Friendship Stars

I finally finished the friendship star blocks for the king sized quilt. Phew!

Then I cleared a space on the floor and laid out the blocks. I have since moved a few blocks around and oriented them so all seems will nest. They are now clipped together by rows and ready to sew the 108” x 108” beast together. I did purchase a wide backing and a king sized batting.

This quilt was requested by my husband for a friend’s son & partner and will be going to England when I get it finished. It’s a good thing Sophie has a 14” table. Did I mention there will be 432 inches of binding?!?! 😳

Cheers, Cherie

This and That

Since finishing the graduation quilt last weekend I’ve made a birdhouse, 

…..caught up on the Sweet Potato BOM April & May blocks, 

……and sewed a few more ovals which are all hanging out on the design wall.

Today I’m linking up with Finished (or not) Friday.

Cheers, Cherie

Graduation Quilt is Finally Finished

I worked on the binding on our day trip Friday…….

…….where we ended our day watching The Michael Weber Show in Lakewood, OH and I got to visit with The Quilt Lady, who is Michael’s Aunt Patty and my friend. 

Patty and I exchanged bags and I totally got the best end of the exchange……

See how well my scissors fit in the scissors pouch? I have a thing for pears 😆 She also gave me one of her thread beds and muffins 😋.

On Saturday I finished the graduation quilt.

And prepared it for gifting today, yay!

The end, Cherie

Finishing!

I finished quilting and machine sewing the binding to the front of the quilt as well as finishing hand sewing one corner and 1 1/2 sides. We are taking off on a day trip soon so I expect I’ll be close to finishing by the time we return. Yay!!

Linking up with the Quiltygirl for Finished (or not) Friday 😀.

Cherie

Binding & More

We had a wonderful time on our weekend away. The trip was planned specifically to visit the Corning Museum of Glass which didn’t disappoint. The museum is a mixture of history, chemistry, uses and art. As a birthday gift, my DH had purchased glass making sessions for us and it was a fabulous experience.

My piece is the one on the left 😄. The Rockwell Museum (not that Rockwell) is close to the Corning museum and was well worth the visit. There is a lovely path through a park that you can walk to get to the Rockwell. It’s an easy walk between the two museums and only takes about 10-15 minutes.

We stayed at Seneca lake and the region is beautiful with many waterfalls and wineries. I was able to finish all four corners of the binding during our drive and finished Fall Mountains completely on Monday.

Because I used glue to hold the pieces of backing when pattern matching and because I wanted to see how my quilting would turn out, I washed it. I’m very happy with the quilting mostly because I didn’t quilt it densely and was hoping it would look good. 

And, most importantly, I started right in on quilting the graduation quilt!

Sophie and I worked together well and the quilting is now complete. I’ll trim the quilt and sew the binding on today!

Cheers, Cherie

Binding Time!

I got right to sewing the binding to the front of the scrappy mountain quilt and am hand sewing it down on our trip to the Finger Lakes region in NY. I’ve named Fall Mountains.

I received a package delivery notice so the thread I ordered for the graduation quilt will be waiting for me when we return. I’ll work on getting it quilted on Monday/Tuesday. I already have the binding and label prepped so it will be finished in time for gifting a week from Sunday 😅😅.

Linking up with Alycia’s Finished (or not) Friday.

Cheers, Cherie

A Bit of a Clean Up

I felt the need to clean up the cutting table & surrounding surfaces. I have been leader/ender-ing scrap/crumb blocks as well as HST’s and still have a huge pile to trim. 

The trimmed blocks are either put in their respective scrap drawers for pinning the next round or added to my growing piles of finished 6 1/2” blocks (note to self….decide on the next project from them!). 

The blocks, L to R, multi colored, neutrals, single color and single color with a neutral center. I pin, sew, iron & trim these when I want to just go with the flow……good for my peace of mind.

The HST phase started with cut off triangles from two friends (thanks Lisa & Jan!) and now I’m enjoying sewing from the boxes of triangles I’ve saved for years.

The 4 1/2” pink HST’s are for the king sized friendship star quilt I’m making and that is the last of them 😁. 

The 2 1/2” HST’s are growing (almost all of the above are from the recently gifted triangles) and I’m hoping to have enough to keep me busy at retreat in July…..assuming I have settled on a design for them 🤔.

As for the graduation quilt…….

I wanted to get it quilted so I could hand sew the binding on our getaway trip this weekend. I have some variegated turquoise thread I thought would work for it, however, I wasn’t happy with how light parts of the thread looked on the black fabric 🙁. New thread is to arrive Monday……

Cheers, Cherie

Freeing Up Sophie

I needed to get the quilt already loaded on Sophie quilted to free the longarm up for the graduation quilt. I went right to it this morning and here it is fresh off the long arm.

This one doesn’t have a home currently but I’m not going to let that keep me from getting it bound…she says with her fingers crossed. 

Happy quilting, Cherie

Finished Top!

I finished the top! It’s amazing as I told myself I had until the weekend to get the graduation quilt finished. Ethan’s graduation was last week and there’s no word on when or if there will be a party so I felt like I needed to get it done asap. Edited to add the Finished (or not) Friday link.

The sound visualization line worked out better than I’d hoped and I used a big chunk of the scraps Jan sent me from the panel fabric for the stars and coping bits. Thanks again Jan! This is all that’s left.

Here’s the backing for it. It’s a good quality flannel that I’ve had for a long time because I thought it was beautiful and wanted to use it for a special quilt. One seam up the middle and it will be ready for quilting!

Happy quilting, Cherie

Finally Some Progress

It has been a minute since I posted. In that time I made two free pieced birds for Lynne using her tutorial. Lynne said she would like a few right facing birds if anyone wanted to send her one. I know why she has more left facing birds……her tutorial is illustrated with left facing birds and you have to think in the reverse to make right facing ones 🤣.

Guess I’m an over achiever because the leftover triangle from the square of fabric I cut for the large bird’s wing just begged to be used in a second bird 😄. 

I have finally made progress on the graduation quilt, here’s where it was yesterday before a bit of modification.

 

Here it is after modification with an added row. I’m creating this as I go as I don’t have design software and sometimes quilter’s math is a challenge for me. I have great spatial relations and was a business manager for my career so one would think it wouldn’t be a problem but the sewn vs cut measurements often defeat me when figuring out cuts for pieced spacers. 🤪 Thus the “modification” to the ends of the sound visualization row.

 

Cheers, Cherie