Sailing to a finish!

The sailboats have crossed the finish line!  This block is so easy to do using the 12" Accuquilt cube. Using the #5 and #8 dies made it so quick to cut and piece.  And it finally made it to the quilting machine this week.  

This will be a donation quilt I will send home with my DIL next month for her group to give the quilt to someone in need. 

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Sailing away

You might remember I mentioned when I was at retreat I couldn't go any further with my sailboat quilt because I had not cut the correct number of pieces. This is where I left off. I have a wayward sailboat, do you spot it! I am leaving it, not having a date with Jack. 

I quickly finished the last sailboat and got started on the sashings Thursday. 

Friday I finished up the sashings and am ready for the border and quilting this week.

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The sailboats are made using the 12" cube from AccuQuilt and the blocks finish at 12".  Dies #5 and #8 were used. This makes for a quick block. The sashings were all cut with the 1.5" strip die, I even cut the navy 1.5" squares with the strip die by laying the strips across the die.  Love the strip dies. 

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Retreat Day 4

Day four of retreat was Thursday and the last day of pedal to the metal sewing day. I started out the day with these cute sailboat blocks. The 12" cube from Accuquilt really helped speed up the cutting process. Using the 3" finished HST's, squares and the 3"x6" brick to make these colorful boats was so fun and fast. Piecing sailed right along also, well until I discovered I had forgotten to cut four of the squares and couldn't finish the ninth block :(  

Good thing I brought along the blue bricks and neutral squares to fill the last half of the day. These were all precut at home using the 3"x6" brick and the 3" finished square from the 12" cube.

Step one was to sew these into pairs.  

And before long I had this much sewn together! Yes it is in desperate need of a good pressing. If you would like to bust through your scraps fast I recommend the 12" cube. There are so many quilt blocks you can make fast with the large pieces. This will be a donation quilt once I add more rows and quilt it up. 

Friday was the day to clean up, pack up and depart for home. The week just went by way to fast! Do you go on retreats, if you do for how long?  I limit myself to this one retreat for the year, if gives me something to really look forward to in the fall. 

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