The log cabin

I know many of you have already seen this elsewhere, but I wanted to post the finished log cabin quilt I made for my parents for Christmas, now that they’ve finally seen it.

 I quilted this with a Valdani hand dyed cotton thread, 35wt, which is pretty chunky.  I used a blended deep gold, as I really wanted the quilting to stand out.  The pantograph I used is called “Clematis” by Willow Leaf Studio, you can view it by scrolling down on this page.  The label was embroidered on my Bernina 830. 

 

I tried to get a picture of my parents holding the quilt outside, but it was too windy and too sunny, and the picture didn’t turn out, so these will have to do.

 I made my mom a zippered pouch and a couple of free standing lace bookmarks. 

And another for a friend, along with more bookmarks and a snowflake.

Jim loved his robe and handkerchiefs, and now I’m ready to start another quilt project! 

Design Wall Monday

Nothing much has changed here since last week, other than I’ve made more progress on the log cabin quilt.

Actually, I couldn’t sleep again last night and so I’ve been up sewing since about two o’clock, and I’m just finished up the very last blocks now.

Then it’s on to the borders, so I should have this top finished this week and ready to be quilted.  I still have to design the borders, there weren’t any in the pattern, but it looks wrong to me without any.

This is for my parents for Christmas, and while I’d have loved for it to be a surprise, I really wanted to make sure my Mom liked it, so I showed it to her yesterday and she’s leaning towards solid borders versus pieced borders out of logs… but I’ll draw up a few options in EQ and email them to her.

Head over to Judy’s to see what everyone else is up to this week!

Design Wall Monday

The log cabin is coming along.  I’m on row eight of twelve, and I’m sewing all the blocks together as I go, but the rows aren’t sewn together yet.  I may do that today as I’ve about run out of floor space and need to be able to move the darn thing, it is going to be huge!

I really want to make another one of these right a way out of my scraps, but I have other projects that need to be done first.  Now I’m not real keen on exerting discipline when it comes to my craft, it rather takes all the fun right out of it!  However… sometimes you just have to put on your big girl panties and suck it up!

There’s a pair of pants hanging off my sewing chair that need to be hemmed and the legs need to be narrowed… I dislike alterations, ugh!  But I hate going naked more, so I guess I will do them soon!

If my dishwasher arrives early enough on the truck today, the appliance shop will be out to install it.  Yay!  If not, it’ll be tomorrow.

Head on over to Judy’s to see what everyone else is up to this design wall Monday!

Progress

I woke up at two thirty this morning, here it’s noon and half my day is gone… I’d hoped to have a lot more progress on the log cabin quilt top today!

I do twelve blocks at a time, I’m about halfway through the next batch.  Tonight is my quilt group meeting, I sure hope I can stay awake!

Chicken barley soup simmering on the stove, a loaf of sourdough rising on the counter, a new batch of brochures printed to hand out this evening, and a replacement dishwasher ordered and scheduled to be installed on Monday.

I think I can handle a weekend of washing dishes by hand!  I did order a KitchenAid, from a local appliance store.  The kid was terrific and we spent over an hour discussing machines. He actually talked me into a lesser model than the one I’d chosen.  The original unit I wanted is ultra quiet, but didn’t come with a food grinder.  After thinking about it, I’m pretty sloppy about loading my dishes in to the machine, whatever the dogs don’t lick clean gets loaded that way!  So I went with the highest model with a food grinder in it.

My folks are coming down tomorrow for the day, they want to see the fall leaves along highway 7, always a beautiful ride.  There’s a craft fair going on here this weekend, beginning tomorrow, so we just may go to it and eat lunch out.