Grandmother's Flower Garden

A trip to Toronto this weekend was very productive in the GFG making. I completed 6 GFG blocks on the bus to and from Toronto.

A header down my basement stairs and the subsequent time (4 hours) spent in Emerg, to find out that my ankle is not broken but very badly sprained saw 2 more of the blocks completed.

Hawaiian Finish

I've finished the Hawaiian wall quilt. This is my second UFO finish this year. I am fairly pleased with it - still wish I could get someone to actually teach me hand applique. I'm teaching myself and admit that the points on the leaves aren't as good as they could be.

The pattern is Woodland Lei - I cannot remember the publisher/designer. It's been so long since I started this UFO that I have lost the pattern. It's somewhere in the black hole I call a sewing room.

I'm also posting an image of my first UFO finish this year. This is a giant (22 inches) pillow. The top of the pillowcase is a leftover block from a quilt I made a couple of years ago. I've had the block and borders on it - just needed to quilt and assemble the pillow. It was something that I just never got to.

I unearthed a UFO while looking for my applique needles for doing the binding on the Hawaiian quilt. It's a reverse-applique stained glass piece that I mean to make into yet another pillow. So that's one of the next UFOs to be completed. I still have the green Bear Paw that just needs binding yet.

Hawaiian update

Almost done the border quilting of the Hawaiian quilt. Hopefully I'll get it done and bind it next weekend.

Flower baskets moving forward

Well, I cut the blocks down to 10". They are pretty uniform except for the one where the basket size was screwed up (bigger than the pattern called for). I'm hoping that one isn't going to stick out too badly.

I've got the horizontal sashings nearly sewn together. After I get those done I'll start on the block rows. I have a layout determined and I don't want to lose it - and don't have stickers to mark the blocks, so I'll have to do each row one at a time. Wish I knew what I did with those stickers.

At the laundromat and at the farm yesterday I almost completed another quarter of the white space on the Hawaiian. It is almost half done. One more half and some centre embellishment and then all I have to do is the binding.

I prepared the binding for the Bear's Paw this weekend. Just need to get it stitched on now.

Flower basket frustration

Decided to get the flower basket top together this weekend. Pulled sashing fabrics and had made an additional 12 blocks to finish the quilt.

Before cutting the sashing I decided to check the swap blocks. They were supposed to be squared out at 10 1/2". NOT. I'm going to have to cut all the blocks down to 10 inches. Not a single one of the freaking things would square to 10 1/2'.

I'm seriously annoyed. It would be worse if I'd cut the sashing before checking the blocks.

Found it

I finally found the binding I cut for the Bear Paw. I just need to sew it together and get it on the quilt.

I trimmed the Bear Paw for binding today.

I've got 2 more blocks for my Flower Basket quilt. Need to make a few more - hope I have enough basket. I'm going to discard one of the swap blocks if I can and make 3 more of my block - it will go in the corners of a 4x5 block layout.

Need to get busy....

My name's in the top 30 of the UFO queen list. I need to get busy. I've started stitching the blank areas of the Hawaiian. It's going to take a while.

The Bear's Paw just needs binding. I'll have to find some matching thread this weekend and get the binding on.