Some sewing

I cut and sewed on the stop border for the baby quilt.  I had planned to add a blue focus fabric border-wasn't sure on the width-but when I looked I had just enough blue left for the binding.  I'm going to do a slightly wider binding.  Quilt top is about 46 square which should fit nicely on some orange minky!

This next bit is in-progress.  It's the Parsonsfield QAL that Lori at Humble Quilts started in 2023.  I cannot find the darn fabric I bought from her expressly for this QAL so I started with some other fabric I had bought from her.  I also pulled a bunch from my Civil War stash.  Next up is a mess of four patches that are 2.5 square!

More sample blocks

 

I bought three dies over the last couple of months.  I always test the dies to make sure they cut well when I get them.  I cut out the fabric for these three blocks over Christmas break then succumbed to the flu so I'm just now getting them together.  

This first one is a Glorified Nine Patch.

This one is a Snail's Trail.

This final one is Chinese Lanterns.  It was actually the most difficult one.  You have to cut the fabric with some pieces facing up and some facing down.  I got some of it wrong and had to recut!

Needed a little something

 After packing away all of the Christmas decorations I realized I didn't have an appropriate mini quilt for the bar between  the kitchen and dining room.  I pulled out my Bear Paw's BOB die and got to work.

You can't really see the quilting but I quilted it using the quilt tools I borrowed from my Quilty BFF.  I did an okay job with the quilting-it's the first time I've tried it since I took that class at the quilt show.  I'm pleased with how this turned out but I plan to wash this block to get out the Chaco markings!

I also put out my Calamityware tea service to go with it!

Barn Star

So I finally finished my Barn Star (decided to call it that today when I was sewing the last two seams!).  I really like it.  All I need to do now is get backing and batting and send it off to Karen the Quilter.  Nearly all, if not all, of these fabrics are Jo Morton.

Big star

This is a project I started in November (I think).  I made a Sparkle Plenty quilt several years ago to hang on the wall behind my Christmas tree (the empty wall looked too desolate!).  Well, last year I washed that quilt with a yard of PFD fabric. Guess what happened?  All of the green fabric bled and permanently stained the muslin.  I tried for weeks to get it out but the quilt was ruined.

So this year I decided to make a new quilt.  I had seen a glimpse of a red, green and gold quilt that looked Christmas-y but not overtly so.  I think I saw it in an add for a Kim Diehl book.  It's all made of HSTs so I figured I could easily make one-plus I could mostly use fabric I already had.  So here you can see my HSTs laid out on my bed.  Last night I sewed the middle of the quilt together.  Looks good!

two borders down

My goal for the weekend was to get these two borders on.  Then last evening I started cutting blue and white fabric for the stripes. Most of the fabric I'm using for this project is from my Jo Morton stash.  I'll keep doing that tonight.  Maybe even start sewing them together if I'm not too tired. . .