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 45 - The final week This is it. The last week. Four more 3 1/2" blocks, and the final assembly. No issues with the four blocks, just some half square triangles sewn together. Fun to do all the same. Now to sew all the leftover blocks and pieces together, and add them to the main quilt. Did I ever mention how or why I signed up for this at the beginning of the year? Last Christmas break I didn't get up to much. I pottered around the house and spent some time on the internet googling. I found lots of ideas for quilting projects - some of which I am still planning to do - and also thought it would be fun to do a block of the month or ...

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 44 Almost there... Four corner blocks to make this week.  The last of the 6 1/2" blocks, but not the last of the blocks entirely - that is next week. A fairly simple design this week, but that didn't stop me from buggering it up right near the end by not following the pattern close enough.  And having to spend time in front of the TV unpicking.  Oh well.  I got there in the end, and it is a nice little block. Times 4. Being the second last week, it was time for the second last assembly.  I gathered up all the other 6 1/2" blocks I had, and some of the 3 1/2' blocks too.  It didn't take long to put them togeth...

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 42 and 43 Still being behind due to holidays, I pressed on.  Both week 42 and 43 required printing at work, and for once I remembered to do that well ahead of time. Week 42 involved foundation piecing, my new favourite.  And with nothing but foundation piecing and straight lines, this was completed with no issues. Week 43, on the other hand, was a different story.  There were templates to cut out and the instructions mentioned hand piecing.  Nah.  Not my style.  I machine sewed the silly, tiny pieces together.  It has meant that the resulting block isn't quite as 'curvy' as it is supposed to be, but oh well....

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 40 and 41 No time for rest, being weeks behind.  I took a sneak peak at the instructions for week 44 which just released - I have a lot to catch up on.  Weeks 40 through 43 are 6" finished blocks, so we'll see how it goes.   I decided to do week 40 and 41 in parallel.  Cut stuff, sew stuff, iron stuff, repeat.  The first block was nice and straightforward. Quarter inch triangles, squares and rectangles. Easy and neat. The second block, on the other hand, was trickier. I even had to read the instructions on occasion, rather than just looking at the pictures. But surprisingly, it worked out, and is also practically the r...

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 39 Not sure if anyone actually looks at this thing, but just in case, apologies for the delay. It has taken five weeks to complete the week 39 block and assembly instructions. I took a three week holiday to South America, and it wasn't possible to get all this done before I left, and it also wasn't possible to fit my sewing machine in my duffel bag. Anyway, for week 39 I needed to make eight 3 1/2" blocks. Some of the pieces were tiny and/or of crazy size. I only managed to to complete one block before I left, so the other seven were waiting to be done the week after I got back. It isn't my favourite design, but it'll do. ...

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 38 Of all the new tips and tricks I have learned so far while doing this quilt, foundation piecing is my favourite.  Good thing too, considering what happened this week. Instructions were given for foundation piecing an interesting 6" finished block.  I cut out everything on the Sunday, and after work on Monday I took the print outs and soon had the foundation piecing done.  All that was left was to join all the bits together to make the final block. But then... While on my way to work on Tuesday, I received a 'corrections' email.  Apparently we had been given the wrong size foundation templates, and the finished block ...

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 37 Nothing too tricky this week.  Just fiddly small pieces as usual.  This time it was eight 3 1/2" blocks to continue the light section around the dark middle.  it was so straightforward that I managed to get it all done Sunday afternoon.  I also managed to finish watching a series on Netflix at the same time. The only thing wrong with finishing up the blocks so soon was that I was at a bit of a loose end the rest of the week.  Perhaps I need to pull out another cross stitch...