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Tuesday, August 13, 2024

All day sewing

It was a grey drizzly day yesterday, and I'm a fair weather golfer or walker.  So it was my excuse for staying inside and sewing.  Besides, if I'm in the basement sewing I'm not snacking. 


The 4 new blocks for our Saturday Sampler are finished.  These will be part of the center of this particular quilt.  This was #5 of 10 months.


All 8 of the blocks for the Tranquility mystery are also done.  That means we have a total of 24 blocks made so far in 3 months.  I'm not super pleased with some of these as the outside edges are a bit ragged.  The instructions had us make the HST using large squares marked with diagonals so we ended up sewing 8 at once.  I wish I had cut my squares slightly oversized because some of the HSTs were not quite the right size.  


One more little project . . . the monthly project for the Tilda Club hosted at the local quilt shop.  Each month they demo a small project via Facebook Live.  A sewing night is usually held later in the month too. But this month they challenged everyone to come up with their own project - using their basic instructions.  We were to cut 3" strips WOF in 2 fabrics, sew down each long side, and then cut into HSTs.  Yield would be 16 triangles.  Well, I decided to use fat quarters, so I cut 3 strips of each fabric.  And I used the slotted triangle trimmer ruler to cut slightly bigger triangles.  There are only about 5 stitches across that top point, and they pick out easily.  So, I have 18 HSTs to play with.  Now to decide what to do with them.  There is plenty of both fat quarters left if I need to cut any more.


I just had to play with another of the Facets blocks.  Of course I couldn't stop with just one.


Since I'm still procrastinating on that bag finish, I cut the pieces for 2 more Facets blocks.  And pieces for some other orange RSC blocks.  And organized the bin holding all of the mug rug parts and pieces, which led to finding a couple of other small UFO projects mixed in with the mug rug things - because I get lazy sometimes and just set things aside anywhere.  Much more cleaning and organizing is certainly needed in my sewing space.  

6 comments:

Vicki in MN said...

It would be easier to organize if we had bigger rooms with all the beautiful white cabinets don't you think!! How do you like the slotted trimmer, do you use it a lot?

Nann said...

Oh, that rainbow pinwheel jumps off the screen! Still lots of sunshine here.

Tired Teacher 2 said...

Love the bright/dark fabrics Facet block. They will make a stunning quilt.

Far Side of Fifty said...

Those facet blocks are so pretty, I like the next colors you have chosen!

cityquilter grace said...

wow love those facets blocks....colorific!

Kate said...

You had a productive rainy day. Your rainbow pinwheel and the Facets blocks are my favorites. Hope you get more stitching time today.