Tuesday, January 7, 2020

It was odd to think that this was the first bee of the new year; I guess because we were all together last week for the business meeting it didn’t seem like very long since I’d seen everyone.

I took along a couple of things to work on; the first was the Block of the Month. I cut everything out at home but obviously I didn’t read the instructions properly. I ended up with more pieces of one colour than I needed and one short on another colour. I pieced together as much of the block as I could but I also neglected to take along thread to do the appliqué work on the block. I guess I know what I’ll work on next week.

My UFO number for January is 2; for me that is my Disappearing 9-Patch. I took a class a couple of years ago on a newer (and supposedly faster) way to make a 9-patch. Once I finished all the blocks I wasn’t sure what to do with it but at the same time one of the bloggers I follow was doing a Disappearing 9-Patch Quilt-Along. I joined up (even though all my blocks were done) and only took part in the various ways the block could be cut up and re-arranged.

I decided that I wanted to try the Quilt-As-You-Go technique so that is where I’m at now. I sandwiched four of the blocks and I’ve got two of them quilted. I won’t be putting sashing between the blocks on this project; I have another Quilt-As-You-Go planned that will have sashing between.

All of my quilting design books are on Texada so I looked at a few from the Guild library and decided to do straight line quilting on these first two blocks. I think I have four different layouts for the blocks so once I decide on what to do for each layout the rest of the blocks for the quilt shouldn’t be too difficult.

That will get me ready for learning how to actually sew the blocks together once they are quilted.