What We Are Working On

 We had all 11 members of our Prayers and Squares group present yesterday. What a great time we had. And every single flat surface in the room was covered with something quilt related, including even part of the floor. Barbara had her charm square quilt laid out on the floor looking for a balance of colour. I think she may be one of only 2 or 3 of us able to get down on the floor and then able to get back up again. Sharon has been working on a 3 yard quilt. It is now finished and layered and ready for quilting. Tammy continues to work on her sampler. I finally finished the basket blocks I’ve been working on in between other projects and laid them all out. It should be ready for borders sometime in the next couple of weeks. Here at home I’m working on wonky log cabin blocks. I have 26 out of 42 finished. It hasn’t even begun to put a dent into the box full of 1 1/2 inch strips. I think there may be more log cabin quilts in my future this fall and winter. I’ll link up to finished, or not, Friday

Slow Sunday Stitching

 So I am in celebration mode. Connections is a finished top. This was so much fun to do on so many different levels. All the lovely people who sent me fabric squares to add to this, thank you so very much. The connections quilters make are priceless I have yet to get a backing for it, but that can wait until I get a chance to get to a quilt shop. Since that is now done, I went and dug out the stocking that I had started for our grand daughter. We were away at the trailer for a few days this past week, which gave me lots of time to work on this without the danger of her walking in on me. It is a surprise gift for her. It’s about 2/3 finished now, so a few afternoons when I know she’s at school should finish it. I’ll link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching

What We’re Working On

 We had another wonderful productive day at our Prayers and Squares group yesterday. Pat finished the Disappearing Nine patch she was making. It already has a recipient. We layered it yesterday and I brought it home to get the quilting done. We finished another of the beautiful animal panels and it is now hanging up in the fellowship hall. Marcia finished a second top made out of kits that were donated.  The original kit was a sampler with some setting squares in between. She took the setting squares and added a couple more pieced squares to be able to make this second quilt from the kit. And we now have 6 blocks for our Prayers and Squares members challenge. Here at home I’ve been working on some log cabin blocks, using up some of the 1 1/2 inch strips out of an overflowing box of them. I have a couple of quilts now to do the quilting on and then I’ll get back to these log cabins. I have 10 blocks finished and 8 more in progress. I need a total of 42 blocks to get it to our Prayers and Squares lap quilt size. I’ll link up to finished, or not, Friday

What We’re Working On

 We had lots of projects on the go yesterday at our Prayers and Squares gathering. Janet finished the quilting on this Iris quilt, pattern found here. We took the pieces that were cut off the edge of the quilt and pieced them into the back, avoiding a lot of the waste that comes from piecing a quilt on the diagonal and then cutting it to square the edges. It still needs a binding. Marg has been working on a sampler done in greens for the last few weeks. She has all the blocks done. After this picture was taken she layered all the blocks and got them all quilted. She is doing quilt as you go on this one. By the end of the day she was starting to join the blocks together and add the quilting to the sashing. Barbara is working on a charm quilt. She has all the squares sewn together and is working on some nine patches that will go around the outside edges. Barbara also finished this quilt a while ago, but I don’t think I ever got a picture of it. It will be going to a recipient this coming week. Susan finished the fishing themed quilt. We will hopefully get it layered next week. We have been working on a challenge for our members. We gave out a piece of fabric, the blue print found in common in the blocks, and challenged each of our members who wanted to participate, to choose a block from the Quilters Cache website beginning with the first letter of their name and make a block using the focus fabric and other fabrics of their choice. The block could be any size they want. We have 3 finished so far. I am working on some basket blocks on Thursdays, but somehow I always forget to take pictures of what I’m working on there. And finally, here at home I’ve started to dive into a box packed full of 1 1/2 inch strips to make the beginnings of a Log Cabin Courthouse Steps quilt.

There is a long way to go on this one. I think it will need perhaps 42 blocks to get it to a lap size. I’m planning on working on 10 at a time.

I’ll link up to finished, or not, friday

Slow Sunday Stitching

 This coming week should see the last stitches taken in Connections. The last seam is halfway finished. Unfortunately, I don’t have a backing fabric for it. That means a shopping trip coming up, such a shame to need to go shopping..... not. It’s going to be a bit of a challenge to quilt and finish. I don’t want to trim the edges, which means keeping the papers in the edges and doing a turned edge finish. It also means trying to avoid the papers while doing the machine quilting. But I’m sure it will work out. So hopefully this time next week will be a celebration that this one is a finished flimsy.

I’ll link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching

What We’re Working On

 We had a productive day yesterday at Prayers and Squares. And some of us had productive days at home as well. Beverly has been working on a Nine Patch and Hour Glass quilt recently. The Nine Patches were in a donation box that was given to us, and she decided to turn them into a quilt. They were a bit wonky in size, so needed trimming to 8 1/2 inches before they could be used. It was her first time doing Hour Glass quarter square triangles, and she did a fabulous job with them. Somehow she ended up with leftover hour glass units, so she cut them in half and turned them into a border. They were still some blue/burgundy triangles left, so those are going into the backing.

Susan and I have been working together on a fish themed quilt. She got more borders sewn on yesterday.. I need to finish another row of snail’s trails blocks before we can finish this one. Here at home I finished the quilting on another animal panel that will go into our fund raising pile. The binding will be the same fabric as the dark grey triangles.

Today’s job is to use up some peaches to make peach jam. After that, I’ll be working on finishing the snail’s trails blocks so we can finish the fish themed quilt next Thursday. I’ll link up to finished, or not, Friday

Slow Sunday Stitching

 So close, so very close to having Connections finished. I’m now in the process of sewing the connecting row and putting the two halves of the quilt together. It is going to be a nice lap quilt size for the winter. We had such a hot and dry end of July and beginning of August that it is hard to think about winter. But the last week has cooled way down to the point that it fells like fall is here already. I’m carefully watching the weather predictions and keeping an eye out for frost warnings. I don’t want to lose what is left of my tomato harvest.

I’ll link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching