August 10, 2021

Another sewing day with Stacia and Deloise. For the very first time I was able to keep up to them thanks largely to the fact that they each had long telephone calls in the morning.

I enjoyed making the log cabin blocks; I had strips already cut in my scraps so all I had to do was find pieces that were long enough and then trim the blocks down after each round. Deloise has given me a new (to me) tool that has my seams straighter and the right size. For every project I’ve used it on it has saved me tons of time.

I wanted to try a couple of new things for the quilting. The log cabin blocks are quilted with a clamshell pattern on the diagonal. This was a pattern that came with my quilting rulers; I used the rulers to mark my lines but I used my walking foot for the quilting. I need more practise but I’ll definitely use this idea again but I’ll work on clamshells on the straight lines next time.

I also wanted to try feathers in the larger border; I had a stencil and I used it to mark the quilting lines. But when I got to the machine I wasn’t able to tell where to go from one feather to another so I stopped and ripped it all out. Then I tried to freehand draw some feathers but what I ended up with are more like leaves but that goes okay with the fabric I was using. I will try this again but do some practising on how to draw those feathers.