I was making strip weave blocks per color for the rainbow scrap challenge last year. I don't know why but, toward the end of the year, I forgot to finish the colors with this block. I took an inventory this year and decided to finish the 5 or so that I missed. I have all the blocks done and laid them out at an open sew. I have one more row to go and then, borders.
I am slowly piecing the rows for my box kite quilt. I have to be careful to turn each block the right way and start each row the right way, haha. I love the scrappy fun. This is my one monthly goal for April to have a top. The border instructions are a little bit confusing. They are not written like Bonnie's methods.
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Just a couple of seams and I will have the center done.
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I found another panel and a partial quilt top in the bag my friend gave me. There are more Dr Suess
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stash report April 14, 2024
fabric added this week:1/2 yards
Still no purchases. yippee
fabric added year to date for 2024: 11 yards
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| 70 x 83 |
182 yards used more than bought in 2024
I sewed 4 days last week.
I have missed 3 weeks with my rug hooking guild. I did stitch the first block in the second row of the Spring sampler including the red border. The Spring sampler has such sweet little birdies and signs of Spring.
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I am still catching up with purple monkey wrench blocks from March. I started making sugar grove hsts. These are the sets of 5 alike that I need in yellow. Next, I will be finding/cutting sets of 4. I have been through the big bucket of leftover triangles, and didn't find any. Most likely, I will be cutting what I need.
The strip tease pattern from sentimental stitches was a quilt that my friend and I both made. I started assembly in October of last year. The top was finished in December. Then, it went into the 'to be quilted' closet for a vacation. I was surprised that I drew the number to quilt it so soon for March. I love that it is a wonderful memory of sewing with my quilting buddy. And it was a great stashbuster.
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| 70 x 85 = 18 yards |
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This is an older ufo that has not been finished in years. I was able to sneak it in last month on the 28th to be quilted and bound as part of the 5 quilts project. It is Christmasy. So I am either, way ahead or way behind on getting this ready to use. This was a workshop using a half hexagon template by Nancy Zieman and 2 1/2 inch strips from many years ago. Now, if I only had a dining room table that was not used as a secondary sewing space, I would have a place to use it.
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| 20 x 36 inches = 3 yards |
In 2018 I was determined to use my scrap crazy templates or get rid of them. I saw a picture of a quilt that was different than the usual way of using the templates, that I decided to try. I sewed a print strip and a background strip together and used one of the templates to make 60 degree triangles. It has been waiting in the UFO closet since then. When I opened the box, there were 50 sets of 6 triangles pinned together. They are not very big and I wasn't sure how I would proceed. I decided I would sew them in halves and join them.
