binding and put it on the Orange Crush quilt. And make a label.

Sara

Gratitudes:

Slept under the Double Delight quilt last night and the warmth was perfect.

Double Delight Clue 3 & more improv

Thursday I took the day off from Double Delight and had fun, fun, fun making some more orange.pink blocks for 'project improv'. Here they are laid out on the floor to see how they look butted up against each other. More are in process but not up to 12.5" yet.

Yesterday I went back to working mostly on Clue #3 of Bonnie Hunter's Double Delight, which is pink Nine-patches. We need 130 of these babies. Right now I'm around 110. I assumed that I would have some extras that I could use in a neonatal quilt for the Guild's collection in March. Maybe not. Looks like I'm going to come out just about right!

Drove in constant snow across town for lunch with friends today, and tho' the driving was not too hard, it was a little tense, always expecting to slide around. I'm considering staying home from the symphony tonight, but will see if this snow continues or not. Hate to stop doing things because of the weather!

Sara

Gratitudes:

Four wheel drive on my Forrester

Steak AND shrimp for my noontime dinner

Happy dogs "helping" me shovel the walk

Double Delight and Another Challenge

So, having finished ALL the 240 little blocks, I fell for the idea of making the first block Bonnie described in her mystery Double Delight, rather than waiting until I had made 130 pink nine-patches. This big block requires careful pinning (PINNING!) of the little blocks together. We are going to make 30 of these, which will use up ALL of the two sets of 120 square-in-a-square blocks. Plus one of the pink nine-patches. I made one, and it made me tired.The next step is to make the Double Nine-patches that are the alternate big block. So I had to make one of these, just to SEE it, and also find out how difficult these were to put together. Easy-peasy as it turned out.
I continued making nine-patches segments for a short time, but the pile of what is left to do suddenly overcame me, and I wanted to do something else.

Reading blogs yeasterday I found that Jacquie of http://tallgrassprairiestudio.blogspot.com/ has issued a challenge to those who want to join her in 'project improv', which she describes as "to support each other in our goal to quilt improvisationally, to quilt outside the lines and to find our own voice as quilters."

Her idea is to start with wonky log cabin blocks, and agree to send in one 12.5" block (in specific color sets) to be put together into charity quilts.

So I want to try the PINK/ORANGE color group. And because I was tired of the Double Delight, I set to work and made this block:

And because you need at least two blocks going through the machine to save thread (using each as a 'leader/ender' for the other), I started another as well, and then another becausse I was cutting off tail ends. . . . but I pulled myself up short and stopped [until tomorrow].

Sara

Gratitudes:

holiday lunch with the lectionary group

compliments on my jacket

fun with orange/pink