Is it Monday again already? It was a chilly wet weekend so you know there was plenty of time spent in the sewing room. About a half inch of rain fell on Saturday followed by an inch of snow that evening. A repeat might happen tomorrow or the next day. And we're thankful for any little bit of moisture we get.
The Pyramid blocks are ready to sew into rows. There is a cream background that will be used for some "half" pyramids to straighten out those sides. There are 5 extra blocks remaining in the project box as "seed" for something else.
The 10th block (of 12) for Circle of Friends has been posted by Carol Doak. This is a beauty, and I hope to choose well when deciding on color placement. This is a paper pieced block, but we're only doing 1 block per month.
My desire to reduce the quilting clutter (UFOs and WIPs and PIGs) is continuing this week with the clearing out of a little more "stuff".
Placemats and mug rugs are resulting from some of the things rescued from that stuff. After finishing the quilt top using the Jelly Roll Race last week, there was still a big chunk of the jelly roll sections remaining. Rather than putting it into a bag in a drawer or dropping it into scrap bins, I decided to use it to make some placemats and mug rugs. This little stack is ready for hand stitching the binding.
While placemats were on my mind and because teal is the RSC color for April, this block came out of the orphan block box, and is now ready to quilt for a placemat. The Drunkard's Path was something I made during a guild workshop several years ago. I just never knew what I wanted to do with it, and didn't have any more of either fabric. So it has languished with the orphan blocks. But the leftovers from Tranquility (a 2025 finish) were just the right colors. The 2 lighter teal pieces were added to the sides to make this 18" wide, and the darker teals yielded enough strips to make binding. Now I need to do some simple quilting on this one.
I also chose 2 blocks I'd tested out for Quilts of Valor that were in with the orphans, and made a couple of patriotic placemats. Those are also quilted and ready for hand stitching the binding. The backing is was a gift of fabric from Nann, and the scraps of that striped backing have been mostly used up in 4 RWB mug rugs. These will be good ones with that bold stars and stripes.
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3 comments:
Those pyramid diamond blocks are really cool. You've been moving along on the project progress front. That paper pieced block looks complicated, looking forward to seeing that one come together.
Orphan blocks can be a challenge to use. Mug rugs and placemats are perfect projects for them.
You are really covering all the bases here. Progress on pyramids, a challenging paper piecing block to ponder and whipping out a bunch of placemats and mug rugs. Have you thought of putting the binding on the back side of the placemats and mug rugs and just pull it to the front and machine stitch? I hate the hand sewing of binding and almost every binding I do I machine stitch both sides. I'm always surprised to hear people love to do that part of the finishing. Hope you get a little more rain but no flooding! We are low on rainfall also but Monday night we had quite the storm.
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