Day 107-A Finished Top!

It didn't quite take the extra seven days as I took a couple of days off from it and then spent yesterday replacing my original green border with the pink.  I ran out off the green fabric and as it is several years old, I knew I couldn't color match it.  I think I like the pink better than the original greenish yellow.

I'm discovering that things look very different in photos than they do in person!  My color flow looked a lot different laid out on my floor...not sure I'm completely happy with it..I may do some more tweaking. As you can see it's in two pieces for ease of quilting.  I've had good results with quilting in two or three pieces on my home machine and then joining the pieces.

I really enjoyed this quilt along!  Many thanks to Angie at Gnome Angel for the incentive and the organization.  I'm looking forward to next year's project!

Now for the clean up!

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100 Days Later.......

99 blocks +1=100

I finished!!!   Several months ago, I saw a message from Angie at Gnome Angel for her sew along using Tula Pink's City Sampler book and quilt.  I was missing not having a circle to make every day so I ordered the book.  The first few blocks had 20-25 pieces and four or five fabrics in a 6.5" block. I almost gave up there but ordered some fabrics and decided to it. Most of those fabrics weren't used and all, except for four of the blocks, were made from my existing stash.

I'm so glad that I did!  I've seen so many new ways to look at the same block and so many ways to use colors to make a block look different.  There are holiday quilts, solid color quilts, a denim one and several people used just one color or black, white and grey.  All are on the Instagram 100days100blocks2018.

 Now to layout my blocks and make a quilt of them....and to clean up my mess...fabrics migrated from my shelves to a laundry size basket and grew to overflowing.  They need to be refolded and reshelved..a daunting task!

Licorice 2002-10/10/18

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Sajou Part Two

Part 2 finished....now to decide if I want to make a pillow cover or wall hanging out of it.  I'm leaning to a wall hanging as my new apartment has the delightful feature of having the fridge side fully visible from the living room.  It's been irritating me more and more every time I look at it.  It may become a mini gallery for all my mini quilts!  Thank you Lori and your Humble Quilts for the pattern .

I'm going to finish up the last two blocks for the Tula Pink City Sampler today and then spend the weekend laying it out.  I really didn't think that I would complete it....but 100 blocks in 100 days is almost done and I've done it!

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Temperature Quilt Progress

My temperature record for the month of September...my starting month.  The first three days of October are also included.  I haven't been making daily blocks, but trying to do  four or five at a time.  I was thinking that a lot of the days would be in my same range-therefore letting me make four at a time but that hasn't been holding true.  The grey at the beginning and in the middle are the beginning of the months...later, I'm intending to embroider the month's name on them to make it less confusing to look back on.

The HST show the high and lows of each day.  For the month of September, except for a spike at the beginning and the end of the month, most days were below the average highs and the lows were also slightly above the average.  My original post shows the colors I assigned to each temperature.

91 Blocks!!  Only a couple more blocks to go to reach 100.  I'm getting very tired of my chosen colors and fabrics but I can stick it out for another week..I'm going to try some retail therapy tomorrow and see if I can find something to inspire me for the last couple of blocks.

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Seventy-Five Blocks Finished

This is block 75 of the Tula Pink City Sampler sew along, which I posted this morning.  I don't have a very good record with monthly projects or sew alongs so I'm really pleased with myself.  Every block has been posted on time on my Instagram, which I started for this project.  I figured that I'd make about 50 before I started missing days or got bored with the project but that hasn't happened.  Now only 25 to go!

Here's a sideways view of most of the blocks....not in their final placements, but trying to get a sense of what colors I need to concentrate on for the final blocks.

Halfway Finished!

Fifty blocks of the Tula Pink City Sampler finished and sorted by colors.  I just posted block 52 this morning so I'm more than halfway through the 100 blocks.  This is a sideways view taken on my floor....now I'm getting worried about how I'll be able to lay out the entire quilt when I'm finished.  There is a definite advantage to doing the rainbow version if you have a small space.  Another quilter is using four colors only...that should be easier to layout in section also.

I'm still really enjoying this.  It seemed overwhelming at first when I got the book but one block a day is very doable.   Everyone's blocks can be seen on Instagram at #100Days100Blocks2018


Quilt police are everywhere...my assistant, Licorice, checking out my seams!

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Catching Up!

Here are my City Sampler blocks 1-36 all together!  Frankly, I didn't think that I would last this long but they have all been done and posted on the correct days.  Block 44 will be posted to my Instagram today!  I wanted to get them all so that I could check my colors and get an idea of how they would all look together since  I'm not planning on using sashing in the finished quilt. Some blocks are better than others and some really highlight my inability to sew a straight line.  I've had some help in that direction from my sewing machine..I've been noticing that the feed dogs are grabbing the end of the fabric and jerking it out of alignment. Wednesday I'm getting with Amazon for a new one...nothing really expensive but an upgrade from what I've got now.

I'm still working on my Anthology quilt and I'll be making stars for my Sweet Land of Liberty quilt today.  Hopefully more pictures and progress will be posted later this week.  It's been so hot here that it has been a real effort to do anything.  I know everyone else has also been dealing with the heat but we are so unused to it here.  I had to laugh at a recent article in the Seattle Times newspaper...Seattle is the most un-airconditioned city in the US.

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The First Quarter!

My first 25 of  the hundred blocks of the Tula Pink City Sampler. Finished and posted on time on my Instagram....I've even figured out how to use it.

I started out trying to limit myself to greens and purples with some pinks and other accent colors so it wouldn't get too boring.  I still have lots of green fabrics left but they are mostly solids.  I'm digging deep in the bins to find more greens and purples.  It's a very good thing that most of these patterns will take very small pieces of fabrics.

We've moved on from crosses and blocks 16 through 35 feature rectangles.  Then on to triangles.


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City Sampler-Week 2

Fourteen done, posted and on time!!  So far, so good.  These are blocks 7-14 in order but probably won't be in order in the finished quilt. As you can see, we are still on crosses.  Lots and lots of crosses! I'm in awe at all the creativity I've seen on the Instagram feed.  Some wonderful ideas and amazing fabrics are being used.  I ran across one the other day who is using recycled jeans and sashiko embroidery.

There is still time to join in if you want...all the details  are at Angie the Gnome Angel.

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City Sampler-The First Week

These are my blocks for the first seven days of the 100 Days 100 Blocks sew along hosted by Angie at Gnome Angel.  All the blocks are from Tula Pink's book 100 Modern Quilt Blocks.  The first 15 blocks are based on crosses and 16-35 are rectangles.

  It's amazing to see what a difference fabric choices make in the looks of a block.  There has been several times that I've gone back to check that I'm posting the correct block because the look of the block has changed so much!

 So far I've seen blocks in all Hawaiian fabrics, batiks, adorable children's prints, solids and Japanese fabrics.  Many of the participants are from Australia and are using fabrics that aren't in my LQS or the online shops that I visit.  All the blocks can be seen on Instagram at the hashtag 100Days100Blocks2018.

Only 93 to go!

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1 Done 99 To Go

Block 1 of the 100days100blocks2018  is done!  Today is day 1 for those of us in the Western hemisphere.  I will be posting on Instagram very shortly.....fingers crossed that it works!  I've missed having a daily project to do since the end of the Quilty 365.  I seem to need some incentive to get to my machine.  A weeks worth of blocks is cut and in labelled baggies. Every Sunday, I'll cut another weeks worth....that's the plan!


This is the third and last year that Angie of Gnome Angel has sponsored the sew along.  It uses Tula Pink's City Sampler quilt patterns and every block must be sewn exactly as written.  No combining small pieces to make larger ones etc.  You can use your own color scheme and you don't need to use Tula Pink fabrics.  I only wish I had some!

I'll be using greens, purples and pinks with some accent colors thrown in....most from my stash. It will be interesting to see how far I can get with just using fabrics I already have.

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Fabric Pull

Here's the start of my fabric pull for the City Sampler sew along.  Each block is 6 inches finished and some have five or more fabrics so I think I can get by with some fairly small pieces. I've got some larger pieces still in the bookcase but I'm going through all the scrap bins now.

I'm still trying to learn the new camera and now the photo programs aren't saving my crops and other edits!  It's been in the high 90's here the last couple of days.  I don't deal well with the heat so I've no patience with trying to figure out the tech stuff.  In fact, if it's still as hot tomorrow, I may spent the day at the movies!!  Air conditioned!!