YOU HAVE ENOUGH QUILTS WHEN YOUR SOUL IS FILLED,
YOUR CREATIVITY SATISFIED
AND YOUR FINGERS JUST WON'T WORK ANYMORE



Sunday, December 29, 2019

As Time Goes By

WOW

I say this every time. Every Single Time.  I cannot believe how much time has gone by.  One post for 2019 and none for 2018.  Life has been pretty full the last couple years and unfortunately it didn't include patchwork or quilting. Nor did it include blogging or even reading blogs, which is a great shame.

But I did start a new quilt today.  Log Cabin is one of my all time favourite blocks and is the one block I can sew when I am totally un-motivated and it will get me back into sewing.  Did some strip cutting today and actually got six blocks done.

Sweet Escape is a gorgeous quilt in Grey's an Navy's by Camille Roskelley.  Simple but beautiful and sure to look lovely on our bed.  Have had to add to the layout so it will fit.  Not sure I can add a photo

For many years every Christmas and every Easter break I would spend several days holed up in my sewing room and sew and sew and sew.  Somehow that hasn't happened for a long time, but this year I have 4 days and am going to make the most of it.  I have a long list of "stuff" that needs doing but I have a feeling that it's all going to wait....well I did do one load of washing today.

So these are the fabrics I'm using Camille Roskelley B&C Wovens plus a Grey and a White background fabrics. 

 

One of my favourite tools for Log Cabins is the Short Cuts ruler.  Saves so much time and you have your strips cut in super fast time



You straighten the edge and cut your strips in super fast time.  I cut 6 strips from each FQ.  Sometimes I like to cut all my fabric at the beginning and then I can just sew.  But with this one I don't know how much fabric need and can't be bothered working it out, so will cut and sew, cut and sew as I go along.

And so it begins......
 I started about 24 blocks to begin.  I only sew a couple rounds on each and then just do six or eight at a time
 And my final six at the end of the day........only need a hundred