Triple star is a top

I started the triple star project in February 2020, and how long ago it seems.

The pattern is by Kim Brackett in her book Scrap basket Beauties.  I last blogged about it in late February - I had a number of blocks laid out on the floor.

Then COVID-19 hit and I was working my (mostly) mindless piecing of Film at Five.  I needed my 'design floor' to be available.  So I cut sashing from my background fabric and started assembly.  And problems ensued.

16 blocks, sewn together in rows of 4, and then join the rows together - this should work right?  Two rows did but one row was too short by 3/8 inch, so I sewed on a coping strip.  The last row was too long by 3/8 of an inch and I didn't feel like ripping out the long seam and adjusting the sashing.  So I sewed the rows together, adding plain borders, and cut the points off:

Note the bottom 'points'.  Well it is relatively minor but I am still disappointed.  The whole top looks like this:

I had purchased special fabric for an outer border, and I was going to have a local long arm quilter quilt it for me.  Now I am disappointed in the outcome and have set it aside.  Maybe later I will quilt it on my own sewing machine, in straight lines.

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Film at Five continues

In this time of COVID-19 I am continuing my (nearly) mindless piecing of borders for my interpretation of Film at Five, a pattern by Wedding Dress Blue. Starting the project post is here.   I have the blocks of 25 pieces done, and I am piecing the borders.  The borders, which remind one of film sprocket holes, are part of the original pattern.

I did have a large piece of off-white fabric cut off from a backing, to use here.  Wow these borders take a lot of fabric!  I have used up the large piece and I have dug into my mound of cut off backing and batting to find another large-ish piece.  And I did find such a piece.  Good for me for saving wide backing, because all the quilt and fabric shops are closed.

This quilt will be 6 blocks by 6 blocks and turned out a bit bigger than I originally anticipated.  Here is a close up of a few blocks sewn together:

I can see some of my collection of feedsack fabrics and other vintage fabrics.

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A finish -- Weedwhacker

I have a finish!

A top I pieced in 2018, quilted by a local long arm quilter in big loops in 2019, and bound by me in this time of COVID-19.  And yes I labeled it with the date and with the COVID-19 information.

About 60 inches by 77 inches.  The pattern is Weedwhacker from Bonnie Hunter's Quiltville blog, one of her generous free patterns.  This is one of the quilts that came out of 2 shoeboxes full of 2 inch strips.  I cut them for a different project, then lost my inspiration.  4 throw or single bed quilts and a doll quilt later, the boxes are almost empty - scary.  The fabrics are all 30's reproduction prints.

My other COVID project, Film at Five, is paused, but I will get back to it soon!  Maybe even today.

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Film at Five - beginning

Catching time as I can this week between teaching on line and supervising children to do more sewing done on this project, the Film at Five pattern by Wedding Dress Blue.

I had finished 36 25 - patch blocks, when I stopped and counted.  A good place to stop, a fairly big quilt.  Yesterday and today I worked on the sashing and corner units.  I have more to go, but I laid out what I have to get an idea of what the final top will look like.

Just 6 blocks but it's a beginning.  More white fabric to cut!  I am using a big leftover piece from a wide backing fabric.

We are well here and lucky to be in a good place in this time of COVID-19.  We have food, a good home, and secure jobs.  I still worry about my kids and family, and about others affected by this virus.  Many many people sick and dying, their loved ones, and those who have lost jobs.  April 2020 is going to be a tough month.  I will definitely label this quilt as a COVID-19 quilt when I am done.

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Piecing in the time of corona virus

Well I am back to this blog after a month away.  I had been working on my previous project - triple stars by Kim Brackett.

Then March happened, specifically mid-March to now.  My University suspended in person classes, then the state went to stay at home orders.  You would think that meant more time for piecing and quilting, right?  No, three grown children to supervise, one special needs.  And I couldn't settle down to a project that needed thinking skills, with all the things on my mind, anxiety, etc.  So why not some mostly mindless sewing, say of simple  2 inch squares?

I am sewing these together into 25 patch units, for the pattern Film at Five by Wedding Dress Blues.  Her directions are for 2.5 inch squares. I am using 2 inch squares (the pattern is easy to modify) and real feedsack and vintage fabric obtained at flea markets, antique fairs, and ebay.  I am just sewing away and counting blocks as I finish them.  I have no idea how big this will be when I am done.

Finished blocks so far, in several piles:

I like the way this is turning out.  Not pictured here:  the sashing and corner units, which I am also piecing.  If this COVID-19 continues I may start another version of this, in 2.5 inch squares, using all my scraps.

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