Darrell and I went to the West Seattle Farmers Market this morning. We were looking for some dill for making pickles. But, we spotted some beautiful organic strawberries and bought a box ($28). We continued wandering looking in every booth and did find some dill fronds but no flower heads.
When we got home I got busy making jam. Darrell helped with the mashing once I cleaned and chopped them.
I found this little quilt in my bucket of UFOs. I'm not sure who made it. I know I didn't. So, I'm going to assume that my sister Sue did. It was quilted already, all it needed was binding. So, I made some black bias binding and sewed it on. So it's done. That was easy!
It is finish #13 of the year. It is called Pinwheels and is 35" by 35". It will get donated.
I've been working on putting a black border around the name labels that the members of the Monday Sewcial Collab quilt made for the back of the quilt.
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.
I am not thrilled with that substitute fabric I made the border with yesterday. So, using more of the triangles I made, I set them on top of some other fabrics I thought might work. Now I'm going to let be and think about it for a while before I make a decision. At one point I was thinking of using some leftover Log Cabin blocks as a border, too.
I made those corner blocks thinking they would tie into some of the other borders. But, I think they are drawing too much attention. I probably won't use them.
I wish I had more of the e bond fabric I used in the center of the Feathered Star block, but I don't. So, I found another of her fabrics that are very similar in color. So, I made the next border using it instead.
I made one side then auditioned them, first with the triangles pointing in then with them point out.
I started making the next round. After several hours of sewing, the process was becoming tedious. So, I put what I had up on the wall to see how they looked. I decided No. I don't like it and I'm going to try something else.
I finally got all of the things and tools that I needed to turn my Rabbit needlepoint into a pillow.
Here it is, it's done. And I like it! It will be living on our bed during the day now.
It took a while and a lot of fussing and fiddling, but I've got that first border all the way around and sewn on. And I'm thinking bout the next border.
