Puzzle Day
Today was a day for puzzles in my sewing studio. As I had mentioned in prior blogs: Dennis’ granddaughter from Silver Bay has asked me to make individual pieced quilt tops for each of her three girls using their baby to toddler clothing within the project. The catch is, doing a 1/3 of the top of what will be a full sized quilt. Myself and two other grandmothers will be adding to it by each doing a third of the top, thus making a full sized quilt top in total.
Dennis has ask me, “What are the other grandmas doing for their one third?” I have no idea. I was given a bag of clothing from each of the girls’ and that is what I have to work with.
Sample of the blocks for Ava’s quilt top. They have all since been put together, and now I am on to Bella’s.
Most of the clothing is knit and I have been going through stabilizer like crazy for it to conform to straight stitching right along with the cotton fabric that is also being used to put it all together. Ava’s third is complete. Her favorite color was given to me as blue and that is what I found for a blue print background color. I had pulled out yellow print for Bella until a late Tex was received that her favorite color is purple. Scratch the yellow. I began pulling out scraps, but nothing of any great amount in yardage. The blocks placed on purple will be pieced together with a beige printed fabric. Right on the spot I did ask about Josie’s quilt top. Lordy, Lordy, I won out big on that one as it will be yellow. I will add that I am not purchasing any new fabric. It all has to come out of my stashes.
I will say the new sewing machine has been a wonder. It travels over the knit onto the cotton without a hic-up. Some of the options have limits and adding a bit of sewn patches using my embroidery options has added a bit of whimsical additions.
I just turned the lights off in the sewing studio and I am on to making Dennis’s favorite supper: chicken titties. aka: chicken breasts with a tossed salad to go with it. I have had a great day. Tomorrow we will be traveling to Mankato for Dennis to attend the Korean Veterans meeting and I will be hitting JoAnn Fabric for stabilizer as well as visiting Best Buy with my new computer to check on some anti-virus for it. Big day in the big town.