NOT HAPPY WITH THAT FABRIC

 I am not thrilled with that substitute fabric I made the border with yesterday.  So, using more of the triangles I made, I set them on top of some other fabrics I thought might work.  Now I'm going to let be and think about it for a while before I make a decision.  At one point I was thinking of using some leftover Log Cabin blocks as a border, too.

I made those corner blocks thinking they would tie into some of the other borders.  But, I think they are drawing too much attention.  I probably won't use them.

ANOTHER BORDER

 I wish I had more of the e bond fabric I used in the center of the Feathered Star block, but I don't.  So, I found another of her fabrics that are very similar in color.  So, I made the next border using it instead.

I made one side then auditioned them, first with the triangles pointing in then with them point out.

NEXT ROUND

 I'm trying out different things for the next round.

THIRD ROUND ATTEMPTS

 I started making the next round.  After several hours of sewing, the process was becoming tedious.  So, I put what I had up on the wall to see how they looked.  I decided No.  I don't like it and I'm going to try something else.

RABBIT PILLOW

 I finally got all of the things and tools that I needed to turn my Rabbit needlepoint into a pillow.  

Here it is, it's done.  And I like it!  It will be living on our bed during the day now.

FINISHED ROUND

 It took a while and a lot of fussing and fiddling, but I've got that first border all the way around and sewn on.  And I'm thinking bout the next border.

JELLY TURNS ELEVEN

 Today is Jelly's 11th Birthday.

Happy Birthday Jelly!

ROUND TWO OF R & R

 Here is my start of the first round of Round and Round with Maria Shell.  I tried a square on point but it was not looking right.  So, I trashed that idea.  And I started making some Beads on a String.

FINISH NUMBER TEN

 I made the bias binding and sewed it onto the previously quilted "Sing Your Song" baby quilt.

So it is complete!  

It is Finish #10 for the year.

This is a small quilt, 27" by 35" made from a small Charm Pack of only 24 5" squares interspersed with a dark grey Kona and quilted by computer on my B24 longarm.

ROUND 1 OF ROUND AND ROUND

 I'm taking a month long workshop with Maria Shell.  The workshop is called Round and Round and we will be making Medallion quilts.  On this first week we were asked to make a sketch or a plan for our medallion, to pick a palette of fabrics and make our center block.

I want a rectangular quilt, not a square one.  It adds a degree of difficulty!

My fabrics, so far.  Most of these colors are not showing up correctly.  Oh well.

My center block.  It took me several days to make all of those tiny 1" HSTs.

 

RABBIT FINISHED

 I've been waiting for the extra yarn I required to finish this needlepoint.  I received it in the mail today and finished weaving it in and am declaring this needlepoint finished.

It is called Leap and I got it through Ehrman Tapestries.  It is soon to become a pillow.

NEXT UFO QUILTED

 I sewed these Charm Pack squares together yesterday to make a very small top.  There was only 24 of them so I just added more 5" squares instead of making half square triangles out of them.  I boldly chose a dark grey for the alternate blocks.  And I boldly chose yellow thread for the densely quilted top.  

Today I quilted it with an allover pantograph.

CHANGED THE FANS

 I changed the direction of the fans yesterday.  Today I sewed a some more of it together and changed out some of the parts that were bothering me.

IMPROV THAT BLOCK WORKSHOP

Today was the fifth, and last workshop in the Improv That Block Squad on Brave Patch with Sherri Lynn Wood.  Today we got to pick the block we wanted to work on.  Sherri provided some prompts that we could use (or not).  

I choose to continue working on the previous types of blocks we have made, namely the nine-patch, the fan block, and maybe some four-patches and more friendship stars.  And I continued making tumbler blocks as a filler.

Here is how I left it after the workshop:

ROOTED BLOCK FIVE

I just finished block number five from Sue Spargo's Rooted.   

IMPROV BLOCK QUILT

 I've been sewing on the Improv That Block quilt and finally sewed the challenging last Fan block into the rest of the quilt.  I've not really known how to do it, but once I just started it was not that difficult.  

And, then I went on to sew in some other challenging parts.  It's coming together.

MORNING IN THE P-PATCH

 This morning my walk took me to a nearby P-Patch.  It's on 35th SW and SW Barton.  It was raining very lightly.  

FINISHED DRAWER DIVIDERS

 I put labels on the fronts of the drawers.  Then I made some draw dividers to hold the spools of threads.  I finished those up today.  Not every drawer has dividers, mainly because there isn't much thread in those drawers, specifically the 5wt perle cotton and the 3wt perle cotton.  I'm storing my boxes of floss in those at the moment.

NEXT BORDER

 I'm trying out different options on the Round and Round quilt in week 3 of the Maria Shell Workshop. 

FINISHED THE JESSIE TWINED BOWL

 I got this Jessie Twined Bowl Kit from Flax and Twine a while ago,  I've worked on it off and on over the last few weeks.

I finished it today.  The instructions called for just burying the cord ends along the side's warp threads.  But I decided instead to tie them in knots around the outside.  This was a very fun project.