25 September 2016
23 September 2016
5" D4P growing
Rows 1 & 2 are together and Row 3 is pinned, awaiting my return home.
Last night was spent preparing for Saturday's workshop with Nova Montgomery in Williamsburg, learning to maintenance my (April 1947) 221 featherweight sewing machine.
Its decals are in sad shape and paint is gone in spots.
When I opened the shipping box (bought it on ebay), it had been doing the pogo stick on its spool pin, hammering it through the top of the matching 221 box and breaking it off. Boy, was I mad about that!
But she sews just fine and that's the important part.
I haven't tried winding bobbins (and I only have two) so we'll see about that function on Saturday. I suspect I will be buying a few items to keep her running well.
I did buy two replacement LED bulbs via the internet, right before we moved back home. I need to find them. The regular bulb runs really HOT!
Happy Friday!
Last night was spent preparing for Saturday's workshop with Nova Montgomery in Williamsburg, learning to maintenance my (April 1947) 221 featherweight sewing machine.
Its decals are in sad shape and paint is gone in spots.
When I opened the shipping box (bought it on ebay), it had been doing the pogo stick on its spool pin, hammering it through the top of the matching 221 box and breaking it off. Boy, was I mad about that!
But she sews just fine and that's the important part.
I haven't tried winding bobbins (and I only have two) so we'll see about that function on Saturday. I suspect I will be buying a few items to keep her running well.
I did buy two replacement LED bulbs via the internet, right before we moved back home. I need to find them. The regular bulb runs really HOT!
Happy Friday!
19 September 2016
5" D4P Progress and an Inherited UFO
I laid out the blocks for my 5" D4P yesterday and sewed all the rows together this morning before work. This is not the final layout as I noticed issues with the bottom right-hand corner blocks.
A while back, DH & I were going through what I thought was a cedar chest of his stuff.
Come to find out, it was a chest full of his (passed on) mother's stuff. In it we found a hand-pieced quilt top with coordinating fabric that is 22-23" selvedge to selvedge. (Weird, right?)
I laid out the quilt top yesterday and got a picture of it. So now I have to add one more item to my UFO list.
I love it on my bed but it needs to be a little larger. It barely covers the top and just starts down the side by a few inches. I also need to fix a couple of blocks around the edges where the stitching has come undone.
Here is a picture of the hand-stitching. You can't really tell but there is a lot of yellowing. I wonder if ironing will set the yellowing ??? I should iron before quilting, right??
I think I will create a "Gifted/Inherited UFO" section to distinguish these from my personal UFOs.
I was thinking using the yardage to add sashing but it is faded in spots and is only 22-23 inches from selvedge to selvedge which is also very odd. Perhaps this is a way to date it?
DH thinks this may have been made by his maternal grandmother Mary Marguerite Pedneau Lindamood, as he doesn't remember his mother quilting. He does have examples of crocheting and cross stitch that she did. She passed in 1957, the year he was born. WOW!
None of the sides has any sashing at all so the first thing to do would be to add sashing at a minimum. I worry that any white I use will be whiter than what is there and certainly will be a better quality. Then I could add a row all around to make it bigger.
I need to ask if this would lower the eventual quilt value. At least the utility of the quilt would rise if it was at least a double-sized quilt. But is that the right thing to do?
I guess I need to take some more pictures for reference and review!
Yesterday, I did go to Quilting Adventures and purchased 4 battings and nothing else! My no-buy (except for the "B"s: batting, binding, backgrounds, borders) has been successful. I have gone no-buy since July. I feel very proud of myself as I was VERY tempted. So many yummy fabrics were touched and viewed but not purchased.
If I had gotten there earlier, I would have pinned up my 4" D4P quilt. I had everything in the car but only 30 minutes before closing was just not enough time. I wish I had a table at work that I could do this with.
A while back, DH & I were going through what I thought was a cedar chest of his stuff.
Come to find out, it was a chest full of his (passed on) mother's stuff. In it we found a hand-pieced quilt top with coordinating fabric that is 22-23" selvedge to selvedge. (Weird, right?)
I laid out the quilt top yesterday and got a picture of it. So now I have to add one more item to my UFO list.
I love it on my bed but it needs to be a little larger. It barely covers the top and just starts down the side by a few inches. I also need to fix a couple of blocks around the edges where the stitching has come undone.
Here is a picture of the hand-stitching. You can't really tell but there is a lot of yellowing. I wonder if ironing will set the yellowing ??? I should iron before quilting, right??
I think I will create a "Gifted/Inherited UFO" section to distinguish these from my personal UFOs.
I was thinking using the yardage to add sashing but it is faded in spots and is only 22-23 inches from selvedge to selvedge which is also very odd. Perhaps this is a way to date it?
DH thinks this may have been made by his maternal grandmother Mary Marguerite Pedneau Lindamood, as he doesn't remember his mother quilting. He does have examples of crocheting and cross stitch that she did. She passed in 1957, the year he was born. WOW!
None of the sides has any sashing at all so the first thing to do would be to add sashing at a minimum. I worry that any white I use will be whiter than what is there and certainly will be a better quality. Then I could add a row all around to make it bigger.
I need to ask if this would lower the eventual quilt value. At least the utility of the quilt would rise if it was at least a double-sized quilt. But is that the right thing to do?
I guess I need to take some more pictures for reference and review!
Yesterday, I did go to Quilting Adventures and purchased 4 battings and nothing else! My no-buy (except for the "B"s: batting, binding, backgrounds, borders) has been successful. I have gone no-buy since July. I feel very proud of myself as I was VERY tempted. So many yummy fabrics were touched and viewed but not purchased.
If I had gotten there earlier, I would have pinned up my 4" D4P quilt. I had everything in the car but only 30 minutes before closing was just not enough time. I wish I had a table at work that I could do this with.
16 September 2016
One more 100-patch block done
I sashed one more completed 100-patch block (2" squares) last night and made one more 3.5" bowtie for projects 8 & 9 on my WIP list.
I don't get much done on the weekdays as I come home tired from working.
I dream of retirement daily. I have many, many quilts to make before I die. Ooo, that sounds morbid but a friend of ours passed away last Saturday and Tuesday's funeral was an intense day of reflection.
I don't get much done on the weekdays as I come home tired from working.
I dream of retirement daily. I have many, many quilts to make before I die. Ooo, that sounds morbid but a friend of ours passed away last Saturday and Tuesday's funeral was an intense day of reflection.
14 September 2016
Biking to work
Well, it's been two weeks since I last rode my bicycle to work. Yuk. My legs felt like lead.
But, HEY, I did 23 miles today. Felt a lot better on the way home, even though it was like in the 90s. This morning? Like 70 or maybe in the 60s -- awesome!
So about 2 hours of cardio - the real way. LOL
No sewing tonight. My DGS and DSIL came for dinner. Eli is 3 and a half and full of energy and beans.
No critters in the trap since the possum so maybe no more??
But, HEY, I did 23 miles today. Felt a lot better on the way home, even though it was like in the 90s. This morning? Like 70 or maybe in the 60s -- awesome!
So about 2 hours of cardio - the real way. LOL
No sewing tonight. My DGS and DSIL came for dinner. Eli is 3 and a half and full of energy and beans.
No critters in the trap since the possum so maybe no more??
12 September 2016
4" D4P is a filmsy!
My 4" Disappearing 4-patch is together (a flimsy)! YEA.
Didn't do much sewing this weekend since DH and I are working on clearing a bunch of privet that have grown tree-sized and making a firewood stand for the wood from the ash tree that we recently cut, although the wood still needs splitting.
We can actually see the well house. Hum, maybe that's not so good.
A place for the wood.
Now this still needs cutting up.
First things, first. A place in the sun to put it.
No additional critters in our trap, inspite of fresh applications of peanut butter. Maybe we got them all? Hummmm...
Went to Southern States and bought too many winter veggies and spent hours getting those planted also. Talk about tired on Sunday night!
SO we have brussel sprouts, Swiss Chard, Kale, Collards, white head lettucd, red leaf lettuce, arugula, spinach, and beets. Ok, I went a little overboard...
But the rosemary likes its spot...
Didn't do much sewing this weekend since DH and I are working on clearing a bunch of privet that have grown tree-sized and making a firewood stand for the wood from the ash tree that we recently cut, although the wood still needs splitting.
We can actually see the well house. Hum, maybe that's not so good.
A place for the wood.
Now this still needs cutting up.
First things, first. A place in the sun to put it.
No additional critters in our trap, inspite of fresh applications of peanut butter. Maybe we got them all? Hummmm...
Went to Southern States and bought too many winter veggies and spent hours getting those planted also. Talk about tired on Sunday night!
SO we have brussel sprouts, Swiss Chard, Kale, Collards, white head lettucd, red leaf lettuce, arugula, spinach, and beets. Ok, I went a little overboard...
But the rosemary likes its spot...
07 September 2016
Border blockage & Critters in the Vineyard
What is it with me? I can't seem to put the borders on two of my quilts. It's like I'll be disappointed that they will be official flimsies...? I usually feel a let down after finishing the piecing. I do like that part.
I sewed a bunch of the 5" D4P last night and then finished them all this morning before work.
Straightened the living room and made just one fabric pile so now the sofa is available for use. My youngest grandson (3 yrs old) is coming over tonight for an overnight visit.
DH found a 5th critter in our trap. Our vineyard has been decimated by critters this year. We have caught 4 racoons and now 1 possum.
FYI - We take them 6 miles away to a park beside the James River and release them.
Here is a picture on one of the racoons.
I sewed a bunch of the 5" D4P last night and then finished them all this morning before work.
Straightened the living room and made just one fabric pile so now the sofa is available for use. My youngest grandson (3 yrs old) is coming over tonight for an overnight visit.
DH found a 5th critter in our trap. Our vineyard has been decimated by critters this year. We have caught 4 racoons and now 1 possum.
FYI - We take them 6 miles away to a park beside the James River and release them.
Here is a picture on one of the racoons.
Looks like we will get ZERO grapes to make into wine due to these suckers.
06 September 2016
4" Disappearing 4-patch - in progress
So I didn't get everything done that I had wanted to. Still fighting with my head cold.
DH asked for my help while he cut a huge busted limb from our ash tree. Definitely a worry but he got it down with no problems, resulting in a huge truckload of limbs that he took to the dump the next day. I should have taken pictures...
Here is the tree where the piece came off after he cleaned it up.
And the whole tree... it's a big one..
And here is what is left over to be cut up.... O, and it's not next to the original tree because, well, men and tractors, what can I say? DH shoved it all over the place until he got it where he liked it.
Laid out several WIPs on the design bed this weekend.
Here is my 4" D4P with the individual rows put together, awaiting an ironing prior to the final sew-up.
Then there is the shadow box quilt. Here is the point where I realized I needed 3 more blocks...
It is still not finished but here it is also awaiting an ironing and then more sewing for the white between the rows and on the outsides. I am calling this Fall Shadows.
This morning before work, I got the rest of the 5" D4P sliced up and pinned. It is sitting by the sewing machine waiting for me to get home again.
I sewed the 10th row on one of my 100-patch blocks so that is also awaiting white borders. I have another partial block started as I sewed and added row 2 this weekend.
Made 10-11 more 3.5" unfinished bow-tie blocks this weekend.
Quilt borders are still calling my name....
DH asked for my help while he cut a huge busted limb from our ash tree. Definitely a worry but he got it down with no problems, resulting in a huge truckload of limbs that he took to the dump the next day. I should have taken pictures...
Here is the tree where the piece came off after he cleaned it up.
And the whole tree... it's a big one..
And here is what is left over to be cut up.... O, and it's not next to the original tree because, well, men and tractors, what can I say? DH shoved it all over the place until he got it where he liked it.
Laid out several WIPs on the design bed this weekend.
Here is my 4" D4P with the individual rows put together, awaiting an ironing prior to the final sew-up.
Then there is the shadow box quilt. Here is the point where I realized I needed 3 more blocks...
It is still not finished but here it is also awaiting an ironing and then more sewing for the white between the rows and on the outsides. I am calling this Fall Shadows.
I sewed the 10th row on one of my 100-patch blocks so that is also awaiting white borders. I have another partial block started as I sewed and added row 2 this weekend.
Made 10-11 more 3.5" unfinished bow-tie blocks this weekend.
Quilt borders are still calling my name....
02 September 2016
Friday and a long Weekend!
Going to do some more sewing on this nice long weekend!
Looking back at my last post, I am disappointed to say that not much got done this week. Been feeling a bit under the weather so I also didn't ride my bike in to work all week. <sad face>
I did get a few more 5" D4P squares completed.
Looking back at my last post, I am disappointed to say that not much got done this week. Been feeling a bit under the weather so I also didn't ride my bike in to work all week. <sad face>
I did get a few more 5" D4P squares completed.
I am going to whip out a mini project this weekend with the Shadow box mini quilt-along (https://colorcreatingandquilting.blogspot.com/2016/08/shadow-block-mini-quilt-along.html). This looks like a lot of fun.
I am going to experiment with some of my gifted browns. This is a color that I haven't really liked. In the past, I would say that I actively DISliked it. Since then, I used it in an attic windows quilt and must say that it looked really great, to my vast surprise.
Looking forward to stitching up a storm on this coming long weekend!
To Do List:
1. Shadow Box Mini Quilt
2. Add the final yellow border to my blue and yellow Ohio Stars flimsy.
3. Add the final white border to my 16-patch star quilt.
4. Do some more quilting on my red and white Storm at Sea wall hanging (a John Flynn kit that I purchased at MAQF in Feb 2015). I am quilting it with my walking foot, easy but I am quilting the snot out of it so it takes time.
5. Sew some more 2" squares L/E fashion for my 100-block quilt.
6. Sew some more 3.5" bowties for my Bowtie L/E project (Bonnie Hunter bowie pattern but NOT using Cheddar for the background - shudder - I'm using white Kona). These are so cute, I want to pinch their cheeks, if they had any.
7. Sandwich and pin my blue and yellow Ohio Stars top (so that means I have to do #2 right away!!)
Busy planning...
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