Aves 2018 - Week 9
This year I thought I would take on a quilting challenge, so I signed up for Aves, a Block of the Week quilt by Kathryn Kerr of Green Avenue Quilts.
Every Sunday starting 21 January 2018, I receive the instructions to complete one block for the quilt. The plan is to complete the current block before the next one is released.
Week 9
Be careful what you wish for. Yes, I wanted to give the large circles a break and go back to the smaller blocks. And that is what I got - three inch blocks - but eight of them.
With only three colours involved, the cutting out was done in an hour or so, and the pile of pieces I ended up with was so tiny in comparison to what I have been working with recently. And seeing as this was another week of foundation piecing (and I needed to print the templates out at work), I then had Sunday afternoon off to enjoy the sunshine and do as I please.
Did I go enjoy the sunshine? No. I ended up in front of the sewing machine again, making a door snake. I've been meaning to buy one for years, as the wind whistles under my front door when it is particularly windy. I found some thick fabric in my stash that oddly seemed to be colour coordinated to my house. And I had almost a whole bag of hobby stuffing that I've been trying to get rid of. I guess it was meant to be. It isn't the most glamourous thing in the world, but it should do the trick. Now I just have to wait for a particularly windy day to see if it works.
On Monday evening, it was time to get started on the sewing. Except it took so long to pin the things, and I was tired, and the cats I were babysitting arrived. I had 32 2" blocks requiring two seams each, so I did one seam for all on the Tuesday, and the other seam on the Wednesday. Thursday was the time to turn the 32 blocks into 16, and on Friday morning I turned the 16 into 8, as unusually, I was ready for work ahead of time. All I had to do on Saturday morning was press, trim and remove all the paper foundations. I'd planned ahead with the ironing so that I could do a bit of seam twirling, which is always nice, and makes the seams all flat and neat.
This was a fun but fiddly little block. Four of them will end up being in the corners of the quilt, and the other four will be adjacent to last week's blocks.
Every Sunday starting 21 January 2018, I receive the instructions to complete one block for the quilt. The plan is to complete the current block before the next one is released.
Week 9
Be careful what you wish for. Yes, I wanted to give the large circles a break and go back to the smaller blocks. And that is what I got - three inch blocks - but eight of them.
With only three colours involved, the cutting out was done in an hour or so, and the pile of pieces I ended up with was so tiny in comparison to what I have been working with recently. And seeing as this was another week of foundation piecing (and I needed to print the templates out at work), I then had Sunday afternoon off to enjoy the sunshine and do as I please.
Did I go enjoy the sunshine? No. I ended up in front of the sewing machine again, making a door snake. I've been meaning to buy one for years, as the wind whistles under my front door when it is particularly windy. I found some thick fabric in my stash that oddly seemed to be colour coordinated to my house. And I had almost a whole bag of hobby stuffing that I've been trying to get rid of. I guess it was meant to be. It isn't the most glamourous thing in the world, but it should do the trick. Now I just have to wait for a particularly windy day to see if it works.
On Monday evening, it was time to get started on the sewing. Except it took so long to pin the things, and I was tired, and the cats I were babysitting arrived. I had 32 2" blocks requiring two seams each, so I did one seam for all on the Tuesday, and the other seam on the Wednesday. Thursday was the time to turn the 32 blocks into 16, and on Friday morning I turned the 16 into 8, as unusually, I was ready for work ahead of time. All I had to do on Saturday morning was press, trim and remove all the paper foundations. I'd planned ahead with the ironing so that I could do a bit of seam twirling, which is always nice, and makes the seams all flat and neat.
This was a fun but fiddly little block. Four of them will end up being in the corners of the quilt, and the other four will be adjacent to last week's blocks.
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