I think I can, I think I can…
This is where I was supposed to be a week ago on the Quilt Along. Better late than never and all that. Now, to put the blocks together into a quilt top before Monday! Save
Category: Making
Stuffing Without Stuffing
I am a contradiction. I like things organized, everything in it’s place, with minimal clutter. I don’t generally have things just to have things; each thing should fill a purpose, the more the better. But I also have my grandmother’s pack-rat gene. If it might be useful someday, it’s really hard to let go of it. I force myself to recycle cardboard boxes instead of keeping every single one we acquire; otherwise we’d never be able to put the car in the garage. Caitlyn’s baby things have gone into a box, although I’m not always sure who I might be …
Quilting Along
Last week’s strip sets are this week’s strips. Next up: piecing these together into blocks, which are likely going to be next week’s project, despite being part of this week’s instructions. Cutting 16 strip sets into approximately 272 (give or take a few) strips takes a bit longer to do than it does to say. Quandary of the moment: do I put these strips together somewhat randomly or do I try to organize them into thematic blocks? I’m leaning toward the random approach since it feels a little late to be organized. There are a few highly organized strips sets …
Quilt Along Progress
I finished the strip sets for Rachel’s Postage Stamp Quilt Along over the weekend. Just in time for the next set of instructions! Strip Set A Strip Set B Save
Quilt Along Update
Ok. Now I know. When doing a project with pre-cut fabrics, make sure all the pieces are from the same manufacturer. In my quilt along fabrics, the purple strips from Island Batik are about an eighth of an inch wider than the cream strips from Timeless Treasures. Since this would throw off the corner alignments when it comes time to do the piecing, I’m trimming them down as I go. Hopefully this works. And in the future, I’ll stick to one manufacturer at a time since this fiddly stuff is the sort of thing buying pre-cut fabric is supposed to …
Quilt Along!
My fabric for the Postage Stamp Quilt Along arrived yesterday! I’m going with Meringue from Timeless Treasures and Sweet Pea from Island Batik. Love batiks. Love them, love them, love them. Despite all advise to the contrary, I spent my “creative time” this afternoon prewashing these strips. I prewash just about all fabric that comes into the house, but it gets iffy when the fabric is pre-cut. But since I’m using fabrics from two different manufacturers, I was concerned that the shrink rates would be different (in the past, when using pre-cut strips, I’d piece the strips and then wash …