Hi all -
I hope everyone is doing well! Time definitely keeps marching along. Believe it or not, Grace turns three years old tomorrow! She got her Halloween picture taken on Friday:
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| Grace |
You can tell how much she loves her photo shoots! 😀
This week I put in some time on my La Passacaglia quilt designed by Willyne Hammerstein. I was able to finish my first rosette, which is Rosette #2 in the pattern:
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| La Passacaglia - Rosette #2 |
The last round of this rosette is a partial round because surrounding rosettes overlap this one. There are three of these rosettes in the quilt. I'm excited to get to start on the second one! These are the largest rosettes in the quilt so I'm knocking them off first.
I also spent some time this week making more of the 16-patch Quilts of Valor (QOV) blocks for out quilt guild. This set of blocks is made from the 1.5" squares.
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| QOV Blocks |
I turned in all of my blocks at the meeting this week. I plan to make more to turn in at our next meeting.
Finally, I've been preparing for the "no frills" retreat that I'm attending this Friday and Saturday with the quilt guild. The no frills retreats are daytime-only retreats with no meals or anything besides the venue provided. This time we're going to a new retreat center just opened by one of the guild members. It's called Twisted Stitches and is located in Superior, CO. They just got their certificate of occupancy last week so we'll be the first group trying it out. I look forward to seeing what the center is like! I've heard a lot of good things from others who have stopped by to check it out. To prepare, I spent some time looking through my collection of quilt kits that I have in the closet. I have a bunch of quilt kits that I've picked up through the years from the incredible sales that Connecting Threads and Craftsy/Bluprint used to have. I like to take quilt kits to retreats because the quilts I work on at home are generally scrap quilts where I figure out the fabrics I want to use from my as I go along. I never know what fabrics will end up in my quilts. This doesn't work well in retreats! It was really fun to dig through the closet! There's a lot of good stuff in there! One of the projects I found was a quilt that I started in another retreat years ago. It's the Floral Bouquet pattern in the book "Jelly Roll Quilts" by Pam and Nicky Lintott. I'm calling my "Tulips Are Blooming." Here's what I made at the last retreat:
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| Tulips Are Blooming |
I had forgotten all about this quilt, but I really love it and look forward to finishing it! If I get this one done, I've got another project to start. It's the Bubble Plus quilt designed by I Am Luna Sol. This is one of the kits from Connecting Threads. To prepare this project for the retreat, I prewashed all of the fabrics and I created the needed templates. Creating the templates was fun because I used my Brother Scan-n-Cut that I got for my birthday. I was able to easily cut perfect templates in no time!
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| Bubble Plus - Templates |
I labeled the templates not because the shapes were hard to tell apart, but to keep the templates from disappearing on the table top. While I was digging through my kits, I ran across a kit for the Tula Sunrise quilt designed by Tula Pink. I picked this kit up at the going out of business sale from one of our local quilt stores. I realized this would be a perfect project to leave at my sister's house to work on when I'm there. So I prewashed the fabric and ordered the plastic templates for this quilt. This is an English Paper Piecing project and I like using the pattern-specific plastic templates for cutting out the fabric when making the quilts. I haven't decided if I'll take this project or one of my wool embroidery projects to the retreat. I like to have a hand project at retreats in case there's a problem with my sewing machine or something while I'm away from home. Now I just have to go through my supplies to make sure I don't forget anything.....
Nancy
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