After printing the shapes on fabric from last week’s clue in the Case of the Secret Garden mystery quilt, I then stitched the blocks from that clue. Once they were all done, I couldn’t resist putting them up on the … Continue reading
When we got a flat panel television a few years ago, we had to rearrange furniture as it wouldn’t fit in the wall unit and ended up blocking three drawers. Three drawers in which I have quilt-related items. Some of … Continue reading
My fascination with the tiny LeMoyne Stars seems endless. Ever since I started making the octagon stars doll bed quilt, the ideas for other quilts using the tiny stars have been taking over. I’ve had these two containers full of … Continue reading
On Monday, clue 5 in the Case of the Secret Garden came out and we are now starting to stitch the pieces into blocks. Of course, I had to put the first 8 I had stitched up on the design … Continue reading
I just can’t resist these little beauties so a couple more were added to the doll bed quilt. The next set of connecting red diamonds and octagon have been added as well so that another pair of stars can be … Continue reading
Last week was a challenge when it came to keeping up with the mystery quilt. I got the cutting done, thanks to the video on cutting curves with a rotary cutter but, as I was working on two other projects, … Continue reading
These little stars for the Octagon Stars doll bed quilt are impossible for me to resist. I can’t make just one. Or two. Or three, four or five. No, I have to make an even half-dozen of them. It’s such … Continue reading
Yesterday was, as they promised, a messy day – snow, rain, then snow again. We didn’t get a lot of snow in comparison to many other places but it was a good day to be home and stitching. And stitch … Continue reading
I decided last night that I had to make one of each of the other four so I’d have all five partial blocks to use as a guide for completing this week’s clue. And that’s what I did. They’re very … Continue reading
Clue 4 of the Case of the Secret Garden was released yesterday. It involved more printing of shapes with curves which is now, thanks to this video, a breeze with rotary cutting. If anyone had told me a month ago … 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!
Quilt Obsession 