Quilt Fun

There's a group of quilt bloggers that are doing a block a day from the Civil War Diaries and Civil War Love Letters books. I have the Love Letters book and really considered joining in, but then decided that I didn't need another commitment at this time. I thought if I did join in, I would like to hand piece the blocks -- yes, I am crazy! While I was thinking about doing that, I happened to look at one basket on my sewing table that holds a few blocks or projects I have going. And there was a block that I had prepped but never stitched. So, yesterday I spent a few enjoyable hours hand piecing this block. This block is 5" unfinished, 4-1/2" finished. It is block #A-5 of the Dear Jane quilt! I started it a couple of years ago -- I'm just piecing them in order of the rows -- so I have A-1 through A-5 finished! But, there's no pressure and maybe in 15 or 20 years I'll have a hand pieced Dear Jane quilt finished, who knows? I'm working from the EQ cd, so I printed off the next 4 or 5 and will get them prepped so whenever the urge strikes to do some hand piecing, it'll be ready to go.




















I also pinned the basketweave quilt to the longarm yesterday and today spent the entire day quilting it. I have just removed it a few minutes ago and trimmed it ready for the binding (which I already have finished). I made the label when I sat down at the computer, so it'll be ready to go when I get the binding on. It's called progress!

Next up for the longarm will be my Twinklers quilt. I ordered some backing fabric from Connecting Threads (on sale and I wanted to try their fabric) and expect that to arrive next week. I'm going to use a pantograph I just received called Poinsettia by Danetta Burnette that I ordered from Kingsmen Quilting Supply.

Tomorrow we're all heading up to WI for AJ's birthday celebration (a week late because of the weather). Looking forward to seeing the grandkids -- it's been awhile.

Gratitudes:
I managed to finish the quilting today in spite of a few thread breaks because there were so many intersections (the backing was pieced along with the top!).
Good weather for our short trip tomorrow.
Steve has finished 4 weeks of radiation -- only two more to go.