Line Dried

Last October or so I saw a post on Instagram from @yardgrl60 about making "Line Dried", a quilt designed by Corey Yoder of Coriander Quilts.  I thought this would be a great pattern to use up the fabrics left over from my Swoon quilt (mostly sent to me by my friend Elizabeth in USA) and I added a few from stash

along with a turquoise spot Riley Blake Swiss Dot fabric for the background as well as the stripe and butterfly fabrics for blocks, borders and backing (ended up using another backing and the blue stripe for binding).

 In April I started making blocks.

The quilt top was finished last month and Karen quilted it with Clamshells.

I thought this quilt would look good with a wavy border - cutting into the border is a bit stressful but the special ruler (designed by Quilt in a Day) and instructions are terrific.

I love the backing fabric - "Lulu Lane" designed by Corey Yoder.

I still have loads of fabrics left from this group - I think there will be another "Line Dried" quilt using the pink butterfly fabric for the border/backing and pink stripe for binding.

Binding

After all of the quilting Karen has done over the last couple of weeks, I've been stitching down binding while catching up on recorded tv shows.

Ohio Star Cot Quilt

Cakewalk

Seaglass

I had enough "Seaglass" strips left over to make a 17" sq cushion cover, which Karen kindly quilted in a smaller version of the design on the quilt.

Seaglass Cushion

On Saturday ChaCha came for a sleepover and brought an extra birthday present for me - a bundle of Allison Glass fabrics!  The colours are glorious.  I'm hoping to make Jen Kingwell's "Long Time Gone" quilt some time this year and these fabrics will be perfect in that quilt along with some other Allison Glass fabrics left over from Jenni's 30th birthday "Tessellation" quilt.

Karen quilted "Line Dried" this morning and sent through some photos.

Looking forward to picking it up tonight.  This quilt will have a wavy edge and bias stripe binding.

One of my dearest friends is going to be a first-time Nanna later this year.  I've been saving these fabrics for almost 10 years (for her) and am so happy to have sewn them into a cute quilt.

Lots of Quilting

My friend Karen has been very busy over the last week or so working on my finished quilt tops.

Cake Mix Recipe 4

Seaglass

Ohio Star Cot Quilt 

Cakewalk

Cot Quilt

 Lots of binding to do over the next while - time to catch up on all the recorded tv shows.

"Line Dried" is together and ready to drop off for quilting.  Two borders have been added - narrow white with turquoise spots and wider turquoise butterfly print.

I'm looking forward to this one being quilted because I'm going to use my scallop/wave ruler on the outer border.

Had a fun day with Gulliver on Friday: Devonshire Tea, Play Doh etc,

then my friends and I went to see the new "Avengers" movie - not really my cup of tea but was happy enough to see it.  Watched The Wedding with Mum and pretty much spent all Sunday sewing to put together the little cot quilt and most of Line Dried.

Progress ...

43 x 3-1/2" (3" finished" Ohio Star blocks for Line Dried.

All the blocks laid out - now pinned in groups ready for stitching together.

The borders are on the pink and red Cakewalk quilt.  Once the backing arrives this can be quilted.

Last Good Friday we had a stitching day at Karen's sewing Cake Mix Recipe 4 sheets with a layer cake.

I decided to go with a star block design and was so happy with how quickly and accurately the half-square triangles go together.

The blocks are all made and ready to sew into a quilt top.

I've been watching many episodes of "West Wing" lately while sewing - started Series 7 last night and will, once again, be sad when it ends.

Mum has been looking for a few extra things to do, so I gave her the pieces of this jumper to sew together.  It should fit ChaCha in a year or two but she doesn't like wearing wool and has taken a dislike to buttons, so the jumper might be going to a different home.

Had a busy weekend - picked up ChaCha at lunchtime on Saturday, spent some time with Mum before heading back to my place.  The Stitching Girls came over yesterday afternoon and then Mum and I went to the hospital to visit Mum's newest great-grandson who was born on Thursday.  Another little sweetheart has joined the family.

Ohio Stars

Ohio Star blocks are all I seem to be sewing lately:

"Scrappy Stars" was made with 145 Ohio Star blocks

This cot quilt has 63 Ohio Star blocks

And now I'm making "Line Dried" designed by Coriander Quilts which has 95 Ohio Star blocks varying in size from 12-1/2" to 3-1/2" (no photos of the 3-1/2" stars yet).

12-1/2"

9-1/2"

6-1/2"

It will be nice to sew something different in the near future.

Such a busy weekend moving furniture out of the sewing room and setting up that room as a bedroom for the little sweethearts.

Darling Little Dickens

That has to be one of the cutest fabric names ever.  There have been a few baby boys born in the last couple of weeks, the last one being born 11 days ago. Karen picked up the top and backing to quilt on Monday last week.

I collected it from her last Thursday and sewed the binding over the weekend.

I had a fair bit of unplanned time at home last week and used it to trim the rest of the Snippets hourglass blocks.

Had to make one block:

The half square triangles and hourglass blocks are now sorted into the larger Snippets blocks and packed away for another day.

Another "Cakewalk" quilt top is also underway.  It will be single bed sized and have a border - this is a customer quilt.

Last October I put a bundle of fabrics together to make "Line Dried" designed by Coriander Quilts.  I really like her patterns - they are well-written and easy to follow. 

I cut into the fabrics on Sunday night.  There are 4 different sized blocks and two versions of three of these blocks.

Block 1A

Block 1B

I'm using fabrics left over from my "Swoon" quilt and also the recently finished "Medley" quilt.  Lots more cutting to be done for this quilt top.

Last night Mum, Lynell, Mum's friend, Nora, and I went to see "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" - such a wonderful movie.  I know I read the book about 10 years ago but had forgotten much of the story.  Marina - go to see this movie :)