September was a month filled with pondering, planning, stash shopping, and stitching.
Studio Squirrels Exhibit A - the quilt top and scrappy pieced backing for Ludiosis were started and finished, neither of which were seriously on the radar until after the first of the year.
The long-planned set of twelve new pillows achieved a major milestone with the top slabs stitched and the batting and backing for those slabs cut. Next month I'll get them sandwiched, quilted, and trimmed to size before cutting any of the pillow envelope backing pieces. The goal is to have them in use by early November.
The vacuum sealed pillow forms were released from their packages and are expanding while the rest of the process proceeds.
Exhibit B for the studio squirrels is Candy Corn - a gift project that saw a quilt top and a finished quilt started/completed during the second half of September.
Exhibit B-Part 2 is the long runner made using the three extra columns from Candy Corn.
On the intentional side of things, Rastro (the second bonus quilt from the Macnas series) became a finished quilt.
Githerments, the third bonus quilt from the Macnas series, was pin basted and is ready for quilting/binding in October with thread chosen and bobbins wound.
Motley, the fourth bonus quilt top from the Macnas series, was donated to Many Hands and Many Hearts along with yardage I had planned to use for binding.
September saw plans come together and significant prep work for several sets of seasonal utility mats and placemats.
The squares cut for December's set of reversible utility mats (posted here) have now been sorted into groups for 5 top slabs and 5 back slabs ready for piecing. Batting and binding strips were also cut.
(Above) Six set of January placemats.
tops (gray print), six backs (spotted black), and six pieces of batting were cut this month with lots of binding made for a second
I pulled this gathering of pieces from the resource boxes to make a companion set of five utility mats for January.
The scrappy tops will be pieced using these fabrics and the backs will be cut from companionable yardage (pulled but not shown).
I finished this pair of gift pillowcases on the 29th making them the last project of September.
Finally - squirrel Exhibit C - introducing Dug.
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Stay tuned for lots more stitching/quilting/binding during October.
Quiltdivajulie
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"Little by little, one travels far."
J.R.R. Tolkien
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