Some of This; Some of That - 4/8

Besides my Lady Liberty, I did make a few more blocks and used a tiny bit of stash:

1. cut out some churn dash blocks for  My Small World - using these as leaders and enders as I sew other stuff.

2. Made nine blocks for another baby quilt using the disappearing four patch idea.

3. Made some yellow HSTs for my Meadow project and RSC 2018.

4. and of course Lady Liberty (see previous post).  That bit of work used up 1.35 yards.  New YTD total equals 18.88 yds of the 28 yds I should have used by now.  How did you do?

I'll be working on my Anna's Garden block with hand applique.  Almost done with it and then I'll start working on my Bliss again.

I'm linking to Kathy's Slow Sunday Stitching, Cynthia's Oh Scrap, Angela's RSC Challenge, and Sunday Stash.  See you there.

Friday Finish

Sort of because it is a block - but what a block - applique without a pattern.  I'm doing the Sweet Land of Liberty with Humble Quilts.  The block is called for Lady Liberty.  We have to make our own pattern, so in looking around in the internet I found this lady on another SLOL  (You'll have to scroll down), and I liked it. Couldn't find who made it. The quilt was posted at Sweet P Quilts and Creations of a quilt she saw at quilt store.

She measures 8 1/2" by 14 1/2" and is the first block of the second row of this quilt. If you want to see the one in the original pattern go here.

I'm linking to Finish it Up Friday, Can I Get a Whoop, Whoop?, Finished or Not Friday, and several others. You can see them under my tab More.  Blessings on this Friday of the Octave of Easter!

I like Report on Thursdays

I like piecing.  Here's one fourth of a new project I started.

 I like applique - here's one of 24 flowers I have to make that go in the outer border of the new project.

For the past two years, I've been playing with various applique methods to see which one I like (and which goes faster for me - lol).  I'm finding this Zena Thorpe method the one I go to the most.  I combine with McKenna Ryan's. So here's what I do.  First, I make a copy of the pattern page on plain copy paper.  Then I cut out around the outline of the design to make my templates - on the right.  Then I number the pieces so I know in which order I must lay them on the outline guide from that copy sheet - on the left.  I turn them to the wrong side and draw them on the paper side of fusible interfacing.  I use to use Steam a Seam 2, but now like to use Heat-n-Bond light weight.  I cut these apart and place on the back side of the appropriate fabric. I lightly bond them to the fabric and then cut them out.  I then cut a background fabric - usually 1/2"- 1" bigger than the block I need.  I place my outline copy on the background and lay the fabric pieces on it.  If I like the fabrics, I then press the flower together and then onto the background.  Then I machine straight stitch the flower to the background using invisible thread.

But what I like best about this project is that it has both piecework and applique.  Here's another I'd like to make someday.  I don't know the name or the pattern - I'd just make something like it.

So how about you?  What did you like this week?

I'm linking to LeeAnna's I Like Thursday's post.