Well I am a lemming. You know those cute little animals that will follow the crowd even to their death. Yep that's me, experiencing death by quilting or rather Great Granny along.
I blame Carrie P. Her blog pushed me over the edge. For months I have been seeing these granny square quilt-alongs. I have pinned tutorials. I have soaked up the retro scrappy goodness of the pattern but ignored the urges to make one. And then I followed everyone over the cliff. Last night, after reading Carrie's blog, it hit me I had about 2 jelly rolls worth of feed sack prints, a couple yards of kona coal, and a desire to make myself a vacation quilt. So...I...jumped.
This is what I had finished before I went to bed, 16 block segments
(I thought I had 18, it was too late when I wen to bed).
( I still thought I had 20 now)
I squared them up to 9". Imagingermonkey's tutorial said 9.25 but my 1/4 foot is not a scant.
I messed around with some layouts on the design wall. And realized I only had 18 blocks, so...
I took a break and went out for lunch and to run a few errands.
It is Dress like a cow day at Chick-fil-a. I couldn't miss that.
When I was out I stopped at Joanne's to get some more kona coal with my 50% coupon. When I returned I played around with the layout in MS Publisher.
I took this picture and uploaded it, copied, and pasted it. Then I copied it 17x and did a layout on a dark gray background.
I decided on this layout. I addeded a 10" border to make it 62.5 inch square as a finished size.
I have one left over square and I took some of the many strips I had left that matched the 13 different ones I used in the blocks and whipped up a binding.
(I need some more of these old bobbins-they're great for storing binding!)
I'm trying to think of how to quilt this and what to do with the leftover block. Rainbowrobot suggested a matching pillow. Im thinking a travel pillow as this will be my vacation quilt. I plan on machine quilting it this weekend. I can finish the binding traveling in the car on vacation.
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I also continued to clean out drawers and shelves in my studio. Ive been really getting rid of things.
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Check out the FridayNight Sewin crowd and see what everyone else is sewing.
keep dreaming...Colleen
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| QuiltCon blocks made by the Triad MQG. I sent them today to Elizabeth Hartman! |
6 comments:
Love!! The fabrics work so well with Kona Coal - and I think the pillow would be a great idea! You could make a tote bag out of the block, too... and those QuiltCon blocks are beautiful!
That looks like a blast Colleen!! Quilting all night and then the morning and then afternoon--sweet bliss!! Cool binding gadget too.
Well, I guess you can blame me. lol You have been sewing up a storm. They look fabulous. I worked on a couple more today.
those quiltcon blocks look great on your design wall.
This is gorgeous Colleen! I am putting the Granny Square on my to do list!
You did all those blocks in one evening? That's amazing. Great FNSI result. :)
You sure jumped in with both feet...love them!
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