Yesterday's sewing was fast in addition to furious. It ended alongside a nearly-finished quilt for this bit challenge for Project Quilting. The subject this fourth dimension just about was "Red, White, in addition to Blue." I spent several hours considering what I'd similar to make. I outset chose a mini quilt. The fabrics were pulled earlier I decided it didn't actually lite my fire. Then, I chose a patriotic tabular array runner in addition to pulled those fabrics. But somehow, the Fourth of July inwards Jan wasn't actually rattling exciting either.
It occurred to me that lots of people would endure doing patriotic quilts for this challenge, in addition to I wanted something a piddling different. I works life a blueprint called "Tweety's Snowflake" from Wendy Butler Berns gratis on the internet, in addition to thus I was ready to go. And when I tell "go," I hateful similar when the starter's pistol fires in addition to you lot actually become similar your life depends on it. This morning time I hand-stitched the binding, in addition to my piddling quilt was finished. I'm calling this quilt "Feathers in addition to Flurries."
The blueprint past times Wendy Butler Berns was published inwards Quilter's Newsletter inwards the December/January 2014 issue. You tin uncovering the free blueprint correct here. Hers was done inwards unlike colors, in addition to I had some fabrics inwards my stash I would dearly induce got liked to use. But the challenge was for red, white, in addition to bluish only. We didn't induce got to purpose all the colors, but nosotros couldn't purpose whatever other colors. With that inwards mind. I started here:
There was top-stitching to endure done, in addition to thus I used this midnight bluish for most of that.
When that was finished, I added a border.
I wanted to brand certain the big white snowflake would actually stand upward out against the background, in addition to I came upward alongside a method to foreclose the background cloth from showing through the white. I just took a pocket-size slice of cloth in addition to thus fused a swatch of Pellon SF-101 to the back. That made a corporation swatch of fabric. From there, I just fused equally common alongside Heat 'n Bond Lite in addition to got a squeamish white snowflake alongside no show-through from the background. I used a white metallic element thread to stitch it down, in addition to that gave it a piddling sparkle.
The plane has a bluish hot-fix nailhead for his eye.
I used the same white metallic element to quilt some snowfall flurries.
And I did a piddling top-stitching on the snowflake for fifty-fifty to a greater extent than sparkle.
The metallic element thread was behaving beautifully, in addition to thus I decided to switch to this midnight bluish metallic element to quilt the border.
I quilted some snowfall flurries inwards in that place too.
Here's how it looks from the back. You mightiness yell upward this cloth from the Quilting Snowladies.
And thus my piddling quilt was finished except for the binding.
In my leftover combat binding bag, I works life a perfect binding inwards just the length I needed. It e'er feels similar a piddling flake of a victory when I tin purpose i of those leftover binding strips.
Here's how it looks from the back.
Yesterday, I even thus needed to hand-stitch the binding for the Let's RV wall hanging.
Here's how that looks from the back.
That makes 2 finishes inwards 2 days, in addition to 5 for the calendar month of January. At this rate, I'll complete sixty quilts inwards 2019! (As if.) Also, I most forgot I needed to brand 2 piddling yo-yo's for the Garden Sunshine blocks. That was pretty uncomplicated in addition to quick.
I decided to purpose a buttonhole stitch to sew together them to the quilt block inwards the same agency I used buttonhole stitch to stitch downwards the other applique pieces. To arrive slow on myself, I pressed a piddling flake of Heat 'n Bond to the backs.
Then I fused them to the quilt block.
Then I both shortened in addition to narrowed the buttonhole stitch on my machine.
And thus I stitched them down. That finishes off that block.
So in that place you lot go...a corporation solar daytime of sewing. Or a solar daytime of corporation sewing...take your pick.
Today our conditions is supposed to better a little. I'm going to run out for a walk. This morning, I desire to larn a get on the Appalachian Memories embroidered block, in addition to if I exercise to a greater extent than sewing today, I'll larn afterwards those alley cats.
Do you lot induce got the solar daytime off today? You tin give thank you lot Martin Luther King's woman bring upward for that.