Saturday, April 10, 2021

A Finished Quilt Top

I pulled out various colours to use for sashing for this blue colour block quilt including orange, golden yellow and red.  As you can see, red won!  The sashing was cut 1.5" wide and finishes at 1".  I will have to piece the backing of this quilt and I will likely add some medium blue solid binding when it is quilted. 


I have a bunch of quilts ready for walking foot quilting, most of which are already pin basted...I need a chunk of time and also must clear off my sewing table to do this.  This is difficult when Finn is here as he can't come in the sewing room...too many things for him to get into in there.  

I made one more block for the Modern BOM this week. This one involved some paper piecing. 


I laid my blocks out on the kitchen floor to take a picture. 8/12 done now. I have the pattern for #9 and the last three blocks will be released over the next coupe of months. 


Finn wandered in to see what I was doing.  He loves to get his picture taken so he posed nicely. 


One pose was not enough, obviously!



My daughter had a wee bit of time this week to do a bit of embroidery as a break from her heavy work load.


I watched a movie on Netflix, The Bucket List, and worked on Love Birds. I have started the next blue flower now. I sure hope that there are no counting errors so that as I close the circle, it comes together as the pattern says it should!


There was some knitting time this week as well. I seem to be getting better at the cables as I add more rows to the practice piece.


Lots of Spring buds and flowers this week when I was out for my walks at the park and in our backyard. 








I will link up with the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (this month's colour is blue) and the Slow Sunday Stitching crew.  I hope to do some more work on Love Birds tomorrow, perhaps in our gazebo.   Take care and stay safe.  

20 comments:

  1. Blue and red are a great colour combo! And your modern BOM project looks fantastic. Finn obviously approves too. It's lovely to see more of love birds emerging. Spring is definitely on it's way!

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  2. Love the side kicks quality control, thank you for sharing all the beautiful pictures.

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  3. Love your quilt as I love scrappy and red was a perfect choice. Can I ask how be the square were you started with?

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  4. What pretty flowers you have popping up all around you! Finn looks like a great helper making sure those blocks don't move around on you. Love birds looks great as does your cables. The Bucket List was a great movie.

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  5. I love your blue top, so many blues there. The red sashing looks great. The modern blocks are pretty and Finn also approved. Those pink & yellow flowers and the blue ones are lovely. Happy stitching for you and your daughter.

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  6. Your red and blue top looks great, as does Finn too, of course, but he already knows that, I'm sure. The cables are coming along well, not hard at all, are they. Lots of lovely things to enjoy in the garden too.

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  7. Blue postage stamp piece with red bordering those central light squares is really lovely...nice work Hugs, Julierose

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  8. your blocks look great and I especially like the knitting cables that is something I intend to practice

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  9. Really enjoyed reading about everything in your blogpost. The blue block quilt top looks great - the narrow red sashing really highlights the blue blocks.

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  10. Just look at all those gorgeous spring blooms! AND....just look at all that quilty loveliness. I am so glad red won; a perfect choice. Those BOM blocks are so pretty and Love Birds is progressing nicely. Why, I have never seen a bad photo of Finn....he is adorable!

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  11. Finn, you are adorable, if inquisitive. Love the modern blocks, that blue really changes in the different lighting! And Love Birds is coming right along. It's always rather fraught until the pattern matches up!

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  12. Oh, how sweet of Finn to pose so nicely on your lovely blocks!

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  13. Thank you, thank you for the spring flower photos we are behind this year! Very few bods appearing! We had a bot of wet snow overnight, again! I love the red on the top photo. Good luck in your slow stitching today!

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  14. Finn is such a good model! So glad your daughter is taking time for some hand stitching. Great job on those cables!

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  15. So many lovely things as always, beautiful Spring flowers, your daughters embroidery is beautiful and so and so are all your projects, you have plenty to keep you busy that's for sure. Have a great week.

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  16. Hi,
    Your Love Birds piece is beautiful...as is your daughters embroidery. Beautiful flowers. Have a great day!

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  17. Lots of pretty stitches in your home this week!

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  18. I love the pictures of all those pretty flowers and of Finn of course! Love Birds is so pretty. Your daughter is really talented with embroidery. Love the red sashed quilt and the blocks that attracted Finn.

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  19. Oh my what a lovely post! Thanks for sharing Finn and those lovely flower close ups...beauties. The red works so well for sashing and what a lot of pretty blues you have been using up. Great projects!

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