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Some of This; Some of That

Made a little progress on my Kitty Cucumber quilt (.05) and made a back for my 50% Challenge - 1.73 yds. for a total of 1.78 yds destashed. My new YTD destashing is 6.07 yds. Nearly 3 times as much as last week - not bad. Have you destashed anything?

Here's the back I made:

Bet you can guess what the theme is on the front.

Sewed every day so I'm good on my 15 Minutes to Stitch for 2020.

15 minute days/week = 7/7 days

15 minute days/March = 13/14 days
15 minute days/2020 = 66/74 days
Success rate = 89.19%

Because of the Pandemic, have plenty of time to quilt this coming week as we older Californians are suppose to self isolate at home and that's what we're doing. If you want to see for yourself why this works, go here. So I hope to finish that Kitty baby top, start quilting my 50% challenge and work on a UFO. How about you?

I'm linking to 15 Minutes to Stitch, Oh Scrap!, and Design Wall Monday. See you next Sunday!

Some of This; Some of That

Put in my 15 Minute to Stitch 2020 six days last week. That brings me to

15 minute days/week = 6/7 days

15 minute days/March = 6/7 days

15 minute days/2020 = 59/67 days

Success rate = 88.06%

I worked on a baby quilt top and used 0.16 yds for a part of a border. I made that entry into the blog hop for another 0.48 yds. The rest of my time I was quilting my No Greater Love quilt top. So I've only destashed a total of 0.64 yds to bring to a YTD total of 4.29 yds - pitiful. Way behind.

So, that top I worked on? It's my kitty cucumber one and here's how far I've gotten:

The square of fabric are really a lot lighter. I hit the auto correct button and it made them darker. Grrr. I didn't have enough of the mint Kona to go all around it, so I had to find the next best thing and it was a fat quarter that really is more similar to the Kona mint than it looks. Nothing is sewn down until I"m sure I have enough of green to go all around the center.

I'm linking to 15 Minutes to Stitch, Design Wall Monday, Oh Scrap!, and Sunday Stash. Have a great, quilty week.

My Dust Off a Quilt Book Blog Hop Date is Here!

Hello, it's the 3rd day of the Dust Off a Quilt Book Blog Hop. My turn to show you the book I pulled off my bookshelf and from which I made a project. It was published in 1993 - only 27 years ago - lol. I picked it up maybe 10 years ago and had not done anything with it. I was about to take it to the giveaway table at our monthly guild meeting when Bea at ( https://www.beaquilter.com/) called out for participants for her blog hop.

Here is Quilts for All Seasons - a compilation of quilt patterns popular then.

There were lots of projects for each season, and I still found some that once made my bucket list, however here is the one I chose:

I'm trying to make something for each season. This looked like something I would like for Fall. So decided to make a table runner of three blocks. One of the drawbacks to this book is that there are few instructions for each of them. I think that's how they got so many into the book. This quilt had three pages - the one above and these two:

While reading the directions, I realized I needed to wait til I learned a few more quilting techniques. Good thing I found out how to make four flying geese at once instead of one at a time from templates. They never mentioned truing up blocks at each stage - that made a world of difference to accurate piecing. And it was a weird size block. Oh well - off to design my own design of the block - Wild Goose Chase.

So first block: the setting triangles I came up with were too small - back to the drawing board. Got it right on the second try and then finished my first block. All the fabrics were from my scrap pile except the large print that came from my stash - and dated from the 90s! To make sure I could true it up to 13 1/2" square I oversized the setting and corner triangles to make sure I had the correct seam allowance. So I made the first block and trued it up. Wrong - once I had the others made I realized I should have waited til I'd made all the blocks and trued them to the smallest one. So the first block became a place mat or a table mat. I'm still to decide.

The other two blocks became a table runner, and it's a good thing my error happened. Three blocks would have made a table runner too large for our coffee table.