There are quite a few photos in this post, warning you ahead of time, my intended post one week ago never happened so I'm making up for that here. Towards the end of the post I make mention of the story of a quilt back in 2015, hope you can make it that far!
Fabric: I bought a pack of Tula Pink Tiny Beast range packed with little critters and some not so little.
She also brought out a collection of tiny dots and thin stripes in bright colours, these were added to my stash.
Current Project Progress: I'm plodding along slowly with my 16 patch in yellow/orange, the collection is growing nicely, here are the latest ones and this quilt could fit with the latest prompt from AdHoc Improvisational Quilters apart from the fact that it's definitely not improv! I do have a few other ideas for something quite different though.
Of course I'm also working on Slashed Squares using the tutorial by
Lynne at The Patchery Menagerie. Check out the Tutorials heading top of her blog page to be directed to purchase details, you'll also see a heading for Slashed Squares Quilts giving photos of quilts Lynne has made.
The blocks for this quilt are going together so quickly, I can't wait until I reach the 'slashing' stage. My latest batch are below
you can find the first seven sewn in my last post HERE. I'm going with 25 blocks in all, at least at this stage I am but I'll review that when I'm nearing the finish line.
I've been so, so lax with machine quilting tops over the past few years and at last count I gave myself a huge shock - 24!!!! Some were more wall quilt size and truly it wouldn't take long to work through basting and machine quilting although there are a few which will be hand quilted. Here's a photo of the first one up for the machine, basted now.
The Northern Lights
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This quilt was made in 2015 - yes folks it's been languishing in line all that time. Long time readers here will have seen it before, I first posted at the time I took part in a Quilt Along with Cultural Fusion Quilts, this was my take on Rail Fence. I wrote the back story behind this quilt you can find it HERE, hope you can find time to read, our stories behind the quilts
we make can be every bit as important as the quilt itself.
Books: do I need more books I ask myself, I love books as much as fabric and two new ones arrived at the door
Congratulations if you've made it to the end of this post!!!
I have an appointment next week for the cortisone shot into the torn tendon in my shoulder so
it may be another couple of weeks before I get around to posting - see you then.
Keep safe and well and happy quilting.
Maureen
