I organized the Junk Journal signatures from yesterday and punched the binding holes in the spine of the cover I made. (I love how this fabric looks on the cover - it always amazes me how much some fabrics look better than I thought when you cut them up). Then using an awl, punched the holes into the four signatures.
I sewed the signatures into the cover with a simple pamphlet stitch and added some beads (some of which I inherited from my sister Sue) on the outside.
Over the last few day I've been sewing together the improv blocks from Cheryl Arkison's Quilters Playcation 2024 - all 49 of them. I finished the top today.
Since I shy away from making square quilts, I made my blocks 10" by 12" because there would be 49 of them. Which would make a great 7 by 7 blocks quilt.
It's week ten of Quilter's Playcation 2024 with Cheryl Arkison. This improv block was fun, quick and easy.
Got in late last night. Plane landed a bit early at 9:30pm. I had to wait a bit for the luggage to come down. Then I Ubered home. Jelly greeted me at the door. Darrell was sound asleep. I was a bit wound up and it took me a while to fall asleep.
This morning, I unpacked and started laundry. Then I gathered all of the stuff I had accumulated at Quiltcon and lined it up for a photo.
I know I didn't really need anything, but it was really fun! All of the fabric needs to go back downstairs to be pre-washed before I use it.
Then, I got to work catching up on the Sunrise blocks. I had six to make, including today's.
Here is eight weeks completed:
I'm excited to be able to watch Cheryl Arkison's new Playcation live this year. I watched the 2022 version after the fact and really enjoyed it.
This year's will be on Tuesdays, live on Instagram, as Cheryl shows us a new improv block weekly.
I'm using an African print and Kona solids to start.
Here is the first block, a Rainbow:
I've been watching old videos of Cheryl Arkison's Playcation 2022 and making the blocks. I made three more today. I just love this, it's so satisfying.
It's day two of Sherri Lynn Wood's workshop Stack-n-Cut Curves Workshop. Irene Roderick was able to make it and showed us a great slide show of her progression of her quilt-making. It was fantastic and informative.
Afterwards, I continued working on my project. I wanted to make the wedges I made yesterday longer.
I wanted to extend them with solid chunks of fabric with skinny strips going through them. This was my opportunity to use the very bright and vibrant African fabric in clover-green and orange. Zing!
But, using it in such small strips worked very well.
I thought I might use this other African fabric in the corner, but I wasn't loving it. So, I got out some fabrics to make more wedges to put above the bland ones. However, I ran out of steam before I got them sewed together. Plus I was having difficulties because I used some prints again and some of the fabrics ended upside down, which frustrated me. I wasn't sure how to proceed, so I gave it up for the day.
