Three for March

I hope I'm not getting over confident with my goals after last months finishes. I have a visitor staying with me for a week this month.  I can't wait to see her. We are going to have a great time catching up, but it may reduce the number of available sewing days. Fortunately she's a quilter too so there's a probability we may squeeze some sewing in between the talking, and the going out for coffee, lunch and dinner.  It's already a week into the month and I haven't even worked on any of the three projects I've listed. 

OK now I've made myself hyperventilate.

Keep all those appendages crossed for me, I'm going to need it.

1.
The scooter quilt will be basted, quilted and bound!


2.
A quilt top using this fabric bundle


3.
Make the backing for McFlurry




      

Three for February Review

I just managed to squeeze in a couple of finishes before the end of the month.

I planned to go away for a long weekend, starting on the 28th February, so had to have these finished by the 27th.   I arrived back home today so this post is a little late, but better late than never.

Number 1

South Pacific Stars, with a peek of the gorgeous backing fabric which is from TradeWinds by Lily Ashbury.

The binding is another print by Lily Ashbury.

I rarely make quilts using the one line these days, but I really love the bright colours and almost every print in TradeWInds.  I still have a few fat quarters left tucked away in my stash waiting for inspiration to strike.

Number 2
The starflowers, although I love them, the thought of continuing making them to make a full size quilt made me feel sick. I just couldn't face sewing any more flowers and diamonds together,  so instead of making a whole quilt with these shapes as I had originally planned I'm now using this as a central panel. The next stage is to add borders around the edge. This is square, although in the photo it looks kind of misshapen. A note on this EPP project. I love sewing hexies, they are easy. When basting hexies all the fabric at the back stays within the shape of the hexagon. The diamond and kite shapes have little tails that hang at the back. You can see this in the photos below. These make it really difficult when sewing the shapes together, they get in the way and make it a PITA when sewing the points of the stars where they meet.


It's all wrinkly at the moment. I pressed it once I took the papers out of the back but as it's about to be manhandled again while I applique the borders on I didn't think there was much point in pressing ti to within an inch of it's life.

As usual I didn't really think it through. I started to straighten up the edges. It was easy on two of the sides as I just needed a triangle shaped piece to fill in the gaps.


When it came to the other sides, it wasn't quite that easy. After a lot of muttering and more than a little  swearing, I decided to leave the other two sides as is, add the borders and maybe add some appliqued  shapes.  After I added the triangles I realised that I needn't have bothered with them as I'm going to appliqué this panel to the dot fabric I used for the diamond shapes, that's also partly why I've left the other sides and not made them straight/square.  Next step is to add the borders. Lets hope the vision in my head is doable.

Number 3
I also finished one more Amitie Circle Game block.


All in all I'm pleased that I achieved the goals I set for myself at the beginning of the month. Let's see how I'll do this month.

February challenge

I'm determined to finish some WIP's this year and to make time to sew.  I'm joining in for the first time ever, A lovely Year of Finishes at Bittersweet and Fiber of all Sorts and Just Three at Traceyjay Quilts.
I'm crossing fingers and toes that it will give me an incentive to manage my time a little better and push me to finish at least one thing each month.

1.  Finish South Pacific Stars,  a Thimble Blossoms pattern, Hopscotch.

 I'm half way through quilting it.


2. Square up the starflowers to use as a quilt centre panel.


3.  Make one BOM block.
I started the Amitie Circle Game BOM in 2011, so far I think I've made 4 or 5 blocks. I'm determined to do at least one block this month.