Vicki's Crafts and Quilting: strings

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

To-Do Tuesday #13

Ok good I was productive this week! For To-Do Tuesday's goals I wanted to accomplish these things this week.

1. Sew the blue/yellow columns into rows for a completely pieced top. DONE!

This top will be for H2H this year.

2. Make a sunflower table runner, I had the petals made so it needed appliquing, piecing, quilting, and binding. DONE!

3. Sew some more red/gray string blocks. Five more DONE! As you can see I am playing around with a possible layout with red and/or black sashings.

Goals for this week April 14-20 are going to be:

1. Piece and quilt another patriotic table runner

2. Quilt two tops for H2H

3. Piece and quilt a pineapple table runner

4. Finish piecing a UFO

Linking with Roseanne for To-Do Tuesday

Sunday, January 14, 2018

Strings, Valentine, and Northern Woods

You are probably thinking that is a mighty strange title for a post-am I right? Well it encompasses three projects.

First project- is the string quilt my grandson has been helping me with on snow days off school. A year ago we started it and he really loved it so I don't work on it except when he hangs out with me on those snow days. Last Thursday was one of those days. I taught him how to carefully tear off the phone book paper from each block. We worked on 21 blocks. After tearing them off I had him arrange the blocks on the design wall and carry them in pairs to me at the sewing machine. We completed the flimsy, which will become a donation quilt, in short order. I am so tickled that he likes to be doing a sewing project with me. He said next time he will help me with the other colors for another quilt. In case you are wondering he is 6 years old.

The second project- yesterday I decided was a good day to work on a Valentine wall hanging to put in my Etsy shop. This is how the preprinted panel looked before I cut it apart.

And here you see I cut all the little blocks apart and rearranged them. It is now all pieced and waiting it's turn in the quilting line:) Hopefully I will get to it this week.