Another One Struck from the List!

Got it done, ready to go up north! I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out. I would have like to done a bit more quilting in the triangles, but I put a rib out this week and my back isn't up to it. Not that there isn't plenty of squiggling already! This quilt won't be coming apart, no ma'am!

Update: Naturally, I remember after it's gone, that I've forgotten to take the final measurements. Fiddle. Oh well.

The triangles were cut on the diagonal from 5.5 inch squares. The centre orange square was appliqued. I think the orange borders were cut 5.5 inches wide, too. It seems to me that the finished pieced width was about 37", and with the borders the length would have been 47". Benartex flannel backing, tone on tone beige print with little chickens.

Stipplification

I've put the top together, decided on the pinwheel arrangement for the centres of the stars, and have put a serious dent in the quilting. I need to have this quilt done by Saturday night! It's going up north with my friend who'll be visiting on the weekend.

This post is mostly to register my astonishment at my stipple-quilting. !!!!! It's so much easier than it was even on the last project! Now I've got to decide whether or not I really like it. Wherever you use stippling, the quilt becomes a fair amount stiffer, but maybe that would ease off after it's been through the final wash. I'm mixing it up a bit; stipple quilting in the navy blue pieces and stitch-in-the-ditch and outline quilting on the triangles. Since there's quite a lot of the blue, it's all rather labour-intensive, but I'm chalking it up to practice.

Thread intensive, too. Wowzers. I'm finding the navy thread on the navy fabric is almost invisible, which is fine in the end, but bloody difficult while I'm doing the actual work. Where have I been? Where should I be going? Now that I'm more confident with this particular skill, I'm going to start using threads that are slightly different than the fabric I'm working on, for my eyes' sake.

Triangulations

Clink, clink, I hear a link!

Good gracious! It's been almost a month since I've posted here!

I found this link while browsing through WhipUp, and I love it. It's a frabjabulous idea for using your fabric stash as wall art. Love it, love it, love it! I'm definitely going to do this to a wall in the new house. How come I never thought of foam core?

What am I working on currently? Well, I've come to a standstill, to tell the truth. I need to make a baby quilt, and it needs to be done in three weeks, but I just can't get into it. This Amish-y one was supposed to be it, but it whispered to me that actually, its True Home was on the gold wall behind my couch, and sure enough! That's where it belongs. But now I need to make another baby-size quilt and I'm dillying and dallying. Maybe it's just hormonal. Ask again next week.

And I did make a couple of purses last week, so I guess I haven't been completely outside of the sewing realm. Funny how it feels that way after a couple non-sewing days!