Yesterday was a good day! Well, for me and more sewing. The weather was not that good through most of the day. . . but it did clear up pretty nicely in the late afternoon.
In my continuing quest to complete UFO's I moved 2 projects further along:
This first picture is the last 4 blocks of a "Buck A Block" program that our guild did. . .oh, I'm thinking at least 6-7 years ago. The blocks are mostly paper pieced using Thangles for easy triangles.
We had a choice of either Civil War fabrics or 1930's reproduction fabrics. . . .I went with the Civil War fabrics. I think the blocks measure 7" finished size. . . .I don't have the directions with me upstairs so I'm not sure. But I do know that the entire piece, including sashing and borders is a good baby quilt size; so the blocks are not that large.
I had to laugh because in the final directions there was a certificate for a percentage off the cost of the fabrics needed to finish the quilt (border, backing, batting). . . . while there is no shop name on the paperwork I have a feeling that the shop has long since gone out of business. . . which, unfortunately, has been the result to many shops that I used to frequent.
I am hoping that I have enough left over muslin to at least do the interior sashing strips so that I don't have too much a difference in the color of the muslin. I am sure that I do not have enough to do the outside sashing. . . but I will try to find as close a match as I can.
As for the border fabric there are several stores that carry a lot of Civil War fabrics and I am sure that I will have no problem getting something.
This next project is an even older UFO. . . . it is from a retreat that a guild I no longer belong to ran. It is a felted wool table runner. This is the picture that was included in the kit that we purchased at the retreat:
I have finally finished cutting out almost all of the pieces that I need . . . I think I have 4-5 more leaves to cut but that should not be too hard.
Last night I started laying out the pieces to see how may spacing was going. . .things looked pretty good so I will start do the blanket stitch on these pieces first to lay the ground work for the rest of the pieces.
This will probably be a travel project so that I don't have to lug my sewing machine, cutting mats, etc. with me. Mr. Books & I have a couple of longer trips in the planning stages and I would rather travel light and possibly get something done than bring everything and get nothing accomplished.
There is more sewing that I would like to get done before the weekend is over. . . . so I'm going to get to it.
In peace and pieces,
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