It is August 30th and I have not finished as many
of my tops in the tub and the cupboard as I had hoped, but I am making a dent
in my stash.
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| The Rest of Bill's White Shirt |
I have pieced a few tops
and quilted a lot of customer quilts.
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| Detail of Line Dancing I use on the little crib quilts |
My vacations every quarter have not
included much of my own quilting. I did
3 in March but I did none in June. I
have a week off coming up in September but I think I might be up to my armpits
in alligators and the bathroom redo upstairs should be in progress if the mid
-September start happens as promised. Mid to late July got backed to September
because of the weather slowing the crew down on the job before mine.
I have almost finished sewing the bindings down on my pile
of quilts and I thought I’d get the girls to help me hang them on the
port-a-stand so I could get pictures of them to post. I have one left to sew
the binding down and I will have to motivate myself to start quilting something
of my own again for continued hand work in the evenings.
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| Red and Blue Big Block Log Cabin Queen size |
The first quilt I pieced this summer was the red and blue queen sized log cabin.
This big block pattern has captured my attention and I have made 5 so
far. #4 is the R&B one and I also
got crazy and cut tumblers out of reds, white/creams, and blue from fabric that
finds its way into my house and made the backing from the tumblers.
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| Tumbler backing for Red and Blue BBLC #4 |
I was delighted with the outcome so I forged
ahead and cut out a green and brown pile of tumblers and sewed big block log cabins
from my green and brown bags of 2” strips.
I found when I did the R&B one that the little log cabins I did for
the border didn’t work out as well as I had hoped because the short sides of
the quilt used an uneven count of blocks and the little log cabins wouldn’t
pattern out properly for me. I put a plain block on each short end to solve my dilemma.
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| Green and Brown Big Block Log Cabin Queen size |
On the green and brown big block log cabin, I
made the small block border into Court House Step blocks and I was much happier
with my results. The tumbler backing on
it is stunning and the border fabric I found in my stash was a perfect blend of
the correct brown covered with little squares of color that were in the quilt
blocks. It was serendipitous to say the
least.
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| Tumbler backing for BBLC #5 |
The twin quilts are from my box of bricks and my box of 5
inch squares. These will find their way
to new homes in the next run to the quilt shop to drop them off. It seems there
is always a disaster or a person who could use some TLC and a quilt hopefully
conveys the thought that someone “out there” is thinking of someone for a
moment in time.
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| Brick sidewalk tile design Twin |
I still have at least 2 dozen crib quilts in my tub of tops
my sister made for me several years ago (she did about 250 tops for me from 5”
squares) that await quilting and then I think I will be done being charitable
for a while.
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| 5 inch squares Twin |
I will need to think up a
new quilting resolution for 2016 that involves getting the fabric out of here
before I can’t see the door anymore.
They all look lovely, I like the log cabin ones, but really love the tumbler backing. I'd be inclined to put that side up if I had one of those on my bed.
ReplyDeleteThe reversibility of the tumbler backing adds to the charm. My friends thought I was crazy for going to all that trouble just for a backing. But I wanted it to be wonderful on both sides.
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