All Trenched 150 Canadian Rerun

   150 Canadian Women quilt will rerun beginning the end of October, date to be determined.  This time around you have to have the pattern as we are only going to make the blocks online live. Join the 150 Cdn Quilt Rerun facebook page and follow along with us.

   Paper Sky block 4 is uploaded. Blocks 1, 2 or 3 are available for purchase.

   My mice domain is gone! Its gone from this perfect advantage point to

this mess,

and this dirt field. Now them meeces are gone.
Mom says I'll have to settle for watching the neighbours to the north. But they up and got a mouse exterminator. My life has been upended what will I do! Please send prayers. 

 

Border Fabric Not Long Enough?

      We can finally breathe again outside. The smoke has blown away. The sky is blue. So what did I do today but spent the time indoors putting a border on a table topper. Originally, It was going to grow into a lap quilt and then someone came along and said they thought it was beautiful and would go in their kitchen. Don't you just love when that happens. This saved me a whole lot of work in figuring out how to make it bigger. Plus, they will now get the placemats that came in a kit I won from P&B Textiles. Ain't life grand!

Oh no, I preshrunk the kit fabric and now the border fabric is wide enough for the sides but, not for the top and bottom borders without adding in 1" of fabric. What a waste of a strip of fabric and very time consuming. Plus, the fabric for the back isn't wide enough for a long armer to quilt it nor long enough put it on the back of the placemats. Crapola. 

Ah ha, as the gears grind to a halt, make a partial seam border. It worked. So the moral of this story is, next time you need just a little bit of fabric strip to make a border, try sewing it on with partial seams.

   Partial seams are when you sew strips of fabric around a center instead of sewing on the two sides and then the top and bottom. The first seam is sewn from the end A to 1/2. The second seam is sewn from B to C, The third from D to E. The fourth from F to G. Then close the first seam from 1/2 to H.

   As for the back I'm going to cut the back in half lengthwise and add a 10" strip down the middle. Then use the same fabric for the back of the placemats. 

Thinking now maybe it would have been easier making it into a lap quilt.😀

Just Around The Corner

   The last hoorah. 

   Turned on the furnace today. Days are shorter. Almost fall equinox. You know what that means. IT'S COMFORT FOOD AND QUILTING TIME. Turkey and gravy, macaroni and cheese. 150 Canadian Women rerun and Gypsy Wife.

Remember you've got to have the patterns to participate.

   Finally got a laptop with a camera. Am still waiting for webcams. Now have to learn zoom and the multi cam linking. Everyone says it's easy, but I've been computer challenged lately. The brain is not computing. So we'll work on zoom quilt days first then advance to the quilt alongs.