I spent more time sewing this month and more time planning. Both positives!
Thursday, March 31, 2022
March Round Up
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Corgi News
We have a new resident!
Monday, March 28, 2022
Yellow! Wrapping up the month
I got a late start on the Penguin Parade Quilt Along hosted by designer Annette Ornelas of Southwind Quilts. As I'm going a bit off book and doing rainbow penguins on a midnight blue background, instead of traditionally colored penguins, I decided to spread these out to coincide with the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. Also, as I was so laser focused on the Starbright quilts in February, I didn't do much other piecing. I spent a delightful evening prepping the quilt (cutting endlessly) and piecing the Yellow and Red Penguins.
Once I have more done, I'll go in and stitch the curves down on the folded pieces. This will be a fun lap quilt. I've decided to add a piano key border using the rainbow fabrics to enlarge the quilt a bit from the published size.
As I created Yellow blocks last year for my 100 Modern Blocks quilt, I used this month to catch up on the aqua/teal blocks.
As I was doing last year, I used a random number generator to come up with 6 blocks (one for each chapter/style) rather than get stuck trying to pick the perfect six blocks.
So instead of getting stuck choosing blocks, I get stuck choosing fabrics. We've been alerted that April is Pink, which I did last year, so I'll focus on Penguins and other pink projects next month.
Monday, March 7, 2022
March Goals
One Monthly Goal & PhD in Quilting 2022
My One Monthly Goal for March is to finish the Sunflower Table Runner which I started back in the fall of 2011.
I finally put mitered borders on this in January!
Sunday, when I went to work on it, I couldn't find the fabric I set aside for the backing, so I started auditioning other fabrics. Then I pulled my bag of scraps from the quilt and found a two yard strip of the border print. Not quite wide enough, but slap on some strips of fabric left over from the front on either side and we are well on our way to a reversible runner.
I then created Frankenbatting from the offcuts from my nephews' quilts and am ready to roll. Just need to finalize a quilting plan, this one is basted and ready to go under the needle. Also need to decide on fabric for the binding.
I'm also planning to work on Coastal Pearls as that one has been basted and ready to go for several years. This was started in Summer 2013 when I participated in the String of Pearls Quilt-along. My sister's birthday is in April - would be nice to get this done and on the way to her before the end of next month.
Rainbow Scrap Challenge and Table Scraps
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
February Rally Report!
Wow - This girl is on Fire! Serendipity that is, her handler could use a bit of work.
Strategy paid off! We qualified for our third Rally Intermediate (RI) leg in spite of me. Rookie mistake, we started off strong and made a 270 left instead of a 270 right. A more experienced handler would have figured out why they couldn't find the second sign and redone the turn. This girl wove around a cone and got a 10 point deduction for incorrectly performed instead of a 3 point for redoing the sign. Lesson learned. Looks like both of us were a bit brain fried. Fortunately there was only one pivot sign on the course, which we also blew - but again that was a handler issue more than a Sera issue. We learned a lot.