Last night I played with some of the leftover parts from Fractured. 5 blocks are alike all angle left cuts and 1 block is angle right cuts. You can see they don't work together unless you want mirror image blocks. I could make 10 pinwheel blocks with the leftover parts. For now they will just stay on the design wall.
I had 2 people ask me yesterday about rooting the Coleus. I just cut a piece off with scissors and then put it in plain water. In about a week I see roots starting. I think I cut these about 2 weeks ago and there are enough roots to plant them.
I am almost finished with another 2 tone dishcloth. It is fun pairing up some of the partial balls of yarn and even more fun when they actually look terrific together.
Yesterday I totally finished 8 of the tote bags for the Presbytery mission project and cut handles for 5 more. I'll work on them a little this morning and what doesn't get done then will be done at the church sew in this afternoon.
Then I sat down and looked through the latest Kaffe book. There are several interesting quilts in it. I rarely use the same selection of fabrics that he used if I make one of them but I really enjoy seeing how he uses his fabrics.
It's that time of year again to bring in cuttings of the Coleus. I'm going to plant them this year after they root. I have too many varieties to fit on the windowsill all winter.
While I was out running errands yesterday morning the 'produce fairy' came by and left me some bounty on the front porch.
That meant I had to have a BLT for lunch. It was yummy!
I spent 4 hours outside digging out at least 2 dozen volunteer Rose of Sharon which my son will plant at his house. I also dug out goldenrod and day lilies and other assorted things. There is a another pile of volunteer trees I cut for pick up the first of Oct. I'm getting some more combination storm and screen windows in a couple weeks and I needed to clear the way for a step stool during installation. I have one more area to clean up today. Last night I started working on the last batch of tote bags for church sewing circle on Monday. I got 8 sets of handles made and will work on the other part today.
I got the binding sewn onto this quilt yesterday. I did it all by machine since it will probably be a baby's quilt. It is 41" x 48". I also moved the Fractured blocks to a double design wall and have decided on a final layout. I made a small version of it because I knew I would get tired of working with just 2 colors - red and gray. Now I can start on some multicolored blocks.
It was cooler yesterday so I got the lawn mowed. Now I have to attack all of the weeds along the side of the house while it is still cool. It will be back in the 80s by Wednesday.
I just need to add 6 more blocks on the right and it will be ready to sew together. I have all of the blocks made (made 8 last night). I just was too lazy to move it over to a double wall so I could finish the layout. Click on the Fractured Quilt Along logo on the right side bar to go to Vicki's blog to see how everyone else is doing.
There is another quilt in the book that does a large spiral of pieces laid out like this. I see they have to be all angled the same direction and I have been cutting mine angled in both directions for the first quilt.
I played around with some other layouts too. This one would make vertical columns but kind of boring. The one below is wonky pinwheels, REALLY WONKY pinwheels, hardly recognizable. Again I think they need to be all cut at the same angle and I have them cut both ways.
The Warm/Cool Zig Zag is finished. I used the quilt top as a sample a year ago when I gave my color classes. It is an example of contrast achieved by alternating warm colors and cool colors instead of darks and lights. I would consider most of the fabrics as medium values with just a few dark prints thrown in. It ended up at 58.5" x 69".
I should probably take a photo like this of every finished quilt so I will remember what the backing fabric is.
Today it is supposed to get up near 90 degrees again after a cool spell with nights in the 40s. I will be inside working on my Fractured blocks so I won't mind it.
I finally sewed the wallhanging size African fabric top. It is about 40" square and I'll probably ditch quilt both directions on this one. More black thread in free motion would just make it darker and it doesn't need that.
This is the group of 16 blocks that are left over. I see the second one in the bottom row is turned wrong. I haven't decided whether to sew it or just save the blocks for a future project.
This is the quilt that I loaded on the longarm a few days ago. It is the smallest one I had ready to do at about 40" wide. You might recognize it from my 2 rail quilt tutorial.
I put a wild fabric on the back.
Here is another find from the hall closet. I had found the Crazy Daisy winders before I had my garage sale in June but couldn't find the directions. Lo and behold I have a book for it.
This might give you a better idea of how the little tool works. I have 2 sizes of the daisy makers.
They are used as decorations like yo-yos on a lot of the projects in the book. I would say this is from the 1960s from the styles. Now I wonder where I put the crazy daisy makers. I'm trying to get like things together this time around.
