Sweet Pickins

 Sweet Pickins!  That will be her name.  At this stage she measures in at 18.75 x 23.25.  A three inch border should finish her off nicely.  Now to decide on that border.  I put way to much thought into the borders as you all know.  Someday I may quit complaining about my border issue.  But for now WAH, WAH, WAH!

 Each little basket block including red border is 4 inch finished.

 Working with scraps is always fun and quick.  Each HST was left over trimmings from my cherry quilt(previous post) that's still on the frame waiting for one more pass.  

Now comes the dreaded borders.  I like this combo, but I used the same border on my barn quilt.  Might use the same combo with the gingham binding, scalloped border. 

 All I can say is YUK!  More cherries, really upset my tummy.

 The large gingham made me dizzy on such a small quilt.

 So far the one below is what pleases my eye the most.  Whatcha think about a scalloped border, with the gingham as the binding?!  Yes I love gingham, I want it in every quilt for some reason.  I'd really like some ric-rac on this quilt but my stash of ric-rac had every color but the color I wanted, can't justify going into town for $3 of ric-rac.   And you know this quilt is so small that quilting it on the DSM with a walking foot and straight lines might just do the trick.

Until next time"Quilt out of Your Comfort Zone!"

Lea

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Take a Peek Tuesday

Yesterday was design wall Monday, today we'll call it Take a peek Tuesday.  So here's a peek at what I'm trying to get finished and on the frame.  Had I not decided to miter the borders it would be on the frame.   Stepping out of the comfort of straight borders and into a very uncomfortable miter border.  So I dragged out every Quilt reference book, and search the net for tutorials, and still I'm afraid to make those corner stitches.  

 It'll be this evening before I can get to this, today I'm spending the day with momma.  Girls day out!  Maybe I should move this to the floor marking and pinning those corners.  I'm up for advice on these corners if you have any suggestions.

 Look at all the red!  It's slowly taking over the Blue sewing room.  Can't wait to get everything quilted up and switched to red, so I hung the barn quilt even though it will need to come down when I paint.

Today I'll be looking for a border fabric for this one.  It would be nice to get it quilted and in the spare bedroom before summer is over and I change to winter quilts in that room.

Until next time "Quilt out of your Comfort Zone!"

Lea

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Scrap basket test block

These scraps are from the 15 cherry blocks in the previous post.  Its a bunch, no way I can throw these out.  So I made a test block.  A whopping 4.5 inches!  

There's enough scrap to make 24 basket blocks with no savable scraps, Yeah!  And of course there will be cherries in the quilt!  

Until next time "Quilt out of your Comfort Zone!"

Lea

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