Quilt top finished!!

Quilt top finished!! Now my least favorite step in quilting……the backing especially if I need to sew chunks together……and I am determined to use fabrics from the stash.  —Ann—

More therapy

 

I started cutting strips for the borders and kept getting distracted because I wasn’t thrilled with the plan. It was so boring with limited fabric……..aha do a piano key border! Isn’t that much more interesting and also able to incorporate more fabrics including some of my pansy fabrics which have become wonder what I am going to do with those fabrics. I’m using the back side of a couple fabrics because they blend in better. I paid for both sides of the fabric, use that side too. It’s going to mean a lot more sewing time…..more therapy.  —Ann—

Therapy

A little time in the sewing room was like therapy for a somewhat chaotic life. Indecision on the borders was the hold up on this quilt, that and too many other things demanding my time. I completely used some of the fabrics.  Ask myself what would grandma do?  I made the quilt longer by almost a full block by sewing 8 more blocks then cutting them in half and sewing to the other end. It still needs a 2 1/2 inch border of purple all the way around. I’m auditioning some purples that were at the bottom of the stash and then to find enough of a purple for the binding. Decisions, challenges, progress and therapy—Ann—

Spring?

Its spring on my design wall outside is a different story. This looks like a quilt that every single piece is going on the design wall before I sew anything. I already see pieces I’m going to move and I have a lot of cutting left to do but that’s as far as I got today my monkey brain was all over the place, just work in little bits. Tomorrow I start on the purples and the greens. Snowy days can be productive days. —Ann—
 

Something new in the works

I have been poking at this project for a couple weeks, yesterday everything fell into place.  I colored one more grid while looking carefully at my stack of fabrics then played with my folding mirror.  I was on a roll, cut out my little diamonds and glued them in place then played with the mirror some more. Planning time is always time well spent. And the best part is all this fabric was in the stash.~~Ann~~