Saturday, October 21, 2017

Our Community Quilt weekends are usually on a Saturday/Sunday but, because we sew in a Church, our “weekends” are Friday and Saturday. No wonder I am completely confused on the day of the week.

I worked hard and managed to get a lot done. Project #1 was an easy finish – I just had to cut and machine stitch the binding to this quilt (started in 2015 according to some photos I found). I’ll probably hand stitch the binding this evening and it will be handed over at the next Guild meeting; I expect it will go as a donation to the Oncology ward at the hospital.

I had to add the borders to Project #2. I was trying a new method of squaring the sides by measuring the two sides, dividing by two and then cutting the border piece to that length. It worked well on the sides but because I wanted to add the cornerstones my math skills had to come into play. It took some figuring (a napkin and a piece of paper) but I finally got the numbers to work out right. This was my leader and ender project from last year. I didn’t like any of the backing fabric we had in the community quilt bin (although nicer stuff was added later in the weekend) so I had them cut some batting and I brought it home last night. I found some fabric so I had the quilt sandwiched today. It is ready to quilt next week.

Project #3, another leader and ender project, is a lot further along than I expected. I have the three rows (of six) finished and enough blocks (partially sewn) to finish the centre portion. I found some nice soft peach-coloured fabric that I will use for borders. This won’t be done for awhile as the way I planned it there will be a centre, middle and outer portion each with borders attached. But technically this is my leader and ender project for this year so I’m already (sort of) ahead of the game.

I finished my knitting project last night. I don’t know if I’ll have time for knitting tonight but I have two new projects picked out just in case.