Hello! It's the first Monday of March--already! Time for some sewing updates.
Fall Festival is a sewalong with Lori on Humble Quilts. Despite February being a short month, our assignment was BIG! Very diverse blocks We did all the patriotic blocks, plus the oh so adorable Turkey.
I needed hand sewing to sit out with Mo on the [frigid] deck, so I did Turkey first. Very fun.
Flag..getting good at Flags, we've made a bunch by now. Though why we have the flag of Texas in the quilt remains a mystery to me. (Ok I looked it up, the flag of Texas is different! But still....)
Then these Stars. big stars. Big pieced Stars. Made in an odd manner with freezer paper and ''eyeballed'' seam allowances. I was crafty, and cut all the outer seam allowances XXL, so mine worked out okay.
Can't wait to see what we'll so next. Pineapples, anyone! [symbol of hospitality.] Not even gonna put the Baskets on my To Do List, probably save them for a lovely summer day, since I do all hand applique.
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Last night I made my first extra block for Westering Women. My block is called "Prairie Queen".
It's a modified Churn Dash with Four Patch, very humble for the queen! It represents my young pioneer woman in my imaginary travels west. She has used her favorite fabric scraps here, her practical brown dresses and a pink apron stripe; a bit left over from a Sunday best white polka dot shirtwaist bodice.
Today I was going to make my next WW block, ''Corn and Beans''. But I couldn't face all those half-square triangles today ...
and instead made a bunch of Wild Geese spacer blocks for When the Wild Geese Fly.
The blue shirts' worn soft fabric is harder to work with than the new cotton prints, I found. I expected to like the blues the best. This is the blue that inspired me to make the quilt, a gorgeous soft French blue.
The wild geese blocks are made in sets of four. Neither fast nor slow, but a workable method from the internet, also being used currently on Temecula Quilt Company's blog. here
The sewed blocks are overlarge and require trimming, a quilting method that chafes my garment making soul and habit, where a pattern had to fit and fit together perfectly before being cut. But it does make for neater quilting pieces, I suppose.
48 Geese done, 100 more to go.
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On the home front, we had a huge change of weather~and howling March gale winds. Power outages even, though thankfully brief.
Brrrr.
My pussy willow catkins are flowering.
And I taught myself to make origami boats, for my next beach walk! I was so proud, even though I have no understanding of what made this work. I'll fold some tiny boats with real origami paper, and have them in my pocket for my next ''spring'' walk to the beach.
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| cute but only 2 dimensional |
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| 3-D, site suggests pebbles 'or shells!] for stabilty. |
Have a great week. Other quilters' Fall Festival blocks can be seen on Lori's blog HERE Be sure to take a look!
love
lizzy
gone to the beach.....
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