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Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Quilt Housekeeping

More quilt housekeeping. My guild show is next month. I thought I had nothing to enter; I certainly don't have the energy to finish something now. But since our show is biennial, I checked my 2018 and 2017 Finish pages to see what might be available.

Oh, joy! Spiderweb wasn't in the last show. It was finished a month or two later.

The spiderwebs in the center of the quilt are outlined in various single colors including red, green, blue, yellow, and purples. There is a narrow light green inner border followed by a border that is a printed toile on two sides and an applique vine on the other two. Finally there are two more borders of improvisational right triangles as the outer border.
Spiderweb quilt

And bunches of Coin quilts. Many of these have been gifted but Fifth Chinese Coins is on our bed.

Columns of scrap fabrics in blue and white with black, brown, green, red and purple prints interspersed.
Fifth Chinese Coins quilt

This week I've been cutting and sewing sleeves. As soon as the show ends, I'll take the sleeves off again and put them in a ziplock in my scrap bag so hopefully I can find them next time I need a sleeve. {Bane of my life.}

Chambray tubes are hand sewn to the tops of the backs of quilts so they can be hung in a show.
Sewing sleeves to quilts

I'm still chugging along sewing the centers of Shadow Star blocks. Kaja sent me a scrap of beautiful shot cotton that I used for one Star. It's a bit thin; shot cotton always is; so I doubled the fabric. That's an old trick to make a quilt last longer.

Two collaged photos. On the left, a thin purple shot cotton is doubled to provide more strength to the compass points. On the right, the block is sewn with a blue print center circle, the purple compass points end in squares that range from blue to coral to white and outline the white star points.
Doubled fabric on the compass points of
Shadow Star quilt block

Some of the blocks lend themselves to a different fabric for the center while others need a repeat instead.

Left: fourth fabric for the center. Right: repeat fabric for center.
Shadow Star quilt blocks.
Left: fourth fabric for the center.
Right: repeat fabric for center.

Fun playtimes deciding what fabric to use. I realize now this quilt will take a longer time to get together and I'm going to enjoy every minute.

Enjoy the day, Ann
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