It’s done! Completely done! It measures 52 x 64″, so it is a nice nap size.
This has been on my quilting machine since the beginning of the month or maybe the last month and too many other things grabbed my attention. However since it is on my list of things I wanted to accomplish this month, I started quilting it first thing this morning and bound it this afternoon. It is Christmas fabrics, so I will put it aside for street mission or another donation closer to Christmas.
January’s block is all finished – including the stitching. These take a bit of time, but aren’t difficult. She still has the patterns up on line if you would like to make them.
And I must share that the bantam baby chicks are now perching. Here’s a prayer for a great weekend for each of you.
2014
04/24
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Today I was scheduled for the dentist. I tried, honestly, I did. But the rain was heavy enough that there were many accidents and people weren’t getting anywhere. After an hour and a half trying to get there, I gave up, came home and rescheduled. So my nerves needed calming and here we go.
“On Grandpa’s Pond“, applique pattern uses a double stick fusible web where one draws on the paper side of the web (the other side eventually is peeled off and the web gets stuck to the back of the fabric).
After drawing, the pattern is roughly cut out and pressed to the desired fabric which is then cut out accurately.
I remove the back paper on these roughly cut pieces and then press them to the WRONG side of the fabric I’m using for that piece.
Sometimes as on the red one, I pressed it to the right side, which meant, I got to cut out another pattern piece and another fabric piece. The green one is correctly on the wrong side of the fabric.
Many pieces overlap slightly. When I have them laid out to my satisfaction, I press in place on the background. I then zigzag with a small stitch around the pieces. (not yet done) I like to use a polyester invisible thread for this. It holds nicely and unless you really examine it, it isn’t that noticeable.
This is the boat that is also part of January’s pattern. On this piece, it has me do stitching before adhering the next piece.
So until next time, I’ll stop here.
It seems that the Sew Fun days are coming closer together – but I guess it’s really just that my days are full enough they pass quickly. Today we were shown some Anita Goodesign products made up
Here are some seed packets one might enjoy In the house.
And what a great way to have the silverware and napkins ready for each person at a picnic!
The teacher showed us an eyeglass case and then a beautiful baby quilt with Anita Goodesign Nursery rhyme designs. What was really lovely about this quilt was the rhymes were actually part of the picture. It made an unusual and beautiful baby quilt.
The switch was then made to talking about spring clothing of which I don’t have photos. She had a few Nancy Zieman patterns and told us these patterns had excellent illustrations and are very easy to construct. She also had some simple gifts from “Sew Knits with confidence” by Nancy Zieman that were simple with a seam or two and looked quite attractive.
Here are the 4 new hats for the Knitter’s gift BOM
They will be added to the other blocks done in previous months.
Tired of cleaning, and with bad news to digest, I took time to do some more sewing. Here are the results. 5 blocks from yesterday and 4 blocks from today. These blocks are going together amazingly good. And now, I’m caught up on this BOM until next month.
2014
04/17
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Debbie has names this quilt “Stars of Honor”. It is a lap quilt meant to be 54 x 70.
First I drew a diagonal line across the lighter piece of fabric. I did this to all the pieces before I started sewing.
Then I sewed right beside that line, checked to make sure that when I folded it up, it would match the red piece. Then sewed it again 3/8 – 1/2″ farther away from the piece I need. I then cut between the two lines.
In this way, I have the little half squares for another project. Had I not sewn them first, they probably would wind up tossed as the little pieces on bias are difficult to sew. These little half squares are about 7/8″ trimmed. and will finish at just under 1/2″ – very small.
I then repeated this on the other end of the brown pieces. Oh, look!. A mistake as one is reversed. And look again, I mistakenly cut off the triangle on this one.
It happens. I just cut new pieces and kept going.
This is the front and here is the back so you can see how the seams nest neatly
Two of these pieces are sewn together and then two of those pieces are again sewn together. Here is the finished block – well actually 5 of this block are required for the quilt. See how the one quarter is turned and then again.
After this, it was cleaning time again. Now the kitchen is nearly too clean to use.
Back home to the animals, it was hoof stock time and he loved that they would come to him if he had a bit of grain in the bucket. Nana tired out, but tomorrow we will be out there with the bucket once again.
