sprung

  

Spring came a month early and so the garden needed some attention.  It’s been really windy and warm or cold. The weather can’t seem to make up its mind. Oh,  and Tasmania pinched all the rain.  Pretty sure they would have a happily shared some as they’ve had an awful lot.

Now I can sew down the binding on the Arkansas Traveller quilt - my favourite part of making a quilt.

When it’s been too windy to work in the garden, the Granny Squares got some attention.

Still a quite a few more to make but having fun in the process.

unfinished

 While searching for fabrics in the stash  to make the RSC blocks, I re-discovered some unfinished projects.

This one was put aside because the large blue squares just don’t look right and I couldn’t decide how to fix it. I think looking at it know, I’m going to remove them and make some more star blocks instead. 

These are related but in this quilt top the big blue squares look okay.  More borders needed on this one.

This is the centre of a reproduction Civil War fabric quilt. The original pattern makes rather a large quilt and I stopped when I had a little anxiety about how I would manage to quilt it.

These are the blocks in the next border and they are meant to be pieced on point. Not sure if I will travel down that route but we’ll see. 

These are a pieced top - there are more blocks but I haven’t yet found the right fabric for the border. 

Plenty to keep me busy that’s for sure.

granny

 

Work continues on the Granny Squares. I’m going to need a few of these. Fabric is a layer cake of Fresh Cottons by Figtree Quilts from about 10 years ago.

Meantime I’m quilting the border on the Arkansas Traveller quilt. Saw this design on a YouTube video. I think it’s going to work. Just need to work out how the sides will flow on from here.  Inspiration will strike no doubt.

rsc august - orange

 

Orange is the colour for August in the 2024 Rainbow Scrap Challenge. See what others have been making here.

July - Aqua

June - Blue

May - Pink

April - Yellow

March - Purple

February - Red

January - Green

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.