So…
Now I remember what it was like working on that green triangle quilt – 1 of 3 sides are not on the bias.
Once I started working on this it all came back to me – argh!!!!!
But it’s done and I can count another one in the box.
And I am pretty proud of how these points came together:
I know, it sounds ominous but it’s not.
New job, new systems to learn/navigate, it all just rolls into one really busy summer for me.
I have not had much of any time to do much crafting, but I have had time to “start” cleaning out my craft room. It was getting so cluttered (and if you were to look at it now it would look really cluttered if you didn’t see it before) so I dove into cleaning out stuff that I haven’t used in a long time. Craft stuff collected over the last 35 years or so. IT feels good, but hard to admit I’m not gonna do some of the things I collected. BUT someone else will – I have donated a lot of stuff so that feels really good!!!
Over the last week or so, when I could scrape a few minutes away from computers, I looked thru my gallery of quilt tops to look for inspiration for the Geese Migration quilt project that I started this year. I went thru and found all the quilts that I want to make a quilt migration block for and started piling material for them. This was the first one on my list to do – very much not my normal color pallet but it’s good to step outside your normal, and experience something different once in awhile. (well that’s what they say at least.
So this block comes from the set of tops that I made when I did a color challenge – one of my favorites Yellow quit tops.
Well that’s one off my list, 12 more to go.
Now this is how they all should go – a little over an hour to get this one put together.
Of course, it helped the 4 of the flying geese were already done and one was 2/3 of the way done!!! But it counts and another in the box. This was one of my favorite panels to do and one of my first panels. I don’t usually do them, but it worked so well with this layer cake that I had, I just couldn’t resist.
So the second little bag inside of this “purple” box that I pulled out today (not even in the project box stack) was all triangles.
My first thought was that this is going to be so easy!!! Never – Never – Never say that, ever when working on a project like this.
So here is what we learned today:
All in all – it did turn out nice. It was a bit tedious because of all the stretching, but it did turn out kinda cool.
The original quilt is here – hearts.
Well April is going out in flashy colors – I fought with my machine and had to do a deep clean on it to get this one done today. But it got done. It’s colors are way outside my normal colors but I love it anyway.
Well this one took me all day – I went thru 2 other scrap bags but they didn’t have enough to do one of these, but this one had enough – I had to piece some things together and creatively cutting some things. But I love it any way. This is left over pieces from Lake View – panel quilt.
So after finishing the one from this weekend’s project – it dawned on me, that after ever kit that I finish I put all the left overs in a baggie just in case I need them for something else. I don’t put them in the general scrap box, I keep them all separate. So what a great opportunity to include them in this project of projects.
I did realize that it actually takes more time going thru these scrap bags searching for pieces that will word for 5 large geese and 15 squares. This was is my color base – my favorite deep warm golds, greens, and burgundies. This is from the Bear Claw quilt
Now this is a Flying Geese to be proud of.
I couldn’t wait to do this one, just because of yesterday’s project. So unjust – yet still love that pattern & fabric.
You would think with all the snow that Minnesota has gotten this month I would have gotten a lot of crafting done – well you would be wrong.
New job, getting used to new routines, and winter blues just got the best of me this month. I need some fabric to fill in some holes in a project that’s all over my table right now and with the icky weather we’ve been having I just don’t want to drag myself to the fabric stores to get it.
I did do 1 row/column in my sample project: Braid
Now I can say I’ve done it because I don’t think I’ll ever do it again. That was slow going. I can’t image how long it would take to do a whole border with that layout = patience!
There is an error in it but I was able to work it out.
I need to do 1 or 2 more ‘rows’ in this, then I will be able to put it all together – ha!