I only had three people in my colorwash class so there was a wall free for me to work on to at times that they didn't need my help. This is my piece at 5 p.m. right after they left.
I went back down and worked on it for another hour and got it all filled in. It still needs tweaking however. I'll do that after they leave today.
When I was cleaning the basement I found another colorwash in batiks clipped together with numbers for the rows. I started it in June and needed to get it off the wall when my art quilters group was coming. I put the pieces up on the wall Tuesday night to see if it was ready to sew and discovered that it needed more dark pieces all around it. I'll show that one tomorrow, the before and after I add rows.
I have my walls set up for the colorwash class today. I want the students to see many different kinds of colorwash as they get set to design their own.
Some of them are regular quilting cottons, others are batiks. One is African fabrics.
Two of these are waiting to be quilted and bound.
We had fog yesterday morning and it looks like there may be some fog this morning too. I hope it burns off early.
I needed to clean off my design walls so I got the last seam sewn and took this photo. Then the quilt came down and I took the lint roller to the flannel to clean off stray threads. I'll spare you photos of the vacuum cleaner and mops, the other project of the day.
I did a lot of clean up yesterday, those things that you put aside for "tomorrow" which we know never comes. I sewed one of the long seams in the quilt in progress, one to go. Then I pulled out the trays of squares to start making kits for students on Wednesday and Thursday.
My second finish for October was "Many Moons" which took 4 years from start to finish. I realized I haven't taken a portrait photo of it yet so this one will have to do for now.
The first finish was the batik 16 patch quilt, a large couch quilt.
Right at the end of the month I finished two small colorwash wallhangings. The top one is a little under 28" square, the other is smaller.
I also started a good size quilt project and knitted a couple dishcloths.
I started the year strong with many finishes and then had several months with no finishes. Hopefully I will have 2 good months of finishes for the end of the year. Speaking of that, where has this year gone? I can't believe there are only 2 months left.
I quilted this little Kaffe colorwash while TV was on last night. It is the end of the month again so I think I should make an effort to get this one finished for my monthly recap tomorrow.
I have a colorwash class at my home next week so there will be a lot of clearing off tables and getting the basement clean before Wednesday.
It doesn't look much different from yesterday but I got the sashing sewn into the last 2 rows and sewed the 2 longest rows together. Now there are just two more seams and the center will be all sewn. I can see I hung the 2 long rows up there in reversed order. The top end belongs at the bottom left. I need to change that before I sew the last seams. I'm not looking forward to sewing the border onto a bias edge so I may take a break from this for a couple days.
