On Saturday the ladies came for a sew day. One of the ladies came with this Lady of the Lake block to show and share. This block is only 5 1/2" square. Those little half square triangles on the perimeter finish at only 1" square!!! A labour of love. She does one of these blocks per week, in different colours. They are all so cute!
These are the two blocks that got completed during the day.
Another friend was working on assembling a quilt top for the guild, however she could only go so far, as she forgot to bring some of the outer blocks.
Fortunately for me, she wanted to work on something, so I pulled out my blue strings that I am making into a lattice quilt. Once I sorted her out, she managed to make a total of twelve strips. Yeah!! This was helpful. It gave me a jumpstart to my measly little four blocks that I did some time ago....lol. They were part of my test block to check out sizing.
Don't they look pretty? Sunday I saw them sitting on my table. I hadn't put them away yet. They inspired me to move a little further with this quilt. I finalized the sizing and needed to add a couple more inches to these, then I trimmed the corners and they are now ready to go. I also finalized on the two background fabrics, to make up the side triangle corners, to finish off the blocks. I'll show all of that in another post when I really set in and start working on this quilt.
It won't be long now, as I am making progress on some of the other quilts and the basket case blocks are all done. I think this one will be next. My friend did twelve strips, I had four from before, and this quilt requires forty-eight altogether. That means I need to make thirty-two more. It may seem like a lot, but these strips are what I consider mindless sewing. You sit there and just pull a string and sew it on. Very calming.
Take care everyone.
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