Scenes from the Road of Life
Here is July's quilt for the UFO Challenge with Quilting Mayhem.
It is called Roses and Arrows after the charm pack of 42 5" squares it was made from, along with some light grey to make half square triangle blocks.
I made the bias binding from the same grey and got it sewed onto the little 32" by 40" quilt today.
It is FINISH #12 for the year!
I put the last seam in on the BP-Monday Sewcial Collab quilt top. It went together very easily. I had checked each block for size when they arrived and almost all were right on. I did make some minor adjustments to a few, which made the final sewing together a breeze.
I got the July UFO Challenge quilted today.
The longarm had a glitch after the first run and froze up. I had to close the app, which lost the program. But, after a bit of fiddling I was able to reprogram it and get it lined up accurately and going again. I used an allover pantograph.
This is not the first time the app has done that. It is very annoying. But I am getting better at restoring a lost program and lining it up. But, I should probably look into why this is happening and make my life easier.
I finished sewing down the binding on this quilt from the Maria Shell Workshop Round and Round. So it is done!
It's name is "Not Enough Zucchini", it's 64" by 81".
It is finish number 11 for the year.
Here is July's blocks made for the Seatte Modern Quilt guild's Block of the Month, also known as SeaMQGBOM2026.
After a few setbacks with Erik the longarm and help from Katrina at Bernina of Renton, in Washington, I got Erik up and running smoothly with a new pantograph. He stitched out a vine pattern on the Round and Round quilt top, now named 'Not Enough Zucchini'.
It took most of the day, and it looks great.
I started making the backing for the Round and Round quilt yesterday. This morning I made a label and then finished the back.
There are a lot of scraps from the Round and Round project. And a lot of them are strips. So I started making Log Cabin type blocks, more round and round.
I've been making blocks for a couple of days now. The scrap pile is much smaller. I'm holding some back to use as filler when I put all of the blocks together.
After meeting with Maria on Monday, I've decided to use all three of the fabrics for the final borders. I made more triangle pieces and sewed them into the border fabrics.
But, I trashed the loud corner blocks. I had the idea to replicate the rectanges from the center block. I made them as far as I could. But, the only Kona Zucchini fabric I have left is in small pieces. So, I'm going to think about what to do about that for now.
