Design Wall Monday

These are all my Dear Jane blocks for this month - 10 in total. I'm happy with how they turned out. They'll likely come off the design wall in a day or two to make room for something else. Dear Jane class is next Saturday so I can almost pack them in the bag for class.

February 18th

I'm linking up to Patchworktimes and will pop over later to see what everyone else has on their design wall. It's one of my favourite blog posts of the week.

Triangles

I do like working on my Dear Jane quilt - finishing those fiddly squares and triangles gives me a sense of skill and accomplishment.
These triangles were a bit of a pain. A lot of paper piecing in this one:

T4

It turned out fine. Maybe my eyesight is going though because it looks like it leans to the left a little. Actually, most of my triangles look like they lean to the left. I hope when they all get sewn together that they straighten out!

This is likely the hardest triangle in the border. I had to psyche myself up for it. It turned out fine:


R3



My picture doesn't do the medallion piecing justice - I'll have to try for a more close up picture tomorrow.

I'm all caught up for my January homework (still behind on 2012 blocks though - they'll get done).  My next class is next Saturday where we all reveal our blocks and get our next assignment. We're going to get more triangles every month so that we get them finished.

I've been cutting and I don't like stripes

Tonight I did some cutting for my Under the Stars quilt. It needs 156 3"x3" blocks - I just cut up all the fabric so I'm not sure how many I have. I hope I have way more than enough cause I don't like all the fabric.

Here's one of each block:

It's a little dark in the sewing room at night

I don't really like row 1, 2nd from right (red and green plaid) or row 2, second from left (red, black, white stripes). I just don't like them and hope I don't have to use them. Everything else I'm okay with or like.

Here's the thing that I learned about stripes - on the very first quilt I ever pieced - if they aren't on the straight of grain, they'll always look crooked. I don't like crooked unless it's on purpose, it makes me feel wonky and off kilter, and I think it makes me look like I can't sew a straight seam. Ironically, on this quilt, the two fabrics I don't really like are fairly straight on the grain and the other stripes are off. For this quilt, I'll call that whimsy.

Design Wall Monday

Now that I have a design wall I want to post about what's on it.  This is my Dear Jane progress for the month of February. I still have 2 triangle blocks to go and almost 2 weeks to finish them.

I'm linking up to Patchwork Times too.

M13 and a switch of direction

I finished M13 today. That is the last of the square blocks for this month. I have 2 triangle blocks to do which involve a lot of paper piecing and I don't feel like doing that right now.

M13

And I was thinking this afternoon. I'm sewing and sewing on the Dear Jane and I get 10 blocks done a month, but I don't have enough to sew into something yet, so it feels like I don't get much accomplished.

So, I decided tonight to start cutting up a flannel kit that I bought a few years ago. I've been thinking about this quilt since I moved into my new house. I want to snuggle under it in front of the fire, and since it's almost mid February, maybe I should get busy on it.

Here's the pattern:

And here's the flannel from the kit that I started cutting up:

These aren't really my colours, but I have a thing for snowmen so I'll love it anyway.

L13

Today I had to do the house work blessings jobs I didn't do yesterday - or last week for that matter. I did get a little done tonight though:

L13

I did use far fewer seams than the pattern called for. The pattern has the white background cut in four then sewn together again, and a full circle on the outside ring, with white on white in the blank spaces. That is too much fussing for me on this block.

Snow day = sew day

Since school got cancelled with all the snow I decided to sew all day - well, after I slept in, ate, and shovelled twice.  I'm sure I've got over a foot here - haven't measure yet but it's over my boot tops. I'm afraid of what will happen when the plow goes down the street and closes in the end of my driveway. The plow hasn't been down yet and people are getting stuck.

D1 - paper pieced and turned out much better than the last paper pieced block

H7

J5

K6 - paper pieced this one too