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Q3 Check In

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  Yvonne at   QuiltingJetGirl  has a check in for our progress on Q3 and plans for the rest of the year.   Q3 has been a mixture of coping with personal changes and trying to pick things back up again.  Q4 has the potential for more normalcy but also more changes. I think I should have more quilting time in the last quarter. Quilting This year I want to finish quilt tops for  1. Butterfly quilt - no change this quarter.  In November I hope to be able to review what is done and figure out whether I've missed cutting some pieces, cut them incorrectly or what is going on. 2. Labyrinth - Done Q1 3. Rainbow Quilt - I did get some piecing done on this.  The top third is into 3 large blocks.  The remainder is sewn into 4 patches or into 4 X 8 patches.  I think that will get assembled in October. 4. Love Entwined applique (centre block only) - no progress.  I want to prep some pieces so I can work on it in the eveni...

Goals for 2023

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  Yvonne at Quilting Jetgirl is a hosting an annual planning party again.  2022 There haven't been a lot of changes since my mid-year update.  My focus changed a bit in the second half of the year.  I started the butterfly quilt and have continued making some triple four patch blocks for the rainbow scrap challenge.   I have an opportunity each month to get feedback on some of my digital art work.  The consistent feedback is the extractions (Selections) and some lighting.  In one piece, I done some lighting but the critique showed much more dramatic lighting which I really liked so I'm working on not being quite so timid with some of the lighting. I made good progress this year sorting out Lightroom.  During the Lightroom virtual summit this fall, I watched a session on cleaning up Lightroom.  Something he said triggered an idea and I was able to cleanup all the duplicate photos from my phone that had imported with different names ...

April Quilting Goals

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 The big goal this month is to make my Cherrywood Challenge quilt.  I have sketches of some of the components.  Need to start stitching and figure out how they go together.  The end result and the sketch rarely turn out the same.  No pictures of that one for a bit but hopefully it goes smoothly. For Love Entwined, I want to get the little pieces at the base of vase 3 stitched as well as the vines and possibly the vase.  If all of vase 3 is stitched, that would be perfect, but If I can get the foundation finished that would be good.  I don't think the challenge quilt will need hand applique so if I can prep the pieces for Love Entwined, it can continue to be my zoom meeting project.  I've marked some placement guides for vase 3 and made some more bias for the vines.  So I can start that stitching The Abstraction quilt needs have its threads tied in and the binding added.  That's good tv work.  I had an appointment to go quilt another...

March Quilting Goals Review

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 What a productive month quiltwise! My Winterlace quilt tops are done and the bindings are made!  The pattern is from Quiltmaker Nov/Dec 1995.  I received the magazine just before the Creative Sewing Festival that October and purchase the material then.  Its a two colour quilt and I planned two quilts in opposite colours.  For many reasons, but mainly that I forgot to resize the blocks to make the quilts more appropriate for twin beds, the quilts have languished in a box, partially cut out.  It took about 6 weeks to complete both of them.  I've left off a couple of borders to make them fit the twin beds a bit better but they will have very generous overhangs and a pillow tuck. So here they are.  I've prepared the blue print binding for the first one and white binding for the second to match the outer edge of the quilt.  Now to find backing and add them to the line of things to quilt! It turned out I had more yellow and gold scraps than I thou...

March Quilting Goals

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 March Already?!?!  Going fast.   After sitting and languishing for more than 20 years in a box, my Winter Lace quilt leaped forward tremendously in February.  All the blocks and the components for the pieced border are made.  So my goal this month is to assemble both quilts and make their bindings.  Then I will be able to release all the fabric to the stash.  There is a lot of left over fabric I think 16 of 20 blocks for one quilt All the blocks for second quilt and the remaining ones for the first Border components I am really looking forward to seeing these two tops completed.   I have another appointment to quilt at the longarm studio so I'll finish the abstraction quilt then.  I don't think it will take my whole time, so I'll look to see what smaller project I might be able to do as well.   Love Entwined needs more applique pieces prepared.  I have two little circles to stitch then I need more prepped pieces....

Red rainbow scraps

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After several years of watching people make Rainbow Scrap quilts, I decided to join in this year.  A friend had shown a couple of quilts she made with triple four patches which I really liked.  So I dug into the white and red scrap boxes.  There are 13 completed blocks and one smaller 4 patch square.  The 13th didn't fit on the cutting mat when I laid them out.   A lot of this actually did come from the scrap boxes.  A few of the larger red squares came from the red shelf although mostly from pieces that had already been used.  They started as an ender and leader as I was stitching my Panel One Block Wonder.  This evening, I sat down and completed the blocks.  I may cut the extra little squares to finish up the block with one corner made. Linking up with Scrap Happy's Rainbow Saturday