The next step of piecing is complete for half of the blocks as I added the large triangles to the purple-to-gray sets of Peaks and Valley units. I’ll need to do the same to the green-to-turquoise sets before moving on to completing these units so I can sew them into the blocks. Meanwhile, I keep… Continue reading Purple-to-gray sets
Category: Sewing
General sewing
Off the Trail quilted
I picked up my Off the Trail quilt from my quilter yesterday morning, and I love, love, love the quilting pattern. It’s called Cotton Seed, and it looks a lot like the Cotton brand motif. It’s just the perfect complement to the angles of this quilt. Now I need to find the binding fabric (same… Continue reading Off the Trail quilted
Mirrored sets of HSTs
Another step is complete for all of the remaining blocks. This project should be a really fun one, because I love all of the fabrics and colors. But I think because of the odd sizes and bias edges everywhere, working on these is such a slog. The sooner I complete this quilt top, the better.… Continue reading Mirrored sets of HSTs
On-bias sets ready
I finally finished cutting and pressing my on-bias half square triangle sets for all of the remaining 22 full and 4 half blocks of my Peaks and Valleys quilt. I just did a few here and a few there, and on Friday morning, before getting together with my friend Sallie for brunch, this step was… Continue reading On-bias sets ready
Sitting and sewing
Thursday night I got together with a couple of other quilters and we had a nice time sitting and sewing. This time I brought my sewing machine and worked on my Turnabout Granny Square quilt. I honestly didn’t expect to get as much accomplished as I did, but it was a great night for sewing.… Continue reading Sitting and sewing