Sunday, January 6, 2008

Project Progress

This is the progress on my projects since New Year's Day.

1. I have pieced another 17 color catcher string blocks. They still need to be trimmed, but that is a job I will leave till an evening in front of the TV. This is an ongoing project. As I have color catchers and strings of fabric, I continue to make these and store them in a box. When I have enough to make a quilt, I sit down and piece the top. I will never run out of string blocks, nor will this project ever end.


2. This is the color catcher string quilt that I quilted on New Year's Day. It now has a binding machine sewn to the front. All this quilt needs is the hand work to fasten the binding to the back of the quilt. I will be taking this project with me to work on at my Monday night quilt group.

3. This is my dryer string diamond quilt. I finished this quilt to the flimsy stage back on May 27, 2007. It was time it was quilted! I quilted it using the Baptist Fan template. This one just needs the binding now.

4. This is my Christmas Patience Corners quilt. I worked on adding blocks to this one in the last couple of days. Currently this top is 73" wide. I bought some backing on Friday (from the last of the bolts left from Liquidation World's sale) that was 108" wide. I think I will make this quilt as wide as I can to make maximum use of the backing. That means I will likely need to add another 1 1/2 blocks (if you count a group of four squares as a block) to the width of this quilt for a total of 7 1/2 blocks in width. I started this quilt top back in December 2006.


This is a picture of the wide fabric that I bought for the back of my Patience Corner quilt. It is bright and wild. Those flowers are at least 10" across. I think I mentioned before that bright green is my new favorite colour!

17 comments:

  1. You have been BUSY! I'm doing a Chinese Coins quilt with dryer sheets now. Once it's done I think I will do your diamond verions. I really like that.

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  2. You've been very busy! I love the diamond strings too. I made one last year and will probably make another.

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  3. love these quilts! as I told you, I am going to have to play with my charms the same as you!

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  4. I love what you've been working on Norma - and you're right, there is plenty of evidence in your post that green is your favourite colour!
    *hugs*
    Tazzie
    :-)

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  5. I like all 3 but the top one with the green with a hint of lime is my favourite!

    Great use of fabric scraps!

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  6. You have been busy. I really like the first green one too.

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  7. I love all these. They are beautiful!

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  8. You are not only fast but also must have great time management skills because you sure get alot done! Beautiful.

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  9. I see lots and lots of green, LOL. Slightly different shades but green, nonetheless--the new neutral?

    You had a prolific 3rd day weekend!

    I love how your patience corner is turning out--looks like you are using white frames? I can go either way when the squares come or get started with some that are already here? Think the cream would work?

    Oh, and happy blogiversary--Pam says ours is coming up Feb 6th. I lost my first one but we started at the same time, after Cher set hers up.

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  10. love the quilts Norma! you have been busy!

    i heard that the sale at Liquidation World is still going strong, i'm heading over tomorrow to find some deals of my own lol!

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  11. I love your quilts. I have been thinking about making a string quilt for some time (lots of scraps to use up). Do you use an old sheet to sew the strips onto? I recently started blogging. Please check out my blog.

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  12. Great quilts! Happy Bloggiversary

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  13. You're an inspiration. The quilts are beautiful.

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  14. Is the color catcher pattern one that you made up or is it a commercial pattern? What size are the rectangles? I love it! We would use the pattern for our guild's "Comfort the Children" quilts. Thank You.

    Judy in Michigan

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  15. Can't go wrong with a string quilt! Your quilts are wonderful..now you have me thinking, head to the stash!!!

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  16. Just love your string quilts, that is a definate to make this year, I have had this on my to do list for too long.

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  17. I love everything you're working! I remember when you started your patience corners quilt - I love it. A great scrappy quilt. :-)

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