APPLIQUE RELIEF

This week I have done a bit of shopping for my sewing room.  Once I was able to finish up with all the painting of a good part of the house and the painters were finished and the house returned to a normal state I figured to do something about the carpet in my sewing room.  It is old, we figure about 20 plus years old.  Time to replace it.  I considered laminate as most of our home is wood floors or laminate in the office.  Not sure how all that thread and pins that seem to end up on the floor would do rolling around on laminate flooring.  So we opted for carpet again.  They install next Friday.  So have to empty the room for a day or two, guess I will move the machine and ironing board into the dining room.   

I did manage to get another scrap quilt top put together for my charity group out of the scrap bins of 2-1/2" strips I cut up.  My idea was to rid myself easily of all my ever growing scrap bins.  It has not helped at all.  I still have tons of the strips left.  I now have a third quilt top  ready to put together.  However, making these is a bit of a relief from dealing with my current appliqué project.

Last week I got the first block, one on left side, completed and thought that I might have bitten off more than I could chew with this kit.  I figured will just forge ahead and see what happens.  These blocks and the pieces are tiny like 3-1/2 by 6-1/2 inches for the little block in the middle and the other two not much bigger.  I have been  surprised that they are not that bad.  So plan to just keep going until either I get them all done or lose my mind, which ever comes first.   

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APPLIQUE AGAIN AND BIRD OF PARADISE

 This past week has been nice and quiet with very little on my to-do list to accomplish.  I vowed to set appliqués projects aside for a while.  That didn't happen.  I have pulled out a kit hiding away in a drawer and started working on it and added another that I really do need to start working on as well.

These pieces are tiny.  I did talk myself into doing 1/4" bias vines.  I have always avoided them and used 3/8" for them, but this block at just under 9" by 11" needed the small vines.  Not sure why I have avoided them all these years, as they were not nearly as difficult to master as I thought they would be.  

This is the kit pattern, I don't expect this to be finished in a very long time.  The entire quilt is only 35" by 45" so some blocks are really small.  

This project is on more of a priority list.  It will be a wedding gift for a family member.  No real hurry as I have time, but do know that in the next year or two it will be needed.  It will be king size, so these 10.5 inch blocks are a start to the 100 needed.  Figure to make a few each month, off and on.  

Now here is a master piece.  Our Bird of Paradise is in full swing.  Never have we seen this many blooms on it.  Seems our recent amount of rain this spring has made it very happy to show off.   

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LOCK DOWN IN THE SEWING ROOM

It was very busy this past week at home.  We have needed some painting done in our home for sometime.  I usually do the painting, but this was a much bigger job than I felt able to handle.  We have a fairly large home and the laundry room, kitchen/eating area, living room/family room, dining room, entry area, and guest bathroom, along with 27 doors through out the home needed painting.  Painters arrived on Monday and finished on Wednesday.

I did manage to finish this small quilt which was originally the sample of a class I have been teaching beginning quilters at our local quilt store.  The painters contributed greatly to me getting it done.

This was my doorway in my sewing room.  On Tuesday the painters were spraying the ceilings and walls throughout the home.  Everything was covered in plastic including and all the doorways into rooms not being painted  I was told it was best to find a room I wanted to stay in for a few hours.  I selected my sewing room.  If one is going to be imprisoned in one room, it was a great choice.

The rest of the house looked like this.  

During my sew room lock down, basically from 10 to 3, I also managed to finish my last two pillowcases started in March for the children's hospital.

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SWEET TWEET QUILT FINISHED AT LAST

I finished my Sweet Tweet quilt top this past week.  I started it in July of 2023, a long journey.  Off to the quilter for sure.  

The last block #9, on the bottom right.  Just to get that border on now.

Just a simple border.  I ended up at 48" wide by 56" long.  The perfect size for over the buffet in the dining room.

I also got the quilt top together from last week's scrap strips post.  I am pleased with it.  Organizing my scraps into 4 1/2 and 2 1/2 inch strips sure made it easy to whip up a charity quilt top in no time at all.

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