I want to concentrate on the same three quilts this week: The Sun, Moon and Stars, Pomegranate Jam and Love Entwined.
Quilty To Do List for August 9th through 15th
The Sun, Moon and Stars quilt:
- Cut sashing strips
Fix tail on Virgo in EQ– done 13 AugustAppliqué two sun blocks– done 13 AugustAppliqué two moon blocks– done 9 August
Pomegranate Jam:
Prepare appliqué pom pieces– done 15 AugustPrepare appliqué leaves– done 15 AugustPrepare appliqué stems– done 15 August- Baste appliqué shapes to background fabric
Love Entwined:
- Hand piece new compass – started 9 August
- Appliqué outer ring to compass
- Appliqué small circles to outer ring
- Appliqué compass to background
- Cut and baste leaves
- Appliqué leaves
- Appliqué stems
- Starch and appliqué circle flowers
- Cut and baste triangles around compass
- Appliqué triangles
- Hand stitch rectangles into long strips for zig zag borders
- Stick Solvy to ZZ border and starch edges around to back
- Baste ZZ borders in place
I love lists. I make a lot of them. I love crossing things off my lists. I am one of those people who will add something to my list just to cross it off. Sometimes I cross several things off my list that I haven’t done yet so that I do those things next. No one in my family gets my ‘list thing.’
I want to concentrate on three quilts this week: The Sun, Moon and Stars, Pomegranate Jam and Love Entwined. Let’s see if posting a weekly quilty to-do list can keep me on track.
Quilty To Do List for August 1st through 8th
The Sun, Moon and Stars quilt:
Trace zodiac symbols to Pattern Ease– done 1 AugustBaste appliqué shapes to gray squares– done 2 AugustPrepare sun and moon appliqué pieces– done 1 AugustBaste sun and moon to dark blue squares– done 2 August- Cut sashing strips
- Fix tail on Virgo in EQ
Pomegranate Jam:
Cut out FP pom pieces– done 1 August- Prepare fabric pom pieces
- Prepare bias stems
- Baste appliqué shapes to background fabric
Love Entwined:
- Appliqué small circles to outer ring
Baste lines for zig zag border – draw first using chaco liner– done 6 August- Appliqué compass to background
Make FP templates for leaves and triangles– done 1 August- Cut and baste leaves
- Appliqué leaves
Cut and prepare stems– done 1 August- Appliqué stems
Print and cut circles for flowers– done 1 August- Starch and appliqué circle flowers
- Cut and baste triangles around compass
- Appliqué triangles
- Hand stitch rectangles into long strips for zig zag borders
- Stick Solvy to ZZ border and starch edges around to back
- Baste ZZ borders in place
- Applique ZZ borders
There is so much more to be done. [sigh – sorry – whining] Also trying to work more diligently on all my current projects. I was only working on two at a time but found that I was sometimes going days without working on anything. I was not getting anything done in that mode. I was thinking if I limited myself to two projects at a time, I would power through until I got them done. Obviously that is not how I work. LOL I need to have five or six projects going so I can rotate them. Which is not a problem when you live in one place. When you pick up and move to a new location every week or two, it becomes cumbersome dragging around everything you need for six projects.
That was another reason why I was trying to work on only two projects at a time. Easier to tote two projects around. I have decided to empty my suitcase and use it for my projects and carry a large tote bag for clothes and other necessities as I move from house to house. That way I will have my current projects and HOPEFULLY will be more motivated to keep working! I feel like I have spent the last year doing very little in the way of quilting and it shows in my list of finishes.
At the top of my blog you will see a tab called, Handwork. It has a drop down menu with my projects listed. So while I will be posting pictures here of work-in-progress, you will be able to see the latest picture of each project there. At least that is the plan…
I have been working a little bit on my design that I am calling Pomegranate Jam.
Pomegranate Jam designed in EQ7
I am doing one that is one quarter of this size. I have all the arcs pieced for both the New York Beauty and Sunflower blocks. I used the 6 inch Sunflower and NY Beauty 02 Inklingo collections and created my own pomegranate applique.
Hand pieced 6 inch block from the New York Beauty 02 Inklingo Collection
Hand pieced 6 inch block from the Inklingo Sunflower Collection
The NYB blocks are going together beautifully but I am not happy with my centers on the Sunflowers. [Am I whining again?] I am going to applique the centers on after I stitch the two halves together rather than trying to piece the centers. I can get a smoother edge that way I think.
- 1 Year of Stitches embroidery project
- Hexiflowers (aka Grace's Garden)
- Death Star pillow
- Tonopah Nevada topographical map
- 1855 Wales Center map
- Winnie the Pooh map
- Ethan's Quilt
- Thea's Quilt
- Rachelle Fae CQ block
- Machine quilting with a walking foot
Judy Martin's
Waltzing Matilda
6, 9 & 12 inch blocks
The traditional size: 1 inch Patchwork of the Crosses
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