BINDING ON

 Okay, now my Wildflower quilt is really done.  I got the binding sewn on and everything!

WILDFLOWER QUILTED

 It's off the machine - it's quilted.

Now, to trim it and bind it.

I made the binding, but I'll wait until tomorrow to put it on.

WILDFLOWER ON THE LONGARM

 I've been quilting on Wildflower.

I gotta get it done before the end of the month.

 Then it was time for Finish It Friday, and I managed to sew all of the Loretto blocks together and make a quilt top.

 

DAY 16

 The prompt for #30daysketchbookchallenge is "Footwear."  I took my hiking boots up to the studio and did a blind contour drawing while attending the Monday Sewcial on Brave Patch.  I added watercolors and a dark background in Indigo - I love indigo.

Before the meeting started I managed to get the backing for Wildflowers done and inked the label on it.

I also got the next little 6" block for Art East Quilting Mini-block Sampler made.  This is block number 3, Crown.

WORKING ON WILDFLOWER

I'm sewing the pieces of the Wildflower quilt together.

I've got them sewn into rows, but I still have one more seam to do.  Then I can add the 'borders's of the blue to bring it up to size.  I got all of this done while visiting with the Sew Modern Connection group.  We meet on the first Sunday of every month.

 

OWL EYES ETC

I sewed the button eyes onto the Owl body and auditioned some fabrics for around the eyes and the belly.

I ended up changing the belly fabric to a grey plaid that was a little darker.

I ordered 5 yards of Kona Blue Jay for the background of Wildflowers.  I also changed my mind about the size and am going to make it twin sized.  It will probably be a while before the fabric gets here though.

SEVEN FLOWERS

 I had to rejoin Bryan House Quilts in order to get the instructions and foundation patterns for this last block.  It costs $24 a month and they'll charge me automatically every month.  I gotta remember to cancel that subscription!  Anyway, I now have the pattern and instructions for finishing the background.

ANOTHER WILDFLOWER

 Slowly these blocks are coming together.

WILDFLOWER BOM

 I started in on another unfinished project.  This one is from about the same time as the Solstice quilt from yesterday.

It's not very far along.  I started making the triangles that go around each start to turn them into hexagons.

WILDFLOWER BLOCK 3

 I made the third set of blocks for the Wildflower BOM.  These will be set at the center of the quilt.

WILDFLOWER TWO

 Back in the studio after our morning walk (in the melting snow), I got to work on the second block for the Wildflower quilt.

Funny story - this set of blocks was strips of dark, light, dark, light, dark, light with a different color on the bottom.  The instructions, again, called for making them in a 'birthday cake' style and then trimming them down.  That is such a waste of fabric, so I thought I could do it by sewing all of the strips together, except for the bottom one, and then cutting triangles, alternating up and down from the strip set.  Then adding the last colored strip to the bottom.  While I was deciding on which fabrics to use, I thought 'wouldn't a gradation of colors look great?'.  So, I did it that way sewing all of the strips together.  Then it struck me that they'd be alternating when I cut them from the strip.  Oh well, I like it like this anyway.

Not sure which way I like it best.

LOTS DONE TODAY

 It was a very rainy morning, so after we got back from grocery shopping I went up to the studio and started quilting on my Improv Daisy.  It's coming along (other than it's not really flat).

After lunch, I made the first block for the Bryan House Quilts sew-along - Wildflower.  I finally settled on some fabrics.  

I even sewed together some of the rows on Opening Night, but I didn't take a picture.