I spent part of the morning yesterday trying to figure out what to do with the sashing on the UFO Dresden Plate quilt, with no success. I finally started thinking about other projects that I need to do shortly here, and reluctantly put the big quilt aside for a bit. This is why UFO’s are what they are, obviously. I don’t think the UFO will be finished in time for its 11th birthday. No guilt, though, that’s just the way it goes.

Convergence Quilts,
by Ricky Tims

I needed to pitch something together (or decide to finish some other UFO) for a demo that I’m supposed to give at the Black Forest Quilt Guild meeting in February. I’m supposed to show everyone how to embellish with the Swarovski crystals, but at the moment I don’t have anything around that needs crystalizing! I spent some time thinking and digging through other projects in progress, and didn’t really see any that I thought needed crystals in the end (or that I could finish quickly enough to matter), so I grabbed Convergence Quilts by Ricky Tims, and decided to see how quick and easy that process is. I’ve had the book for at least a year, and haven’t gotten around to doing anything with it. Read the rest of this entry »

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Here’s where I am with the quilting on the UFO Dresden Plate quilt (click for a bigger pic!):

I’m almost done with the feather quilting around the plates, and I’m ready to start on either the sashing or the stippling between the plates and the feathers. In the planning stages, I thought I’d quilt a small diagonal grid in the sashing, to echo the larger grid that’s in another part of the quilt, but now I’m not so sure I’m happy with the way it looks. Too much thread on the quilt, I think, and I can’t figure out what to do with the green cornerstones either, not to mention how long it’s going to take. I’ve only done the one piece of sashing this way, so I can still do the frog stitch and try something else, but the question is, what do I do?

Anybody have any ideas for a design for the sashing? It measures 2″ wide and the longest piece is 14″ (they vary since there are half blocks and those sashing pieces are 2″ x 7″). HELP!

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Here’s how Patches spent his morning:

in one of his favorite places sleeping off the late night last night. Their schedules are all out of whack because of our late nights over the past few days, so he’s catching up I think. Then there’s Shadow:

While I did my quilting (before I did anything “work-ish” today, just like I said I was going to) Shadow sat in the middle of it and tried to play with the end of my quilt marker while I was using it. When he finally got tired of me telling him “no,” he settled down to nap as well, and only woke up when I left the room to get my camera and then he gave me this annoyed look when I took a couple of pics.

I don’t know if I’ll actually get to really quilt today on the machine, but I did get some of the marking done anyway. Maybe later I can reward myself if I get all the other stuff done! I’m off to start Christmas cards and packages!

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