MONDAY STUFF

 Brave Patch Monday Sewcial has been starting with 30 Minutes of Play.  Here's what I came up with today.  

I also got this week's Art East Mini-Block Challenge done.  Number 13, Log Cabin.

I also got a little work done on the Stack-n-Cut Curves project.  Most of it is now sewn together.  But, there's a lot left to do. And I'm a bit stumped.  It was suggested I put it away and let it marinate for a while.  So, that's what I'm going to do. 

BACK TO STACK-N-CUT

 I went back to working on the project from the Stack-N-Cut Curves Workshop with Sherri Lynn Wood that I attended via zoom several weekends ago.

I thought I would get it a little more organized.  I began by sewing together what I already had.  That entailed editing and adding parts and pieces to make them fit.

It took me all day and I sorta feel like I didn't get anywhere because I made no new parts.  And I'm still not getting these parts to fit together.

But, I'm liking it.

MORE STACK-N-CUT CURVES

 I made more wedges for the Stack-n-Cut project today.

Then it was time for Brave Patch Monday Sewcial.  First, we did our 30 minutes of play.  Then I sewed the 7th block in the Art East Quilting Mini-Block Sampler, The XOXO.

DAY TWO OF WORKSHOP

 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.

STACK N CUT CURVES WORKSHOP

This weekend is the Stack-n-Cut Curves Workshop with Sherri Lynn Wood.  The guest speaker was supposed to be Irene Roderick, but she was not feeling well and couldn't attend.

Sherri showed us how to stack our shirt sleeves so we could get some mirror-imaged shapes.  Then she showed some methods for sewing curves.

I thought I understood, but when using prints it's more difficult.  And I had a difficult time with it.  I never did figure it out.  Maybe I should stick to solids that are two-sided.

My plan when I began was to use just my stack of greens and light greens, plaids and neutrals.  But I thought they looked a bit blah.  So I made another set with some fabrics with  brighter colors, one being Kona Pickle.  

I didn't think the two sets would work together, but they do.