WMUTeach

This UFO came back from the long arm quilter this weekend so I added the binding during the VQW and I can check it off my UFO list. It is #14 on my list of 12.

It finished at 76 X 78 and I am all kinds of happy to have it finished. It will likely be gifted to someone, some day. This was from Lori Holt's "Scrappiness is Happiness" book but I eliminated most of the novelty blocks and replaced them with traditional blocks. My quilting group did this as a sew along and I got bogged down and finished it late. Not crazy about the finish but I can call it done and I learned much along the way: the trials of re-working a pattern, following what feels good to you and the importance of keeping up with a group sew-a-long. Diminishing bin of blue scraps is a bonus. Would I take this one on again, not likely, although I like individual blocks tremendously.

Quossum

@WMUTeach , that finish gives me the blues in the BEST way! Beautiful quilt despite--or because of!--the trials and tribulations of its creation. Learning experiences are good!

WMUTeach

Thanks, Quossum. Yes, indeed the learning experiences are good. I know I make my quilts for a purpose but I do not know what the purpose of this one is. I will just have to wait and hum "let it go, let it go" for a little while.

Lena1952

In spite of the difficulties your quilt turned out amazing, WMUTeach. Such a soothing quilt to have been so much trouble.

Quossum

July’s #9 is DONE!

My project was to take this quilt that I made for my husband back in 2003 and repurpose it. On the left, you see what it looked like after spending most of those years on the back on my husband’s easy chair. While the front was threadbare, the back was fine!

So, I took these steps:

• Cut off the binding.
• Sliced the quilt into four equal pieces.
• Placed two pieces together with the back of the quilt facing outwards, the front facing inwards, with a piece of leftover batting in between.
• ”Requilted” the pads. I did straight diagonal lines one direction, then the other, creating diamonds across the surface to put these new layers together. You can’t really see the “new” quilting that much as it all blends in with the quilt’s original quilting.
• Machine bound the edges. Since these pads were now two quilts plus some batting thick, I used some of my 4.5” strips instead of the 2.5” strips that I usually use for binding.

You can see by the one shoo-fly block that I’d pieced into the back how the quilt looked in its prime. Now, it gets to live on for at least a bit longer as crate pads for the corgis. Fire is the one modeling!

Now to work on my July Optimism blocks!

WMUTeach

And here is my Corgi grand-dog, Indy. He is always ready for a photo shoot!

Quossum

Corgis for the win! We have two corgis and two standard poodles. House full of fun!

Lena1952

A quilt with two lives! I love it. Such pretty crate mats for such handsome fellows/gals.

WMUTeach

I can't imagine the amount of energy you have in your home with two corgis and then two of the large size poodles. My one corgi grand-dog has more energy than any dog I have been around. He is just a hoot when he goes for an evening walk with the neighborhood dog parents. He is always at the back of the pack nipping or nosing at any one of the 5 or 6 dogs that slow down or stop for a sniff. I can hear Sargent Carter from the Jim Nabors TV program yelling, MOVE IT! Move it! MOVIE IT! coming from his doggie lips. But he is a charmer, an entertainer and just too cute when he sits on his haunch and smiles at you.

You life with dogs must be grand. And after all this time... I never knew or more likely I forgot you are a corgi mom.

Quossum

My husband and I are very into the sport of dog Agility, where the human directs the dog through an obstacle course of jumps, ramps, and so forth. It’s fun and fast! So our dogs are also our hobby-buddies. My younger poodle is also my jogging buddy, so we all keep each other on our toes!