On the weekend I got to play in my quilting room. I am caught up with my one quilt finish per month, so I thought I would do what ever I was inspired to do.
I pulled out my Canadian Northwind quilt. All my pieces are cut out for this one and they are all sorted into block bundles too. Whenever I want to sew on this quilt, I just have to pull a block bundle out and sew. I don't have to try and figure out where I left off and what needs to be done. It makes it so much easier, faster, and what I call brainless sewing. I made 8 more units during this sewing session.
While making this block, there are 4 places that you need to use a leader/ender, before you can finish the construction. That makes for a lot of progress on the chosen leader/ender. This time around, I chose to use the pieces for the drunkards path quilt.
As I did 8 blocks above and each one requires 4 leader/enders, that gave me 32 more drunkard's path units as well. These are definitely coming along. I am anxious to see these units done, so I can start assembling the quilt. This is going to be my spring quilt.
Prior to my little sewing session, I went to a quilt store on the way to visit my mom. While there, I found what I think, is the perfect fabric for the block sashing and the quilt sashing, of the scrappy bears paw quilt, I am going to make. You could read more about that one in an earlier post (on March 12th).
I think these colours will go very well with the browns of the bear paw blocks. In the picture it is hard to see, but within those flowery black dots is a blue dot, the same colour as the blue fabric and the reddish colour surrounding the paisley, will highlight the red cornerstones that I plan to use. Even the touches of black from the flowery dots and the dots surrounding the reddish colour will pick up the second cornerstone which will be a red and black square in a square.
Everything will come together nicely....I hope! If not, oh well, I will just take it all apart and come up with another idea. That is all part of the creative process.
Enjoy your evening everyone and take some time to play.
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