RSC14 week 18 - Purple Pieces

Isn't this terrible?

All I did this week was cut out a garlic roll block (I'm sure that's not what it's really called). While really for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge I should make about 4 blocks a week. Well I'll catch up sometime.

They've been here since last Sunday!

I'm afraid that once again I was using all my free minutes to meet the Triangle Quilt Along's deadline yesterday. It was a never to be repeated week: I had no time to read my emails, or read other people's blogs. I barely gave myself the time to comment at linky parties. Shame!

Here is the garlic whatever with is purple partners.

I'm hoping I can get some more purple put together soon.


But now: here's to the green!

Rijswijk, Henri Ter Halsingel, April 2014 

I'm linking to Soscrappy for the RSC14 link up

so pop over there to see what other quilters have made this week.

Also linking to Freshly Pieced  for WIP Wednesdays and

Sew Fresh Quilts for Let's Bee Social

Preparing to quilt

At the moment I'm trying arrangements to make cushion covers from the triangles left from the triangle quilt. I don't really need cushions, and I'd rather make another quilt, a wall hanging this time, with big hexagons on a pale blue/grey background. 

But I do need to practise FMQ on the fabric used in this quilt. It's my version for the triangle quilt along at the Sassy Quilter.

May I pick your brains? If I do an allover pattern, swirls or ripples, do I need to stitch in the ditch first to stabilize? The quilt is 1.80 x 2.20m (approx 6 x 7') and I'll be quilting on my Bernina 440 QE, so there's an awful lot of quilt to fit in to the right of the needle. I shall be pinning the quilt sandwich together with safety pins.

I welcome your ideas on this.

I'm linking up to:

Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesdays and 

Sew Fresh Quilts for Let's Bee Social

Happy sewing

Marly.

Fresh Sewing Day and Small Blog Meet

In March 

I finished a quilt for my 7 year-old grandson. For its post-sewing rinse it needed 15 Colour Catchers, yes, 15, to absorb the excess dye in the dark blue batiks.

I made the top for a small lap-quilt/throw.

The fabric is Metropolitan Fair by Barbara Brackman for Moda, and the pattern is from Two From One Jelly Roll Quilts by Pam and Nicky Lintott. I still have to make a trip to the LQS to buy fabric for the backing, but that probably won't be until next week.

I bought fabric for the Triangle quilt along being organised byThe Sassy Quilter, (click on the button on the right to find out more about that QAL)

and I started cutting it,














I also made a few sampler squares for the RSC14.

Somewhere in between all this I finished the fourth border, with EPP stars appliquéd on squares, for the Emma medallion quilt, only to find that it's too short for the third (the previous) border. I'm still working on fixing that. It looks as if I will have to take the third border off and make it narrower, so that the quilt so far will be 2" narrower than at present. This is really something I dislike.

On Tuesday I'm linking up with Lily's Quilts for 

and on Wednesday with Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday,
and with Sew Fresh Quilts for Let's Bee Social.

Wednesday current progress

The Jigsaw Quilt is progressing well. 

Blocks 20 and 21 laid out ready to sew.

All subunits have been made, and after these two there are only eight more blocks to finish.

I'm linking up today to Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednsday

and to Sew Fresh Quilts for Let's Bee Social.

So please join us and see what other quilters are doing this week.

Happy sewing

Marly.

WIP Wednesday

I'm turning this:

Metropolitain Fair Jelly Roll

into this:

Jigsaw Quilt block

I started cutting this morning and am about to finish putting the first block together. The next 3 are partially made too.

It's the Jigsaw Quilt from this book made in Metropolitan Fair by Barbara Brackman for Moda.

I'm linking to Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday, and to Sew Fresh Quilts for Let's Bee Social. Go and have a look at what some others are working on at the moment.

Happy sewing

Marly.