Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Citronickle Canyon
Monday, July 12, 2021
The Flying Geese Frenzy Quilt
Friday, July 2, 2021
June Unexpectations
I like for my posts to have a theme to tie in my activities and I came up with “unexpectations” since I had a total of 8 Finally Finishes for June which was quite unexpected plus there were other things which I’ll mention during this post. Since traveling back and forth to the Grandparent House and becoming disorientated as to which house I’m waking up to, I’ve now really don’t know what day/date it is. Since returning home this past Sunday, I was always thinking one day ahead. I planned to post on the last day of June which happened to be yesterday not today which was unexpected. The definition of “unexpectation” is the absence of expectation/want of foresight which I think I’m using the word in the sense of quilts/project not on my radar being unexpectedly finished. As for wanting foresight, I’m pretty good at knowing what I have to do and also good at avoiding or doing what I shouldn’t be doing.
Not all of my Finally Finishes were unexpected, two were expected which were my Follow Your Own Path Quilt and my Country Threads Dirty Dozen Challenge-June Quilt and posted about earlier this month. Two of the six other Finally Finishes, and unexpected, were already posted; Zingy Zinky and Road 15 which you can see in the Country Threads Dirty Dozen Challenge post. More Unexpectation followed just by merely coming upon these projects in the course of doing something else.
Thursday, June 24, 2021
Country Threads 2020/2021 Dirty Dozen Challenge-COMPLETED!
Since July of last year, I have been a participant of this Challenge and I am quite proud of myself for having completed my June UFO which is my Flights of Fancy Happy Lappy Quilt, another one of the tops finished in 2014.
The fabric used is a 2012 Michael Miller fabric line designed by Paula Prass and the pattern is what I call the Happy Lappy Quilt which is one of my favorite patterns for making a quilt with just six fat quarters.
I was planning on quilting my usual horizontal straight line quilting but at the last moment was inspired to do big wavey crosshatch instead which sort of mimics the pink/green tile print along with horizontal and vertical straight line quilting along each rectangle. I’m not sure if I liked how puffy it made the quilt look but it is cuddly. I would have expected to have looked this way had I used fleece for the batting but I used Warm and Bright.
I used a Baby Pink Essential threads for the quilting and the binding was the stripe print. I loved the fabric so much that I bought both colorways and yardage for backing which I don’t normally do unless it’s on sale. The quilt measures 40”x 54”, approximately.
It should be no surprise that this quilt was bequeathed to the darling Granddaughter who will be using this as her porch quilt at the Grandparents House. I am surprised though as to how much she likes this quilt and is very receptive when I cover her with it. I don’t mind her using it outside since I found a small tea-like stain on one of the prints, of course, it had to be on the light print and must have already been there when I purchased the fabric and didn’t notice it when I made the flimsie.
After the Flights of Fancy quilt was a Finally Finished and sort of unhappy then with the finish I thought I would end the Dirty Dozen Challenge by turning it into a Bakers Dozen Challenge by quilting my Road 15 flimsie which was made in 2017. I made this as an alternative to my Moda Chef Jelly Roll Charm Chase Quilt in case they turned down this pattern, but happily it wasn’t so the Road 15 never got quilted. I thought it would be apropos for it to be the final quilt for the Challenge since I purchased the fabric from Country Threads in 2013. It’s a good thing I waited to quilt it because I knew my quadrant quilting would be perfect using Smoke Grey Essential thread. The binding was the skinny burgundy red stripe which has been happily sitting in the binding drawer.
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Follow Your Own Path/Celebrating a Famous Canadian’s Birthday QAL
June is a busy birthday month in my house being that we celebrate birthdays for myself, my oldest son affectionately known as Demando in Blogland, Granddoggie Daisy and for the past five years a Famous Canadian also affectionately known as Sandra’s Father. While the birthdays celebrated for my family involves cake, I celebrate the Famous Canadian’s birthday by participating in the annual QAL hosted by Sandra, mmm quilts. Since this is a milestone anniversary of celebrating a Famous Canadian’s Birthday I thought I create a collage of the quilts I made in observance of this fun and important QAL. And talk about having ants in her pants waiting for June 15th, the first day of the Linky Party, so I can post about my Follow Your Own Path quilt which was a Finally Finished for more than a week.