DONE!!!
The Bouquet Murder Mystery Quilt is finished! Quilted, label and binding … done, done, done. This is UFO #15 for this year!
The quilt is 90″ square. It was quilted on my domestic machine … a Janome M7 with a large harp area. I had no difficulty with this quilt – it fit easily in the space.
The batting is Hobbs 80/20 and it was quilted with Aurifil thread #2000.
Here’s some close-up pictures of the quilting … the centre of the quilt … The blue and green sections have loops and orange peels (or “C’s” as I think of them when quilting. The background has a vine with swirls …
The 1st border has little “bows” … a figure 8 with ribbon between them . The 2nd border repeats the vine with swirls.
And the back … I had a ton of the 6″ dark blue – cut and joined together. I’m not sure why there was so much … way more than I needed for the border – and with lots of the off-white with blueberries, I joined them all together for the back. The back used up most of what was left of the dark blue and a substantial amount of the off-white.
Clothesline Hints
Someone told me that they have trouble taking pictures of quilts on a clothesline … especially when they are larger quilts. My husband made up 2 long “sticks” with notches on the top and they support the clothesline so that larger quilts do not drag on the ground. To the right is a picture of the “stick” holding up the clothesline. There’s one on the other side of the quilt … but I figure that one picture is enough to give you the idea …
Design Wall
Piecing:
This UFO was going to come out to play … Scrappy Repro … but it didn’t play at all this week … hopefully something will happen in the next week!
Quilting:
Nothing at the moment … I’ve been busy busy busy quilting the Bouquet Murder Mystery quilt …
Stash Report
The Bouquet Murder Mystery used 20 yards for the top and backing.
- Fabric Used this week 20 yards
- Fabric Used this year: 261 yards
- Fabric Bought this week: 0 yards
- Fabric Added this year: 23.5
- Net Fabric used 237.5 yards
Stitchin’ Time
I am aiming for 30 minutes/day – at least! I switched from 15 minutes / day to 30 minutes/day in April!
- 15 minute days: January – July: 210 / 212
- 30 min days/ Aug: 28 / 30
- Total days in 2020: 238/ 242
- Percentage = 98%
For more Stitchin’ Time, you can check out Kate’s blog: Life in Pieces
TO DO
I’m linking up to Roseanne & Sue’s “TO DO” Tuesday. Their blog is “Home Sewn by Us.”
Last weeks list:
- Make label and finish binding my niece’s baby’s quilt. √ done
- Bouquet Murder Mystery :
- finish quilting √ done
- make label √ done
- bind √ done
- Work on Scrappy Repro not done
- Welcome Fall project worked on in my mind!
- Tidy & clean studio for 30 minutes. √ done
This weeks list:
- Work on Scrappy Repro
- Welcome Fall project
- Work on Oct. Island Batik project
- Tidy & clean studio for 30 minutes. √ done
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
- Monday Making @ Love, Laugh, Quilt
- Sunday Stash @ quiltpaintcreate
- Oh Scrap @ Quilting is More Fun than Housework
- 15 minutes to Stitch @ Life in Pieces
- What I Made Monday @ Pretty Piney Quilts
- Wall Monday @ Small Quilts and Doll Quilts
- Main Crush Monday @ Cooking Up Quilts
- To-Do Tuesday @ Home Sewn By Us
- Colour Inspiration Tuesday @ Clever Chameleon Quilting
In my July box, I received the 4 Patch Square Up tool. This tool gave me the choice of 
Here is the back of the first unit I made. The instructions teach you how to “spin” the seams. If you’ve taken a class from me, you know how mu
I’ve pulled out this UFO: It was a Murder Mystery quilt that I started in 2010 at a Wild Rose Retreat in Orting Washington! It was a fun retreat! (Um … I haven’t been to a retreat that wasn’t fun …!!!) Anyhow, one of the shop’s owners was ‘murdered’ with a pinking rotary cutter … the evidence was the rick rack around his neck and the red fat quarter next to him … and the weekend went from there.
Dog/Cat Quilt #2 used 8 yards of fabric. You can see more details of this quilt 
Here are a couple of the sample squares that I teased you with earlier in the week. Do you see how they fit into the quilt?
When I started working on this UFO, I realized that I actually had almost enough blocks for 2 quilts … so 2 quilts it became. This one has the backing that I posted previously. It was fun to quilt … bones, stars, hearts, paws and swirls.
The Island Batik fabric I used is a fantastic strip pack called Kismet! Add a little Bubblegum pink (on the right), Island Batik’s Solid black and this is what I came up with:
I have made a couple of projects for this Blog Hop. The collection I was given is Santa Fe designed by Kathy Engle. It was love at first sight! Look at those beautiful teals and browns, purples and neutrals! Aren’t they rich and beautiful? This collection is part of the Winter 2019 fabrics and should be available in your local stores pretty soon – if they’re not already there!
Be sure to enter Island Batik’s Rafflecopter to win Cascadia precuts! This collection was designed by Claudia Pfeil of Claudia Pfeil Designs. You could win both a 10″stack and 2½” strips. Each pre-cut comes with 2 of the 20 fabrics in the collection. It’s well worth entering – you never know if you will win! Here’s the link:
Don’t forget to visit the Island Batik Blog Hop that is featuring all the NEW fabric!!! And visit the 
Florabunda: Do you remember when I was working on these blocks? Well, they are all done and I have way more than enough for one quilt … so there are at least 2 quilts to be made. I need to lay them out and decide on which ones will go into which quilt.
#1: 
Quilting Gail 