wintry

 

It was properly winter here in Sydney this weekend. Cold and wet on Saturday. Cold and windy on Sunday.

Perfect conditions for staying indoors and working on some projects. Quilting has started on the Arkansas Traveller. Mostly walking foot as the batting is a wool/polyester mix so a little too bulky to push around under the free motion foot.

This quilt sandwich has been pin-basted. I’ve found that the glue basting technique is not as effective on the wool batting. 

Figtree Quilts Fresh Cottons

This layer cake is the next in the stash that I want to use. Karensquilting posted the other day about her frustration with quilt patterns wasting so much fabric these days.

Agree. Especially when all you have is a layer cake. Too expensive to be cutting off unusable pieces. Looking round for a suitable project, Granny Squares kept popping up on my internet searches. 

At least it’s only the background fabric that is wasted. Not great but as it’s usually purchased on sale, discounted if you buy the end of the bolt or occasionally a good size piece from the remnant bin, not as bad. 

rsc july aqua

 

Don't have a lot of aqua in the stash so a small amount had to be purchased for this block.

Now I have some leftover for the the next time I make an RSC quilt.

Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2024

June - Blue

May - Pink

April - Yellow

March - Purple

February - Red

January - Green

Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2017

sashed

 

Not a lot of sewing this week/weekend but there were enough left over jellyroll strips to sash the Arkansas Traveller blocks.

The striped strips from the roll will be used for the binding.

Spotlight (like JoAnn’s I think) has 50% off quilt backing at the moment so hopefully I’ll be able to find something suitable.