Carol has done it!

What an amazing job Carol has done with our disparate blocks...

 She will continue with a border or two.

Thank you Carol.

Carol's challenge

Carol came to collect her next fabric the other day and took home the Winding Ways blocks as I had received the last ones and made one more to complete another row. Carol's challenge is that the blocks are a mixture of 9", 9 1/4" and 9 1/2". So we've decided to trim to 9 1/4" and stretch the 9" ones. Some blocks will lose their corners. Que sera sera!

Today, because I had received the last of the Ohio Star blocks back I started to randomly pin them up on the design wall. I think it is going to be quite a good overall look and will end up about 48 x 49". Ask me about the maths sometime.

All the spaces between various blocks can be filled with the flying geese and other scraps we have available that people have made and maybe even some strips of the focus fabric. We'll see what happens when anyone comes to help. It is interesting to see how the contrasts work and how some don't.

Update on current projects

Elaine visited a few times last week as it coincided with delivering and collecting her machine from the repair man. We have now tacked the sandwich for Lynette's Japanese (foreground below) and it now needs to be quilted.

In the background in the photo you can see the next quilt top in construction. Together we started trimming the blocks and adding the borders to each block.

This morning I decided to do the next step on this which was to join the blocks into rows. This is now done and I have added the orange border top and bottom to check that we had enough of that fabric as we did not have any spare. As you can see, all is good and it is looking great. We probably need another border as it is quite a small lap quilt.

Some weeks ago we put the Winding Ways blocks on the design wall. We have one spare so chose to leave out the one that was much paler than all the others. I think it will be a challenge to put together but it will be fun to bring out the circles in the quilting. Though I do like Carol's blocks set on point too.

So arrange a day to come and do the next step in our quilts and make sure all you blocks are back for the next ones.

Carol's Show and Tell

 It seems Carol was also inspired by the winding ways block and has re-covered two chairs. I love them.

Jeanette's show and tell

 Jeanette was inspired by the Winding Ways block and did a whole lap quilt with it.

It is amazing and you can really see the circles that appear. I love it when people get inspired.

Elaine's Show and Tell

 Elaine has finished her English paper piecing quilt done while in lockdown. 

It is really quite magnificent in real life.