Hello Everyone!
I’ve been busy and have neglected the blog. For one thing I’ve been walking almost every day for the past two weeks: 2 miles is becoming easy now. And I’m sleeping so, so well.
Anyway, here’s a bit of a long post for you.
In anticipation of walking the winter beach and traipsing through tidal pools, I got a pair of navy blue Bog Boots–on sale!! And they fit beautifully. When I saw the constellation theme, I knew this pair was for me.
The berries on the little Chinese Holly plants that the builder’s landscape sub planted have turned red. Aren’t they beautiful? And all are healthy. Now I really, really need to trim back the red rose plants, which are still blooming.
“Sprinkles” is off the longarm–and the quilting looks awesome. It is now bound and ready for the last hand sewing of the binding.
Look at the adorable backing for “Sprinkles”! It is a Ruby Star Society print–and I bound with it as well.
Traverse is also bound, and I’m hand sewing down the binding now. Oh my heavens, that hand quilting was a LONG project, however delightful.
So, I now have FOUR quilts with binding ready to be sewn by hand. I dragged out my three thread spools–each of which holds 10 threaded needles. Two of these were gifts to me years ago. The only issue is that these needle eyes are tiny, tiny, tiny–too tiny for any threader unit I’ve ever tried. I resorted to magnifying lenses and a strong light. After a while, I got faster, but…
I now have two sides of Traverse done–and have ordered some color catcher cloths for when I wash it–just to be sure. I’ve used up most of the 30 threaded needles now.
I couldn’t stop making the Serpentine blocks from Tara Faughnan’s online class–and I do love this scrappy one. The small quilt I made from these blocks is ready to go on the longarm. I’m still wondering about being able to make an improv quilt with these small fun, playful projects. The third month is a block Tara calls “Lines.” You can see it on her Instagram page.
I have seven colors of these 1920/30 reproduction fabrics–and I’ll make the red one today–the one below is pink. I’m loving the secondary patterns that will come along with this project.
So, this brings you pretty much up-to-date with me.
I’m good, and hope you all are as well.
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I love all these projects! I have a stack of 20s/30s aunt Grace reproduction fabrics that I’m going to use someday. My younger brother had a completely hand sewn quilt from my grandmother made of it that he used to shreds, so the dream is to make a reproduction of it for when he has his own kids.
Wow! You have made such amazing progress on everything. Great that you have 4 quilts to bind!! Those are darling boots, by the way.