I admit it; I’m sad to see this sew-along come to an end. This is block 19 of 20; last week is the last block and then it will be time to sew on the outer sashing and border, and then quilt it. I’m usually more drawn to primary colors over soft palettes. My…
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Bloom block 16
Wow! I can’t even believe I wrote that – sixteen Bloom blocks finished! We are 80% done with the applique portion of this quilt, and then it will be time to finish sewing the outer sashing around all 4 sides, then a border and then…baste and quilt. And bind. And then cut threads – but…
Block 23 – Hand In Hand
Well…everything was going according to plan yesterday. It was no time at all when I had the 4 corners paper pieced. The 4 brown “pointy things” took a little longer but at the time, they were okay. As is usually the case when something goes awry, I got distracted. I should’ve just set this aside,…
Devo day
It’s a work in progress day (Whip it! Whip it good! At least that’s what I think of every time I see the acronym WIP). This doesn’t include the Leah Day blocks because at this point, I don’t have room for those large blocks with everything else I have pinned up. I’m still thinking about…
Bloom block 15
I had a big surprise when I went to put this week’s block on my little stand and found out that the block from 2 weeks ago was on there. I thought I was on block 14 this week, but I’m a week ahead! It’s been a week like that in Texas. I followed Lori’s…
Bloom block 13
Finally! For the first time in the 13 weeks that we’ve been working on the Bloom blocks, I finally remembered to cut the X in the Pellon before I sewed it to the fabric. There were 5 pieces to cut the X into, so that means I cut 5 X’s before sewing them on to…
Bloom block 13
I really need to figure out some good spots to take photos sometime, since I take so many! This window faces south and it was after work when I finished it which means it had artificial lighting. If you’re following Lori Holt’s Bloom sew-along then you know what it looks like. My neighbors were getting…
Hee Haw
If it weren’t for bad luck I’d have no luck at all was the theme of the day yesterday. An unexpected dead car battery – and my jumper cables were in the daughter’s car; forgot that I completely out of the specific interfacing I’m using for the Bloom block so it was dinner time before…
Bloom block 12
Wow, and like that we’re already 60% through the Bloom quilt. I think I mentioned last week that I traced around the Pellon, sewed it to the individual shapes and basted those onto the background fabric before I left for the weekend. I was 35,000 feet in the air on the way to my destination when…
Block 14 – Flying High
Many thanks go out to Janet Clare for a timely block for Thursday’s Splendid Sampler, as I will be flying out of state this morning for a long weekend. I didn’t want to stretch the fabric since it’s so tiny, so I glue basted the little birds on before I finished it. The son and his friend were asking last…
Bloom block 11
The background fabric is an optical illusion; it looks like I have a piece of tape stuck on it but that’s really the print on the fabric. If it is still distracting when I complete the quilt, I’ll probably do some heavy quilting on this one to detract from it. This week’s bloom block from Lori…
Block 13 Scrap Stars
I made this into half of a Lemoyne star because I wanted the 4 star points to pop, and also because after trying out a number of fabrics, I didn’t find one for the other 4 that just had that wow factor. Other than a couple of bobbles, I like the way it turned out…