I got out the blue Slabs I made last Friday with Cheryl Arkison on Sew Squad. And, got busy making more.
I put them up on the wall as I made them.
Love it!
And then, since it's Tuesday at 1pm, it's time for Cheryl again! It's the Quilters Playcation 2024.
This week's block is about pointy things. This is week 15.
First thing up in the studio, I started cleaning up. I've finished working on the scrappy Checkerboards but the two scrap buckets were a mess. They were all mixed together.
During the Brave Patch Monday Sewcial I started sorting them back into their buckets. I didn't think I'd made a dent on them, but I was surprised that they fit much better now - not overflowing anymore. So, I guess it worked!
I also put all of the fabrics, mostly greys, away that I had used on the Sunrise quilt. So the studio is looking a lot better and the cutting table is cleared off.
After lots of missteps, backups and restarts, I finally got the Checkerboards 15-17 top done!
Yea! It's about 70" by 87".
While at the birthday party yesterday, I gave my cousin some baby quilts to donate to an organization she is familiar with.
I also gave one to another cousin to give to her brother's brand new grand-baby.
She sent me this picture today of the happy recipients with their quilt.
My cousin Clayton was born on my Mom's 21st birthday. He says they've never celebrated their birthdays together. This year was Clayton's 70th, so we figured it was time to remedy that.
A lot of the family got together at cousin Ron's in Lacey for a big birthday celebration. It was so nice seeing everyone. Ron and Marva have a beautiful home and everyone had a great time.
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| The April birthday kids. |
I signed up for Sew Squad so I could go to a SLAB Workshop with Cheryl Arkison. And it was so much fun.
I took out my Blue Scrap Bucket and got to work. First Cheryl had us sort our scraps. She started with color first, but I already had mine sorted by color. Then we sorted by size. I had a lot of narrow strips, so I sorted those into their own pile.
Then we started with sewing the little pieces into a bit bigger pieces. And we were off!
Here's my interpretation of Cheryl Arkison's week 14 of Quilters Playcation 2024 improv block:
I'm making quicker progress now that the squares and blocks are a little bigger. I got the top half of the Checkerboard quilt top done - all except one seam to join the two big chunks together. And, with the bottom half half-way completed I'm more than half way done. But, then I'm probably going to take off some of the border I've done and re-do it. Two steps forward, one step back.
