Officially this is my fourth day in the house and Cecil and I are fine. Plenty of food, electricity (thank you Lord) and plenty of fabric and thread. I might even clean out a drawer or two. Maybe.
This is a quilt inspired by my two friends C and P because I started making the wonky stars that I saw C making and then P reversed the white with the backgrounds and I liked that also. I wanted to make it longer so added a header and footer! I am trying to use my many civil war fabrics! Now if it will get warm enough to go out on the screened porch and put the sandwiches together for 3 quilt tops hanging on my finished rack.
I have finished the binding on the Harriet's Sampler quilt and it is hanging on the wall in my "lividen" which is my name for my living room-den.
Now I have to tackle the binding on the Bonnie Hunter "Grand Illusion Mystery Quilt." I did decide to make pillow cases to go with it because it is 100x100 which is not long enough to pull over the pillows. One of the UC bee members emailed the link to someone demonstrating how to make the pillow case without any raw seams. It is the "sausage method" and I love it. It only takes about 15 minutes to make a pillow case. The link is https://www.govf.org/content/presentation-case.html.
Check the size because I think the demo lady makes these for QOV quilts but they fit queen size pillows.
I do love the Kaffe fabrics and they show up so well in big chunks. I am cutting up fabric for one of the next quilts i want to make. It is called Zuckerwatte (Cotton Candy) from Bonnie Hunter's String Fling book. It is pinks and creams and a little purple. I have to have something to do on retreat. In addition to the four projects I still have on my ufo list.
Time to start cutting.
Warm quilting.
Sally
