Week 18, PoD Block

This week's block is the snitch sitting on books.  This is the fourth time I have made this block, and this was the first time it went together easily.

Fall Layer Cake

I put together this Fall Layer Cake quilt last December.  Today I got the borders on it.

I like it a lot better with the borders, and now it is a useable size:  64" x 73".  I have no plans to get it quilted any time soon, but it will be good to have if I need a quilt for a man or boy.  

Stash Report:

Used this week: 1 yard (border)

Used YTD: 30.75 yards

Added this week: 3 yards  (backing) 

Added YTD: 44.0 yards

Net:  +13.25 yards

Week 17, PoD Block

This week I made the sherry bottle block.  The books are a perfect place to use ugly fabric! 

Design Wall Monday

I started making Bonnie Hunter's Dawn's Early Light blocks in the summer of 2016.  It has been a work in slow progress since then, and has spend a lot of time idle the past 2 years.  Yesterday I pulled the blocks out and put them on my design wall.  I have decided to do a slightly different layout than the pattern suggests because I want to minimize bulky seams.  Here's where I am now:

I had forgotten how many different neutral scraps I used up in these blocks.

It makes me happy to see all these fabrics again.  I can remember when I bought some of them.  I can remember who gave me others.   Putting this top together shouldn't take me that long.  

Linking up:  https://smallquiltsanddollquilts.blogspot.com/2020/05/design-wall-monday-may-4-2020.html

Week 16, PoD Block

This week's PoD block is just books.  I'm not thrilled with the colors I chose, but they will be ok when I add them to the other blocks.

Forest Friends Top Done

I got the Forest Friends top done today!

Despite all the problems I had with my block sizes, I'm happy with how this top turned out.  It was a lot of work!  I think my niece is really going to like it.  I though I had bought the perfect backing for it, but it turns out I didn't buy enough of it.  Piecing a back will be my next challenge, but I'm giving myself a break for now and working on something else.  My borders are wider than the pattern calls for, and this quilt measures 63"x78".

Stash Report:                                                                                                                      

Used this week: 4 yards ( Forest Friends)

Used YTD: 29.75 yards

Added this week: 4 yards  (backing) 

Added YTD: 41.0 yards

Net:  +11.25 yards

Design Wall Monday

I haven't been participating in design wall Monday for many weeks because the same old quilt has been on the wall.  Here is Elyse's graduation quilt, Sew Fresh Quilts' Forest Friends.

I still have to do the sashing between the four big sections and then the border, but I'm hoping the worst is over!

These blocks are not paper pieced, but I wish they were.  My accuracy would have been a lot better than it was using the stitch and flip (or as others call it stitch and hope) technique.  Even being off tiny amounts makes a big difference in 8 1/2" blocks.  I had to make some little coping strips to bring my animal blocks up to the right size.  Look under the squirrel to see one.

This is the hardest of the Sew Fresh Quilts that I've ever made, and I know I won't make this one again!  There are some others of hers that I will attempt, but those blocks are bigger.    

As soon as I got this quilt off my design wall, I put up Scrappy Mountains Majesty, made with dress shirts. 

 This is a good palate cleanser after Forest Friends!

I also got sucked into mask making, though I tried to stay out of it.  We had boxes of masks here that my husband got when my white blood cell count dropped so low last year.  We have been giving these masks away,  over 200 of them, so I didn't think I needed to make any.  But my son specifically asked for masks he could wash, so I made him some.  Now I need to figure out how to send them without going to the post office.  I am social distancing as much as I can.

Linking up:  https://smallquiltsanddollquilts.blogspot.com/2020/04/design-wall-monday-april-27-2020.html