BACKING FOR CRUSHING IT

 I made a label and finished the backing for Crushing It.  This is a pattern by Latifah Saafir using her 12" Clammy ruler.

ONE BLOCK

 I cut out enough pieces to make one block of the Crushing It quilt.  I wanted to make sure it would all fit together before I cut everything out.

CRUSHING THE PARTS

 I'm working on making a pattern called All Eyez On Me by Latifah Saafir using her Clammy Ruler.  I'm going to name my quilt Crushing It because I'm using the Kona Color of the Year 'Crush' Fabric.

I sewed together a bunch of 5" squares today.  They still need to be trimmed using the Clammy ruler.

FINISHES FOR FRIDAY

 It was a busy Finish It Friday today.  I loaded the Loretto quilt onto Eric the longarm and started to quilt it before our 11am get-together.  Then since it was going so well, I continued to do the quilting during the meeting.  I eventually got around to sewing the binding on the Intertwine quilt and I got the quilting finished on Loretto and even trimmed it.  I got the fabric for Loretto's binding cut, but that was as far as I got.  We shut it down at 3pm.    Another productive day.

Loretto

Intertwine!

INTERTWINE QUILTED

 I had loaded Intertwine onto the longarm yesterday and set up a pantograph program.  I had a few problems and didn't get much done.  In fact, after picking out some bad starts, I gave up and decided to come back to the top later.   I was very frustrated.  

Today, after I couldn't unlink two rows, and it refused to quilt the top row of the two.  I discarded the whole program.  I just had the one row up and moved it on the computer to line it up with each previous row.  It was tedious, but I got the quilting done.  

BACKING FOR INTERTWINE

 I've been working on making the backing for Intertwine.  I got it finished today.  I printed out the label and started inking it onto fabric.  I realized, after it was too later, that I hadn't printed Intertwine, I had printed Interweave.  It was either go with it or scrap it and start over.  So, I just decided to go with it.  It is now called Interweave.  The next one can be Intertwine, I guess.  I used fabrics from my stash mostly, and a few pieces leftover from the cutting of parts.  A couple of these prints made me wonder why I'd bought them in the first place.

After I got it done, I thought it needed a heart.  So I gave it one.

INTERTWINE DONE

 I finally got the top of Intertwine done while attending Brave Patch's Finish it Friday.  This was a free pattern from Kona featuring the new COTY 2023 'Crush' along with  'Torch' and 'Sangria'.  

It wouldn't have been long enough for a twin so I added another row of plain squares in the middle.  It is now 56" by 77".

START A NEW PROJECT

 When in doubt, or bored, start a new project.

This is a free pattern from Robert Kaufman featuring their new Color of the Year (COTY) 2023, CRUSH and two more Kona Solids, Torch and Sangria.

I cut out all the parts and sewed half the blocks together.