Five Shadows

Warm weather, sunshine, rain, and migrating birds all equal happiness! This week I saw the first Rose Breasted Grosbeak in our backyard. We just put out the Oriole bird feeder as those south of us have reported seeing Baltimore Orioles. I hope they find us again this year as they migrate through.

On to quilting!

To-Do Tuesday April 19th

1. Finish Week 9 of EPP Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden – the quilt-a-long is on Week 16. I started late, but I hope to eventually catch up. ✔️
2. Sandwich baby quilt with Minky fabric, start quilting. ✔️
3. Prepping 4 clothing quilts for grieving family. ✔️

1. EPP

Here are weeks one – nine all sewn together. I keep forgetting to take a picture of just the week’s progress before attaching to the growing quilt. I’ll try to remember this week!

Week 10 prep and stitching. I’m reusing papers, and glue basting with Sewline glue pen.

2. Sandwich baby quilt

I’m using a textured Shannon fabric for the back of this baby quilt. This will be only my second time to quilt on Shannon/Minky fabric. Last week’s experiment of quilting on Minky went well. I’m upping the game, so to speak, and moving on to the textured Shannon. Can you see the texture in photo above?

Baby quilt is spray basted with 505 Spray. I’m still pondering how to quilt. Yes, I might be a bit hesitant in quilting with the textured Shannon as the back to this quilt! Should I just do In-the-Ditch quilting, or some design in the geese? I will most likely keep it simple for now and do ITD.

3. Prepping clothing for quilts.

A quilting friend has asked if I would help make four quilts from clothing for a grieving family. We met last Tuesday to start cutting the clothes into 6 1/2″ squares. Here’s what we got from the cotton/poly items. The rest will have to be fused with webbing before cutting into squares. Turns out it will only be the two of us working on the quilts. Our plan right now is to have the four quilts ready to gift by Christmas time. For me, ironing fusible webbing is the most tedious part of the process and is the next step for these quilts. We will meet again on May 13th to tackle that job.

On to what I hope to do this week.

But first! – I followed a Squirrel this week.  I watched a free template quilting class with Donelle McAdams. And then decided to sign up for the 8 week Next Steps online course. I have most of the templates she will use for the course, but have not used them enough to feel comfortable with template quilting. So I jumped in and signed up for the course. It’s through Sew Steady University.

Block One sewn and prepped for quilting. Picking out thread. I’m using Fancy That – Song Book by Moda fabrics and added a Benartex for the back ground. The backing is a piece left over from my stash, Rambling Rose by Moda.

My grandson decided to help pick out thread for the quilt block. I did like his selection of yellows!

Picking thread evolved into building thread towers!

To-Do Tuesday April 26th

1. Week 10 (and beyond?) of EPP Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden
2. Quilt & bind baby quilt
3. Lesson One of Next Steps template quilting course

Linking to To-Do Tuesday hosted by Linda of Texas Quilt Gal

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