Back with a finish: Feedsack trees

 Good Day and welcome to my blog!

I have been working flat out at my day job, no real time to sew until recently.  Oh, I sewed a few cut pieces together as stress relief, but no time to finish anything major.  And there wasn't much to do, so no excuses!

I had a quilt back from the local long-armer who did a lovely pattern of hearts and leaves, using thin cotton batting.  All I had to do was trim it square, prepare binding, and attach said binding.  This I did last weekend.

It is a pattern adapted from Winter Solstice - the tree part of that pattern.  I did the trees in various real feedsack fabrics, acquired from ebay or antique fairs.  It ended up an odd size, about 61 ? (I think) by 75 inches or so.

Laid out on the brown carpeted floor - sorry about the keystoning.  And a closer look:

I attached the binding to the back by machine, folded it over to the front, and top stitched it down.  It's faster this way.

I am happy with how this turned out, and how the feedsack fabrics are featured.

Other sewing?  Some flying geese blocks, assembled into Dutchman's Puzzle blocks:

These are done in reproduction 1930's and 1940's fabrics.

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A Number of Updates

 Good day and welcome to my blog.  I am back after a bit.  I've been busy at the day job but I have made some progress on some projects.  Sadly no finish to report.

First of all:  I have bought some fabric and cut more pieces for several projects in the works.   Start of projects in this quilt post.

Here are my piles of cut fabrics, holding down the end of my working surface:

Some finished flying geese units on the right.

In addition I have some finished block units.  I am working with late 1800's reproduction fabrics, and have two projects in progress.  Finished blocks are living in this cookie tin:

The flying geese units in 1930's pastels are going to form Dutchman's puzzle blocks, like this:

That green unit doesn't have as much contrast between "goose" and "sky" - a challenge when working with these kinds of pastel fabrics.  We'll see how all the units looks like in the end, and I may border the blocks with sage green sashing - you know, the kind of green associated with this time period.  It will, I hope, make the background or 'sky' pop a bit.

My inspiration for this project is a quilt I finished recently - in different fabrics.  My son is now using this quilt.

Finally, more progress on a columns-style quilt.  The beginning of the project shown in this post.

Here is my current situation, laid out on the floor, not all sewn together yet:

You get the idea.  The fabric in the blue setting triangles will be used in the border, maybe 2-3 inches wide, and the binding will be the same blue.  I like the way this is turning out.

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Two new starts

 Good Day, and happy holidays!  I am back to my blog after a busy time at my day job.  I want to record 2 new starts, that will become 'official' UFO's after the first of the year.

These patterns are from the book Preserving History: Patchwork Patterns Inspired by Antique Quilts by Julie Hendricksen.  First, a snow ball type block, in fabric from around 1890 - 1900:

Blues, reds, wine fabrics, and shirtings.  Blocks finish at 4 inches so a bit of work is ahead of me.

Then, another pattern from the same book:

Same fabrics, with some earlier reds, and browns, and double pinks.  Each white square of shirting fabric is cut at 3 inches to finish at 2.5 inches.  Lots more cutting and sewing here too!  I'll need quite a bit of cutting to get to a reasonably sized quilt top.

Is anyone having a linky party this week?  I'll find out.

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Simple block makes interesting quilt pattern

 Good Day, and welcome to my blog.

Stolen hours in my sewing room has led to some block making of a new columns-type quilt.  I saw this pattern on a quilt list I am a member of - Stashbusters on Groups.io.  Its ultimate origin may be on Pinterest. 

In any case I gathered my array of 1930's reproduction fabric scraps, and cut them into 2 inch squares.  I also cut squares of Kona Snow and Kona Charcoal solids.  It starts with a simple block:

With a nice diagonal movement.  The solids are not quite stark white and black but they have a high contrast.  Now, set some blocks together, rotating some blocks:

More nice diagonal movement.  Even better:  Set the blocks on point:

This is the pattern and look that set our internet group talking.  This is working up slowly because with a finished square size of 1.5 inches the blocks are only 6 inches across, finished.  If I do this again I would pick a bigger starting square size, say 3 inches.  I don't know yet how big this will be, but not large as I am using up my precut squares at a fast speed.  I also don't know how I'll finish the edges, but I'll think on that later.

I am using many different fabrics that play well together, and I would recommend that if you want this kind of look.  It doesn't have to be reproduction fabrics - I think modern Tula Pink type fabrics would work well too.

Linking up with Midweek Makers, Wednesday Wait Loss, Needle and Thread Thursday, Can I get a Whoop Whoop, Nina-Marie,  Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

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Viridian