My design walls currently display a wild variety of projects, ranging from very small, intricate blocks to much larger and simpler blocks. It's that kind of variety that keeps quilting interesting for me.
top: Temperature Quilt
bottom: Quarter Log Cabin
I've posted about the Temperature Quilt project before; you can see a couple of earlier posts HERE and HERE. I've been doing well at keeping up with making the blocks, never getting more than a few days behind. The photo above shows all of the blocks through April 2nd.
Just last week, I figured out the layout for my temperature blocks, and I started joining the blocks together into groups. It's tricky to keep them in the right order and pointing in the right direction, so I have to be very careful during this part of the process.
The lower half of that design wall contains my newest project, Quarter Log Cabin blocks. Our guild is having a community service sewing day in late May, and we will be working on throw quilts to be donated to Meals on Wheels, along with the placemats that we give them. The guild's community service chairperson had put together bundles of fabrics that could be used for 3-yard quilt patterns, and I offered to make a sample to show at the next meeting.
Quarter Log Cabin blocks
The design I chose is the Quarter Log Cabin pattern from the Sew Can She website. Caroline at Sew Can She offers a huge selection of free patterns on her site, including several of the popular 3-yard patterns. If you sign up to receive her daily emails, you can get that day's featured pattern as a free pdf download.
I've been enjoying making this quilt because it is coming together so quickly. Using only three fabrics made the cutting much faster than my usual scrap quilts, and the blocks are very easy to put together. They will finish at 10" each, and I need only 20 blocks for the entire quilt. I especially love the red paisley/floral print that was included in the fabric bundle. One selvage was gone, so there was no maker information on it, but it has a wonderfully smooth feel to it.
Finishing this quilt top will be my One Monthly Goal for April. I will need to make 14 more blocks, join them together, then add three borders. The guild meeting is next week Thursday, which gives me only 10 days to get it done.
Completely on the other side of the spectrum as far as block size and complexity are the latest blocks to be finished for my version of the Jane Stickle sampler quilt. I finished four blocks last week, bringing my total number of finished blocks up to 14 (out of a total of 169.) My current goal is to make at least two blocks each week. These blocks will finish at 4.5".
Top row: Blocks C9, D10
2nd row: Blocks E3, I3
Now you can see what I meant at the beginning of this post about the variety of projects I've been working on. When I'm in the mood for something easy, I can make temperature blocks or the log cabins. If I'm ready to be challenged, I can make some of the Jane Stickle blocks or join more of the temperature blocks together. That's all a big part of the reason why I tend to have multiple projects in the works at the same time.
I'm linking up with:
One Monthly Goal at Stories from the Sewing Room
Design Wall Monday at Small Quilts and Doll Quilts
Monday Musings at Songbird Designs
Wednesday Wait Loss at Inquiring Quilter
Happy quilting everyone!
Julie in GA
Yea for a variety of projects -- that is what keeps me interested in my quilting projects. I love how you are doing the temperature quilt. It is going to be a beautiful quilt when done. I like the idea of your half log cabins using the three yard quilt concept. I never think to do log cabins in anything but scraps. Must look at my fabrics to see what I could use to make the half log cabin block.
ReplyDeleteYour temperature quilt is going to be so pretty. It is nice to have a variety of projects on the WIP list, if one gives you issues, it's easy to put it into time out till you are ready to deal with it again.
ReplyDeleteI love the variety of projects. I usually work like that too. Good luck with your goal this month.
ReplyDeleteI love your take on a temperature quilt! And I'm impressed that you are keeping up with it. And thanks for the reference to the website with three yard quilts. I have a five yard bundle that's still in need of the right pattern. Maybe I'll find inspiration there.
ReplyDeleteWhat a unique layout for your temperature quilt. This is going to be lovely. And really, if you mixed up a block, who would even know? I've got too many sample blocks started. I need to make some decisions and concentrate on 2 or 3.
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Your temperature quilt is very striking!!! You sound driven to get your quarter log cabin finished for guild--looks great! Have you read Rebecca Grace's recent blog post on the Jane Stickle quilt?
ReplyDeleteI love your variety of projects. I really like the blue grundge fabric in your Jane Stickle blocks. In case you are wondering, I found your blog at the Wednesday Wait Loss linky.
ReplyDeleteVariety is the spice of life! Your projects are beautiful and interesting, which should help keep those juices flowing. Thanks for sharing on my weekly show and tell, Wednesday Wait Loss.
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Yes!! Variety of projects is truly what keeps quilting interesting!
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