And then, this happened!

I offered my Mother In Law to make a table runner for her RV. She immediately said "yes, please!" Her mother was a quilter and she did a few quilts of her own in her younger years. Now, she is more a knitter and a crochet fanatic than a quilter.

Anywho! I started with some tulip blocks. I believe it was very popular in the 50s (time when my MIL got married) in my area.

Then I did some colourful log cabin blocks with the Full Moon Log Cabin Lunatics at Julie's place.

And then, this happened: 

I did say in my last post that you would need to wait til the next full moon to see what I was up to ...  but I couldn't wait that long. Hahaha!

Next week, it will pay a visit to my MIL to see how much bigger it needs to be, or maybe she will like it at this size! We'll see. It is 18 X 36 inches. 

Now that this project is out of my head, I can concentrate again on the 365 Challenge blocks. 

But first, I have to go see some blogs. Hope you will take a few minutes to check them out too. 

I'll be at Angie's  A Quilting Reader's Garden for WIPs be Gone 

I'll see Angela's at SoScrappy for RSC (might not be very much of a hot pink, but pink nonetheless)

I'll hang around Sarah's place for Can I get a Whoop Whoop? at Confessions of a Fabric Addict

I'll visit Cynthia at Quilting is more fun than Housework for Oh Scrap! on Sunday. 

Until next time ... 

;^)

Overworking the seam ripper!!

So much thread wasted this week. I didn't do much sewing, almost as much ripping! Getting nowhere fast on the 365 Challenge. Sighhhhhhhh!

I was in a poor state this week. Not up to par and had little energy. To finish the week on the same note, I heard of the attack in Nice on Friday morning, I cried and cried. I did a lot of praying and some hand stitching. Mes pensées sont avec vous, mes amies de France, xox. (My thoughts are with my friends in France.)  May you and yours, all be safe and sound.

Back to the sewing room.


I did  finished Lotus (May 14th) after a few adjustments to the pattern.  (36 pieces) Much ripping here, too much ripping here actually!

May 15th, Ribbon Star, was pictured in a previous post (here).

May 16th, Double Windmills (21 pieces).  The last triangles were confusing me.

Some reversed stitching was needed here too.
It now needs some major trimming.

I love Winged Square (51 pieces) and I thought finally an easy one.  Right!! I ended up not sewing the blue at the right place on the first try. (Sorry, no picture, just take my work for it.) So this one met the seam ripper too. 

May 18th, Bird's Nest (57 pieces) which I had done before (see Finding Nemo here). The construction of this block is different from the way I've done it a long time ago. Again, out came the seam ripper to save yet another block from disaster as the Seminole sashing was uneven.

 (So many little bits of fabrics. All that sewing just for the sashing!!)

It is still a tad crooked but it will do. As long as it is 6.5 inches, this girl is happy. (It needs a trim too.)

Swing in the Centre (now there's a fun name!) (45 pieces)

Not a very beautiful block. If I were to make a quilt like this, it would be constructed with less little triangles. But, whatever! It is done!

Group photo of my 365 Challenge blocks for this week.  Total pieces : 210.


Also made two more tulips blocks for my MIL.

If I planned it right, these are the last of the tulip blocks. I will make something else as an alternative block.



Until next time...


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Joining Angie for WIP's be Gone. 
Joining Cynthia for Oh Scraps!

Another week done

Instead of working on my OMG, I've been sewing little pieces ...

Flower Garden Path - 56 pieces.

This block is new to me and I love it. (RSC 2017 possibility here)

Star and Cubes - 56 pieces 

(don't understand why suddenly the pictures are sideways.)



Four Times Nine - 45 pieces 

Chevrons - 54 pieces 

Kathy's Ramble - 72 pieces 

Friday 13th - 16 pieces 

This one asked for mitred corners and I skipped that. I framed it the easy way. 

Ribbon Star - 28 pieces 

I did do the mitred corners on this one.  Still need practising as they are wobbly but it looks pretty good in the picture lol.  The colours are very washed out as the sun is very present today. 

Group photo - 327 pieces 

So, another week of the 365 Challenge is done. Some of you might have noticed that I have skipped May 14th, Lotus. It was my leader - ender block as I was tackling the mitred corners and May 15, Ribbon Star got finished before. Lotus has a lot of pieces. It will be in the next post. 

Also did some tulips blocks. All the previous tulips blocks were remade and a few were added. Not sure how many I need as I am still not sure what I am making here. Not worried. It will come to me. ;^D


Joining Nicki for Scraptastic Tuesday. Hope to see you there.



Until next time ...


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