Orca Bay Top Done!

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My Orca Bay top is finally complete!  This top was part of my 3 FAL projects, and I'm very glad to have it finished.  I thought the interior of the quilt was fussy, but the outer borders went on perfectly.

        

Stash Report:                                                                                                                   

Used this week: 11.5 yards
Used year to date: 11.5 yards
Added this week: 0 yards
Added year to date: 11 yards
Net used for 2012: -0.5 yards

Orca Bay Super Bowl Sew-In

Football is one of the least interesting sports to me, so instead of watching the game yesterday, I worked on Orca Bay,  The center is complete!  Here are a couple of close ups, so you can see my scrap variety.

If Holly and Jodi look closely, they will be able to find some of the scraps they gave to me.  I told you I'd use them! If this quilt didn't already have a name, I'd call it 'A Million Little Pieces'.  Now to the border.  I've seen several quilts where the inner border is black or blue, and I like that better than the white used in the original, so I'm going to check my stash and make a decision this week.

My stash report this week should look familiar to you since it is the same as last week's.  I just got 3 quilts back from the longarmer, so as soon as the bindings go on, I will have something new to report.  I thought about making a pillow case just so I could see the net used go down this week.

Stash Report:

Used this week: 0 yards
Used year to date: 0 yards
Added this week: 6 yards
Added year to date: 11 yards
Net used for 2012: +11 yards

Orca Bay Continued

Orca Bay is coming along slowly.  I've had to do a lot of ripping and resewing, but I think I have the hang of it now.  Is anyone else unhappy about the amount of bulk in the seams?  There are lots of little pieces, and sometimes there isn't a good way to press the seams flat.  Other than that, I like the way the busy pattern hides piecing flaws.  Some of my star points aren't quite right, but it is really hard to tell when the quilt has so much going on in it.

 My sewing area is a corner of my bedroom, and I don't have room for a design wall in there.  I use our bed when I need to lay things out. I really thought I'd have the whole thing together this month, but it may be February before it is finished. I still need to cut the white triangles for the border, and I'm going to resew some of the flying geese units that don't look quite right.

Slow Progress on Orca Bay

Stash Report:
Used this week: 0 yards
Used year to date: 0 yards
Added this week: 0 yards
Added year to date: 0 yards
Net used for 2012:  0 yards

Not a great start for 2012!

I spent 3 hours today working on Orca Bay.  I finished sewing the black and white 'wing'
 units and stitched a few to the red string triangles.  I also made one block with a black nine patch and one with a white to make sure my wing units were going to work out.  I am not thrilled with the accuracy of my piecing, but it is not bad enough to redo the work. 

I wish there were a way to get rid of some of the bulk in the seams.  There are so many little pieces intersecting, I am having a hard time getting the seams flat even though I am pressing the heck out of them.  I could press everything open, but I don't think it is worth the trouble.  Once the long armer is finished quilting it, I don't think the bulk will bother me so much.  Quilting Muggles (as Frances from The Off Kilter Quilt calls non-quilters) will not even be able to tell there is an issue.