This is one of the very first batiks I ever bought, a Bali brand batik from the early 1990s. This is what I chose for the binding on the African quilt.
I got the quilt trimmed, the basting pulled out and the binding cut.
While I was in the basement doing all of that I finished doing the redwork on my embroidery machine.
Evie (no reply commenter) asked yesterday who is the designer of the blocks. It was a Cactus Punch package with designs in 2 sizes. Sorry I don't know the name of the package.
I'm reading another David Baldacci book that is hard to put down. I hope I can make enough time to sew on the binding today along with starting some cookie baking for the season.
It started to snow before 11 p.m. last night. I'm hoping they are right that the main part of the storm will be south of us.
I quilted in 3 sessions and finished quilting this African fabric quilt. You might be able to see that I just did straight lines from edge to edge following the piecing design. I used black Aurifil thread on top and it is a fine thread so it hides pretty well in the prints.
Since I spent so many hours on it I turned on my embroidery machine which sits right next to my straight stitch machine and embroidered a bunch of redwork for a quilt while I was quilting. I made a baby quilt with these same designs in a smaller size about a year ago. These are closer to 4.5" x 6.5". I haven't designed the quilt yet so I don't know what size I will be trimming them to.
Yesterday was one of those days where I took care of many things and by evening I'm asking myself what did I do today?
I decided to just play with a box of pieces of Australian fabrics on my design wall in the evening. I tried this layout and the shapes look like hearts sometimes but just a jumbled mess the rest of the time.
I think this will be a better layout with the small pieced units making vertical borders on both sides. I have another whole stack of large equilateral triangles in different colors that aren't mixed in yet. I think there are enough pieces cut to make a quilt approximately 55" x 70". I will need to cut some half triangles to fill in the sides.
I'm working on a Christmas stocking for my new great granddaughter. I was happy to find some Santas in pink clothing and the pink poinsettia fabric in my stash.
I took care of a lot of errands yesterday while it was in the 40s. It is going to get colder again over the weekend and they can't decide on the track of the storm that could possibly bring snow for Monday.
I saw this cart advertised at Michael's craft store on Black Friday and ordered it. Of course it came unassembled so I spent a little over an hour putting it together.
Here is one that I purchased 3 years ago and the new one is considerably larger. I put my GO! dies in it, all of the ones in this cart plus all of the ones on a rack on a shelf. This smaller cart will keep my current projects ready at all times in the lower 2 bins and can be wheeled over to whichever machine I am sewing with. I will use the top bin for holding fabrics that I need to cut with my die cutter.
When I came across this pattern I had to open it and assess whether I would really ever make it.
Added 8 a.m.--this is not paper piecing. Those are cutting lines and then regular piecing reassembles it.
I know I was drawn in by the colors, red, orange, gold and purple. I have done some Buggy Barn patterns in the past and the stacks of fabrics were about 8 or more fabrics deep and were hard to cut. This one has layers of just 4 fabrics and I doubt I would make it of flannel. This would make it a lot easier to cut if I decide to make it.
I made this flannel Buggy Barn pattern quilt top in 2008 or earlier. I showed it on my blog in 2008 and donated the top as a veteran's quilt. Vicki Welsh quilted it and finished it and took care of the donation part of it.
I made this Buggy Barn pattern flannel quilt about the same time and I quilted it early in 2008. This is the quilt on my bed right now.
A few weeks ago I went through the big storage box of Christmas fabrics. I pulled out all of the pieces I no longer wanted and shared them with a friend. Then I pulled all of the small pieces and other larger pieces that looked good with them and I will cut strips the size I need for the die cutter to make a half hexagon quilt with them. I started pressing all of the fabrics yesterday. I have other projects that I need to do before I start sewing that one.
