Monday, March 18, 2024

7 More Makes 29

 

After twenty-nine days my 100 Days Project is already winding up (haha) to be pretty large. 
I don't have this very tightly rolled up so it's spreading. This is going to be more than three times bigger once I'm done with all one hundred days. I probably need to re-wind it a bit tighter.
Still my favorite bit of piecing.
It's fun to see how it looks when the most recent pieced sections are unfurled. Almost like a colorful string of pennants.
Seeing the piecing in 9" daily sections is quite different than looking at the whole thing as one piece.
Continuing to sprinkle in little bits of the intense yellow hand-dye as I go.
The new fabrics from recent shopping have now made an appearance.
Adding in some scraps from the Bohemian Wife quilt block making. Goes well with the hand-dyes.
The hand-dyes and batiks work well with the more modern prints.
The blue Space Dye woven cotton by Figo is giving some interesting texture.
Some fairly successful y-piecing that took a little fiddling around. I like the look of it though.

Sunday, March 17, 2024

Another Slap Cover

Friend Jaye mentioned that she would like one of the covers I made for the Project Quilting Wearables challenge for her slap bracelet from last year's retreat to wear at this year's retreat. So of course! I still have my Mini Pearl Bracelet fabric out as it's one of the ingredients in the Bohemian Wife quilt. I chose a color as close to aqua as I could get and measured it out.
Some piecing later, and I was ready to get down quilting. I used some Kaffe flower prints, a Giucy Giuce print and some scraps of a dark pink that I dyed.
Quilting was done in intentionally not lined up serpentine stitch (love that one) in two colors. I got out the pearl button jar again and found a good group of buttons in 3 sizes.
I thought this was funny, the scene before the buttonhole threads are cut. I worked hard to center the big button on the design on the Giucy Giuce print.
Sewed it down to the lining on three sides and trimmed the corners, turned it out and voilá, done and all ready for Jaye to slip in her slap bracelet and hand stitch up the end.

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Naps to Destruction

 

Yesterday morning snuggle pile.
Thursday afternoon snuggle pile with all three characters. Are you sensing a theme?
This one surprised me, usually it takes a lot of encouraging for all three of them to be settled down so near to each other. But they did this all on their own. Their settled alliances are still changing I guess.
The remains of the scratching ramp. Note all the catnip all over the floor. It was rough hour or so before Korben calmed down. We may have given him a tad too much this time.
LeeLoo in her magnificent repose on the Orange Bullseye.

Friday, March 15, 2024

Boho Combos

 

Spent a lot of time today cutting out squares for the rest of the Economy Blocks aka Square In A Square for the Bohemian Wife quilt. I do love using the slang "boho" for Bohemian.
The combinations are pretty fun in the slightly bigger scale. 4.5" vs. 3.5" Definitely shows off the bigger prints a bit more. Ooh look a beige has appeared!
I may change some of these combinations around before sewing.
Then I pushed through to cut out the rest of the twenty-three 3.5" blocks out. Oops, I thought I was done, but I need two more corner squares sets.

There we go, two more cut out and added in, and then some of the combinations switched around.
Oh that's funny, I didn't even mean to do this reverse thing of the two patterns and block positions. I'm going to see how they look all sewn up.
I was re-sorting and re-settling the mess that the fabric pull for the Bohemian Wife quilt had gotten into after all this cutting and noticed the above on one of the FQ's. What the heck! Looks like a printing issue to me. Maybe I'll fussy cut it out and feature it as an eye-spy sort of thing in this quilt. You'd have to work really hard to spot it with all the busy-ness of the color and pattern.
Phew that was a lot of cutting! Now to sew them together.




Thursday, March 14, 2024

Appointments to Shopping

I had some time to kill between appointments yesterday so I ended up at Golden State Quilting. It is located dangerously close to my doctor's office. Was that a subconscious reason I chose that particular doctor? Perhaps. Here's a group shot of what I bought on steering wheel. How do you like that kinda wild-eyed cartoon/caricature of Eleanor Burns? 
And here's a more spread-out version of my haul at home in better lighting. Five FQ's,  three of which will end up in the Bohemian Wife quilt as they are Kaffe Fassett Collective prints, a new quilt marking pen from Quilters Select, A smaller wool pressing mat to use at Sew Day and retreats. I bought a Jaybird Quilts pattern, Northern Lights to use with the mini Hex-n-More ruler, mostly based on the fact that they have one made up and displayed and I really want to make one with my own hand-dyes.

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Bohemian Economy


Working on the "filler blocks" for the Bohemian Wife quilt. There are several sizes of Square In A Square aka Economy blocks required. I started working on the 23 3.5" unfinished size and got ten of them done.
As you can see I had fun playing around with the fabric combinations

Still very glad that I chose to throw in the Kaffe Fassett fabrics into my initial choices. They have such a different tone and intensity than the others, but still play together very well.
I really like the word fabrics in the different color combinations.
There's all 10, plus the one required 3.5" finished block. I'm labeling the one offs so I don't have to keep measuring them.
It's a nice start to making all of these blocks. What's your favorite combination?

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Another Eight

Here's a view into my continuing progress on my version of the 100 Days Project. Eight more days worth of sewing scraps onto Scrap Tape. I particularly like the orange & blue pieced section here.
A face appears!
It's so cool to be able to instantly spot the various recent projects this 9" segment contains: (from Left to Right) BAM community sewing, Boho Wife, Trinket, Dye Mastery, Y.E.S. coat, Japanese Houses. I love being able to see what these scraps represent. All in 9"!
Another face appears!
I let the selvedge edge of that orange print make an appearance because of the cool pattern.
Some of these didn't get ironed as you can see.
Some good triangles.
That's enough for now! I'm still on track and keeping up with adding 9" worth of scraps a day. This 100 Days Project is maybe a thing that works for me, huh. I shouldn't be surprised, I like organized challenges and externally imposed deadlines. Now I really get the popularity of these projects over the last few years.