A lot of quilty goodness is happening out here in Podunk. The Delightful Daisy quilt is looking pretty cute. I can't wait to get this girl off the frame and on display. By my unreliable calculations it should be ready to share here on the blog by next Monday or Tuesday. I'll blame the quilting design for my slow progress because the quilting is 99% ruler work. The only free motion quilting is the stems and leaves of the large daisies.
But let's be honest, this quilt shouldn't even be in the rotation. Remember me setting up a new plan to only have three projects in rotation on this cart. Maybe I need a cart with more tiers. HAHA! In order to get closer to my goal, I will be removing the Heart Pops project out of rotation. The one block will be moved to the orphan blocks box because I just don't feel like making the B plan for this project.
As for the Old Town Quilt I'm ignoring it right now but it will stay in the rotation. A couple more blocks have been made but I'm not seeing any progress on this until after Delightful Daisies is finished.
What will take the place of Heart Pops? HST's! A bunch of them. I've decided to start tackling the
THOUSANDS of HST's I've been collecting over the years. This is my second session of sorting. The first sorting session of HST's was the bag of 1.5 inch. It came up short of what was needed for the planned project. So, I grabbed the bags of 1.75 inch HST's.
After they were sorted by color, I started sorting by prints and how many I would need of each print. Oh my, what have I started! This is going to take forever! But I already have more than what is needed for the quilt. Yippee!
The quilt will have 169 blocks. Each block will need (4) matching hst's and (2) matching hst's. The singles are extras not needed for the block.
I bet some of you are wondering what happened to
the green gingham project. Well, the ruffler foot I order was not delivered on time. As you all know when things get lost in the mail you never know when they will arrive. So, I carefully folded it up and placed it on the ironing station and that's when I decided to start the HST quilt. As soon as all the HST's are sorted and carefully placed in the cart of projects the gingham project will be snuck into the rotation. It's a quick project that should only take a day to make. Well, that's the plan...HAHA!
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That's a lot of HSTs! If you can make a dent in those you'll be doing really well on the scrap clean up front.
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