I finally pieced the last of the sashing strips to the string units this morning, and so now I can commence with the final block assembly and trimming. It feels like it is taking a long time, but it really isn’t, now that I can devote more time to quilt making each week. I’m starting… Continue reading Block assembly
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An Easy Breezy kind of day
I finally got around to asking my husband to hold my Easy Breezy quilt up to take a photo on a sunny day. The trees behind our house make interesting shadows on the quilt and the backing.
Growing stacks
My little stacks of quilt pieces/units is growing and taking shape. Just a few more of the center units to piece and a little less than half of the string units left to de-paper and add the sashing strips to (I’ve been using those as my leader/enders between center units). Then those can be pieced… Continue reading Growing stacks
Cutting sets
I ran out of sets to piece, so I’ve been pulling and cutting from the rainbow of scraps I was organizing. Just a few more sets to cut, then I should be able to zoom-zoom through the rest of the piecing of this section of the blocks. It was really hard to narrow down to… Continue reading Cutting sets
Sidetracked
Wanting to use already cut strips, if possible, I got sidetracked again by having to sort strips from multiple storage containers in order to determine whether I had enough of a particular strip/squares to complete a block. Side note: while I had sorted some of the smaller strip widths previously, I had never sorted this… Continue reading Sidetracked