I Hate sewing curves.
I Hate sewing circles.
Last year, I got a Block on Board die from Accuquilt … Cleopatra’s Fan … it had curves. I perservered, and made several blocks. I was not happy. I liked the block in the end, but I was not happy sewing it!
This year, I received another Block on Board die … it has CURVES. (Can you hear the loud groan??? !!!)
The guild was offering a one day workshop on sewing circles. SIGH!!! I figured that I better take the workshop. Here’s a sample of what happened at the workshop. Lots of curved piecing.
I think I was smart. I borrowed the guild’s Accuquilt cutter and dies and I cut ALL of my drunkard’s path blocks with both the small and large die. It has the wonderful centre notch in it!
Perfect cutting leads to perfect sewing – right??? Well, almost.
Laura, the wonderful instructor, gave us options on how to sew the blocks, but with clear directions. She warned that it would take time to sew each block. WHAT??? You mean I can’t make 10 in a minute???
OK … SEW … I took my time, following the directions. The first couple of blocks had a tiny little pucker, or wrinkle. But not worth taking out. (YAY!!) And the rest, well, I’d say they were pretty darn good!
Here’s a few of my blocks laid out … definitely not how they will be in the final quilt, but an example of what I made.
SEW … how do I feel about curves and circles now?
Bring them on … I can handle this with ease! (As long as I take my time and listen remember what I was taught!
YAY!!! Thank you Laura!!! Thank you! Thank you!
Design Wall
Piecing:
Summer Solstice: 
I’ve started piecing the lone star. Row 1 is completed!
Frolic: Bonnie Hunter’s Mystery: I have 5 blocks pieced.
52 Blocks in 52 weeks: No photo, but ready to be sandwiched!
Quilting:
Bento Box “Rag Log Cabin” – the quilting has started. 
TO DO
I’m linking up to Roseanne & Sue’s “TO DO” Tuesday. Their blog is “Home Sewn by Us.”
A Gladys Taber quote “Contentment is a list with half of it crossed off.”
This week my list is ALL crossed off! And it was a BIG list
Last week’s list:
- Sandwhich Rag Log Cabin √ done
- Start Quilting Rag Log Cabin √ done
- Make at least 2 “Frolic” blocks √ done (made 5)
- Make the last 4 “52 blocks in 52 weeks” √ done
- Put “52 blocks in 52 weeks” on design wall and arrange √ done
- Start the lone star portion of Summer Solstice √ Row 1 done
This week’s list:
- Quilt Rag Log Cabin – 1/2 hour / day
- Make 3 “Frolic” blocks
- Sandwich “52 blocks in 52 weeks”
- Summer Solstice: Make Row 2 of lone star
- Start cutting & sewing Island Batik Feb project.
Stash Report
I finished the little zippy bags … probably took around 1 yard of fabric, if not a bit more. I’ll call it a yard for now. No fabric added!
- Fabric Used this week 1 yard
- Fabric Used this year: 22.5 yards
- Fabric Bought this week: 0 yards
- Fabric Added this year: 0
- Net Fabric used 22.5
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- Husband’s Purchases 0
Stitchin’ Time
- January 1-26 : 26 out of 26 100%
For more Stitchin’ Time, you can check out Kate’s blog: Life in Pieces
The zippy bags were a UFO – from left-over fabric from a quilt I made eons ago. Sew, that’s a total of 3 UFOs finished this year!
One who sleeps under a quilt is covered by LOVE!
Happy Quilting!
Gail
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Linking to:
- Tish @ Tish’s Adventures in Wonderland
- So Scrappy Saturdays @ So Scrappy
- Sunday Stash @ quiltpaintcreate
- Oh Scrap @ Quilting is More Fun than Housework
- What I Made Monday @ Pretty Piney Quilts
- Monday Making @ Love, Laugh, Quilt
- Design Wall Monday @ Small Quilts and Doll Quilts
- To-Do Tuesday @ Home Sewn By Us
- Colour Inspiration Tuesday @ Clever Chameleon Quilting
Tracking your progress is a great way to see encourage yourself and to know that you are getting a project done. Which is our goal, right? Enter the Link Party to help you track your progress! Also, using the Excel sheet 
This picture, taken before Christmas, showed the only sewing I had done on this project. One block … However, all the pieces were cut and had been placed in numbered bags! Whew … at least I didn’t have to figure out what fabric goes where.
The next part is to take out the first project you are going to work on. Ask yourself, “Why did this become a UFO?” If you can honestly answer that question, you are on the way to avoiding the same pitfall and letting that project languish as a UFO for more time. If you can’t answer that question, here’s a few hints as to why it happened:
You’ve already analyed the potential problems with your project … now, to quote Nike, “Just Do It.” Now Go and SEW …
This is the quilt that had the left-overs that I used for the above quilt. There were 2 fat quarters that I did not use in the original quilt … one was a mini panel with the blocks of animals and the other was the white /with leaves that is on the outside of the quilt … it was a perfect place to use these fabrics up!
