18th Finish for 2022

It was a busy, busy weekend and I got some stuff done! On Saturday, I finished the vintage 4 patch quilt! After washing it measured 64" x 72". I did overdye it Sunday morning in a brown dye to help tone down the section I added and the borders.

I did go and do a bit of shopping on Saturday. I need three 8" cake pans for a birthday cake I need to make. I only had two 8" round cake pans, but I bought three since they were a bit heavier than what I had and I wanted all the layers to bake the same. I needed a bigger offset spatula and that was on sale. I had to get the gray skull spatula just because and I found some Texas sized muffin papers that are hard to find. I double up the coupons by using the ones for 40% off and 25% off my entire order.

I did work on my denim jacket a bit. I need to repair the lining which I should have done before it got so bad. I made a pattern for the piece I needed to replace at the neck. I then machine sewed it on the jacket.

While the lining was open at the neck area, I decided I needed to fix the inside pocket first. It took a couple hours, but the pocket area all fixed. There is handwork that will be needed to repair the lining at the neck area. Here is the before and after

I then made some chocolate zucchini muffins.

I then worked on my oldest quilt top that I pieced. I made this top in 1977/1978 so it is  44-45 years old. It is a scrappy barn raising log cabin. I started quilting in 1975 and didn't have a scrap pile like I do now. I worked at a JC Penny's store and we sold fabric. I would buy 1/8 or 1/4 yard pieces of every print we had, because I thought all quilts were scrappy since that is all I had seen in a magazine we had at work. I knew nothing about quilts when I started.  The top measures 94" x 115". It is a good thing I have this 8' x8' table!  Here I have it partially pin basted.

As you can see the table is not big enough for this quilt. I pin basted as much as I could. Then I dropped down the leaf so I could reach more of the quilt to pin baste.

I then pulled unpinned basted part of the quilt up on table, smoothed it out, and got it pin basted.

This quilt was the second large quilt I had made and back then I didn't have a large table to work on. I remember eventually I used a door propped up on saw horses as a working table. Anyway, the border at one end of the quilt is a bit full so there will be some working in of the fullness when I quilt this. I might look at this again and see if taking it apart and resewing it would help because it is pretty bad.