This month, I attended an Unfinished Project Weekend, which went off very well. So nice to work beside like minded people, bounce ideas off each other, chat, eat some delicious food, and focus on just one thing. We had three days in a big room where we could leave our machines set up, we were given morning and afternoon teas, and lunch each day, and could stay until 9pm if we wanted to! I really enjoyed the three days - catching up with people that I hadn't seen in a while, uninterrupted sewing time, and the air-con in the venue kept the 37+ temps at bay. (Very warm for mid-March.)
It was hard to decide what projects to take to work on but my final choice was three projects: Roshaan's quilt, Amelie's quilt, and the blue strip twist quilt.
R's quilt needed quilting and I completed several hours on it but the space didn't allow me to spread it out properly, so I just did the straight line quilting in-the-ditch and diagonal lines across the blocks. I finished the quilting at home.
The blocks for the pink-ish plus quilt for Amelie had been all cut out and laid out on my portable design board (a flannel backed tablecloth) so I worked on piecing the blocks into rows and then into a (partial) top. However, I must have measured incorrectly last year when I did the layout on the design tablecloth. I had 16 x 4" squares across the quilt instead of the thirteen I wanted. So I ended up unpicking three squares from the end of each row and tidying it up. I have to lengthen the top with another three or four rows and that required more brain power than I had on the weekend. I will get back to it eventually.
The 8 1/2" strip blocks were all ready pieced and cut out for the blue strip twist quilt. See what I did with them here More photos and explanations as it was my contribution to Scrap Happy Day for March.
Roshaan's quilt: finished size (after quilting and washing) = 51" x 75" (129.5 x 190.5 cm.) Pattern is one I have used regularly with I Spy blocks. All fabrics from my stash. I quilted the border in a different way - with the walking foot but just meandering slowly down each side three times, crossing over the lines occasionally. Another quilter at the Unfinished Projects Weekend showed me this and I quite liked it for it ease of quilting and simplicity. I'm happy I've now finished quilts for the four cousins in that family - now to start on other quilts.
There was a trading table at the Unfinished Projects Weekend! Temptation. I tried really hard to resist but if I bought something it was helping the Days for Girls group (which I'm part of) so I did buy a few bits and pieces. I couldn't resist a nice piece of batik and a pretty print with birds on it. There was a 2m piece of a Japanese fabric which would go nicely into my box of Japanese fabrics. (One day I will make a lovely quilt out of those fabrics!) I also purchased a stitchery kit of a rooster, with a friend in mind for it.
March 2025 fabric tally
Fabric used: - 5 m Fabric acquired: + 6 m
Running tally for 2025: - 23.25 m (I'm still ahead for 2025!)
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