September Fabric Usage

Guess what?! I didn't bring in an inch of fabric this month! To be honest, I WANTED to. There is a new line I'm itching to select a few pieces from, as well as several solids I need to restock. 

But I forced myself to wait a few weeks, as I knew my usage wouldn't be that great. Taking a vacation was awesome, but it doesn't help the productivity does it? 😉 So other than bee and BOM blocks and backings for a couple of embroidery samplers, all the fabric used was for the chair quilt - top and back. And that's ok!

September Fabric Usage

Used up: 6.45 yards [5.15 projects + 1.3 recycled/donated]
Brought in: 0.0 yards 
Net: -6.45 yards

Find a Seat

It's been a full month since I checked in about the chair quilt, and I finally have a completed quilt top!

Measuring 47" x 62", I ended up using the OOP Mod Tex Flower in Sorbet by Studio RK to fill in around the table and chairs as I puzzled them all together. It's chaotic, and overwhelming, and I love it.

Now to make a pieced quilt back and consider a quilting plan. It feels good to finally have a quilt project thoroughly underway!

whisper wind sky

It was Leanne's @shecanquilt turn to choose a Bee Sewcial @beesewcial prompt this month, and she chose "whisper, wind, and sky, mainly the clouds in the sky. Consider the movement of the breath during a whisper or of the clouds in the sky." She asked that we make improv blocks using fabric “crumbs” - no piece larger than 2” on a side. "Your crumbs can be used in any shapes you like, cut with or without rulers or both, can be all of one shape (e.g. rectangles or long stripes ) or a combination of all shapes." The colours requested ran from bright white to darkest black and the blues and possibly other colours we might see in a daytime sky.

I opted to create entirely ruler-free, and made two blocks, the first measuring about 10" x 10". Despite the fact that Seattle experiences its share of cloudy and rainy days, we count any day with sunshine or blue sky a win, brief though it may be.

The second block measures approximately 11.5" x 18" and represents the band of dark clouds we sometimes see over the lake behind our house prior to a weather shift. Hubby or I always comment when one of us sees a band of dark clouds, as they are so striking. 

Both blocks will be sent to Leanne untrimmed, per her request. They were a bit of a challenge for me, as I don't usually save fabric crumbs, so pretty much had to cut up larger scraps into smaller pieces to play with. I'm curious.... do you save crumbs 2" or smaller? Do you keep them separate from your other scraps? Curious minds want to know.

Floral Stitches V

It was pretty perfect timing that a new floral stitches sampler arrived in the mail the day after I got back from vacation. I was definitely in the mood.

It felt like this one - a poppy?? - was one of the quicker samplers in the series. In fact, I had a really hard time stopping. So I took the time to add echo stitching inside the flower petals, and a combination 'border' - first a twisted chain stitch, followed outside by a back stitch. At that point, I called it done!

Linking up with Favorite Finish {September} with Yvonne @quiltingjetgirl!

Like, Totally :: September

Near the end of August, I took my #1 sewing machine in for a cleaning, then promptly left for a 10 day vacation. That all resulted in over a two-week break from sewing. Period.

So over the weekend, I finally drug out a backup machine, and got to work on this month's #seamqgbom2024 blocks - a combo of striped and regular HSTs.

Boy that felt good! The blocks were straight-forward enough to be a perfect reintroduction back into sewing. Just two more sets of blocks to come in this delightful BOM.