Week 15, PoD Block

Hedwig is the block of the week.  The color is way off in this picture.  The background is less blue, and the actual color of the book is dark teal. 

One Nation

I continue to work on One Nation, but not daily.  The key for me is to start working on it before 8 p.m.  If I try to start later than that, my eyes are too tired to focus.  Here's a picture of where I started:

And where I am now:

I'm hoping to finish these two rows by next check in.

To see what the rest of the group is stitching:

Avis, Claire, Gun, Carole, Sue, Constanze, Christina, Kathy, Margaret, Cindy, Heidi, Jackie, Sunny, Hayley, Megan, Deborah, Mary Margaret, Renee, Carmela, Jocelyn, Sharon, Daisy, Anne, Connie, AJ, Jenny, Laura, Cathie, Linda, Sherrie

Pumpkin Season

Most of my UFOs are big, complicated projects which will take me many days to complete.  The Pattern Basket's Pumpkin Season is a small, easy project that I had cut out from scraps last fall and put away for some reason.  I still need to get the final border fabric, but the inside is done. 

I'm thinking about adding a button eye after it is quilted.  This will be a wall hanging or table topper.

Week 14, PoD Block

I made a tiny mistake in the Deathly Hallows block, but I'm not fixing it.  By the time it gets quilted, I don't think anyone but me will know it is there. 

North Star

I wanted to use up some of the green fabric left over from my nephew's wedding quilt.  I combined the greens with a blue, green and purple batik jelly roll.  North Star is a Missouri Star pattern, but mine is 4 x 6 blocks instead of 6 x 6 because I ran out of the light green fabric.    I also left off the border that the pattern calls for.    I've had it cut out since last fall and am just now getting it sewn up. 

 I am not entirely happy with this quilt.  To begin with, I don't really like the color combination.  I am glad to find this out now because I've been planning a quilt in similar colors in my head.  Time to rethink that!  My workmanship is not my best.  There are a bunch of stitch and flip corner triangles in this quilt, which is not my favorite technique.

North Star is not a pattern with nice nesting intersections.  You could make it that way, but it would require a whole lot of forethought when pressing.  I wasn't willing to put forth the effort, so a lot of my intersections are bulky, and my points are far from perfect.  I just wanted to get it  finished.

I will probably donate this top and get it out of my life!  It is a good size for a charity quilt, and I think the colors work well for a boy.  It is  43 1/2" x 64".


I've also been working on my Wild and Goosey blocks.  So far I have 60.

I need about 200 before I can start thinking of a layout.  I like to make these over a long period of time because I get a wider variety of scraps that way.

Stash Report:                                                                                                                      

Used this week: 2 yards (North Star)

Used YTD: 25.75 yards

Added this week: 0 yards  

Added YTD: 37.0 yards

Net:  +11.25 yards

Week 13, PoD Blocks

This week's block, the sorting hat, takes up the equivalent of two spaces in the quilt.  I chose the version with the face but without the cat. 

I also pulled out the rest of my PoD blocks to check the color balance.  Right now it looks ok to me.  I haven't decided where the blocks will be arranged in the quilt.  

Fall Sew Many Strips, Top Complete

After working on Fall Sew Many Strips almost every day for 2 weeks, I finally finished the top:

I am very happy with how this one turned out since a lot of the fabrics are ugly.  It is true what Bonnie Hunter says, 'if it is still ugly, you didn't cut it small enough.' 

This quilt is 85" x 85".

Stash Report:

Used this week: 6 yards (Fall Sew Many Strips)

Used YTD: 23.75 yards

Added this week: 3 yards  (Backing)

Added YTD: 37.0 yards

Net:  +13.25 yards