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.

SOLSTICE SO FAR

 I finished sewing together the parts and pieces that I have of the Solstice Quilt.  I'm waiting on some more Kona Shitake to finish the background.

OLD PROJECT

 I pulled out an old project that I haven't worked on in quite a while.

I put the parts I had already done up on the wall and sorted through the instructions in order to bring myself up to speed.

I have all of the blocks done.  It just needs a background.

I choose a medium grey, Kona Shitake.  I don't have enough to do all of the background, but I cut up what I have.  I'll have to order more and hope it matches.

Here's where I ended the day.

OOPS - WRONG SIZE

 I spent the morning putting together my little version  of Nebula 9.  It should have been the last one and complete the set.

However, I discovered, after I was all done making them, that they are the wrong size!

I'm out of fabric and I need these blocks to make the smaller version.  Dang.

This is just so frustrating.  I hate do-overs.  And I really hate impossible do-overs.  (not enough fabric to do it over, unless I either take these wrong ones all apart and cut down each strip, or I buy more of these fabrics, or, I suppose, I could use similar but different fabrics - all very annoying choices that I don't want to do).

Here's where I was so happy that I finished the last of the blocks for the smaller quilt.

Here's where I discovered that those last blocks were not the same size as all of the other blocks.  Aaargh!

I think I'll just put them away and think about this some other day.

NEBULA 9

 I got the Nebula 9 block sewn together today.  That is the last block!  

Next will be the background and putting it all together.

NEBULA 7

 It was cool enough that I could finally get back into the studio after all the very hot weather we just had.

I got both of the Nebula 7 blocks and their small counterparts made this morning.

WILDFLOWER BLOCK 3

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

LAST BLOCK FOR ECLIPSE

 Originally called Solstice, now called Eclipse, I finally made the last of the pieced triangle 'blocks' that make up the design for this quilt.  When I finished i put them up on the wall.  They are to be the center.

Then I just kept adding the other blocks to see how it looked.

Now to decide if I'm going to change anything, or leave it as is.  And decide on the background color.

NEBULA 3

 I finally got around to making the Nebula 3 blocks today.

There was barely enough fabric wide enough left to make the smaller versions.  I had to piece together a couple triangles to make it work.

I also got the Shattered blocks out and put them up on the wall.  Hopefully tomorrow I can sew them together.

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.

CANDY APPLE QUILT FINISHED

 I finished up the quilting on the little Candy Apple quilt.  It's 36" by 41".  

I even made the binding and got it put on, too.  It is done.

NEBULA BLOCK TWO

 I made the Nebula block Two today while watching the second impeachment on TV.

I'm going to have to do some ciphering to figure out how to make the smaller version.  

CANDY APPLE

 I made this little quilt a few years back when I was doing the Design classes with Joen Wolfrom at Quilted Strait in Port Gamble.  The project was to make something with a fabric you thought was 'ugly'.  I picked this green with a funny little motif with a red circle and purple and gold flowers.  I just gave it the name Candy Apple because a Kona fabric called Candy Apple Green matches the green color of the background and I used it on the backing.

I wanted to do more longarm quilting so I loaded it up and got to work.

NEBULA BLOCK ONE

 The fabrics and Nebula patterns finally showed up (the first shipment, mailed on January 5th, never arrived and Pink Door Fabrics finally sent another package after I complained again).  So, I am able to start.  Month two was included in the same package, also.  I made block one and had leftovers and was able to make a smaller version of each block, too.  This should be fun.

SOLSTICE BLOCK ONE

 I started on the Solstice quilt from Bryan House.  Here's block one.  

Here's what it will look like when it's done, but in my colors.

COVID 19 QUILT TOP FINISHED

Ta da!

I started on the backing, too.

MORE PARTS NEEDED

 I still need to make more triangle parts for the Covid quilt.  I need blue ones and grey/white ones.

HALF WAY THROUGH

I've gotten about half way through piecing the rows together on my Covid-19 quilt.  It is made up of foundation pieced scraps from my scrap bucket onto 60 degree triangles blocks.  The triangles will finish at about 4" high and 4-1/2" wide.  I still have to make a few more blocks, and the end pieces that are a little bigger than half blocks.

It's getting heavy and it's only half way.

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It's been nice, not only am I using up a lot of scraps, I'm using up the thread on bobbins to make them available for future projects. 

On another note, I made a chili-type soup for dinner using the dried Hidatsa beans we grew and harvested in our garden this last summer.  It was pretty good, too.

Just starting, before I added tomatoes and sausage.