A finish! A finish! I finally finished a quilt! I love it, too!
Last night, I finished hand-stitching the binding down on Bonnie's Star Struck pattern for my BiL. I'm not sure I ever want to work with a pattern that ever piece has a triangle, but it's a great pattern! I bought her book, but decided against using the sashing as I didn't have the right colors. I think this is amazing as is. (I apologize for the blurry picture - this was the third, and it's still a little shaky!) My BiL requested soft red, and I had to pick a palette from there. The colors are a little more yellow than in real life, but not too far off. It's very different from my usual choices, but everytime someone new sees it, they saw, "Wow!" so I guess it worked. Good colors, Chris!
I also sent away 3/4 yards to someone across the ocean, so with the quilt, I managed to use 16 yards this week.
IN this week: 0 yards (whew!)
IN YTD: 106 yards
OUT this week: 16 yards
OUT YTD: 52 yards
Total YTD: 54 yards IN
At least I'm digging out of my hole. Now if I can just keep DH's itchy fingers from buying purple fabric to cover all the statues in our house for the last week of Lent (because I don't have time to make that purple fabric into properly seamed covers), I will be doing well next week!
Goals this week:
Finish sashiko blocks
Finish last 30 Japanese blocks
Assemble Japanese top
Tame scraps (the little drawer is overflowing)
Charity: work on rag rug
Trim interfacing for T-shirt quilt to 15 1/2"
Judy asked if our stashes were looking any smaller. I'm in the hole, so it doesn't look smaller, but it doesn look different. Since the first of the year, I have been buying more yardage and less small pieces, so I have a stack of yardage that doesn't fit in my little boxes. Maybe I might need a new storage solution?
from the room of Zana's Ninis
7 comments:
I really like that quilt just the way you put it together. I think sashing would have made it to rigid, right now, it seems to flow. I think you did a great job on it!! And great busting of the stash!!! I hope you make all your goals for next week!!
that's a lucky BIL!! You and me, we're both digging our way out of the hole!
I love the quilt! It turned out beautifully and he's going to love it, I'm sure!
Wow -- your quilt is just lovely! I love it.
Your quilt is lovely!
This is one of my fav. patterns. I will live vicariously through your finish though....I don't think I have the patience right now for those tiny blocks! It's such a great feeling to finish!
Great quilt and love the quilting design!
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