A Little Bit More...

And so the ticking and sticking continues...

Line Dried section 5 complete...

While this quilt looks huge in the photo it really isn't... I think it's about 60" wide... and there is another row of sections to come along the bottom.

Not on the list but I've been adding to the Giant Granny Squares...

And inbetween it all adding a few more little nine patch plus blocks to the collection.

Just as a reference to the scale... 19" blocks compared to 4.5" blocks :o)

My friend Monika and I went on a shopping road trip and I added some new low volume fat quarters...

Some homespun solids that just grabbed my attention (note neither of these photos actually represents the colours... probably somewhere in between).

I got a large section of fabric to start the pieced back for the Homespun magazine BOM top I completed using Tilda fabrics.

Some other random fat quarters...

A few more low volumes...

And this lovely mustardy coloured FQ.

While this week has been very low key... back to work after the school holidays and battling a mild cold which I've found draining... I have managed today to print off the instructions and pattern for a new skirt!!  It's the Love Notions Allegro, short skirt version (elastic waist and pockets - it's talking my language)... and I'm going to use the fine cord fabric I bought in June.

Ideally I'd like to get this finished before Winter ends as I think it would be great with tights and boots.  But we shall see what happens... no pressure!!

Already the middle of July

With just a blink we are already half way through the month.  My July goals are very much a continuation of a theme...

Another scrappy Cloudy Day Sampler block

Another Summer Sampler 2017 block...

Quilting had been progressing throughout the month and I'm now hand sewing binding on this Double Nine Patch scrap baby quilt.

Two charm packs of Bonnie & Camille fabric are part of a "she'll be right" experiment where I'm going to chop it all up and hope for the best.

Keeping with the pre cut and Bonnie & Camille theme I purchased a layer cake of At Home fabric and spent a couple of weeks trolling through pattern possibilities.  I finally decided on a giant granny square layout that needs 4 x 5" squares of three different fabrics for each block.  I struggle to get my head around precision cutting and piecing layer cakes... they tend to just have so much variety in their sizes... that I like to keep it as simple as possible but something that allows the fabric combinations to shine.

First step was to sort the layer cake into subsets of 3 fabrics with good contrasts and clip with my wonder clips.  Sometimes this is the hardest part!

Then the three fabrics are sliced into 5" squares and the background fabrics cut... creating a 19" finished block.

I am just loving how this is turning out.

Still to come for my goals is Line Dried section 5, appliquing the next section of Timeless Traditions, basting Nadias quilt, sewing a skirt and getting some more Sweet Escape blocks sewn.