swept away

I finished piecing the sea swept cornerstone blocks at Friday quilt group.

And then I had to trim them. I used the studio 180 squared squared to trim them.

And then I counted them - sigh, I am 6 short. hmm- maybe I had the steps backward. haha

But, they are beautiful and I am so pleased.

Sue is back to Friday group after covid. We have missed her.

and I gave Linda her quilt back after quilting it. It was a beauty.

I am linking:

Monday Making

design wall monday 

oh scrap

boms away 

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to do tuesday

wednesday wait loss

needle and thread Thursdays 

creations friday

one monthly goal

moving on with sea swept

I have all the snails trail blocks finished for sea swept. And it was time to figure out how I was going to make the sashings without a pattern. The actual pattern is for paper piecing, and my blocks are machine pieced and larger than the pattern makes.

Linda's 3 and mine

I remembered a template I have from studio 180 and I could even find it... hooray. But, I wasn't sure how to make it a double square in a square. You tube told me,   I needed the technique sheet with a chart. While I was purchasing, I watched how to make winding ways? and I thought I would buy the diamond rects as well.

So, I have started cutting

And this is all the easy breezy blocks I made last week. Far from my intended goal of 2 per day.

I am linking:

Monday Making

design wall monday 

oh scrap

boms away 

I am linking to:

to do tuesday

wednesday wait loss

needle and thread Thursdays 

creations friday

mystery quilts

Time to hurry and finish the on ringo lake mystery quilt from quiltville. Bonnie has ramped up the last of the clues and today was the reveal. I am toggling between the last clues. I needed to starch the fabric for the coral triangles in clue 6. I have a few more to trim on clue 5 and I have sewn half of the clue 7 together because the pieces were all done earlier.
I am choosing to do the studio 180 technique for the flying geese using the wing clipper template. I used it in clue 2 and I really liked it. I like that it makes 4 at a time.

Jo of Jo's Country Junction has a string fling challenge each Monday. She is planning on making all the quilts from one book called String fling.  When I did the tally from my book. I was surprised how many I have started. But, for my challenge, I want to finish all the mystery quilts from Quiltville. I have them all started and several just need quilting. So for 2018, I plan to finish all 16 mystery quilts.


2007 Carolina Crossroads - I need borders

April 2008 Orange Crush - finished in 2017

August 2008 Tobacco Road - finished in 2017

January 2009 Double Delight - just needs assembled and borders

January 2009 Christmas Lights (3 parts in Quiltmaker magazine) - just needs quilted

2009 Carolina Christmas - just needs quilted

2010 Roll Roll Cotton Boll - needs assembled and so on.

2011 Orca Bay - I think I have the string part finished

2012 Easy Street - just needs quilted

2013 Celtic Solstice - just needs quilted

March 2013 Lazy Sunday (3 parts in Quiltmaker magazine) - just needs quilted

2014 Grand Illusion - finished
2014 Grand illusion denise schmidt fabrics - needs borders

2015 Allietare! - needs borders and so on
2016 En Provence bright - finished 2017
2016 En Provence civil war - needs quilted
2017 On Ringo Lake - in pieces.

I am linking to:

Jos country junction

Making Monday  link in sidebar

Moving it Forward Monday 

main Crush Monday   link in sidebar

show and tell monday

design wall monday   

boms away   link in sidebar

and there is a mystery link up at Quiltville