Quilt top sewn and blue homespun scraps

I got the pink and green baby quilt top sewn together last evening. Now to find some backing fabric and get this pin basted.

I laid out all the blue pieces of homespun and devised a plan.

There were a few pieces of fabric I only needed to trim to make 3 1/2" squares. The strips I sewed together to make them wide enough to cut 3 1/2" squares.

I ended up with a nice pile of squares.

I will attack the red scraps next.

Homespun-palooza, pounds of squares, RIP Ozzy

I just had to go thru this box and see what homespun fabric was in there

There was a lot of reds including some bigger pieces, a small bit of blues, and some creams.

Then there was a small pile of other colors.

Months ago I had cut up the homespun fabric to make the red, blue and cream 9 patch quilt I showed yesterday, I had taken the red scraps and pieced them together for my alternating blocks. I hung those up on the design wall to see how many I had. Now that I have more red and bigger pieces, I will make more alternating blocks. I have no real plan right now of how big this quilt will be. I just want to turn these leftover bits into something useful.

I was moving stuff around in the fabric storage room and uncovered another bin with more homespun! Geeze!

There is not as much as that picture makes it look like. There was a bit more red, cream, odds and ends, and one piece of blue. I think this is all the homespun I have.

I received the free motion foot I ordered. Now I have a spare.

Wanda, here is the box of 3 1/2" squares I told you about and that it was heavy when I moved it.

I put it on the scale and look at the weight!  Yes, that is 12.6 pounds!

Inside are 3 1/2" squares and strips   I wonder how many quilts I could make with this?

And finally RIP Ozzy. The man was quite a character and sure lived life his way until he had to clean it up. He put out some great music. Goodbye Prince of Darkness.

What's next?

I know I need to sew together the blocks for that last baby quilt and I have lots of quilting to do, but I was thinking about what is going to be my next project. Looking at the projects sorted out on my shelves, I decided I want to start sewing together these homespun pieces that I cut several months ago. I had a picture of a quilt - yes, another 9-patch - that I thought was good looking.

I have been redoing my book that I keep pictures of projects that I have collected. I am very bad about making copies and collecting piles, but not so good about keeping them organized. I am finding piles everywhere! I have been editing and sorting and now have the majority of my ideas in one spiral bound notebook and one small 3-ring binder. I cleared off one shelf in a bookcase that was crammed with multiple notebooks over the weekend and gathered up and sorted the piles of papers that were stuffed everywhere. This has been taking more time than I thought it would, but I am glad to have the majority of it sorted and filed.

While I was clearing out stuff, I looked up and saw this box with homespun fabric in it.  I totally missed it when I was cutting the homespun 9-patch.

I am going to have to sort thru it and pull out anything I can use in the red, cream, and blue homespun 9-patch.

6th finish for 2025

It's done! It's a bit winkled.  LOL!!

I got the baby quilts pin basted. I pieced together a back from the odds and ends I had of some darker green fabric for the quilt with the green squares.

I pieced together another baby quilt so I could use up the floral fabric and all the light pinky purple strips. I ended up running out of the pink so I pieced the rest of the blocks with the green.

I had to sew some scraps together of the floral in order to get enough to make the 30 blocks I needed. Here is a shot of one of the pieced pieces.  The floral fabric I had left is pretty much a scrap.

Saturday the band had a show locally so I drove there myself. We had a big crowd and I was busy at the merch booth.

I finally saw some butterflies last week and now I see them almost every day.  One time there were three on the coneflowers.

Binding sewn on - check!

I got the binding sewn on and the corners sewn so it is on to the hand stitching this weekend.

The A/C at work got fixed yesterday. Today it is much cooler - 66 degrees right now. Getting rid of the humidity in the office helps so much! I am going to have to try and get outside and do a check on the weed situation and I need to get after the mess in the backyard. We have the possibility of rain both Saturday and Sunday so my plans have to be flexible. Have a great weekend!

Woohoo!

The log cabin is now quilted! On to the binding tonight!

So close

I am now 91.5% done with the quilting! I have what is left to be quilted marked in this photo with yardsticks.

Here is spool 5 empty.

I already have the binding made for this quilt.