Rosi Quilts Hopefully - For A Week
Would you like to see what I got up to over the course of a week in my sewing room?
My quilt group have started a new challenge – a shoebox challenge for 2019.
Everyone puts fabrics and instructions into a box. The boxes get passed around the group over the course of a year, so that everyone gets a chance to make one or two blocks for everyone else’s boxes. At the end of a year, we each get our boxes back, filled with blocks made by everyone else.
Here is the block I made for one of the boxes. This friend wanted a sewing themed block for a quilt that will hang in their sewing room in the house they are just about to move into.
I am trying to broaden my sewing horizons with a little machine embroidery, and I downloaded these sweet wild flower designs from Etsy:
I have a lot to learn about stabilizer, but I think these blocks look OK. I made 2 of these wall hangings as gifts for friends.
Over in Brünhilda’s room I was desperately trying to finish a quilt for a client. Isn’t it nice? The kit for the quilt top had nativity themed fabric for the block centers, and the E2E quilting design chosen by the client was perfect – it’s called “Sea of Stars.”
The problem was spring thunderstorms. I cannot leave my machine plugged in to an outlet during a thunderstorm and risk loosing it altogether to weather. So every time I hear thunder I have to stop the machine in its tracks, shut it down and unplug it. Spring in North Carolina involves a lot of thunderstorms. It took a loooong time to finish this quilt!
Next project – some homework blocks for “Kaleidoscope Twist” a mystery quilt program I am running at the quilt shop where I work. If you have never signed up for a mystery quilt, maybe think about it. You are bound to have fun and learn some new techniques along the way. Participants in this program have already learnt to paper piece and make wonky stars.
Here are all the blocks they will have made by the end of April. My fabrics are pictured, but everyone who signs up chooses their own fabrics. They will not know until November what the quilt layout will be.
On to another project – another mystery program. This one is call “Into The Woods,” and all of the blocks in this quilt will be paper pieced. This is what participants have had to make so far.
Again, they won’t find out until the end of the year, what the final quilt layout is.
And the final project I worked on this week – “I’m Seeing Stars” – my own quilt design. This time I made the lap quilt size for a customer requested Quilt-Along at the shop.
And there you have it – quite a busy sewing week for me!