Happy November! It’s crisp and sunny and leaf-covered here, perfect quilting weather (after I get the garden cleaned up and put away!).
October’s quilting was a mixed success. I really like the String Ornaments quilt that I just planned to start, but had to finish. Handy Dandy, on the other hand… I think I’m just bored because every block is quilted the same way. Whatever the reason, I put it off and put it off, until I finally got it out and quilted one row of blocks. (Thank you to the Twilters on Twitter for all your encouragement!) Then I spent a week very sick and couldn’t quilt at all, so there went the month. I’ll keep it out and try to get back to it between tasks this month.
October Goals:
- Make donation blocks for Kat’s September/October block drive. Yes! I made a dozen and mailed them. See above.
- Finish quilting Handy Dandy. Um, no. I got it out and quilted one more row of it, but there’s a lot more to do.
- Bind Handy Dandy. No.
- Begin a Christmas scrap quilt. Begun and finished! Once I started, I couldn’t stop on this one.
November will begin with a commission quilt, and then I’ll see what else I can find time for.
November Goals:
- Design, communicate, and order fabrics for Louisville commission quilt.
- Piece top for Louisville.
- Quilt and bind Louisville.
- Pull fabrics, begin cutting for Charlotte’s new mystery.
- Work on Handy Dandy.
As far as I know, I’m not sewing anything for Christmas, but who knows?
Good luck on your goals!
The top was inspired by this ornament fabric I’ve had for awhile and wanted to use for the backing. I love the contrast between the Victorian ornaments and the modern ones.
The red and green fabrics are all from my Christmas scraps, I didn’t cut into any yardage for them. It was fun to remember all the projects and it really did clean up my scrap bin. I pieced them on seed catalog and phone book pages, which came away very easily. Usually I remove the paper as soon as I’m finished piecing, but this time I left it on until I had added the white corners. That made the blocks stable enough to sew together without the paper.
So, the fabric that came in. Did you know that 
The sewing! It pales in comparison, but I did use four yards this week to make these wall hangings from printed panels. Now you see where those little stars went! Look for them soon in
The sun came out for a while yesterday, so Yuri and I raced out to take some quilt photos.
I had a variety of sports fabric scraps left from some baby quilts I’ve made as gifts and commissions. I planned to make one quilt, but it turned out I had enough for three.
Some of the fabrics were already cut in 6.5″ squares, and I wanted to keep the large prints visible, so I stuck with squares for this one. I found the blue ombre semi-solid that I think adds interest to the alternate squares.
Since this turned into three quilts, I had the opportunity to assembly-line them a little, making all the bindings and labels at once, basting two at the same time, etc.
And, yes, I had it checked for snuggliness. It passed!
This is the Supernova pattern again. When I made 
