I thought I would get more rows sewn together yesterday but I took a little break instead. I did get 6 rows sewn, the same as I did on Sunday. I will press them before I sew the 2 sections together. After I took this photo I took the next 6 rows off the wall ready to sew today.
I also took a break from answering comments yesterday. Thank you so much for your supportive comments. I hope I will be able to get a photo of this at its destination to put on my blog some day.
The very pale pink Balloon Flowers are in bloom now along with the periwinkle. They used to be short plants, no taller than about a foot. They are easily 18-20" tall this year.
In the same garden the Rudbekia is starting to bloom.
Last but not least are some happy Coleus plants. Who needs flowers when you can have such pretty leaves.
On the trays on the left are the size rectangles I'm usually working with on my colorwash pieces. The ones on the right are for the new project.
Here are the 2 sizes side by side. It all started when a friend mentioned she could visualize one of my colorwash wallhangings on the large empty wall at her church. When she mentioned how large she thought it should be I really didn't think I wanted to make it. The second time she called I told her I was thinking I just needed to use larger rectangles and then it wouldn't be any more pieces than I use on my other colorwash wallhangings.
I started it Saturday afternoon thinking I would just get the center up and do a little more on it each day. Six hours later I had about 3/4 of it designed. It is almost covering 2 design walls (96" wide, 84" tall). Yesterday I spent an additional 5 hours filling in the last pieces which meant more cutting for the colors and values I was missing in my initial 3 days of cutting. The tweaking took about 3 hours. By 9 p.m. I was ready to sew and got the bottom 6 rows sewn (not shown here). The bottom here is the left side of the wallhanging. My personal challenge was to get the cutting and designing done and have the rows safely off the wall in stacks ready to sew by the 20th when my art quilters will be coming. Now I hope I will have it all sewn together by then. It will shrink in 11" in width and 7" in length when sewn. It is projected to be 69" x 90" when the top is finished.
I didn't sew a stitch yesterday. I'm still cutting for my large project. I should be done soon.
I took this photo a couple weeks ago while all of the flowers in this pot were at their prime.
I need larger rectangles for another project so I have been cutting for 3 days. I still need to cut reds and oranges. I'll know what else I need as I proceed with the project.
I cut the grass yesterday while it was still cool. It is going to get really hot this weekend. Then I did a lot of cutting with my die cutter for a new project and I still have more to do.
This selection is some of the fun my 2 friends and I had while they were here on Tuesday. We started with the Kaffe Dream fabric. It is the one just below the light green and to the left of the purple and orange dotted fabric. I have the dies chosen to cut with but I can't start on this one for a couple weeks.
A "no-reply" asked about the fabric for the One Block Wonder that I showed the last 2 days. Here is the info on the selvage.
The last 2 seams were sewn before noon yesterday. It is 87" x 95". I have a few leftover dark blocks that can go into my orphan block box for a someday quilt.
I moved this quilt to a different wall, different light bulbs and this is a little truer color than the photo yesterday. I cropped the photo to look like the points are cut off.
Then I flipped the photo 180 degrees to see if I liked it any better. I measured it after finishing the pressing and it is 45.5" wide and 48" tall without the points.
I figured I might as well flip the photo to a horizontal view too so here is horizontal view 1.....
and here is horizontal view 2. If it ends up being a baby quilt it won't matter which way is up.
My two friends came over yesterday and we worked on our OBW quilts. I decided a photo with the original fabric was best.. The camera is reading the gold as orange and it is lighter than it looks here. I still have a few vertical seams to press and I will trim off the points on the top and bottom. I didn't measure it yet but it is somewhere near 40" x 50". Today I'll get the last 2 seams sewn in the Double 4 Patch and show it tomorrow.
