Arranging Time

 

Another day, another short sewing session so I don't over-do it with my wrist. It's feeling a lot better, but I'm trying to be careful. Thankfully, I found that I had already cut out the majority of the remaining Patchwork Palooza sashing strips at Sew Day earlier this month. That made it easy to sew the cornerstones that I cut out yesterday.

The pile all ready to be ironed.

Nice and flat.

All ironed and ready to go up on the wall with the blocks.

Now it's arranging and re-arranging time. Looks like I made some extras? So that means I have more flexibility and can take out the cornerstones that are either too prominent or distracting.

Cornerstones

 

After a few days off, I couldn’t resist doing a little *something* in my sewing room, and so I cut out the twenty six remaining cornerstones for the Patchwork Palooza quilt. My wrist was feeling good enough for that at least. And then instead of cutting the corresponding background strips and sewing them together, I quit for the day. Don’t want to re-injure myself.

Homeward Bound

 

Last block for Patchwork Palooza! It's an easy Log Cabin, renamed "Homeward Bound" for this quilt.

I put purple in the center, because that's our house with the purple trim. Finally I got to use the matchstick fabric, it's really a challenging print.

Here's a view of the whole group of blocks as called out in the quilt design. I will be moving them around I think.  But now on to making the sashing and cornerstones and get to assembling.

Crosswalking

To keep motivated on the Patchwork Palooza front, after my recent catch-up, I decided to put them all up on the wall "in order" with the setting blocks (but not the sashing/cornerstones yet). Only two blocks left to make, and I want to make sure this scrappy thing is staying scrappy *enough* for me. Nothing says the blocks have to be in this arrangement, it's just the one the pattern designers came up with.

I did have the idea to switch this picture over to black and white, and wow, what difference this makes. The really hot one in the lower left corner is almost the same weight as the setting chain blocks.

In order to stay "caught up" with Patchwork Palooza, I jumped right on it and started making the newest one from this week, block number 20 (!), named Crosswalk. This was my initial fabric placement,

but I thought it was worth looking at alternatives. Much better.

I had to leave myself some breadcrumbs, ie labeling all the fabrics after swapping them around so many times.

The labels worked, and the block went together pretty easily.

 Just one more block to go...and the sashing/cornerstones and assembly of course.

Definitely too much of this one blue fabric down in the lower left corner, so those blocks will get sprinkled around the quilt I think, maybe in all four corners.

Guiding Star

Now on to the eighteenth Patchwork Palooza block, which is named Guiding Star. Yes, I'm using the Bloc-Loc 2.5" HST ruler again.

Making the four-at-time version of Flying Geese. This is what I call the "Big Chomper" stage.

These turned out to be quite oversized, but they trimmed down easily with the 2.5"x4.5" Flying Geese Bloc-Loc ruler.

This might be my favorite block so far. I really love this fabric combination. Sometimes your scraps really do surprise you.

Here are all 18 of these beauties hung up together with the chain blocks. Do they look matchy-matchy? Nope, not exactly. But is it close enough for me to "somewhat coordinated"? Yes.

Patchwork Palooza Catch-Up Parts

 

After a few weeks away from my fabric scrapbox, I'm back to assembling the three blocks that I missed out on making for Patchwork Palooza. Blocks 16, 17, 18 are ready to be sewn.

Palooza Fifteen

This is the last block I'm catching up on making and posting for Patchwork Palooza. And it's a very different and interesting design. I have to say that I'm glad that I used that dramatic fabric 

I really love that Tula Pink tiger, so I'm happy to get to feature him again. And of course on the side: teeny tiny HSTs™

There's all fifteen of them together. I think its a good mixture so far.

Palooza Fourteen

 

Continuing on with catching up with the Patchwork Palooza block, onto number 14. This was one looked tricky to me, as in I had to keep track of which fabric was which number.

I laid all the parts out for the block before going past the first sewing step to make sure everything was in the right place.

After the next step, I did the same.

All together correctly and the points are going to stay pointy.

It's really starting to fill in.

Patchwork Palooza Ingredients

 

No new blocks assembled for Patchwork Palooza quite yet. 

But I have block ingredients all cut out to catch myself up.

I may have to break out another scrap box. Most of the pieces are on the small side now in the one I've been pulling from.

Blocks 12-15 are ready to sew together. I even ironed and spray starched all the pieces as there are many triangles ahead.

Patchwork Palooza #11

 

This week's Patchwork Palooza block was a pretty easy one, so I played around with different fabric choices. This one was too busy for me.

I thought this was a better look.

All done with the 11th block!

And of course the resulting teeny tiny HST's to add to my envelope.

Here's how it's looking so far, without the sashing and cornerstones as we still don't have the official measurements yet. I think it's working out color-wise so far. I may move some of the blocks around in the final version.

Patchwork Palooza #10

 

Coming in hot with Patchwork Palooza block #10. I always think of this orange/fuchsia/lime green as being "hot". I like this block, it has a lot of movement and there are a lot of possibilities with it. I'm liking that I'm getting to use my 2.5"x4.5" Flying Geese Bloc-Loc ruler so much, it really works out when doing the four at a time method. And this is made with scraps from recent projects.

Old Town Aftermath

 So, my teeny tiny HSTs obsession was well fed with the piecing of the Old Town quilt. And regular sized HSTs as well!

And extra Flying Geese, and triangles and strips of various widths. What will I do with them?  For certain, I promise I will not be making a back out of them. Maybe a matching pillow or something like that?

PrePalooza #9

 

This is a KaleidaCam version of the Patchwork Palooza blocks, it didn't make the cut for the monthly marker, but I thought it was pretty cool.

Getting to work on the ninth block for Patchwork Palooza.

Time for the ol' 8-at-a-time-HSTs method.

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They turned out pretty well, thanks to the handy-dandy Bloc-Loc 2.5" HST ruler. But they don't get used in this block exactly like this...

They get used as the "skies"for Flying Geese.

The brown checkered fabric will be star points if I do this right. 

Executive decision made, I'll be sewing the rest of this block together tomorrow. I have to go crash out for a little while after getting my Covid shot today. I tried something different this time and did a fairly heavy weight workout, to try and help move the shot material around in my arm muscles. It worked well for the flu shot I got last week, no lump, no soreness, no fever like I usually get.

8th Palooza

 I guess this is an all Patchwork Palooza blog now, whoops, sorry. So here's the latest and greatest, the 8th block. I'm pretty happy with my fabric choices on this one.

And of course there were a lot of teeny tiny HST's™ to be made out of the cut off corners.