Scenes from the Road of Life
I've been working on the applique and embroidery on this old quilt top and it's finally ready to be quilted.
The top, made of small Log Cabin type blocks, was pieced sometime in the 1990's. It was a pattern by Terri Nussbaum. It's languished ever since. I put it on my UFO Challenge list this year. It's number was drawn by Quilting Mayhem this month. Which means I need to finish it before the end of May.
I've been working on my Snowball top that was started in Sherri Lynn Wood's Improv That Block Squad workshop several weeks ago.
It's been slow progress. I've only been inspired to work on one row at a time.
Here's how it looks at this time.
I needed some mindless, easy things to do this week. I got out my scraps of reds, oranges and yellow-greens and cut some of them into strips of several different widths.
Then the last few days I've been sewing them into long strips.
I don't know what they'll end up being, but it was a very stress free project and they will be ready when inspiration strikes.
Today was the next Improv That Block Squad get-together. Sherri Lynn Wood introduced us to this month's block - Snowball.
In between Improv projects, I got out an old project, Small World. I started this in a workshop with Tara Faughnan at Quiltcon 2023 in Atlanta.
I had already cut out a lot of the needed triangles. But, they've been crammed into baskets and needed a bit of pressing to get the folds and wrinkles out.
The triangles have been separated into lights and darks.
I got the Jungle quilt off the longarm, trimmed it and decided on orange for the binding.
I made the binding and got it sewed on.
This quilt is done. It is finish #7 for the year.
