Sept 2019 OMG Goal

The RSC colour for September is purple!!

This is what I have found already cut and sewn together of the 8 purple fabrics so this should be an easy goal for OMG this month.

And this is how 2 of the blocks will go together. I like that most of the prep work is already done. I can just enjoy sewing them all together. After this, I will have to cut squares and sew half-square triangles together but that is not too difficult.



Blessings,
Chris

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To-Do Tuesday

I write to-do lists all the time. I don't always do everything on the list. This past week I was taking part in a Writing Week Challenge with christianbookacademy.com.  I managed to move forward in my writing enough that I plan to keep the momentum going. My list for this week includes:

1. Plan-It Day to organize my week
2. Complete ESTC lecture outlines
3. Write for 3 hours three times
4. Complete stitching leaves onto fourth BTCT border.
5. Fill 4 donate boxes and donate them. 

That should keep me busy. 

Blessings,

Chris

BTCT Borders

I kept my hands busy this summer stitching on the 4 borders for Beyond the Cherry Trees. 

With no quilting deadlines looming, I just stitched away enjoying every moment.

First thing was to tape all the pattern pieces together. 

There are 9 pages for each of the 4 borders. 

I had cut the border strips way back at the beginning to

make sure I had enough fabric for all 4 of them. 

Next was to cut enough bias strips for the wavy vines. 

Then run them all through the bias maker. 

I had decided to make them 1/2 inch wide. 

I sort of over estimated how much I would need and made almost double. 

I could use the leftovers to do a single bias binding. 

While all the pattern pieces were on the 8 foot table,

I positioned then glue basted the stems. 

Good thing that each of the borders has a different curve. 

I used Roxanne's basting glue. 

Then Devan helped lay out the "pepperonis" to see how they would look.

I left extra fabric and the selvage on this bottom border 

so I would have something to pin to the quilting boards. 

The cherries are several sizes.

I am still not decided if I will just freehand them or use the Perfect Circles. 

It was so fun to stitch up the vines. No turning under the edges or removing pins. 

Just stitch until I needed to re-thread the needle. 

Next was to pin the leaves in position. 

I did this for all 4 borders.

I had cut out 2 sizes of leaves with the GO Baby

and the custom leaf dies I had made up just for such a project. 

I set a pace of 4 leaves per day to get them all done by the end of Aug. 

I left some extra bias vine at each of the ends 

so I will have something to join onto the other borders at the corners.   

I wanted to see how many more circles I still needed to cut out

so I put the borders up on the big design wall.

 First one

Then two.

 Then three. 

That is when I realized that I had put the bottom row on backwards. 

I will see how it all looks when they are all complete. 

It's a case of connecting the corners to eachother.

Devan put all the pepperonis on the borders on the wall. 

The boys had way too much fun taking the cherries off the wall 

then putting them back up again. 

It was fun hearing their conversation. 

I commented to 5 year old Jonathan that he was tall enough to reach

higher than his 6 year old cousin did when she put them up. 

So, little 3 year old David smiles and says, "I'm short enough to reach the floor."

I cut 70 more circles using the GO Baby of a lighter French General red. Then I took everything off the wall. It was time for the little girls to work on their I-Spy quilts.

Blessings, 

Chris

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New Project for RSC

I am back from my blogging break over the summer.

I was racking my brain trying to figure out if I had a ufo that would lend itself to the Rainbow Scrap Challenge and I came up with this one. I wrote about it last year. You can read that here.

I started with the yellow because most of these blocks were already partly sewn together. It is a good thing because I would have had much difficulty trying to figure out how the pieces went together.
And, since pink was July's colour, I sewed these up next. They were also partly sewn together.
I am making 2 squares of each colour. The colours really are much brighter than they look in the pictures here.

The August colour was light blue. I just sewed together all the blue shades except midnight blue and black. They were way too dark to show up against that black theme fabric.

So far, I am happy with all these. I certainly hope September's colour will be purple because I have all the purple half square triangles already sewn together. This will be a busy month for us here at the Farm and we will be making a trip to the Big E in Springfield Massachusetts at the end of the month.

Twenty-eight down and only 72 more to go.

Blessings,
Chris
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