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:
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?
Oh, that rainbow pinwheel jumps off the screen! Still lots of sunshine here.
Love the bright/dark fabrics Facet block. They will make a stunning quilt.
Those facet blocks are so pretty, I like the next colors you have chosen!
wow love those facets blocks....colorific!
You had a productive rainy day. Your rainbow pinwheel and the Facets blocks are my favorites. Hope you get more stitching time today.
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