Yes, it has been a very long time since I’ve worked on these. But two more were finished on the weekend. They are made with the 6.75″ Inklingo Storm at Sea collection. Because I’m doing the double diamond block, the … Continue reading
When piecing by hand, I’ve always tried to get my quilter’s knot slightly away from the end of a seam so that I don’t have to deal with it at an intersection when joining other pieces. A while ago, a friend … Continue reading
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been debating starting a new quilt top using either a Dresden Plate or Orange Peel variation. I have kept both of the Inklingo collections open on my computer as I’ve contemplated them. At … Continue reading
Over the past week or so, I’ve been stitching these. In the space of about an hour, I can stitch close to 20 of these little 2″ Drunkard’s Path units. There are 66 of them in this photo. Of the … Continue reading
While the temporary design wall was available, the Summer Picnic Dish was put up for a photo. At that point, no decision was yet made as to whether it would be a lap quilt or bed runner. A few more … Continue reading
When I had the batt taped to the wall as a temporary design wall, I put up all 8 of the finished batik 6″ sunflower blocks. The centre pale yellow one may need to be set aside for a small … Continue reading
While I had the temporary design wall up on the weekend, I decided to see how the Tiffany Lamp blocks looked. Clearly I need to make more, probably another 7 of them. I was surprised that there are so few … Continue reading
Once again, a dark Pickled Lady. A medium one. And a light one. There is one more light one left to make. Then some batting gets taped to the wall so I can sort out the placement and work begins … Continue reading
This group of fabrics intrigues me. Some of them could easily go into the New York Beauty blocks while two of the others would go well with the first group of fabrics shown on Monday. Or I could keep them … Continue reading
A very dark one. A medium one. And a very light one. Four more to go and I’ll be finished with these. I think in a way I’ll be sad to finish making the little pickled clamshells for this quilt … 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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