Ohio Stars Quilt

I finished the Ohio Stars quilt top (quite a while ago actually but I forgot to post about it). I sashed it with flying geese, as planned. I was nervous about lining the geese up with the stars but I got most of them matched up and didn't chop off too many points, just don't look too closely. 

I also grew my own quilt holders, it took a few years but they are paying off. Finally. 

This joins the rest of the finished quilt tops waiting to be quilted. I'm really bad at getting around to that bit, it makes me anxious. 

Checking In

It's been quiet on the blog lately, hasn't it? Sorry. I have been stitching up a storm. I've started lots of new projects, things catch my eye and I can't help it. I've been doing all of my sewing on my lovely Singer 306k, it's a perfect machine.

Over the Christmas holidays I started a string quilt project. I have quite a lot done but my design board is very small, so here is a small section. It's a Jacobs ladder with string triangles and 4 patches, all scrappy. Some of the squares came from the swap I organised on Ravely in December.

Close up 

I also made a toile for a dress in the holidays but never got around to making the dress.

Then I bought a 1/4" foot for my Singer 306k and started a Carolina Chain quilt. I have 96 x 6" blocks done so far and I need a total of 169. I have assembeled almost half of the top.

Then, "ooh look, squirrel". I started a Wild and Goosey quilt. I have no plan for how big I will make this, I am just using my tiny scraps for making and many as I fancy then I will decide. It's a traditional goose chase pattern with a foundation paper piecing template from Bonnie Hunter of Quiltville. The units measure 3 1/2" square and I need 1 1/2" strips and squares for sashing and corner stones. 

I have a lot to finish, lots of quilting to do once I have had some more practice but I have decided not to feel bad for having lots of projects on the go. Let's see how long that lasts.

 

Quick Scrappy Squares Quilting Update

My beautiful niece Naomi is getting married on Monday and I finished quilting her quilt a few weeks ago. Here are the promised pics; 

These pictures were taken after washing. The quilting is a bit rough and you can see that the "white" squares are also scrappy. 

The back is a vintage cotton sheet, which I also used for the binding. I changed my technique for binding after seeing Edyta Sitar talk about binding on YouTube, go and look it up, she uses narrower strips and it makes the binding less bulky.