{Post #794} Red Broken Dishes Quilt Finished

My red candle mat is finished.  The friend I am giving it to will be here tomorrow night.  Hope she likes it.

~Joan

{Post #793} Center of Past and Present Finished

Here is the center of my Past and Present quilt.  I am going to clean up my room today, and that could take quite a while, so no more sewing for me today until that is finished...or at least mostly finished.

I plan to add two borders to this.

~Joan

{Post #792} Back of Red Broken Dishes Quilt

Kudos to the very observant reader who wondered what happened to the "other" left over broken dishes block?  Well, it went on the back of this quilt, of course.  Guess where the lone green one is going?

I wanted to write directly on the block, but the spaces were so tiny!!

~Joan

{Post #791} Monday Design Wall

Just a quick post before I get started on my chores for today.  This is my design wall from last night.  You can see all 4 of my projects made from the left over Past and Present blocks. 

On the top left is my little log cabin blocks set with some scrappy stars.  I saw this picture and thought it would make a great living room wall quilt instead of all LC blocks.  The star blocks are not identical, but it's the same idea with the layout.  Do you like it?

~Joan

{Post #789} Green Candle Mat Piecing Finished

Duh!  After going through great lengths, I realized the corners I had to add to the cream squares in the center were the same size as half of one of the squares plus a 1/4".  At least I figured that out before I sew the red one.  This is 17-3/4" square as is.  I might hand quilt it with green thread.  Time will tell.

I am all sewn out tonight.  Spent some time with son #3, painted my new porch decorations, and solved an interpersonal relationship problem, so it's been a full day.

Just talked to my newly-married daughter and her deliriously happy husband.  His only problem apparently is his face hurts from smiling so much!  :)  Hee hee!!

~Joan

{Post #788} Two Candle Mats

So, I was playing with my 26 extra blocks.  I came up with this layout for a candle mat.  I was thinking of trying to put a cream block in the center to finish out the red triangles to make is a square on point.  Don't know if I'm up to doing the math, but I'm going to give it a try.  Why do I want to keep everything I make??

~Joan

{Post #787} Christmas Runner (top) Finished!

Considering that I've started with pieced BLOCKS, these projects have taken a really long time!  I pieced a table runner for myself.  I hear all the time how DARK my quilts are, and it is true.  It's because I sew with Thimbleberries nearly 100% of the time.  The border on my runner is old, Old, OLD.  From Mistletoe Mountain.

Here is a chronological sequence of pics from the process.  Don't need many words.  The runner finished at about 16" x 47".  Our kitchen table seats 12, so I can use a long runner.

As I finished piecing the runner, I used every last 1-7/8" HST from my Past and Present quilt.  There are still 26 broken dishes blocks for me to use up somehow.  Kind of burned out on sewing right now, so I'll post this and then go stretch my legs.

My broken dishes blocks accumulating on my cutting table:

Rows ready to sew to each other:

Close-up of border fabric:

Piecing finished!