Jen's Quilts

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 30 I finally had a chance to get back to the baby quilt on Saturday evening.  I finished quilting the coloured squares in purple thread but decided it wasn't enough.  So I've now started quilting the lighter rectangles. Here is a preview for anyone playing along at home: When the new block was released on Sunday, I was pleasantly surprised to find a single, 6 1/2 " block.  Wow.  I was out most of the day, but when I returned in the evening, I had it cut out, and then started to put it together.  I decided to call it quits that night even though I only had two seams to go. I managed to sneak one of them...

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 30 Simpler this week?  Well...  I have another eight blocks to make, but they are at least a little smaller, being 3 1/2" blocks.  They are also constructed of flying geese, and I have done plenty of those so far for this quilt.  So really not much to report this week. Just some cutting, pinning, sewing, ironing, cutting, pinning, sewing, ironing, trimming, pinning, sewing, ironing, pinning, sewing, ironing, pinning, sewing, ironing, typing, photo, typing. It is nice using some different colours, now that we are working on the outer part of the quilt.  And now that this week is done, I can spend Saturday working on the b...

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 30 If this is week 30, then I have 15 weeks to go. And I'll be overseas for three of them, so I guess I won't be finishing on schedule. After last week's big border construction, I was really hoping for an easy week, and simple 6 1/2" block. I was half right. It was a 6 1/2" block, but I had to make eight of them. With a lot to do last week, I got started on this late. it was nothing technical, but there was just so much of it. I had 32 sub-blocks involving covered corners and 64 foundation pieced sub-blocks to make. Its a good thing there has been a lot of tv to watch while I sit and cut and pin and iron, while intermitten...

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 29 After the huge amount of assembly last week, I was looking forward to something a little simpler.  It was not to be.  This week it was time to start on the border.  The instructions said we were getting these blocks now so that we could spend a few weeks working on them.  But I didn't sign up for a block over then next few weeks or so.  I signed up for a block of the week. There was nothing complicated about this week, but it was a lot of work.  As usual, I used the fast flying geese method to put the pieces together - there is less cutting out initially, and the pieces are bigger too.  But they seemed never ending...

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 28 This week we received some very exciting but huge instructions - we would be sewing together almost every block made so far. Still not feeling too well, I decided to start by laying out all the blocks I needed.  This is where I encountered my first problem - I didn't have enough blocks.  I needed 8 small stripey blocks, but I had used all the ones I'd made.  I checked the instructions from weeks ago - it said to make 20, and I'd used all 20 in different parts of the quilt already.  I then cross checked all those blocks, and I used them all in the right place.  I had to conclude that the instructions were incorrect and I shou...