Tuesday ToDo #52

I wasn't nearly as productive as I was hoping during the past week. But I did manage to quilt up three flimsies; two of them were paid gigs for other people.

While my husband was out of town, I spent way too much time streaming TV, but I was usually working on planning out future quilting projects. I ordered a blue and yellow print for the border and backing of Marianne's bed quilt so I put off cutting out the fabrics because I'd prefer to make sure to use fabrics that coordinate well with it.

Island Batik Petals Provence Flowers

Hopefully, the fabric will come in the next week or so and then I'll be able to get started on that project. Assuming it arrives soon, I still think I can finish by the end of the month.

Also, I think I finally have a plan for quilting my Snake River quilt flimsy. 

When I ran across this border block in Donna Kleinke's Aspen line of pantographs, it seemed like it was practically tailor-made for the Snake River blocks.

I added the triangle pattern to the corner and made a
few minor changes to the completed block.

I played around with a lot of the pieces to make the units for the border and I think this is going to be a fun, but challenging, project. I'm hoping to get started on it after I finish Marianne's quilt.

I'm linking up with Tuesday ToDo.

Look Who Came For A Visit

I actually made this Queen's Jewel quilt flimsy back in October 2019. At the time, I planned to also add a border, but in the end, I decided I didn't like the colors and how scrappy it was, so I bartered it to a friend in exchange for our mason bees.

She brought it back to me today for quilting. It was nice to see it again, and I must admit, absence has made the heart grow a little fonder. LOL

She had me quilt it with a circular dragon pantograph that I stretched to fit one per block.

We used a bright red thread so it would stand out on the plain black backing she provided.

Another Quick Finish

I spent another day quilting up a flimsy from my stockpile. It's a Broken Bricks/Spruce Root Basket pattern I finished earlier this year.

I almost used another dragon pantograph, but I was apparently in the mood for something more flowery. This is the Dolce pattern by Christy Dillon. I quilted it with a turquoise thread.

I've become quite a fan of using solid fabrics for backings because the quilting shows up so well.

A friend is dropping off a quilt tomorrow for quilting so I'll soon have another priority project.

Paid Quilting Gig

I met a nice lady on the Northwest Quilter's Guild facebook page and yesterday she dropped by a flimsy for me to quilt. She told me she needed it finished in time for Christmas. This was officially my first paid quilting gig. (I'm not including a couple of quilts that Jeff quilted for a friend/coworker that we were also paid for because Jeff did the work.)

I know I had plenty of time, but I felt like working on it today. It was a quick edge-to-edge design so it only took me a few hours.

I quilted it with a nice blue-purple variegated thread. I think it turned out pretty well.

Tuesday ToDo #51

I made a bunch of progress on my Paducah Log Cabin since last Tuesday. Last Friday, I finished putting together the central portion, and then I just needed the border.

But, by the time I got that far, my husband was at his mother's house and he told me the quilt would be a little too large for her bed. (Yes, I asked her for dimensions first.) He wanted me to make the quilt 10" smaller on one edge. Yeah, that's not going to happen. I could make this quilt smaller, but it would have to be 14" smaller because the blocks are 7" wide and I would have to take a row off each edge to keep it symmetrical.

After talking about it, we agreed I would just make her a different quilt, one designed to the dimensions he wanted me to make (74x90ish, so I don't lose them). 

After spending so many days slaving away on this project, I decided to take a day off and put my feet up and stream some TV while I worked up some options in Electric Quilt to show him. Unfortunately, in the process, I realized I had all the DC Comics movies. I spent three days behaving like a teenager, streaming movies and eating leftovers. LOL

So, it's now Tuesday and I'm trying to get back on track. Of the options I sent to Jeff, his mother chose this quilt as her favorite. On the bright side, it's a really easy pattern so it should go pretty quickly.

So, now I guess I'll plan to make the Paducah Log Cabin large enough to fit a queen-size bed. That, unfortunately, means I'll have to add another batch of blocks all the way around⏤44 blocks total. Then I'll need to add the border; I think that's another 52 blocks. So I have ways to go on that one. I will still try and finish it by the end of the month, but the quilt for Marianne is the priority. I just need to disentangle myself from the TV. 

So, this coming week, I hope to cut out a good chunk of the 2½"-squares I need for this project. I think it's 856 total. I'm not sure I have enough blue fabric, but I will see how much I can scrape up from my scrap bins and stash.

Thanks to Linda for hosting the Tuesday ToDo linkup.

Oct Friday Night w/Friends

For today's Friday Night With Friends, I actually got an early start and spent most of the day on my one monthly goal. I had all of the 100 blocks finished for the Paducah Log Cabin and today I assembled the central block section.

This is not a finish. I still need to make another 44 blocks for the border.

Thanks to Cheryl for hosting FNwF.

Paducah Log Cabin

Last week I ditched all my plans and at the last minute decided I wanted to try and get a full-size quilt finished before Jeff left for California this week.

If I had chosen a different pattern, I probably could have managed it, but not with this one. I forgot how long these Judy Martin log cabin quilt patterns take. I have done little else since last Friday, and I still haven't finished assembling the central blocks (though I am close). There is so much cutting and ironing involved.

I've been making all the blocks in assembly-line fashion where you build them all at once and I am close to the end but I ran out of one of the sizes of strips so I need to do another round of cutting before I can continue on. 

This evening I felt the need to continue ahead for one batch of blocks so I could put them up on the design wall and see how they look. I like it.

Since I've gotten distracted with this project, I think I'll go ahead and make it my One Monthly Goal for October. I would like to get it completely finished (quilted and bound) so we can ship it to Jeff's mother as a belated birthday gift.

As for last week's Tuesday ToDo list, I finished binding all three quilts on there. I had hoped to do a post showing photos of all the finished quilts last Friday, but then I got distracted by this project. Blogging gets sidelined when I'm obsessing about projects.

For the coming week, I'll be working on this project until it is finished. I am on a mission to get it done.

I'm linking up with Design Wall Monday and Tuesday ToDo.