QUILT DELIVERED

 Darrell and I took the Opening Night quilt over to Nicole and Victoria's new home and installed it on Victoria's bed, along with the pillows I made, too.

I love how it looked on her black bed.  I hope she enjoys it.

OPENING NIGHT QUILTING DONE

I finished off the quilting on Opening Night today.    I was running out of white thread towards the end, so I figured I'd only need about another half of a bobbin's worth to finish everything.  But, I was wrong.  I refilled that half a bobbin three times!  There's still a bit of white thread on the bobbin, but that is it.

I had to rotate the quilt to fit the side triangles into the quilting area of the longarm.  Those last few setting triangles were quilted with black thread on top luckily.

I also finished sewing the last of the Shattered blocks together while I watched a webinar about embroidery software for the Bernina.  And I started making the binding for Opening Night which should get completed tomorrow.

THURSDAY STUFF

 I spent the morning quilting on the Opening Night quilt.  I'm getting closer to the middle.  Then I went inside to catch a lecture about What Judges Want given at Quiltcon  Together.  

After lunch, I got around to making the small version of the Nebula Two blocks.  I had to do some ciphering to figure this one out.  But, now I'll be ready to the next ones, too.

Then, I trimmed the triangles for a set of blocks for Shattered.  I have one more set to trim - and then I need to sew the blocks together.

I wrote in my journal that I want to cross off some of the projects from my to-do list this month.  If I put my nose to the grind stone and just did it, I could probably get some of them done.  Here's to perseverance. 

[Speaking  of perseverance, the Mars rover, Perseverance, landed safely today, too]

DOUBLE DOWN

 This morning was another wonderful zoom workshop with Joe Cunningham.  I finished up that last seam on my Shattered blocks from the other day first.

While I watched I finished another set of nine Shattered blocks.  

It had started snowing last night and it never stopped.  There's 10 to 12" of snow on the ground now.  The dogs don't like it.  But, we are staying warm and dry up here in the studio.

After Joe's workshop I started quilting on Opening Night.  I did the big setting triangles with a computerized 'feathers' design.  

OPENING NIGHT TOP

 During our weekly Brave Patch Monday Open-Sew meeting on Zoom I got the last large seams on my Opening Night quilt sewn.  It is big!  90" by 90".  It's always a pain to sew on something that big, but I got it done.  It's too big for my design wall.  Here's a picture of it as it flows down onto the floor.  

Now to make the label and backing.

MADE MORE SASHING

 The progress on Opening Night came to a screeching halt when I realized I was short about 18 sashings, I think I misread the directions (or they were misprinted).

I got them made and a few of them sewn on.

INTO ROWS ALREADY

 I've been working a bit on  the Opening Night Tula Pink quilt blocks.  I finished them off today while chatting on Brave Patch Monday Sew-In.  I started sewing them into rows.  I still have to cut the big setting triangles for the outside - I don't know how I'm going to do that, they're over 29" square to begin with.  It's so difficult to be accurate at that size.

GET IT DONE SUNDAY

 I finished my Daisy yesterday, and today I finishsed more projects.

It started with getting the last of the quilting done on my Free Motion Quilting Challenge quilt, or Fiona Mae as I named it.  I actually quilted some feathers into the last two corners.  And they aren't completely horrible.  Next, the binding for it.

Then, while attending a Brave Patch zoom meeting about the Daisys, I finished sewing together the HST to make the last of the little stars needed for Opening Night quilt.  Now, on to putting together the bigger stars for that quilt.

LITTLE STAR DAYS

 

LITTLE BLUE STAR

 I thought I'd work on something simple while attending this week's Brave Patch meeting.  I pulled out the Opening Night stuff and finished off another little star.  I think I've only got three more to do.  

NEW PROJECT

 I've started on a new project - a Tula Pink quilt called Opening Night using her new line of fabrics, Line Work.  It's a lot of black and whites and some additions to her True Colors blending fabrics.

I cut out all of the colored fabric being used to make a bunch of little, 4", stars.

Then I cut out the background pieces.

And sewed them all together in the '8 at a time' method of making HST squares.

Now each one needs to be cut apart and the seam pressed open.

I got one set done - that's enough for today.