Ever have a catch up day? That day when you tidy up all the loose ends of the week.
Consider this your Catch Up Post.
COVID or no COVID my workload is ramping up and the past week has been crazy busy.
I will even be TRAVELING in a couple of weeks! (she says with a bit of fear and trembling...)
Because the days have been long I have not been in the studio much.
I did, however, work on the Tea Time quilt for my sister's birthday in April.
I
expect to finish the block assembly today.
How I keep track of block placement.
hummmmm. Oh well....there are no quilt police***, right?
I still want to add at least one border but because this quilt was created from a jelly roll there is no left-over fabric. A trip to the fabric store appears to be necessary. I've been avoiding the fabric store....
As quilters we never stop learning....A while back I watched a video from
Just Get It Done Quilts about pressing blocks. With these blocks I employed both the finger pressing technique Donna Jordan suggests in her video and Karen's pressing technique from her video.
I do believe these blocks are straighter and more true-to-size.
Rounding out the week
The son liked his birthday quilt...
Storm at Sea
My dear friend of more than 40 years, Jennifer, gave her log cabin a place of honor. (and right this moment, in the entire Portland area, there is ice and snow...wonder if she fetched the quilt off the wall???)
Isn't this why we quilt?
Quilts warm the body and the soul.
Happy Valentines Day to all
***Sam Gordon (who I do not know) has been posting these cute, quilt police blocks on the Collage Quilter FB page.
Very creative.
UPDATE
An update on Sam Gordon and the Quilt Police blocks. He has his own FB page, Personal Patchworks. HERE I
believe I read somewhere on his page that he is putting together a
pamphlet or pattern or something for the Quilt Police.
Wouldn't that be fun?!
Char, your Tea Time quilt looks great. Regarding the built-in focus point: are you referring to the group of four light squares in the upper left quadrant of the quilt? If so, it was genius on your part (even if it was not intentional LOL) because that spot gives the eye a place to rest. That was the very dilemma I was facing in arranging my blocks. I failed to do what you accomplished and went in an entirely different direction.
ReplyDeleteDawn, you're so funny! I'm a "genius"? Why, yes....yes I am...LOL. I can't wait to see yours.
ReplyDelete