Monday, May 13, 2024

Our May Gathering

Last weekend an intrepid small group of dedicated quilters arrived in the rain to work like slaves and move some of our group projects forward.

The first achievement was to bind the ballerina quilt and it is now at home with Elaine to be hand hemmed.

The next task was to help me with my huge Woven Jacobs' Ladder quilt top and pin it to its backing. It won't have any batting but is too big to handle on my own.

Task 3 was to sandwich the Tessellated Stars quilt which I can now quilt on my sewing machine. I think I'll just do it in cream diamonds.

Task 4 was to do a bit of rearranging of our quilt blocks from Heather's donated fabric.


  Then during our zoom in the afternoon we made even more changes to this one so it is now ready to sew together.

After discussing options for our next project we will be doing a scrappy crumb quilt using the same process that Stephanie and I are using for our Baradine Bits Quilt. There will be no mailout for this one and no draw from the lucky dip basket. I will email out instructions.

Friday, May 3, 2024

Hypothesis: Making scrappy quilts uses up stash?

 Actually Stephanie and I are receiving more scraps. Today I received a lovely lot from Jenny in the mail.

That will be a great variety to add to our crumbly thoughts. Thanks Jenny.

Thursday, May 2, 2024

Crumbly thoughts

 In light of recent crumbling of my mind, here is a quilt Elaine made years ago.

I like the black sashing. I think it is quilt as you go.