Quarantine Quilt - Day 8!

It's Day 8 today! That means we're ⅓ of the way through! I lost some of the contrast in one of the blocks, but I'm still pleased with the way they turned out.

Tomorrow, I'll start using a combination of Tree of Wisdom Fabrics and Stonehenge Fabrics  - I'll use those for days 9 through 16.

Keep your machine oiled and your needles sharp!

Quarantine Quilt - Day 7! And a peek at my Kindness Quilt!

It's day 7! That means tomorrow is day 8 and we're ⅓ of the way there! My Stonehenge fabric should be here later on today so I'm pretty excited about that!

Today's block was pretty simple to put together and I'm seriously getting the hang of those HST (half-square triangles) so they're fun to put together now!

Here's a peek at my Kindness quilt!

It's all washed, dried and wrinkly and I love it!! In the evenings, when it gets too dark to sew (let's face it, I'm getting old!) it keeps me warm while I do a bit of knitting. It's just perfect!

Keep your machine oiled and your needles sharp!

Quarantine Quilt - Day 6!

I'm running out of Tree of Wisdom fabric!! Thankfully my Stonehenge fabric should be here tomorrow and then after Block #8 I'll start mixing and matching for blocks #9-16.

I figured out that this quilt is going to be larger than I thought...which bodes well for one of the boys who will now have his very own quarantine quilt! How cool is that?? Not so good is that I didn't order enough backing fabric - OOPS!!! I guess I'll have to make ANOTHER quilt - LOL!

Keep your machine oiled and your needles sharp!

Quarantine Quilt - Day 5!

Another day, another block - heehee!!

My new favourite block! I love the kind of off centre points produced by the HST on these - kind of like pinwheel gone haywire - HAHA!! What do you think?

Keep your machine oiled and your needles sharp!

Quarantine Quilt - Day 4!

Welcome to Day 4 - I'm still using Northcott Tree of Wisdom fabrics and loving it! There's not quite as much contrast as I'd like between these two fabrics, but I still love the way the blocks turned out.

I ended up redoing the QST (Quarter Square Triangles) because they came out just a titch small. I've learned that I prefer to cut the pieces larger than I need them to be and trim to size. It makes for a little more waste, but I'm much happier with the results!

Keep your machine oiled and your needles sharp!

Quarantine Quilt - Day 3!

OOPS!!! I made a little mistake in this one, but I still liked the way it turned out, so I'm keeping it!

The four corner squares should be swapped out for the other block. Does that make sense?? But I really like the look of the blocks, so I'm going to leave it. As I used to tell me card making class participants - no one is going to know exactly what the sample looked like, so if you like what you're doing, keep doing it!

Keep your machine oiled  and your needles sharp!

Quarantine Quilt - Day 2!

Welcome to Day 2 of the collaboration quilt! Here is today's square:

What do you think? I just LOVE the stark contrast between the colours on this one! And I'm wishing I'd ordered more of this fabric!!!

Keep your machine oiled and your needles sharp!