Hello all, just a quick post this morning.
Weeks ago I ran out of handwork for night sewing and started to make funky log cabin blocks from scraps at night–free form and hand trimmed with scissors as I went. And this happened:
I did square off each block–and of course the grey/dark block in the middle is VERY improv for a log cabin–but I had fun making it. That block was actually the first one. These blocks are NOT meant to be about perfection or to line up perfectly, etc. They are meant to be funky.
Sewing them together into a quilt top was a bit of a challenge, but I do like that kind of creative work. It measures 40 wide and about 55 long–so a baby quilt I think. It doesn’t need a border.
I have organized a backing and the batting, but the third quilt in my Hurty ruler half-rectangle triangle series is ready to be quilted–and I have a backing and binding chosen, but not sewn together yet. Nor have I double-checked the top’s measurements. BECAUSE, I’ve been playing with month four of Tara Faughnan’s online Blocks 2 block AND using Rachel Hauser’s long cabin sew-along project as my leader ender project. I have 2 and 1/2 blocks done out of 9 needed for that project. Pics to follow on these two projects soon. Meanwhile a reminder of the third in my quilt series–the hourglass block form which gets cut from the half-rectangle triangle. The border–found in my stash–has changed how the colors are working in this quilt–in a very interesting way.
Meanwhile, we were on the rain edge of the VERY BIG snow storm that moved through here yesterday and last night, so I had a nice snow day of sewing yesterday.
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