Progress!

Slow progress but still progress for months four and five of my Sweet Land of Liberty blocks. I need flowers or stars (still deciding) for the top of my log cabin and something to fill the center of the sawtooth star block.  Still to be made is Lady Liberty.

A closer look at my little girls.  Some of the participants paper pieced theirs....since I'm making my own patterns, my method is more of adding chunks of fabric and cutting off what I don't need.   I do like the holding hands effect I've got and I think I'll just add some larger borders to bring it to size.

I'm still unpacking and trying to get all my fabrics organized after the move.  I'm planning on doing the 100blocks100days2018 which starts in July and I am really slow at cutting out.  The blocks are the Tula Pink's City Sampler quilt.  The first four blocks all take 20 or pieces for a 6.5" unfinished block!  Those will take me forever to cut out, so I thought I'd precut a bunch and then sew and post them on the correct date.

Linking with Em's Scrapbag for Moving it Forward
Love Laugh Quilt for Monday Making

Catching Up

I'm trying to get caught up on my Sweet Land of Liberty blocks.  With the addition of this month's, I need a total of 16 Flying Geese plus the blocks I have to draft.  Those are the pineapple, a queen, a log cabin and several girl blocks along with several economy blocks.  I used this tutorial for the Sawtooth Star ...very helpful!  It has both the flying geese and the sawtooth star listed in many sizes so you don't have to fool around with the addition.  This does make the four geese at once.

Here are the twelve geese I've finished and the log cabin that needs some work...resewing and measuring coming up.

 The star is also finished but I need to find my extra batteries...It took me two days to find the iron!!


Linking with Busy Hands Quilts

The Joys of Moving

I'm trying to be positive with my post title!  This past month I've moved from the apartment I've lived in for the past seventeen years to another in the same complex.   Sorting out all my extraneous junk has been a real pain and since I just moved across the yard, I did all the moving myself.  One of my neighbors did help me move the couch and the big bookcase but my muscles got a real workout.  Sitting and sewing for the past several years did nothing to keep my muscle tone up.  Now that I've got them moving again, I'll be doing a regular walking/exercise program.

The Salvation Army has benefitted with many boxes of books and apparel fabrics, although I did keep most of my silks. Actually, they were wonderful...came out and loaded lots of stuff in their truck and I was able to book two appointments with them. 

Right now, I'm in and trying tp put stuff away....it's a slow process and my back and knees are really acting up.  The main problem is that the important stuff, like my current project and fabrics were packed carefully and moved first...so now they are at the bottom of the pile!  I am finding fabrics that I'd forgotten about and bought before I started quilting so that's fun.  I'm almost at the point where I can reach my sewing table and plug my machines in...a little later today!

I now have a new internet and tv provider and got them both working after 1.5 weeks without them...the connection was old here and they had to put in all new connections. For a couple of days, I only got internet for an hour a day.  I hadn't realized how addicted I am. 

Back to the unpacking...hopefully I'll have some Sweet Land of Liberty sections done soon that I can share with you all!