Moda Blockheads 6

 

It has been a little windy here and a little difficult to get good photos. However, my Moda Blockheads 6 blocks are now quilted and bound and ready to donate to Quilts for Care Leavers next week. That will make a total of three to donate to Q4CL and I have our mini quilts to drop off to our hospital's NICU tomorrow.

I enjoyed making the blocks and combining the two different sizes of white spot on black fabrics worked. The purple block is too big for me compared with the other blocks, most of which are 9" square.

We have flu jabs today and a customer is dropping of some advent calendar panels and lap quilt for quilting today. Otherwise, I will be concentrating on stitching together some more test bocks for @sariditty.

Waypoint testing

I have made my first test block from the Waypoint pattern by @sariditty which is being released later this year. I am continuing to stash dive with more low volume prints paired with yellow and green fabrics. However, I realise that I have many low volume text prints which are directional and not suitable for this project.

My plan is to cut two blocks each day, stitch one and put the other aside to stitch at retreat in a week's time My long arm is all connected again so we need to add the pole when it's not raining outside and I'll be ready to quilt my Q4CL Moda Blockhead 6 project this weekend.

 

WIP Wednesday - Moda blockheads 6

On of the first thing I planned to do on our return from holiday was to catch up with the Mod Blockhead 6 blocks. I had them printed ready to cut out and stitch. Fortunately, I put the completed blocks on my design board and was amazed to realise that I had enough blocks to make up another Quilts for careleavers quilt with the blocks that were already completed.

I added a 3" border and it is ready to be quilted. My next job is to get my longarm set up properly with the cables plugged in where they are meant to be and put back the poles.  I have a customer bringing some projects on Monday so it would be good to get this quilted first.

Plans for the next few months

I am back after what seems like a long break. We did get away to spend three days in Istanbul with our daughter, but I wasn't well enough to do much on the cruise other than rest, read and eat. Our trip back was eventful with an unplanned stop in Bucharest, so we arrived home a day later than expected. I brought home with a nasty cold which has knocked me out for a week.

I am now planning for the next few months and have started with choosing just five cross stitch projects to work on. All of the other projects have been unkitted and the threads returned to their storage boxes. This will make pulling threads out for future projects much quicker.

Winter Wonderland - kitted up in about five minutes. My first small project to work on.

A honey of a tiny town. One house or tree between projects should result in progress.

Frosty Tiny Town. Again one house between projects should see progress. 

Polar plunge. one and a half units stitched out of six and planned to be a Christmas gift. One unit to be stitched between other projects.

Hello Autumn should be my next project but three of the threads were mixed up with stuff being moved back into the playroom as the floors were refinished whilst we were away on holiday.

Friday finish - book sleeve

Making up this book sleeve was not on my bingo card for this week. I honestly planned for it to be a project for the November Modern Quilt Club retreat. However, I received a phone call from our local hospital on Monday, recommending that I cancel my holiday which starts today. That did not put me in a good mood!

I needed a simple project for my sewing session with my daughter over FB messenger. I cut out most of the pieces on Monday ready to sew, which I did on Tuesday morning. I had already sewn the book block from Me Time Delivered, a few weeks ago.

WIP Wednesday - scrap stash plus quilt

This was my jelly roll day project using a jelly roll friendly pattern from Emily Dennis. I have worked on it steadily making ten blocks every week from the fabrics pulled or the Moda blockheads 6 blocks. I started by making a positive and negative block from each fabric, but for the last blocks, I pulled from my scrap bags and did just one block from each fabric.

I still have plenty of yardage of this perfect rainbow striped binding from Quiet Play. I thought this fabric from Rainbow Fabrics was the perfect backing. We bought it at Stitch Festival earlier this year. This quilt will be donated to Quilts for Care Leavers when I'm in the UK in November.

Monday make - Frankie top

 You'd be forgiven for thinking you've seen this top before a I've made the Frankie top by Tilly & the Buttons twice before in the same Chicacheetah fabric from Guthrie and Ghani, but in royal blue and light blue. I need to come up with a plan to use up the scraps of the three colourways.

Having made the top before, you'd think I'd know what to do but I made all the mistakes, lots of unpicking and I even sewed my label into the seam for the sleeve and not the body of the top. However, it is now finished. Disappointingly the fabric is from two print runs so the back has a greyer tinge and the front is pinker. This was highlighted on the website, but I chose to buy just one extra metre.

My resident photographer is back from the UK tonight having visited Matt and Lizzie, so my photos are very basic today. Next project is either trimming and binding a scrappy quilt or making a dress to wear on our forthcoming holiday.