While working on the pieced border, I decided that more of the ladies needed to join the party. A few minutes of fussy cutting/printing and I had all I needed for the extra Pickled Ladies. First up is this pair. … Continue reading
This group of fabrics has been out on my sewing table now for a few weeks. I’m contemplating making a small double wedding ring quilt using them. Or perhaps one of the orange peel variations. Or possibly another Dresden Plate … Continue reading
As usual around here, there were fabric bits scattered about last night. Could I play with them? Oh, no! They were for sunflowers, she said, or pickles or … wait a minute. Pickles? Since when is she sewing pickles? I … Continue reading
One of the many things that I’ve been working on, on and off, over the past week or so has been making more of the units for the Summer Picnic Dish quilt. I love putting together these pieced melon/arc units … Continue reading
This one is destined to be a little quilt on its own, I think. It’s a very pale sunflower that will be lost in the sea of brighter batiks I’ve been using to make the batik sunflowers, but I think … Continue reading
Well, that’s what I think this looks like — a huge pile of fabric spaghetti. What on earth possessed me? I watched this video from Gene Black’s blog post “Cutting Bias Binding“. Actually, I had watched it quite a while … Continue reading
Baxter: “What am I supposed to do when faced with a box full of little bits of fabric like this? Walk away? Not going to happen. I have to get a paw in there and see what I can manage … Continue reading
Seems Baxter may have been visiting some of Cathi’s favourite online quilt shops, thinking he was getting kitty food and toys. Imagine his chagrin if he had been shopping and then received a box marked fabric and fat quarters, instead … Continue reading
I’ve not been feeling great so have decided to take it easy the rest of the week. Never fear, though — the Baxtertoons will appear as Baxter’s taking over my blog for a couple of days with Mr. Q.O.’s help. … Continue reading
I love having a little stack of pieces all ready to stitch. They will be part of the next group of batik sunflowers. The glassine envelopes I have are too small for these, so I think I’ll start using regular … 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 