RSC26 - Week #19

Another good week of sewing, but not as much orange as I hoped.

Early in the week I got 2 Snail Trail blocks made, as Leaders/Enders while working on something else.  But now that the high priority project is behind me I can focus on more RSC sewing. I've been making 4 of each color every month.

Yesterday I got 2 more made. 
 

And 3 orange Hollow-9 blocks joined the pack.  They were a good reminder that I have a baby quilt of Hollow-9 blocks ready to quilt, by me on my regular machine.  I need to bite the bullet next week and work on that.

Let's go check out more Rainbow fun . . .

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Finished (or Not) Friday

One finish for this week can't be shown yet . . . but I do have the flimsy done for the mystery quilt pattern test.  I'll either take it to Mariah later today or can drop it off (hidden in a bag) when I go for Saturday Sampler tomorrow.  The flimsy is 74 x 86, and turned out very pretty.  But I probably won't be able to show a picture until early fall, once the mystery clues have all been shared with the participants.

However, I am excited to show off the other finish for this week.  This is Ribbon, a QOV pattern by Alycia for a sew-along.  I finished binding it while watching Survivor on Wednesday night.  Thank you Alycia for this amazing pattern.

It's not a finish but I did make some progress was made yesterday on the mini quilt for May.  One of the 3 flowers is done.  For general information there are over 60 tiny 1" squares in this kit, so it is kind of slow going.  

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Some midweek progress

Monday morning I did manage to cut all the remaining pieces for the mystery quilt pattern test, and I got a little bit of sewing done for the final 2 clues.  Yesterday I had quite a bit of sewing time on this project, and I'm now ready to begin assembling the quilt top.  

I've already shown you the colors I'm using before, so here is just a little peek from one of the clues for this mystery.  There are strip sets involved, but that's as detailed as I can tell you.  I'm really excited to see what colors and fabrics all the shops choose for their mystery quilt kits this summer during the shop hop.    

While I was in cutting mode, I also cut more pieces for QOV blocks and RSC blocks to use as Leaders/Enders this week. Pieces are ready for 2 orange Snail Trail blocks, and parts are cut for several more of the Echo blocks for Quilts of Valor.

 That cutting marathon also yielded the parts for the mini quilt with the flowers and spools.  I've been just moving this kit around in my sewing room for 2 weeks, but it's finally layed out on a design board to be at least started this week.  

This coming weekend is Saturday Sampler and Sew Vintage. I'm all ready for both, with the sewing already done.  But I did need to get things organized to take with me on Saturday morning.  This month for SS we made 18 flying geese, and sewed them into 2 sections.  My geese are done with only 2 colors, navy blue and aqua.  

Sharing an artist's work

 

Because I have nothing of my own to share yet today, I thought I would share something really beautiful from last weekend's guild meeting.  This quilt was enormous, well over 100" wide. The blocks were antique, and all done by hand with cross stich.  

The ladies at the local "senior center" hand quilted this beauty and one brought it to guild so everyone could see it. Isn't it gorgeous?  Using the solid colors gave the quilt a lovely mix of antique and modern.  I'm sure the owner will be thrilled.  

Design Wall Monday - May 4

I have very little to share today in terms of progress or plans.  HMMM . . .

I'm about halfway around a Quilt of Valor with the binding.  A striped binding always makes me smile.  So does that quilting design on this one, done by our state QOV coordinator for us.  

I'm still working on that mystery quilt pattern test, but plan to be all done with the quilt top by the end of this week.  This morning I hope to have the pieces for week 6 all cut out, and begin sewing.  Week 6 appears to be a mirror image of the week 5 blocks - which by the way, required some assistance from my seam ripper. I had some problems with diagonals.  Wish I could show how this is coming together, but it's a mystery.  

Once the pattern test is done, then I'll work on a small project - the May mini in The Year of Spools series.  Once that is done, we'll have just one more.  This is one of the cuter kits, but has a LOT of little corners that will need trimming.

My afternoon plans involve playing cards with some girl friends.   

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RSC26 - Week #18

These orange flying geese blocks happened because of the pattern I'm testing for a local designer.  I wanted to try out the technique with my own fabric before cutting and sewing them in the designer's fabric.  So, orange is what I chose to experiment with for the geese.  I'm sure these will get used in something before long. 

The only orange RSC blocks I got around to so far are 5 of the reversed Buckeye blocks.  But I know next week I'll be diving into that orange scrap bin and having some fun. 

I looked through the closet to see if there were any flimsies hanging in there that had a lot of orange.  Turns out - yes!!  That was not a surprise.  This is a small quilt from 2024 called Summer Getaway.  It was a Sew Sampler box project, mostly navy blue and orange.  So, I'll see if I can find a good backing, and get this UFO across the finish line this month. 

There is a doll quilt with lots of a coral/orange too, so maybe that can be another May finish.

Let's go check out more Rainbow fun . . .

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Road trip and more

I'm working on week 4 of the mystery pattern test. Steady progress, with just a few questions for the designer to clarify a step or two.  Nothing I can show however.  

Tuesday evening we made a short road trip to Sioux Falls for granddaughter Olivia's spring orchestra concert.  She plays the viola in the 6th grade orchestra at her middle school. I'm glad we're only an hour away.   

The difference from the fall concert to the spring concert is quite amazing as their skills grow dramatically.  In her case, this is her 3rd year playing the viola.  The music was really good, and I'm so glad we were able to be there. 

Over the weekend, I finished up a third set of the Sew Vintage star blocks to add to the collection (top 3) for the pizza box challenge.  I had the pieces already cut from the RWB scraps I had been trying to organize.  So it made sense to get those blocks sewn.  The bottom 3 blocks are "test" blocks I've been playing with as possible QOV group blocks. Actually that bottom left block is the paper pieced one I did, and I know most of our ladies have no interest in doing any paper piecing, but it's still going into the box.  It will be fine in a sampler.  The other 2 blocks on the bottom definitely show me how important good contrast is.