Category Archive: quilts
This has been a day of blessings and rest for us.
The mailman brought these yesterday (we get our mail about 5 pm or later), but I’m going to be very good and wait until late fall or winter to use them. They are dies for my GO cutter, which saves a lot of time and gives accuracy. The middle one is to make raw edge quilts. They will go much faster with the fringe cut with the machine.. I already have the fabric in mind for the umbrella quilt. But I will wait. Perhaps I will get all the pillowcases done and a couple more I spy quilts for Christmastime done first.
And then there is the computer upgrade that is now on my quilting machine that I must make time to learn before I can do some more quilts. Have you notice that learning never stops?
The block for this month’s Globetrotting represents Paris, France.
These are the blocks for this year so far.
I also worked on pillowcases some more, but since I am doing one step on several at a time before moving on, I don’t have more completed yet to show you
Slow progress is still progress – just ask the tortoise. That is how these socks are going to get done. A bit here and there as I can. I’m still spinning, but that’s difficult to show. And of course the Fitbit is grabbing an hour and a half each day. 12,000 steps is a lot of stepping.
The July block of the month is done. It was very easy and I enjoyed it.
Here are all 7 months for 2014. I think it will be a great Christmas quilt.
I’d like to show you that I made progress on the knitting and I did -= until I had to take out 8 rows due to a couple dropped stitches as I was doing cables. So I went back to where I was at the last photo and am ready to start again.
Lesson learned: If I don’t wish to make a quilt and my whole being says “no”, don’t say yes. This was such a quilt. And when my heart isn’t in it, it just doesn’t turn out like it could have.
I will bind it later and someone will be toasty warm.
This quilt has been a challenge from the beginning and quilting has caused more problems than the rest. I did end up getting the machine cleaned and now it runs much more smoothly. So while that was happening the quilt stayed on the machine partly done.
All the interior blocks are now finished and I’m guessing she will have us do the star points and rectangles next time. But I’m liking how it has gone together. It will easily be finished by Thanksgiving which is the goal.
Again I took time to practice spinning, but can you tell me why is it when we have longer, sunnier days, it seems I get less done. Oh, wait, it must be because my body thinks it’s vacation time. And then again, perhaps it is because we went grocery shopping and to the chiropractor. That does eat into time. Or shall I blame it on this Fitbit that wants me to walk 10,000 steps daily.
And the bad news is that one of the neighbor’s house was broken into sometime between 8:30 and 2. She has dogs and a locked gate. I guess whoever could see the dogs are locked in the back yard. Perhaps the most immediate neighbors didn’t notice any barking – that is if the dogs did bark. That doesn’t make me feel better. I have big dogs, but they bark enough off and on at coyotes that I’m reasonably sure my neighbors on either side would not come running to see at what they were barking..
