What I’m Working On…

I had another busy week. I didn’t hit the sewing room until Saturday. First on my list of jobs was to get my son-in-law Craig’s quilt bound. As always I used my third hand binding tool to make my binding. Oh, I really love that thing. If you aren’t familiar with it you can read a review of it HERE.

In the picture on the left you can see that my binding was matching up exactly to the fabric on the back of the quilt…what fun!

I am so happy to have this quilt finished….

I didn’t get pictures taken of it yet. I’ll show those to you in another blog post.

After I was done getting that quilt bound I looked all around to see what I should work on next. Here are the choices…can you guess what I picked??

I picked cringe…what a messy sewing room. I actually patched the dog bed first.

Then I cleaned up all of the shirt scraps. I made that whole border and the box didn’t get any smaller. No surprise I guess.

Then I decided to tackle the Frolic quilt. A blog reader had given me her UFO of the mystery quilt Frolic. I worked on it a lot when I initially got the project and then I let it sit while I squeezed in the handprint quilts and then Craig’s quilt. Now it’s time to get reacquainted with it.

I really had ZERO idea where I left it and of course, I didn’t leave a note with it either. I started out ironing the stack of finished blocks. I counted and they were all there…then it was onto finishing the sashing units. In between I worked on nine patches as my leader and ender project.

I made all the borders after that. I have it all nice and neatly laid out now…MUCH BETTER.

The only thing I have left to do before I can assemble the quilt is to make the setting triangle units. Sadly, I only have one done. I don’t remember how many more I have to do.

As I was cleaning I also came across these hourglass blocks. I inherited these from my daughter Kelli. She originally made these when she first started quilting. They were all sorts of wonky and the edges were totally uneven. Kelli was going to throw them away and I said NO. I told her I would take them and used them somehow. That was almost two years ago.

I did bring them home and then I squared them all up. I always planned to do something with them but was never sure what.

Then they sat. Apparently I had pulled some other fabrics about put them in the container with the hourglass blocks. All of the fabrics are Fig Tree fabrics but the hourglass blocks are more earth toned and the other ones that a blog reader sent me are brighter. THANKS BLOG READER!! I finally have an idea on what to make with the fabric!! I wondered if they could work together. I still wasn’t sure what I could make with it all…

Then it hit me. I had an idea and I was going to test it to see if it would word…and it did!!

These scrappy oversized flying geese blocks were exactly what I had envisioned…It’s been so long since I had time to play and experiment in the sewing room. I was so happy. I even made a few notes so I can come back to this at some point.

I think these would make a great charity quilt. I will get back to this at some point.

Right now I think I’ll be switching gears from all of these projects and working on a wedding quilt for my great niece. Right now I am leaning towards designing a picnic quilt for her. Her wedding is at the end of May and I think that might be appropriate. I messaged my sister to see if she knows of anyone making a quilt for her. I don’t want to step on any toes or anything…

Before I do any of that I need to pull some fabrics from yet a different project and send them to a blog reader that I promised to share with. I’m hoping to do that yet today. We’ll see.

That’s what’s happening in the sewing room. What do you think of my oversized scrappy flying geese blocks?