SAHRR Border 4 Showing My Curves

This week we were prompted by Wendy, at Pieceful Thoughts, to "show off our curves". Curves in my borders and arranging them in creative play has filled my week. Although challenging; both by getting them done by the deadline and designing to make them fit, this week's prompt has been great fun! So let me introduce my curve appeal result.

It is now measuring 62" and we have 2 more weeks to go. Looks like a full size quilt is in my future. No complaints. It just takes longer to finish them because I send them out to my long arm quilter. 

I am learning also, that if you do not like sewing on borders, then this round robin is NOT a project for you.  

 

Sewing the curves gets easier with the more you do. A great motivator to keep going!

 

I had to make small 1" spacers in each row because they were just a bit short in length. 

I am really happy with the secondary design that is showing in the white inside area between borders. I am wondering how I will pull off the next step in this round robin.

And I sure am hoping I do not run out of fabric before this ends. I have a discard pile that is growing from blocks and leftovers that I did not use. This is an example of how our scraps multiply. Have you found this to be the case in your sewing room also?

 

Our parade of quilts will be March 25th. Does that include quilting and binding also? If so...as Cary Grant would say, "I'm cooked". 

And let me add, I so appreciate your comments. I am trying to keep up corresponding and visiting everyone's postings too. I have been so inspired by your talents! 

Happy stitching!

 

 

 

 

 

 

SAHRR Border 3 Animal Kingdom

I have been working close to the deadline for this next border prompt. Darling Dogwood is this week's director of our inspiration by pointing us to the animal kingdom. There are so many blocks which come to my mind and I toyed with various ideas, but I couldn't afford delaying too long. 

I decided upon "Duck Tracks". I would have liked to have made them in sets (4 per block) but that would have really expanded the size of this quilt. Of course I could have made them in miniature, but then I would have to make 32+ blocks in just one week. Phew! So I opted with just one "foot" square running along the edges to make this border. Let's imagine them hopping on one foot around my quilt! Silly ducks!

 

This prompt has been my hardest so far for sure.  I had the odd number of 41 inches. That gave me a center gap that measured 5" x 5.5" once the duck feet were sewn together.  I made oversize flying geese, trimmed the length and left the width as is. Good or bad, it worked and I going with it. 

 

 

I could just say I did this on purpose, right? (grin) My Round Robin quilt now measures 51" square. And we have 3 more prompts to go!

Thank you Emily for this fun prompt. I have really enjoyed viewing what you and others have created. We are just a few short weeks until we see our completed tops. Umm, do they have to be quilting, bound, and labeled by March??

 

I'll post my finish and then it is back to watching the Olympics. Like many others, I am trying to understand the curling event. 

Happy Stitching!  

 

SAHRR, Making It A Double

I am happy to be keeping up with the directives so far on this Stay At Home Round Robin. This week's prompt was from Kathleen McMusing to "Make It A Double". It can be anything that has "double" in its name, or related to number 2. 

I took the easy road and chose a simple double churn dash. Because the last border was hourglass blocks, I felt a simpler border would be more complimentary. But that also means that next week I have to step it up! 

After auditioning fabrics, I decided upon the bubblegum pink and bright yellow with orange swirls. I love this combination as it reminds me of candy for some reason. 

I added a plain white coping border, but when I added the first churn dash border I realized that I did not extend it on all sides (see pic), thus the corner is a bit different than the pink border...but I like it. Sometimes errors can be serendipity! 

 So she is pressed and ready for the next round. Thank you, Kathleen for hosting our entries! 

 

I finally made the time to go up north and pick up my gray double 4-patch quilt that was done at my long arm quilter. I took up 2 more tops to be quilted. One was my Tilda Christmas top.

And the other was a leader/ender project that I finished, my Christmas Irish Chain. 

So when they get back and I put the bindings on, I will be ready for Christmas this December. 

It has been very cold in our area these past 2 weeks. It was minus 12 degrees last night. Brr. This was the view of my road after turning out of the driveway Thursday. The main roads were better...but not by much. I hope everyone is staying warm and safe!

 Happy Stitching!