Alycia Quilts - Quiltygirl: hourglass

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

To Do Tuesday

I sorta missed last Tuesday - but.... it was hiking day - so its all good!

My list was to:

start another Shoo Fly quilt
Got some blocks done and a lot of parts for more, I pre prepped them and and using them for LEader/Enders
and start another Greek Key quilt

Got two rounds on this one

So for this week:

*I will keep working on the shoo flys and the Greek Keys - and also -

adding this to the list:

* Hourglass Blocks~!

I did a couple last week .... and thought - I can make one a day...

so here I am with this weeks batch:

Plus - you know - whatever other start that I dig into again.. ha ha... there are so many fun things - plus I am also working on my second mystery of A11.... its really fun to stitch along with everyone:

Linking up with
https://homesewnbyus.com/ for To do Tuesday

Monday, October 12, 2020

More Double wedding ring... and a new start!!! ( its plaid!!)

Happy Monday Morning!!

I have news.... both good and bad... first the good... I have finished my Double Wedding Ring quilt... the bad... the wind was howling - as in - we could not see the barns for the blowing dirt - and so... I didn't take my quilt outside - goodness! it might get dirty - so you will have to see it one more time... in all its glory ;-)

Here are a few more photos of it during the quilting tho!

I am a huge fan of Kimmy B owner of KimmyQuilt she is just one of the most amazing teachers - and she gets you to understand how to see things in your head. Anyways she sells these really cool MELON Rulers - and you use them to get looks like this!

some of these blocks had too much fabrics - so you see how I kinda smushed some of it together? I tried to take a good photo, but once I pulled it off the frame - these puckers kinda just blend in...

this was one of the better borders - so it made finding a straight line a little rough, but again - this is not someones family heirloom - it is becoming mine, so its all good, and I am glad to just have quilted it rather than fix it!

A flat view

another funky border - the cool thing here, is I could kinda gather up the fullness of this side and make it behave.

When I first started I tried to make my Melon quilting all the same size - as I started working through it I had an epiphany moment! What if I made each melon go to the edge of the melon ( as best I could) would that help keep the bubbles down? and it DID!!!! So each melon is not exactly the same size of quilting, but it is the same pattern, and the same ratio within the melon... ya... I used math..

Okay - just kidding - I used my eye and made the feathers fit... didn't want you to think I was a genious or anything.....

oh look .... squirrel..... In my blog reading I was reading Cluck Cluck Sew's blog and she talked about a block a day and then she had a little tutorial, and then on that tutorial is had a 5inch square size ... and you all know that I have 4 million batrillion 5 inch squares.... and