The Small Wall Quilt with a Big Story

 

 

 

Long, Long Time Ago...(2019) ...
In a Land Far, Far Away .... (Calif) ...
I made a quilt for my great niece, Savannah.  

The Princess and the Pea HERE.  (Savannah is so grown up now, you would not recognize her!)  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Anyway, I asked my dear friend, Wanda, to make a label for this quilt.  HERE and HERE. 

Being the creative person that she was,
she created this:

Well, it was too darn cute to plop on the back of a quilt, so I kept it. 
It's been thumb-tacked to my Studio wall all this time. 

It's time for a Big Finish with some FMQ.

She Works Her Best ...

 ... when the sun is in the West. 

This was something my grandmother used to say... it means she fritters away the day and works like a mad woman doing her chores when the day is coming to an end.

 

I suppose the same can be said for the last quarter of the year...  Racing to the Finish Line in The Studio.

After Carolyn's and my field trip to Murray last week I have been more motivated.

First I made a small wall quilt with the cute, little panel I bought in Murray.  I used it to practice my FMQ*.  It's not show quality, but it'll pass.

Cheryl, the FMQ teacher from a couple months back (HERE) mentioned she learned by completing one small wall quilt a week for about 2 years.  Not sure I'll go that far, but I thought it was a good idea. And, it's a FINISH!!

Started sashing my Pat Sloan blocks.  Frankly, this part of Quilting is not my favorite.  I like piecing.
Assembling the actual quilt is kind of boring.  But, Let's keep the the finished product in mind.

I'm about half finished.  I hope to finish all the sashing this weekend.

Sashing, QAYG** Quilting, Binding ...My goal is to keep at it until it's DONE!

 

*FMQ:  Free Motion Quilting
**QAYG:  Quilt As You Go

An Afternoon Out and About

 My KY-quilting friend, Carolyn, and I started our Labor Day Weekend with a field trip to the Murray Sewing Center.

Murray is a few miles down the road from Paducah.  We decided to take the trip because this nice store is closing....that's right...another one bites the dust!!  Brenda Freemen, the owner,  is retiring...mostly.*  (Retirement must be in the air.)

Carolyn and I decided to hit the road and see what we could score.

I am well past the age of buying fabric simply because I like it...now, there must be a reason to buy it.  With that in mind,
I resurrected my blocks from the Pat Sloan's Summer Soiree BOM.  HERE

It seems like these blocks have been around forever, but this BOM is only 3 years old! 
Hardly even qualifies as a UFO!!

 

The Blocks on my design wall in the KY studio.

You may recall I pulled these out a few months back to practice my new QAYG** method  HERE. But that all stalled...frankly,
I was not sure what I wanted to do with the blocks so back in the cubby they went to cure for a few more months.

Nothing like a trip to the quilt shop...really, any quilt shop...to get the creative juices flowing.  Carolyn gave me some good ideas and now I'm ready to tackle these blocks and get them assembled into a quilt!!

Procured a batch of fat quarters and a bundle of tone-on-tone fat quarters to use as sashing. 
This will be my September project.

I'm kind of excited...half-way tempted to play hooky from church this morning and stay home to sew...

* Brenda will still be active at quilt shows and such.  She says she "...must touch fabric..."
**Quilt As You Go