The quilt has come out beautifully. And full of love, it shows. Also the box looks very nice. The sunflower will be a great finishing touch. I'm anxious to get through some more yard stuff and back to indoor projects too.
We've come into a heat wave, so I picked raspberries and water in the morning, then come inside. I go back to work tomorrow then the kids come back next Tuesday, the day after Labor Day.
I just need to sew the edges and this quilt is finished. The colors AR not as muted as the pictures show. The backing as a turquoise. The teacher is having her in a couple weeks so I actually will have the quilt done just in time. And, of course, something was on the floor so Minney had to lay on it.She put a few wrinkles in it but it lays flat when she doesn't decide to walk and play before lying down.
That's perfect! It will be a beloved quilt! The border suits it perfectly, very nice touch! I did some quilt work this week. I want to complete another row of blocks before posting a photo.
Thanks, I can't wait to see what you're working on! I gave it to the teacher with the kids present. They loved it. She told me the next day she and her husband were talking about how it fit with the nursery and she (the baby) could have tummy time on it. So I was so happy she !liked it.
Here are the first four, of sixteen, blocks for the circles quilt. The big circles are pretty easy. The small ones add some variety, but are harder to get right. I've had some medical stuff and less time for garden plus normal stuff plus quilt, so it's a long process. This will have a border made from more cotton shirt fabric. I processed those shirts - wash, cut apart, starch, press - last week. I see a mistake in two of the blocks - repeats I don't want. I think I will take them back apart and redo them.
Wow! That looks really nice, Daniel. Are those shirt fabrics? I very seldom see any that aren't plaid.
My brother and his wife sent me a quilt kit. And she added some other things in it as well. This is the color my granddaughter chose. And this is the pattern. She also sent the square rulers and the small 3 inch ruler, and of course extra rotary cutter blades. I can't wait to get started!
Finally. Finally I cut all of the fabric, and sewed all of the quarter circles onto square backgrounds. Now I'm arranging them before sewing together. That is the first half. I still want to move a few around. Then I'll add the second half. Altogether there are 200 pieces. Fortunately, the slowest and most difficult part is sewingll of the curved seams. I finished that part today. This quilt is a gift for a friend. I asked her to choose the fabric, so it would be a custom quilt for her. I also offered a choice of patterns. She chose this one.
Thanks Sjoerd, Willow, Pac, Logan, for your kind comments. Here is my sewing station now. I did have a much larger, very heavy duty, black, solid wood library table. But it took up too much space in this small room. When we moved everything out of the in-law house, I got my oak table back. It belonged to my great aunt, and before her my great grandparents. After my great aunt died, my parents asked me if I wanted this table. That was fifty years ago. I refinished it (the original finish was very dark, like the chair). My dad made leg extensions to fill in for missing casters, to raise the height a bit. This was my studying table and home work table for countless (hundreds, maybe thousands) of hours, and a dinner table for many more years. This week I removed the leg extensions, replacing them with heavy casters. For one leg, the hole where the caster is inserted was gouged out - I don't know how. I filled the hole with a polymer filler, and let it harden for a week. Today, I drilled a new hole for the caster. It seems to work just fine. Bob's your uncle! The casters also have brakes, so the table doesn't roll away on its own. The table is rectangular. With the casters, now I can easily roll it against the wall to be out of the way, and roll it out when I need it. It also has leaves I can insert if I temporarily want a much longer table. I think this table is at least 100 years old, possibly more. It's nice it can still be useful. In the photo, my i-pad is visible. I take a photo after arranging all of the quilt pieces on the floor. Then use that as a guide for sewing together the quilt pieces. I did a lot of sewing on it today. Possibly tomorrow, I can start assembling the quilt with its backing and cotton batting.
Looks great a nice spot by the window too. Soon you’ll be setting out more quilt fabric and batting to finish the latest one your working on .
