I couldn’t resist and made one of the 6″ baskets last night. I have some French General fabrics that have been waiting for just the right project. The baskets may be just the perfect project for them. I think I’ll … Continue reading
Want to see something really, really cute that’s really, really tiny? Of course you do! Look at these itsy-bitsy 3″ baskets! Yesterday three new Inklingo basket collections were released for 3″, 4.5″ and 6″ basket blocks. Each collection has some … Continue reading
While I was making the butterfly and wild floral kaleidoscope stars, I had to make a few more of the little mauve and pink kaleidoscope stars. It’s impossible to make only one. Or two. Each seam is only 1.25″, so … Continue reading
The butterfly fabric was another one that was meant for kaleidoscope stars. And I couldn’t resist making a few last weekend. First one. Then another. I couldn’t stop. That ah-hah moment as each one is finished is impossible to resist. Each … Continue reading
My reward for finishing the piecing of Summer Picnic Dish was to stitch a few kaleidoscope stars. I started with the wild floral kaleidoscope stars. Each one takes only a few minutes. And they are so much fun to see … Continue reading
As soon as I finished pressing it, we took this photo of the finished Summer Picnic Dish quilt top. The last stitch was taken at approximately 10:30 on Friday night and the pressing was done yesterday. This is the first … Continue reading
Why is this the final progress report? Because these are all that’s left to add to the Summer Picnic Dish. Five setting pieces and that’s it! It will be done before tonight’s baseball game is finished. And the Summer Picnic … Continue reading
The 28 melon/arc combos have been added to centres and the remaining seven rings I needed to finish the quilt top are now made. Pressed and seams graded. I joined the first four of the rings to the quilt top … Continue reading
Very late Sunday night I finished making the melon/arc combos for the Summer Picnic Dish. I love seeing this stack of all 28 of them all done! I grouped them into sets of four so stitching the rings will go … Continue reading
I’m still working away on the Summer Picnic Dish arc/melon combos. Only eight more to make and I’ll be ready to put the rings together and add them to the body of the quilt top! So with any luck, by … Continue reading
All of the little stars are now made and last night I started surrounding them with the white squares. It takes less than an hour to get two stars surrounded.
Seams graded and pressed.
There are now 17 of the little stars left to surround with the white squares. From here on out, it’s just nothing but continuous stitching to add the squares, then the connecting red diamonds and octagons and turn this into a finished quilt top. If I can stay focused, and I am pretty intent on doing just that, I could have this finished by the end of next week and be ready to quilt it next weekend.
I may take some time out this weekend and get the binding ready for Candy Stars as well as start printing for the Inklingo Periwinkle reverse mystery quilt. I think I’ve finally decided on the colours I want to work with for the Periwinkle quilt. No big surprise here — it will be pinks, pinks and more pinks. Maybe a mauve thrown in for a little relief from the pink. Maybe. Lessons 1 to 4 are available, free, at the All About Inklingo blog.
If you’re here to see who won the giveaway from the April Showers post, the winner will be announced later this afternoon after Baxter picks a winner.
“Mum’s Making Stars” is the title of today’s ‘toon.
As we were setting up to take pictures of the two little blue stars, he was right there just waiting for his photo to be taken because, after all, there is nothing that we could possibly want to photograph other than him!
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