Welcome to the world

Welcome to our new granddaughter, Sophia. She was born late yesterday and I got to see her a couple of hours later. Can't wait to go back to visit again today!

Another layout idea

HMMM - how about mixing up 2 sets of WIP blocks and make an even bigger quilt?

I had this crazy idea that maybe I could put those elephant blocks in with the bowties to make a more colorful (and bigger) quilt.

So I ran down to my sewing room to get a couple of the elephant blocks. I did a little figuring, and tried a couple of options. This could work. Now I am really excited to make a couple more elephants and finish the bowties so I can finish this layout.

Sammy seemed to think some blocks are not in the right spot and just had to do a little rearranging.

Rainbow layout

Late Sunday afternoon I got impatient and began to play with the bowtie blocks that I've been working on. I still have half of them to do yet, but I just had to play with some layouts.

The first one is my favorite so far - with the colors grouped together in fluid shapes. This keeps the whole rainbow idea.

Then I tried out a scrappy look. If I went with this option I could start putting them together without waiting to finish the rest. Oh-oh, that could lead to this becoming another UFO.

But it gives me some food for thought.

Half way - give or take a few

Since I had limited time to sew today I forced myself to work on some existing project instead of following the temptation to cut into something new.

I have been plugging away on these little bowtie blocks for months now without making much progress. I would get bored and just set them aside.

They are all being cut from the charm squares I received when I participated in a "rainbow" charm pack swap. There were 112 unique charm squares in 8 different color families. I've added a few additional ones since then to try to even it out to 120.

Anyway - today I got 25 bowties put together. The total is 51 completed bowties. I have the parts all cut and ready for 8 more and maybe I'll find a little time this evening to finish those. And that leaves the much smaller pile to still work on. It does feel good to make a dent in that seemingly endless stack of charms.

Substitution

I have decided to make a substitution in my Fat Quarter Stars blocks. One of the early blocks was done using templates and my block just didn't turn out the right size.

After one more unsuccessful attempt (which didn't lay flat), I decided to make a substitution.

This block was called Ribbon Star and was from another star block series I've been watching online. I had printed out the instructions and it seemed to fit in nicely with my other blocks. I am much happier now.

Next step will be to play with layout ideas. Moose on the Porch has posted her layout and it includes framing each block with a narrow border of background and then a second narrow border of color. Then she added sashing and wide borders. I'm thinking some variation of that will be my final decision.

Stay tuned

I am away from my sewing room for a couple of days. A little work related road trip started yesterday with airline delays. I would rather be sewing. But I will return before the end of the week, I promise.

Fat Quarter Stars Block #12

This week brought the 12th and final Fat Quarter Stars block. This one is called Faceted Friendship Star.

I have the block done in the Terrain fabrics (plus the purple dot), but still need to make it in my Ellie II fabrics.

The fun thing about doing 2 sets of blocks is that once I'm done with the blocks, then I'm all ready to put together 2 quilts. And it usually doesn't take much more time to do 2 blocks at a time rather than just 1.

Now I can look forward to seeing what Moose on the Porch Quilts is going to show us for setting ideas.