I know, you are so excited to see all of my sewing....all at once. Well, it is Worldwide Quilting Day, so there! I have an excuse.
I have joined the
Vintage Quilt Revival Block Along. This means that I am trying to finish a block or two each week, then uploading the picture to Flickr, and at the end of 10 weeks I'll have a bunch of sampler blocks for a quilt. Each week they have a random drawing to win some quilt stuff...which I was pretty sure I was going to win one of these weeks, but haven't yet! I was so hopeful. :) It has been fun. Many of the blocks are paper pieced. I've enjoyed learning the technique, but I do not love all the fabric it uses up. It is nice to see all those lines matching up so nicely though! Here are a couple of the blocks.
I am looking forward to spending more time on the quilt that is on my design wall. I love this quilt -- simple and a little more modern.
I also wanted to make a new pillow cover -- I decided on a rainbow pillow as a nod to St. Patrick's Day. I didn't have a pattern and just decided to do it "improv"style. I am linking up to "
Sewjo Saturday"-- a link party (I think that's what it's called. :).
Lastly, I finally finished Tanner's superman quilt. I haven't loved it -- Superman fabric is not something I get super excited about. But I wanted to do something that he would like, and he does love his "Huperman blanket". I machine quilted it with big wavy lines -- it was the first time machine quilting a large piece (only done pillows or table runners a few times.) I have to say -- it was not very fun for me. In fact, my sister called while I was doing it and I told her "I hate this! It is so worth paying someone $$$ to do this for me!"
After that big quilt I decided to "practice" machine quilting on this table topper. I started this a while ago, did some quilting on it with invisible thread (read somewhere to do that.) That did not work out for me. So I unpicked it (ugh) and then just let it sit for several months. Anyway, I pulled it out again and finished it. I showed my boys, thinking they might this it was kind of fun to have houses on the quilt. But when I didn't readily point out that they are houses, Eric said "Are those H's?" They do look like that too.
After all the pain of machine quilting Tanner's quilt, I am ironically planning on quilting another one....though it's not quite so big and I'm straight line quilting it this time. This is a quilt I started over a year (or two?) ago. Lots of little pieces and so I ended up taking several breaks from it. I think it'll look great when it's finished.
So that's what I've been doing these last several months. Thanks for letting me share. :)
