And I have more bits and pieces to share.
MY IMPROV QUILT IS GETTING BINDING!
Here’s a sneak peak–I use a pillow to elevate hand work as it takes the stress off my arms and neck. The backing is AWESOME! It’s a Figo print. And it is PERFECT for this quilt.
I am loving how this quilt turned out. When it is finished, I’ll do a whole post on this “improv” process–which did involve a bit of trauma as the channel locks on my longarm decided not to work properly so I had to finish the quilting lines on my Janome 6700 surrounded by LOTS of tables and an ironing board. (Jimmy Hernandez from Carolina Quilt Studio in Greenville, NC, was already going to come here on Sunday for another client, so he’s going to take off my longarm’s wheels (it’s too tall–I have to stand on tip-toe some times), so he can show me how to tighten the channel locks–and believe me, quilting lines on the longarm was way, way more easy than on the domestic.)
The hand quilting (big stitch) on “Happy” is down to the LAST BLOCK (after 10 more minutes of sewing on the penultimate block–and then the border, which will go fast as it is easy quilting.
I’ve have had an ongoing project that will be a 30-inch wall hanging or pillow–the second of the 4 blocks is almost done but needs some tinkering to measure properly. I’m going to shorten the white strips as they are too wide–it is too much white–and that will give me some room to add a final dark border around the purple/green/orange piece–where I still have to make the last bottom piece. (Cathy Beemer has been teaching us how to do this work.)
I’ve started a lap quilt using as many of the 3 1/2-inch squares as I can from the bins holding the cut-up Cotton+Steel/Ruby Star Society squares. There is ONE red heart and the rest of the quilt is low-volume. Easy Peasy.
AND, I’m ironing the saved fabrics from season 4 of The Color Collective where guest designer Annabelle Wrigley gave us her “Prickly Pear” quilt. The fabrics are from her own collection of solids, Ruby + Bee.
So, gradually, I’m catching up with those Season 4 TCCollective project.
Holy Moly! Look at this HUGE moth that is now resting on my back screen door! She’s 3 1/2 inches or so if you count the wing length.
It is a Waved Sphinx Moth. She lays her eggs in the ground, and the caterpillars eat tree leaves and other vegetation. The adult moth may not eat. Scorpions eat the eggs if they find them, which is why the moth is sometimes called a “Scorpion Moth.”
Do we have scorpions here? Google, google–yes, there are scorpions here but they don’t seem to be a huge threat.
https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Ceratomia-undulosa
I will walk my mile in the early evening–I’ve only missed 3 days this month–two of which were due to rain. I love my mile walk.
There will be dinner on the porch today.
And the recycle truck came today as I misled the whole neighborhood about our 2-week pickup of recycling after the holiday!!! So, I’m super happy the system worked with me to get our recycle picked up!
Have a great weekend everyone!!