Quilting at the Farm: April 2020

Sunday, April 19, 2020

Sunday Slow Stitching

Now that BTCT is a flimsy, I am starting to make 9 inch blocks for Ella.

This should keep me out of mischief for another 6 years.

Linking with Kathy at slow-sunday-stitching.

Blessings,

Chris

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Saturday, April 11, 2020

BTCT Flimsy

My April goal for Patty's one-monthly-goal was to complete the Beyond the Cherry Trees top and I did way ahead of schedule. I will not begin hand quilting it until later sometime.

Squaring corners

Marking rounded corner

Rounded Corner

Pinning Stems

Pinning More Stems

Stitching Last Stem

Stitching Last Cherry

Last Stitch

Beyond the Cherry Trees Flimsy 100 X 100

Whatever will I do for an encore?

Blessings,
Chris
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Saturday, April 4, 2020

We had our first Quilt-In @ Farm and it was a lot of fun. I think 5 of us, if I can remember, joined in on facebook and chatted and stitched. Two were not able to join in because they did not have camera options on their devices. Must get that sorted out for next week. Yes, we will do it again next week but just for the morning. And all of us with little children at home had them visit us throughout the day.

I did some hand stitching prep work for several blocks for the Ella Maria Deacon QAL.
I am calling it Ella for short.

This pattern is from Gay at sentimentalstitches.
Four block patterns are released every month on the 15th and they cost $2.50 US.

I also am hand piecing this block for the Hand Piecing QAL book-club.

This is as far as I got with Louisa today.
I have lots to keep my hands occupied for Kathy's slow-sunday-stitching. and Monday and Tues and Wed and probably even Friday.

Blessings,
Chris

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Thursday, April 2, 2020

Quilt-In @ Farm

This Sat April 4 I am hosting a Quilt-In here at the Farm. I have invited all the friends on my Quilting @ Farm facebook group to join me in staying at home and quilting. We will be connecting on facebook chat live and doing our own thing in our own quilt rooms.

Once I gave myself permission to start making blocks for the Ella Maria Deacon Quilt, I was hesitant to actually get started. Maybe it was the adrenaline rush of the anticipation of wanting to start it that kept me wanting to start it. Maybe it's the wanting to complete my doctorate that has slowed me down. I have submitted 2 courses so far this year and 3 others on the go.

I have foundation patterns printed off and background fabrics chosen. After looking long and hard at the wonderful tone on tone cream fabric I was considering for the background, I think I might now use a variety of creamy prints and solids. I had to reprint the foundation patterns because I had printed them off at fit instead of actual. It is the difference between making the block the right size and being too small

This week I pre-washed some fabrics. I just like how they feel for hand applique. I had not intended to use turkey red or poison green or chrome yellow. There are a lot of those colours in the original. Instead, I plan to use softer reproduction colours. That stripe on top is for the sashing strips. I will use the lighter stripe and not the darker brown. I might add cornerstones.

Then I prepped several blocks so I could back baste the fabrics on ready to hand applique later.
This will be my project for Sat so I can sit at the computer desk all day and still be productive.

I told my friends to remember to comb their hair and that we can see everything behind them when on camera. PJs are totally appropriate. Well, appropriate ones are. We begin promptly at 9 am, assuming I get out of bed by then and comb my hair.

Blessings,
Chris

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