The blocks are all sewn together. I couldn’t decide on a border yesterday, so I opened the quilt photo in Photoshop. Then I added a border and tried several of the colors in the quilt. My husband and I both like the blue. I may do the inner border. I have plenty of white left over.
Making progress. I finished piecing 3 rows yesterday. I’ve decided to try pressing my seams open. I love it. The fabric lays so much flatter.
No change this week.
The white fabric arrived and I managed to get all of the corner pieces for each block cut. As you can see, I still have a couple of pieces but I’m almost done cutting. I managed to get a few seams sewn tonight. I am absolutely loving this quilt.
I have a giveaway for some Halloween fat quarters going on to celebrate my 100th post. If you are interested, check out my post at http://www.interlockingsquares.com/?p=979 and leave a comment.
Today is my 100th post. Let’s celebrate. While at the quilt show, I picked up these cute Halloween fat quarters. I love Halloween fat quarters so I hope you do too. Just leave me a comment and I will select a winner on Monday, July 5.
Made quite a bit of progress getting the pieces cut for my Tweet Tweet quilt. This is crazy but I always try to square up my charm squares. Most of the time they aren’t quite 5″ square. So I trim them up. I know that sounds silly but I like to make an attempt at my seams matching up. Doesn’t always work but at least it helps. This is the Twist and Shout pattern by Paula Stoddard. Each block is missing a white piece with birds. I still have a few of the side pieces to cut. I ordered some yardage of this from a quilt shop an hour away from here so I could get it quickly. Unfortunately, my package is lost somewhere in the mail. I’m a little frustrated with the post office right now. Oh well, the best laid plans….
I absolutely heart the Tweet Tweet fabrics. Which I know is silly. The kids are all grown and we don’t have any grandkids. But I could not resist. Wendy over at Ivory Springs has got a cute little project with the Tweet Tweet fabrics in the works. She has given a few sneak peeks on her blog but the big reveal has yet to be made.
Yesterday evening I laid out all of the squares from one charm pack to see what all of the fabrics looked like. After studying them, I’ve decided to use them to make a pattern by Paula Stoddard (Pacific Patchwork) called Twist and Shout. This is from her little booklet called Hooked on Charms 2.
First, a moment of thanks on Memorial Day for those that sacrificed their lives for our country and for those that are serving our country now.
I finished my quilt top yesterday so there is not a quilt in progress on my wall. However, I am testing stencil designs for my quilt top. This is my practice piece for the Mariposa Overall Stencil by Urban Elementz. I think it is the perfect fit for my Disappearing 9 Patch made from Moda Make Life fabrics.
I got more accomplished than I thought I might. I managed to get all of the 9 patch blocks put together and then cut into 1/4′s for the disappearing 9 patch blocks. I have 2 of those blocks sewn. I thought I’d finish sewing the blocks and see what I think. I have seen some quilts that use sashing between their blocks. I have white and black fabrics on hand. Or I could try a different solid or maybe a stripe.
I have 3 blocks sewn together and almost have the 4th block done. Not much progress this week. See yesterday’s post. I did work on some other quilt stuff.
