These are this week's seven strip sets
for my Optic Strings/Conundrum project for the
Week Four's seven blocks for Optic Strings.
28 blocks done / 52 more to make
And Week Four's flying geese blocks for
the quilt I've started calling Optic Geese Conundrum.
(another "if you give a mouse a cookie" project)
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In other studio happenings last week . . .
Squares Aplenty is now webbed/ready to assemble
including a scrappy pieced backing
for Kevin's SSSSQ (not a mystery for me) quilt.
I have finally started working on Inspi(red)
(my variation of Amanda Jean Nyberg's Birch Trees design)
for the AHIQ Red challenge from earlier this year.
This is yet another
"if you give a mouse a cookie"
project because the inset strips are
cut offs and scraps from piecing Luminous.
(also for the Red is a Neutral challenge)
My local Build a Barn 101 classes have been
scheduled with Fabric for the Flock for
August 15 and 22 (day and evening sessions).
I will have the Pink Barn (above) quilted
and finished in time to share with the students.
I will also have the Cows and Balloons barn
quilted and finished to share during class.
There are four sample barns at the shop now:
the Hay Bale barn, the Minimal Barn in solids,
the Yellow Barn, and
my SSOBB gallery quilt Flying Lessons.
Months and month ago, I pulled fabrics
to make Sunset from Cultural Fusion Quilts.
That plan fell through and I used the fabrics
to die cut snowballs / multiple shades of purple corners.
The project box has sat and sat - waiting.
I pulled it out this week and grouped the sets
of four snowballs with their corner triangles.
(future leader-ender sewing)
I also designed a scrappy back using
an abundance of purple squares
and end cuts from the top's WOF strips.
All in good time - but I think I know where it's headed.
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And - there were FINISHES this week!
First is the Instructor Display Case sample for
my September class at John C. Campbell Folk School.
Quilted with liberated matchstick-style quilting
using 8 different colors of Glide thread.
I love the way the backing and purple binding
tie in with the scrappy colorful front.
Second is this 24" x 30" chair back quilt
made with leftover blocks from the
pink and green strata quilt top.
Quilted with liberated free motion (unmarked)
multi-directional fans using Pink Glide thread.
And my big finish for this week is Flower Garden.
I made the Lattice quilt top earlier this year
when I taught the design from
at Fabric for the Flock.
When I learned last week that
one of my two primary attorneys from the law firm
was going into hospice care for an aggressive
and no longer responding-to-treatment cancer,
I knew this quilt was meant to be his.
Quilted with Glide thread in Mocha
(as a nod to his love of coffee)
using free motion liberated Baptist Fans.
I truly hope it brings color and comfort to him.
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I took Wanda's advice and ordered an 8.5" square
felted pressing mat for the small end table
that fits under my sewing table.
(I already had the iron and the two-sided turntable)
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Be back again next Monday
with another weekly recap.
Quiltdivajulie
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