End of Year

As my previous post said, I'm still alive and kicking. I didn't do much to blog about during the last couple of months. Well,  not craft related anyway.

Over the Christmas break I've managed to get some sewing done, but mainly lots of preparation for projects in 2014.

Starting from the top left corner, I've washed and squared up the layer cake I won at Guild. I'm thinking a plain on point lattice quilt for that. Next are a pile of HST made with my specialist Westalee rulers. These are mainly 6 1/2" squares for charity quilts. The little blue four patches are leader/enders which will sit there until I find a use for them! The Green and yellow strips will be a windmill quilt for Aussie Hero Quilts. The little green and yellow HST are the off cuts from the bigger strips, they just need to be trimmed to size. And the 1930's repro four patches are more leader and enders for the to be used pile.

The blue and white HST will be for my major project of 2014 - I will be doing a Block a Day. Each day will be a different block. I'm making a bunch of blue and white HST as the colours will mix and match easily and I've always wanted a blue and white. And lastly, the 4" Churn Dash blocks for my Guild swap.

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Blue and White Half Square Triangles

I have a bit of a big project in mind for next year. I am thinking of doing a Block a Day challenge. In preparation for that, I am making a heap of blue and while half square triangles using the 8 from a square method. So far, I've cut up a heap of 6 1/2" squares and marked them out. I can now sew a few at time when the fancy strikes me. What I like about this method is that I can set the seams BEFORE I cut them up and not worry as much as about stretching the bias. It will involve a bit of trimming but I'd rather do that than rely on getting them perfect with no margin for error (cause that just wouldn't work!!)

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Field Greens Progress

I am trying to be good about not starting new projects until I clear up my pile of WIP's. But I couldn't help but do some work on my Field Greens quilt. I had already cut up the strips into the 6" pieces needed. I then did a bit of mini-marathon and sewed on the 2.5" corner triangles. Then the boring job of trimming them all off. I know that some people find this method a bit wasteful, but it really is more accurate than working with cut triangles and sewing on the bias line. Also, since I had so many off cuts, I've kept them and added them to my mini-quilt stash for future use. Here is the pile of finished strips.

And here they are trimmed with the large pile of HST cut offs.

The small HST will become my headers/enders for my next project.

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