I have had a whole day to myself today and spent most of the day down in my sewing room. I worked on my daughter`s quilt most of the day. Some cutting, some sewing, some pressing and more sewing...all while listening to CBC podcasts. Blissful!
I managed to make 10 rows today. The top 10 rows were finished and sewn together earlier this week, so today, I doubled the size!
I still have to sew the bottom 10 rows together and then join them to the top section. This represents a third of the quilt top. As you can see, my design wall is full, floor to ceiling! I need to do some more cutting before starting to sew the next set of rows for this quilt.
Tonight, I did some hand stitching while watching the Brier--the men`s national curling championship for Canada. We are all big curling fans in our family.
I`m working on my pillow. I need lots of pins for hand sewing this curved seam.
I am hand sewing the small quarter circles to the paper pieced arcs.
I will machine sew the outer gray section to each arc. Four done...only 12 to go. Good thing the curling will be on for another couple of hours!!!
I will be linking up to Kathy`s Slow Sunday Stitching.
Here is my stash report as well:
Fabric used since my last stash report: 20.65 yards
Total fabric used this year: 28.25 yards
Fabric added to the stash since my last report: 41.25 yards.
Total fabric added this year: 43.25 yards
Net fabric added this year: 15 yards
I have plans for much of the fabric that I have purchased recently so it will soon be in the ``used`` column!
I haven't tried hand sewing curves before, but yours look very neat. I like the way the coloured segments look against the grey.
ReplyDeleteWow -- your lamp is going to be a stunner! Enjoy your day of slow stitching. Annnd...what a fun stash report! LOL! :)
ReplyDeleteThis makes me wish I was working on another pickle dish quilt, so much fun. I love love your daughter's quilt so far!!!!!! What size are the diamonds?
ReplyDeleteYour pillow is looking great! I love the fabrics you are using. Will you have the whole rainbow? Happy stitching!
ReplyDeleteA whole day to sew to yourself, how nice! Your daughter's quilt is coming along nicely!
ReplyDeleteI love to watch curling. Unfortunately it isn't shown on TV very often in my area. Every once in a while we will catch it. Your star quilt is looking wonderful. Your pillow looks like it takes patience to sew. Then again, if you have a whole day to sew and quilt patience should not be a problem.
ReplyDeleteMy husband is a curling fan, but we don't get much coverage here. Nice work on this pillow. I know, some times you're in a fabric buying cycle and sometimes you're in a finishing cycle. It will get used.
ReplyDeleteLots of progress on two very pretty projects. Hope you enjoyed your slow stitching time.
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