When I said I was going to destination off the latest Shop Hop names yesterday, I in all probability jumped the gun a niggling bit. By the halt of the morning's slow-stitching session, I withal had this much left.
Truly, I volition destination them off this morning...no excuses.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 curt trip to the grocery store was inward social club yesterday. The broccoli from our in conclusion CSA portion had died inward the crisper, too therefore I had no vegetable for dinner. Mike said he'd become to the grocery store amongst me if I went to the hardware store amongst him. Neither of us accompanies the other into our designated destinations, but nosotros offering our amount back upwardly to ane some other from our respective seats inward the car. And therefore it was. Along the way nosotros picked upwardly a wreath for the front end door.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 wreath at the front end door is ane of my favorite things most Christmas. They don't require watering, they don't direct hold upwardly infinite inward the living room, they don't drib needles on the carpet, cats can't knock them over, too they in conclusion a long time. Oh yes, too they're therefore festive. So there's that. I'm withal pondering what to produce most a tree this year. We'll provide to this topic inward a afterward post.
When we'd run our respective errands, nosotros came home. It was fourth dimension to brand my way into the sewing room. Believe it or not, in that place is a method to the madness inward my sewing room. It has zero to produce amongst cats, too everything to produce amongst my white board. While nosotros were traveling in conclusion twelvemonth too in that place was niggling fourth dimension to holler upwardly most sewing, I catch most sewing all the time. Mainly, I catch most all the projects I desire to brand earlier I die, too I came upwardly amongst a listing of categories of things to maintain me busy; to-wit:
My method is to grade off working monthly on the unfinished projects, too fifty-fifty those direct hold categories. When I experience I've done plenty piece of job on the unfinished quilts too in that place is withal fourth dimension left inward a month, I plough to the white board to come across what sort of novel affair I tin dismiss start. Also, I've been limiting myself to projects that tin dismiss hold upwardly finished inward a unmarried month. I'm trying hard non to add together to my listing of unfinished projects until the oldest of the one-time are at to the lowest degree to flimsy stage.
If some of those categories don't brand sense, too therefore merely know that "PINS" are Projects I Never Started. Those are the patterns I couldn't hold upwardly without too and therefore proceeded to hold upwardly quite nicely without e'er starting them. There are LOTS of those. "Finish it Off," refers to sets of finished quilt blocks that withal take away to hold upwardly sewn into a flimsy. For the fourth dimension being, in that place are none of those. "Blockbuster," refers to my UFO's withal beingness completed ane block at a time. There are actually exclusively 4 of those, since I don't include the embroidered quilts inward that grouping. The balance are in all probability self explanatory.
So the exclusively things left on the listing are "mini" too "traditional." And I know I'll hold upwardly starting at to the lowest degree ane traditional quilt for adjacent year's Rainbow Scrap project. With that inward mind, it seemed similar a mini was a practiced idea, too I turned my attending to this book:
I similar this mass because it has some swell tips too some swell patterns. All of the patterns include cutting instructions for the same quilt inward 3 sizes...from doll quilt size downwardly to mug carpet size. And when I'm talking most mini, I hateful a existent mini...mug carpet size. Yesterday, I settled on this pattern. I'm sort of novel to mini quilts, too the difficulty marking on this ane read something like, "Testing the Waters." And that describes me to a T. Here is the quilt pictured inward the book:
For the outer border, I chose this fabric. I direct hold a twain of fatty quarters similar this that direct hold been inward my stash a really long time. It came equally a business office of a fatty quarter bundle, too in that place are other color combinations equally well. I chose this one.
For the inner border, I settled on black. I withal direct hold several hunks of dark cloth (approximately one-half a yard) that was cutting from the border of a quilt many years ago. I maintain chopping away at it, too it continues to hold upwardly the same size it e'er was. Possibly, it is hold upwardly too growing. No measurements direct hold been taken, but I'm really suspicious. I'll go that consistently for all the blocks. I decided to brand the tiniest foursquare within each block too the middle foursquare all inward black.
That agency I'll hold upwardly choosing 2 contrasting colors for the remaining fabrics inward the blocks, too I'll hold upwardly able to go my smallest scraps inward these. It took hours but, finally, I had the starting fourth dimension ones done. Fortunately each ready of cuts is plenty to brand 2 blocks. (I was exclusively expecting one, too therefore the projection volition become twice equally fast equally expected.)
Then I made the 2d ready of two. The unfinished blocks are 2-1/4 inches. When they're sewn together, the finished blocks volition hold upwardly 1-3/4 inches.
Fun, huh? My blocks are a niggling wonky, but I don't mind. I'll merely grade off on amongst these today. I take away 12 more. It's doubtful I'll larn them finished today, but ane never knows.
Today I'll hold upwardly making upwardly a grocery shopping list. Except for doing some other drawer equally a business office of my ongoing purging quest, there's zero else on the agenda. It's a mutual coldness forenoon too pelting is on the way. Sounds similar a practiced twenty-four lx minutes menstruum for sewing, doesn't it? Tiny blocks volition accumulate.