I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. As I was enjoying a wonderfully prepared
meal, I realized how grateful I am that my brother, Casey, is the most awesome
cook I know. Especially since I don’t
cook. I ate more that day than I do in a
normal week, and I could barely move for a couple of days. Life is good.
Since this is the start of my second year, I decided to
change my background – I loved the orange, but thought this was pretty awesome,
too. What do you think?
For the last couple of weeks, I have been working on
quilting the sampler quilt I made from the Block of the Month class on
Craftsy. I am happy to report it is all finished
in time to give away at Christmas-
The back is just a solid pink cotton. I did not do a good
job on the machine quilting, but this is the first time I have completely
finished a quilt on my machine. I just
stitched about a quarter inch around the colored parts of the blocks and some
of them look really lousy. My machine
has a really small harp, so shoving the quilt through it over and over really
took a toll – on me and the machine! I
feel a bit stronger after all that, and I managed to push the walking foot out
of alignment a couple of times.
I had decided long ago that I would be giving this quilt
to my granddaughter Layla for Christmas – every time she saw the blocks, she
would ask if it was for her. When I said
that I was making it for me, she asked, “Can you make another exactly like it
for me?” so at least I know she is going to like it. I do not believe I will be making another just
like this – at last count there were over 30 different fabrics in it and some I
completely ran out of – and I do not think I have the patience for putting
together so many odd sized blocks again!
So now, I have to get the fishbowl quilt finished in time
to give to Harry for Christmas. I
believe for that one, I am going to bite the bullet – I will put the embroidery
foot on the machine and just go to town with the squiggles so I don’t have to
try to follow any lines. I am hoping
that by the time I am almost finished with it I will have learned how to
control the fabric and machine together pretty well!
Last time I was here, I mentioned I was thinking about
making another Quick Quarter Quilt out of the orange fabrics I have. I pulled them all out and found I had 26 of
them. I narrowed my selection down to 11,
which was very difficult to do. This was
what I had after cutting 2 ½” strips and deciding how to lay them out-
It needed something to break up all that orange, and I
had this really great blue and orange fabric I have always wanted to put into
something, so I inserted it and really liked it –
It really added the something I wanted. I sewed them into tubes-Which I then cut varying widths with a shape cutting ruler
This is as far as I have gotten so far – I really love
how vibrant it is and how the blue really pops.
It’s not big – only 24 ½” X 29” and I probably won’t add too wide of
borders to it once it is straightened out.
I think it will look lovely hanging on a wall someday. This Study
in Orange is inspiring me to do the same thing in red, yellow, green, blue,
and purple – make an entire rainbow! We
have a really big wall by the front door where they could all hang – I don’t
think anyone would object. <like they would have a choice, hehehe>
So, plan for tonight is basting the fishbowls. Hope you have something fun to do as well –
thanks for stopping by!
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