I knew I needed to have another finish soon so I chose this flannel tumbler baby quilt as the next in line. It is 37.5" x 55.5" so I didn't have to piece the back.
I didn't have very many pieces of flannel large enough that also looked good with the front. This backing fabric is a spatter print with a nice warm beige/gold background.
I used a brown and black check flannel for the binding and did it all by machine.
I have a couple more small to medium size tops that I may quilt next.
I finished the sewing and pressing and after I took this photo I did the staystitching around the edge so none of the ends of seams will pop open.
The back is nice and neat too.
I turned it 180 degrees so that the color orientation is the same as the one I made in November. This new one on the left has more blue, purple and red. The one on the right has more brown and orange. They have about the same number of green pieces in each. The one on the left has lighter color pieces in the center also as well as having a larger light area. I worked from one of the 300 piece kits that I make on the piece on the right. On the left I worked from my trays of pieces that have been cut over a 10 year period and there is a choice of about 1000 different fabrics. I never know what size piece I am making or where I'm headed with percentages of colors when I start.
I have two more champagne color blooms in my indoor garden.
I baked one more kind of cookies yesterday afternoon and then last night I worked on the colorwash again. I have nine of the 18 cross seams sewn.
This hasn't been pressed yet but is a closer view of some of the batiks used. Some of them are over 20 years old. I know that because I purchased them while I worked at a quilt shop for which I was the fabric buyer.
I started out the morning yesterday with two batches of Chex mix. I had done one batch the night before too.
Then it was a double batch of shortbread cookies.
Next was the chocolate Spritz cookies. I made the plain ones the night before.
Here are the rejects, misshapen or broken cookies....I get to eat these.
Yesterday morning I noticed I have a red Christmas cactus blooming. I thought this was a pink one but I hadn't marked it like I usually do. It is a rosier red, not bright true red.
While I waited for butter to soften I brought up the colorwash that I designed earlier this week.
I have started sewing it together. I got two more rows sewn on after I took this photo.
We are supposed to have weather in the 40s from now until Friday when the temperature will drop and maybe snow. In fact they said we might hit 50 in mid week.
I don't do much decorating for Christmas since the party isn't at my house. This is the table the new runner goes on.
I have 2 plants blooming on the windowsill now.
That little one on the left has 4 more buds!
This is the mother plant for that little one. Even though I broke that piece off in early spring last year it has the same blooming time as it's mother plant.
I decided this Christmas table runner isn't going to finish itself so I dug into the Christmas fabric bin and found a backing and binding.
Here is a close up of some of the fabrics, all from about 20 years ago.
The backing fabric is an ugly, not a nice green and rather muddy looking print. It is perfect for this project though. The binding is probably a newer fabric but still maybe 10 years old.
A lot of the fabrics have gold metallic on them so I ditch quilted both ways with gold metallic thread. I have it on a side table in my dining room but the lighting at night is poor in there so no photo of its destination.
The cardiac nurse said the reading from my pacemaker was good. It is amazing that they can say on a certain day at a certain time that I had a few different heartbeats. That tiny little computer is really processing a lot of information.
The half hexagon top is sewn together and top and bottom trimmed straight. It is 58" x 79". I wanted to make one to see how many pieces it would take to make a decent size couch quilt. There are 208 pieces half dark and half light, 104 of each. Now if I decide to make another one with a different collection of fabrics I know how many to cut. I shared the inspiration quilt and the die used to cut the pieces here.
I designed another colorwash yesterday. It has a limited number of orange and brown pieces in it this time. I could add 6 more rows across the bottom and then it would have more green, brown and orange.
I decided to rotate the photo to see if I liked it better.
Then I rotated it the other way. I'll have to think about this one for a few days.
Today is my first visit with my pacemaker surgeon so I hope I get some questions answered.
