Sunday, December 31, 2023

COORDINATES #9 and 10

 I'm excited again.  I took that darn 30 Minutes of Play down from my work wall - I was so tired of looking at it.

I pulled out the box with the Coordinates blocks and fabrics.  I made the block that I didn't make with the Monday Sewcial group from a few weeks back.  And, I drew some numbers at random.org and made another one.  Ten!

I put them all up on the wall and realized I love it!




LAST DAY OF 2023

 It was a beautiful morning for a walk in Lincoln Park.


Good bye 2023.



Saturday, December 30, 2023

BINDING DIAMOND FLARE

 Got the binding on Diamond Flare, sewing it by machine on both sides.  So, it is done.


I used almost all of the scraps from the front on the backing.







Friday, December 29, 2023

DIAMOND FLARE QUILTED

 I finished up the quilting for the Diamond Flare quilt.  It's a pantograph called 'Streamer'.  



Thursday, December 28, 2023

QUILTING DIAMOND FLARE

 I got the backing finished for the Diamond Flare quilt, the block of the month of 2023 for Seattle Modern Quilt Guild.  I loaded it onto Erik, my Bernina Q24 longarm, and set up a pantograph called Streamers.

I got several rows done before I had to quit for the night.  Unfortunately, I shut down the machine without saving the program.  I'm in for a headache tomorrow trying to set it up again so it matches what I've already done.



Thursday, December 21, 2023

#SEAMQGBOM2023

 I finished my version of the Seattle Modern Quilt Guild's mystery Block of the Month for 2023 called Diamond Flare by Taylor Krz of ToadandSew.com.  

The pattern as presented was to finish at 70" by 70".  I prefer rectangular quilts.  So, I added another border on the top and bottom to make it 70" by 90".

Here is the finished top:


I used mostly scraps and old stash.


Thursday, December 07, 2023

KITTIES! AND COLORS!

 I got those first three cats I started for Cats in Pajamas done, finally.  There was some unsewing and changing of the background color, some resewing, some cussing and more unsewing and resewing.

But, these three are done.  Six more to go.


Pantone announced the Color of the Year for 2024 - it's Peach Fuzz.



And, Kona announced it's Color of the Year for 2024 - it's Julep.



Please, oh please, let's not go back to pastels!


Tuesday, December 05, 2023

COORDINATES #8

 We didn't get around to making another Coordinates block yesterday.  So, I pulled my own set of numbers and made my 8th block.




Monday, December 04, 2023

SLOW MONDAY

 Not much accomplished on this slow Monday.  I only got this one little block done:



Saturday, December 02, 2023

COFFEE AT STARBUCKS

 We wanted to go to Starbucks this morning and drink our coffees and have breakfast.  He wanted to work on his new iPad.  I wanted to sketch.

We're just like the other people we see in here now.