my creative week Project quilting and stay at home round robin

 

7" X 10" 

this is my entry for Project Quilting this week, the prompt was to take three traditional blocks in the common usage and make a finished quilt. I took out my scrap bags of Cherrywood hand dyes to use thinking I'd make a sketchbook cover. My bags have strips from  a half inch wide to 2" wide. 

I made a sawtooth star, put a log cabin around it (taking into consideration two values on each row) and made my improv flying geese for the top and bottom. I loved it and thought of all the things I could make with these fabrics if I had larger pieces so...

 I went looking for cherrywood fabrics to purchase online. As it happens I dropped down a rabbit hole into lovely stitching resources including this cool store... so much to want, so many options for hand stitching including embroidery, beading, machine work... go see! this is the sale page, whee!

https://hobbyhouseneedleworks.com/collections/sale-items-1 

I did a tiny binding and thought it dulled it down so I then added a couched chenille multicolor ribbon on top

I have had this a long time, and it always brightens up a quilt! It's good to have a big stash of stuff. 

I use a couching foot that keeps the yarn or trim in the center while you zigzag over it

I originally thought I'd cover this journal

as you can see, it's too large now. Also I am not sure how to have just a front cover stay on but after I finished I started new components to use in one that will fit.

for now I put them back in the scrap bin but it's easier to start something once you are moving than from a stop, right? I can see hand embroidery on this cover, maybe some vine. For now I am happy with how this came out in less than a week.

I learned the smaller a quilt, the more effort needed to keep it straight and to quilt it. 

Now for the stay at home round robin... the prompt this week is "stars" 

I was conflicted as I like the quilt at the pinwheel stage! How to keep going? a narrow plain border maybe, and put some really little stars in the corners. 

again the smaller the block, the more effort it takes to piece. I remembered taking a miniature piecing class back East with Sally Collins. She said to me, try moving your needle over one thread in the fabric. 

Sally! I couldn't see one thread over! 

But paper piecing tiny blocks is more fun for me so I got out my stash of star papers, and so as to not use them up, I copied them onto thin paper meant for just this. I pieced 4 sawtooth stars that finish at 

2 inches

so they took all afternoon

get prepared I say

here they are in corners, and maybe I'll put 2" white coping strips on, but I better wait til I see next prompt's blocks.... it's not an enormous piece so I want it to be cohesive. I think the white might be a place to stop the action of the center. And, some fancy quilting white on white might be pretty... feathers? 

whew, that took longer than it looks! Of course I used a variety of scraps to make each one but they look alike from a distance. 

I worked on my embroidery project this week

and am finishing the hand knitted socks, not a great photo but they are such pretty colors

one of my Valentine quilts (I've made one a year since we married) is this small one, painted on white fabric, the green leaf is stuffed and 3-D also painted fabric 

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