Quilt News! 'Log Cabins in a Field' Quilt Top Finish! Hand Quilting Progress and Where I Sew....

Orange X Square Medallion Quilt almost finished with hand quilting!

 

Log Cabin Blocks arranging and repiecing process, pieces of tape mark positions.

 

 My sewing station for the time being...

 

 'Log Cabins in a Field', in furrough formation, my quilt top final piecing.

 

 

Hello from the valley! It's fall and we have sunny skies and cooler temperatures. Pumpkins are making their appearance at local markets and neighborhood squirrels are hiding nuts away.

 This week I finished the arranging and piecing process on my new quilt top, 'Log Cabins in a Field',  approx. 40" x 40". I came up with that name thinking of furroughs in a field and log cabin blocks, of course! 

I had the rows sewn together and then realized the value was not working out right, here and there. So I unpicked some blocks and 'logs' and found 'acceptable' value combinations and pieced it all back together.

It was tedious but now it looks like I wanted it to look.

I was encouraged thinking of Kaja @sewslowly, and her piecing process. She is very careful to get her piecing just right and her quilts are works of art!

And I thought I'd put in a photo of my sewing station. I have to set up and tear down every time I sew as this is the family table where everyone eats. So for a time this is where I sew.

That Quilt Friends is the quilt news where progress is being made, fall walks are great and I'm remembering to be thankful.

How are your quilt projects coming along?

I'll be by to visit!

 

 

 

Quilt News, Log Cabin Blocks Inspired by Temecula Quilt Co Challenge, Summer Plaids Quilt Top Progress, New Hand Pieced Scrap Blocks..

 Log Cabin blocks close up.

 

Log Cabin blocks in b/w to help interview/arranging process.

 Lob Cabin blocks and Summer Plaids quilt tops.

 

 Orphan blocks and new hand pieced scrappy blocks.

 

 Summer Plaids in piecing process.

 

 Summer Plaids quilt top 28" X 29" as it now stands.

 

 

 

Log Cabin Improv blocks in final arrangement.
 

 

Hello Quilt Friends from the Valley!

Where it's been sunny but cooler, nice change. 

This last week a new grand daughter has been added to our family, very precious.

And I've had time to get some hand quilting and piecing done and thinking about how to finish a couple of quilt tops.

My Summer Plaids quilt top, started about 2 yr.s ago, is scrappy made of plaid shirtings, prints and solids. I want to make it at least 36" X 36" so more scrappiness will be added. I had it folded and stored away and then when getting something I needed for another project, I saw its summer colors and had to get it out to celebrate the end of summer.

Then I decided on the final arrangement of my newer Liberated Log Cabin block quilt top inspired by a Temecula Quilt Co 'Down Home Darling' challenge. The challenge called for traditional piecing but I had to throw in some improv design to make it more interesting for me. I made the center of the blocks all in red prints but in different sizes and so the logs (strips) are in different widths. The blocks are set in 'furrough' formation. And the next step will be to get all the blocks pieced together.

I've also been adding to my 'parts department' by hand piecing blocks from scraps.

And that, Quilt Friends, is the quilt news from the valley, where I'm remembering to be thankful.

'Count your blessings, name them one by one!' Do you remember that song?

I'll be by to visit!