I pressed the blocks I made a couple days ago and trimmed them. These two were started with little 4 patches in the center.
This one has 3 strips sewn together for the center. I always have a little pile of small pieces from trimming the length of strips that are added.
Here is a group of strips to use for another center.
Here they are sewn together along with another started block with a 4 patch center.
I took the finished blocks to the design wall and also added some possible border blocks that I made earlier this year. I either need 1 more block or 15 more crazy pieced blocks depending on how big I want to make this. The blocks will finish at 8".
I spent the whole day with the family yesterday so no progress to show on any projects. I am getting ready to work on another colorwash piece so I laid out my pieces in a light to dark progression of each color. It is going to be about 7 degrees tomorrow so I think I will be staying inside.
I did one more round of baking yesterday while it snowed outside. We will have our white Christmas this year. Now we're going into the deep freeze for over a week so the snow will stay.
A friend gave me this huge denim tote bag and I have used it for 2 years now to carry my gifts to the family party. I will have 2 more tote bags packed with all of the baked goodies.
Merry Christmas everyone......
I spent a lot of time in the kitchen yesterday making 3 more batches of Chex Mix and another batch of fudge. By evening I was ready to go to the design wall and put up all of the finished red crazy pieced blocks. Then I made 5 more blocks but I haven't trimmed them yet. The blocks will finish at 8". I made a mostly blue crazy pieced quilt a few years ago. You can see it here. I'm thinking about doing a border like that one again on this one but I may try a couple other ideas too.
A package came Thursday evening and it said to open immediately. Further instructions inside said to refrigerate it and to consume with 48 hours of receiving it.
They are delicious!
There was a second box in the package.
This one is Truffles!
Yesterday I had a out of state visitor. She comes once a year at Christmas and we caught up on the year's happenings and went to lunch.
Last night I needed to cut into the strips I showed yesterday and "make scraps".
I cut 4 layers at a time. I needed both strips and center chunks.
I cut 2 sizes of both and then made another 4 blocks. I have 32 blocks done and 2 started. I was going to put them up on the design wall but decided it was too late so I'll maybe do that today.
I noticed that the white cactus on the top shelf of the baker's rack is blooming. Now I'm guaranteed some blooms on Christmas day.
I knew this would be another fast finish since it is just a small lap quilt, 34.5" x 44.5". I made the top in May this year with all of the leftover triangle squares from two other projects.
I had a large piece of this black with beige stars batik fabric from the 1990s to use for the backing.
I used the channel lock on my longarm to do randomly spaced straight lines for the quilting pattern.
I knew a beige print would look good with the stars on the back and also would be a good neutral for the colorful front.
I went through all of my red batiks looking for more to use for the crazy pieced blocks. I found 50 that I think will work. Now I need to press them and then cut off a 9" length from each of them. The trimmed size of the blocks is 8.5".
I started making red crazy pieced blocks last year and have worked on them a couple times since then. I'm kind of between projects with all of the holiday preparations so I started to work on some more at night.
Here is a block that is large enough to trim with my 8.5" square ruler.
I try not to have any seam too close to the edge of the block.
I will save some of the larger pieces trimmed off and throw away the rest.
I finished these 3 blocks the first night I worked on them
I made 5 more blocks last night.
Here they are trimmed.
I had 2 more started but I am running out of variety of scraps to work with so I will cut a few pieces off yardage.
