Five Shadows

Wow! Can plans change quickly!

What is up for To-Do Tuesday March 22?

1. Focus on Nebula! ✗
2. Get guest bedroom set up. New sheets, new curtains. Rearrange some furniture. ✗
3. Continue growing Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden. ✔️

My Dad passed on one week ago today. I’ll not repeat the details, you can read about Dad here and here if you are so inclined. My husband and I traveled from IN to PA to be with him. I took along the EPP, and did make some progress on it in the evenings.

Lawrence (Larry) G. Loper

December 17, 1926 – March 31, 2022

1. Nebula – not touched for obvious reasons, three more seams and it will be a top!

2. I still need to make headway on setting up a guest bedroom, but our friends who had planned on visiting this weekend had their own crisis, and are not traveling for our visit. We are all hoping a visit will still happen in the near future.

3. EPP Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden

Week 7 minus leaves that go in those odd holes. I’m using 1/2″ hexies.

Weeks 1 – 7 again minus the leaves. I’ll get to those this week. I didn’t take leaf templates with me when I traveled to be with my Dad.

Week 8 progress.

This week I’ll focus on the missing leaves. And continue working on Week 8 of Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden.

To-Do Tuesday April 5th

1. EPP continues on Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden.
2. Three more seams to finish piecing Nebula.

It’s Thursday, so I think I’ll keep that list short.

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

Weather is warming up, Spring showers have arrived, and Spring flowers are popping up!

On to quilting, what did I accomplish this week?

To-Do Tuesday March 15, 2022

1. I’m putting Nebula at the top of the list. My design wall is in the guest bedroom. I really need to get that room under control for guests coming in April! ✔️
2. Prep and start stitching week 6 of Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden. ✔️
3. Will I shop for fabrics to complete the baby quilt? ✗

1. Nebula, three of the 6 sections are sewn together. I really thought I’d have the top sewn together by now. Maybe this week! I’ll share pictures once I complete the piecing.

2. Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden

Week 6 completed.

Weeks 1-6 all stitched together.

Week 7 under way.

3. Baby quilt. Again no shopping.

Instead I pulled out an older quilt that only needed binding.

I finished it up with a flange binding, and it is now ready to donate. 48 inches x 54 1/2 inches.

What is up for To-Do Tuesday March 22?

1. Focus on Nebula!
2. Get guest bedroom set up. New sheets, new curtains. Rearrange some furniture.
3. Continue growing Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden.

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

I don’t know where this past week went, but I sure didn’t get much done in the way of quilting.

To-Do Tuesday March 8, 2022

1. Work on baby quilt, but I have to shop for border, back and binding. This might not happen. ✗
2. Two mug rugs for birthday gifts for two quilting friends. ✗ half way there
3. Continue EPP Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden.  ✔️
4. Finish piecing Nebula top. ✗

1. Baby quilt – I didn’t go shopping, and made no progress on completing the baby quilt.

Here is where I left off on sewing together the quilt top.

2. I only completed and gifted one mug rug.

Made in shades of greens, my friend’s fav color, March birthday. 8″ square. I used scrap fabrics and Superior Threads So Fine 50 weight for piecing and stitch-in-the-ditch quilting. Bitty Barn Block pattern by This & That.

3. Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden

Week 5 completed.

And stitched in place. My flower garden is growing!

5. I hope to finish piecing the final section of Nebula today. Didn’t touch it this past week.

This is the last section waiting to be pieced together. Then the 6 sections are sewn together for a completed quilt top.

What to work on this week?

To-Do Tuesday March 15, 2022

1. I’m putting Nebula at the top of the list. My design wall is in the guest bedroom. I really need to get that room under control for guests coming in April!
2. Prep and start stitching week 6 of Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden.
3. Will I shop for fabrics to complete the baby quilt?

Birthday month is underway! Hubs and I have celebrated our birthdays. Next Sunday we plan to gather with our family to celebrate our adult children’s birthdays. Not sure if the 13th will work for everyone. We might have to wait until the 27th.

Spring is arriving!

Snowdrops are pushing through the cold ground!

What sewing happened here during the past week?

To-Do Tuesday March 1, 2022

1. Finish piecing Nebula top.
2. Stitch together weeks 1-4 of Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden. Prep EPP week 5. ✔️
3. Circles! Granny’s Garden, continue with making the circle backgrounds. ✗

1. Nebula top

I did not complete the top as I had hoped. I have one section left to sew together. Then the six sections will be sewn together into a finished top.

Here are the five sections pieced waiting to be joined. I’m hopeful I’ll piece the final section and then get them all sewn together.

2.Week 1-4 are completed for Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden.

EPP 1/2″ hexies.

Piecing week 5. I’m still behind on this weekly quilt along. I should be working on week 11. Even though I’m behind, I’m happy with my progress. I guess I’m ahead in one way, I have hexie papers and fabrics cut for the whole quilt!

3. Circle for Granny’s Garden

Circles bottom right are pressed and ready to appliqué. Circles on bottom left are ready to be pressed.

Top circles waiting to be sewn to interfacing.

Things I should be working on this week -

To-Do Tuesday March 8, 2022

1. Work on baby quilt, but I have to shop for border, back and binding. This might not happen.
2. Two mug rugs for birthday gifts for two quilting friends.
3. Continue Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden.
4. Finish piecing Nebula top.

Linking to Linda’s To-Do Tuesday Link on Texas Quilt Gal Blog.

Another week has flown by! And now it is March! Birthday month at my house! 5 of the seven of us are born in March. Starting with my husband on the 4th, me the 7th, and three of our five adult children all grown up out of the house, have birthdays later this month. We still get together for birthdays. It’s a fun and busy month!

Quilting happened this week -

To-Do Tuesday February 22, 2022

1. End of month is coming 5 days! Have to finish background pieces for Nebula, my OMG. ✔️
2. Hand stitching EPP Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden, finish week 4. ✔️
3. Granny’s Garden, prep background circles if I finish Nebula background. ✔️

1. Piece background for Nebula.

Happy Dance! Background units are all pieced and 3 of the 6 wedge sections are sewn together! Read about it here.

2. Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden

Week 4 completed.

Last night I thought I better start stitching the first 4 weeks together before it gets too confusing.

The layout are weeks 1-4 in their proper places. Stitching was a bit slow going for me. Hopefully I’ll get faster at stitching as the year progresses.

3. Granny’s Garden, prep background circles

Interfacing and background fabric circles cut. I stitched just a few circles to the interfacing. They need to be trimmed and turned to right side. Progress!

To-Do Tuesday March 1, 2022

1. Finish piecing Nebula top.
2. Stitch together weeks 1-4 of Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden. Prep EPP week 5.
3. Circles! Granny’s Garden, continue with making the circle backgrounds.

Linking to To-Do Tuesday hosted by Linda of Texas Quilt Gal. Go take a look at what everyone is working on this week, and join in the fun!

Now that I’m sitting down to write a post, I see that I have accomplished some quilting this week. I had a two day headache and wasn’t ‘braining’ well. Oh those severe changes in weather do bring on those headaches. Blah. After tempts in the teens, we swung up to 50F and all the snow melted. Now we are back down in the 20F and expecting more snow.

Anyway, here is what I did sewing wise this week.

To-Do Tuesday February 15, 2022

1. Continue piecing Nebula background  ✔️
2. Keep hand stitching EPP Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden ✔️
3. Granny’s Garden ✔️

1. Continue piecing Nebula background

Piecing is coming along and I’m playing with the layout. My design wall is not big enough to hold a queen size quilt! Top pieced triangles are folded under. I have more background pieced, but not pinned in place.

Poor photo, showing the original layout with no background. I’m liking the open star in the first photo.

Finishing background is my One Monthly Goal for February, so that is priority now. Get ‘er done!

2. EPP Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden

Week 3 complete. 1/2″ hexies.

Week 4 progress.

Where I’m heading. Weeks one – three lay out with bits of week four in progress. I work on this for an hour or two in the evening while watching tv or a movie. The quilt along is on week 8, I’m slowing catching up.

3.Granny’s Garden

This is the second block for Granny’s Garden almost ready for machine stitching.

I still need to organize the pieces for the next 40 blocks to streamline production. Each of the 42 blocks will have flowers appliquéd to the cream background circle. I’m thinking of prepping all the backgrounds first. Then they will be ready for each flower. I started by prepping the flower pieces, switching to the background might get me to seeing more finished blocks!

To-Do Tuesday February 22, 2022

1. End of month is coming 5 days! Have to finish background pieces for Nebula, my OMG.
2. Hand stitching EPP Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden, finish week 4.
3. Granny’s Garden, prep background circles if I finish Nebula background.

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

Valentine’s Day caught me by surprise. I had nothing special planned. With grandkids here over the weekend, we did do some crafting, coloring, Lego building, Barbie doll-ing. Then I saw a little heart bookmark tutorial on The Crafty Quilter and grands and I got busy making one each. They had fun digging through my extra charm packs to find just the right fabrics. The hearts were made and packaged up to gift before I thought about taking photos.

Also, hubs had oral surgery yesterday and is to be on a soft diet for a while. I just didn’t cook anything special last night. Today though, I’ve made a Copycat Panera Broccoli Cheddar Soup and homemade bread for supper.

What did I accomplish sewing wise this past week?

To-Do Tuesday February 8, 2022

1. Continue piecing Nebula background ✔️
2. Keep hand stitching EPP Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden ✔️
3. Grandmother’s Flower Garden ✗

1. Nebula background

18 sections completed and 8 more underway

2. EPP Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden

Week three progress. I have a long way to go to catch up. This might be a two year quilt in the making.

3. I didn’t touch Grandmother’s Flower Garden this week. Maybe this week I’ll get back to it.

I might be getting boring as far as posting as I’m keeping my to-do list the same for this week.

To-Do Tuesday February 15, 2022

1. Continue piecing Nebula background
2. Keep hand stitching EPP Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden
3. Grandmother’s Flower Garden

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

Last week the snow arrived! About 7 inches at my house, but more like 12 inched a half hour north at my daughter’s house. Last night we received just a dusting more. I do love snow!

Here is the progress I made in quilting this past week.

To-Do Tuesday February 1, 2022

1. Continue piecing Nebula background  ✔️ cutting & some sewing
2. Slow stitching EPP Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden ✔️
3. I started prepping another quilt last year to make this year – before I jumped onto the Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden wagon. I’d like to see if I could do one block a week for this 42 block Granny’s Garden quilt by Lori Holt. ✔️

1. Nebula – last year’s BOM. I’m working on the background.

Pieces cut and stitched. Slow going, but moving ahead.

2. EPP Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden

Week One completed

Week Two completed

Week Three progress.

These are 1/2″ hexies. I’m behind, but supplies did not arrive until about week two. And I’ve not attached Week One & Two together. I’ll get there eventually!

3. Grandmother’s Flower Garden

Block One of 42. Progress! I am rethinking the construction. Instead of doing one block a week, I might prep all the back ground circles first. Then stems and leaves. Otherwise I’m doing a lot of thread switching for each different fabric color. And yes, I know I could use invisible thread, just not going there … yet.

I’ve selected two labor intensive quilts for this year!  My goal for this week will be the same as last week. Progress on the three quilts.

To-Do Tuesday February 8, 2022

1. Continue piecing Nebula background
2. Keep hand stitching EPP Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden
3. Grandmother’s Flower Garden

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

Happy February everyone!

Little steps were made this past week. Not sure where this week went, but not much was spent on sewing.

To-Do Tuesday January 25, 2022

1. Work on back ground to Nebula quilt  ✔️
2. EPP Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden ✔️

1. Nebula quilt.

Piecing for the Nebula background has begun!

2. EPP Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden

Week One is all pieced. These are 1/2″ hexies. The pattern calls for 1″ hexies, but I don’t want a full size quilt, so I’m aiming for a wall hanging. We will see how it goes.

Week Two underway. The whitish rosette is part of the background.

That is it for this week. Snow is coming my way, so maybe I’ll be more productive this week.

To-Do Tuesday February 1, 2022

1. Continue piecing Nebula background
2. Slow stitching EPP Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden
3. I started prepping another quilt last year to make this year – before I jumped onto the Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden wagon. I’d like to see if I could do one block a week for this 42 block Granny’s Garden quilt by Lori Holt.

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

Once I completed my son and daughter-in-love’s quilt, I’ve moved on to getting some other quilts completed and figuring out what I should be doing quilt-wise this year. I’ll be delivering the Very Hungry Caterpillar quilt next week! That makes two happy finishes held over from previous years!

To-Do Tuesday January 18, 2022

1. Finish Hungry Caterpillar quilt  ✔️
2. Start piecing background for last year’s BOM – Nebula  ✔️
3. Work towards catching up with EPP  ✔️

1. Very Hungry Caterpillar quilt is quilted and bound!

The quilt is just about 50″ square. The top was pieced by my daughter at least 10 years ago with raw edge appliqué cut from a panel. She intended to give it to a friend as a baby gift. But something happened along the way and she never finished it or gifted it. She gave it to me, pin basted. It sat in my sewing room for years until just recently when my church offered to put together a basket for our town’s local rescue mission fundraiser.

Tiny caterpillar on a quilted leaf.

No longer hungry!

Butterfly!

Soft flannel back. Ready to donate.

2. Nebula BOM from 2021

I’ve started cutting the fabrics for the background of Nebula. I’ve a long way to go.

3. English Paper Piecing Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden

Week One progress. The leaf unit where the tip of the leaf extends into the hexie is giving me a fit. I used a friend’s Go Cutter to cut the 1/2″ hexies, but am winging cutting the leaf units. One made accurately! Two more to make for this section of the quilt. Week Four started Sunday, so I’m no way catching up. I’ll keep plodding along.

To-Do Tuesday January 25, 2022

1. Work on back ground to Nebula quilt
2. EPP Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden

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