Off the Clock

  When I last posted about  making Fiesta  back in April I had most of the squares finished.  I did get the quilt top assembled but then put on the back burner as seems to be my way with quilts.    I've been saving all the scraps of batting from the quilts I've made.  Some of them are large pieces and I had thought they could be patched together for a quilt.  I didn't want to try this for the first time on a gift quilt so I'm finally taking the plunge to use a pieced batting with Fiesta.  It seems appropriate because this is a scrappy quilt and, also, because it is for me it's a good project to try something new.  I pressed the pieces flat and then used a hand needle and thread to run a running stitch to hold them together until sandwiched.  Once the quilt was finished I don't notice the joins at all.  This feels odd but after all the quilts I have made now I had never slept with one on my bed.  The quilted bedspread my mom made me is not warm enough on its own

  I have wanted to make a bed quilt for Daughter for ages but it took me awhile to land on an idea that I was happy with.  I finally decided to go with  Smokey River from Whirligig Patterns .  I have lusted after this pattern for awhile and as I have a good stash of 2 1/2" strips of Northcott's Stonehenge fabrics this was a great way to put them to use.  I actually planned two of them, going with the blue tones for Daughter (she has incredibly gorgeous blue eyes) and I'll make a matching one for myself one day using browns and blues. I am really pleased with how it turned out.  It has been a long project for me.  I cut and assembled the top a year ago, but then life got busy and work started back up again so it has been sitting on the back burner.  Then I wanted to get her Harry Potter lap quilt done in time for Christmas, so I've only now gotten back to working on this one. In some ways it is a blessing that I wasn't able to get to this before now.  I set up a ne

 LAST UPDATED JANUARY 2022 First posted July 20, 2021.  I've decided I need a dedicated post to try and keep track of some of my stash.  I have LOTS of fabric, and much of it has been patiently waiting for my attentions for years.  Although I try and make a habit of washing it as soon as it darkens my doorstep I haven't been that good at labeling it.  I've got some recent acquisitions that I still have the information for (or can find online) so I will start with those.  I don't know how much I will get catalogued; like many things I start with good intentions but then life happens. Maybe by having it here in a somewhat organized manner I can stop adding to the stash before using some of what I already have.  I mean, do I REALLY need three separate lengths of black ponte?  This will be an ongoing project to catalogue all my fashion fabrics, but not quilting or crafting fabrics. Yesterday mom and I went to Fabricland to buy a couple of patterns (I think my first big 4 pa