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
The borders are still not on this quilt.
I’m linking up to Roseanne & Sue’s “TO DO” Tuesday. Their blog is “
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 
Then there were the 2 “Christmas in July” posts. There was the Island Batik one where we were challenged to use the awesome Accuquilt Go!me fabric cutting machine, make a quilt, or ?? and gift it and the Go!me to a new quilter It was fun! You can read more about that post 
And yes, I did make the snowman previously with Island Batik fabrics and you can see it 
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.
Quilting Gail 