Tuesday, February 4, 2014

We’ve been enjoying some sunny days, but it is cold out there. Well, cold for this part of the country. I had to put gloves on to run across the street this morning for tags for my garbage bag. When I left the sewing bee this afternoon the thermometer in the car said the outside temperature was -1, and at that point the sun was still shining. After the bee I walked down the hill to one of the galleries to pick up a gift, and there were a few flakes of snow in the air.

I worked on my two community quilts today. I have committed myself to making at least one community quilt a year. I finished sewing the binding on the back of my 2013 quilt. I’m going to do a fully machine stitched binding but I had neglected to take the proper colour of thread with me. Although the binding is a variety of colours I thought it would be best to use the same colour thread to stitch the front of the binding as I had used for the quilting. I hope to have this quilt finished for Show and Tell at the Thursday meeting.

My lego quilt is my 2014 contribution and I’m using it to learn some border techniques. The quilt will have three borders on it – I have one and a half done so far. I want to get this one finished quickly so I can start quilting;  I’m going to use either a spiral or circle pattern for the quilting. That is a technique I’m planning for one of my own quilts, and everyone says we should use the community quilts as practice pieces.

I’ll cover up under Margaret’s Quilt tonight while I watch TV and work on Pat’s socks.