A finish in time for Christmas

Sisters Square Dance, about 100 x 100".   Quilted in the ditch, with an hand quilted cross in the centre of each block- pattern and setting inspiration  from Bonnie Hunter.  Phew! The recipients are not expecting it!

Turning a corner...

 ....on Kiss in the Corner

OK, now I can see the end, one side completed, second side started!  Woohoo!

 

 A few more sisters choice blocks.  these are being put away for the time being.

I had another walk round work with the camera.  I see more design possibilities with this vitreous enamel colour sample plate. 

Distraction 2

I sewed more sisters choice sets yesterday to get to this stage...........if you sew in the same order every time they act as their own leader/ender project  in a neat string ready for snipping and pressing.  Then I sew the borders on, working on two blocks at a time.

I sewed these yesterday using  snips for the tie knots.  I'm trying to move the colours to orange and red so I don't end up with too many pink blocks.  I didn't need to do any of these as leaders, it really IS a distraction. 

I now when I have trimmed, I sew the  knots onto cream 2" squares, pair up with the coloured squares, and the sets go in the box ready to be sewn later as leader enders when they are needed as such.

Sorting out the pile of snips wasn't too fun.  That's why I'm sewing them up as I get them now.  These corners are around
1  1/2", just the right size.

A slight distraction

What to do with the waste from Sisters Choice? Each block generates 8 snips of pink and 8 cream. 

 This is is an odd block, I like these.  And see the deliberate mistake? 

All those triangles on the border strips get snipped off.

Light bulb moment.   Leaders and enders........

 

....for bow tie knots

A little try out...seems fine to me once I worked out how to get the irregular snips fairly straight by lining up with the opposite edges.

Happy days!  Reuse and recycle.  The bow tie quilt may end up with a lot of pink in!

A few more blocks completed, I have done around 100 now.

An I have even managed to use up a random FQ that I thought of as irredeemably ugly-see that pink and brown diamond fabric?  Just shows you have to find the right quilt for it.

I can't leave these alone!

The latest set.

There are some oddities in here-garlic and owls.......

.......and some make do and mends (I like these a lot!)

Whilst I was photographing another one with odd star points I saw one of those deliberate mistakes.....

oops.

And this weeks read is a history of the South Bank  in London, from rural carp ponds to brothels and theatres in Shakespeares time...that's as far as I have got!

Slave to the rythm

These are so relaxing to make-twelve more.

The colour is much nicer in real time!

All the quad strips are cut and randomly put into sets. 

Everything  is ready to pick up and go whenever I feel the urge.

One for baby (maybe if it's a girl) and a king size for me.

Creative insomnia

I stayed up until after 2.30 a.m., sleepless due to a hacking cough, for three nights. I had to do something.........

I have started an affair with pink, a previously loathed-as-a-stereotype colour, thought I seemed to have a bit of it..........

I have cut some more and kitted up for a full size quilt as I love the way this looks. 

I have absolutely no doubt that I have overdone it again!

All the cornerstones are pre-cut, just a few 2 x 5" cream strips needed. 

There is quilting to do before I indulge in this though. And it is indulgence, there is something about the rhythm of assembling these blocks that is soothing.

I think I have cracked the baggy edge issue too.