Long Weekend

Well, made it through another busy week at work! I was so spoiled by the holidays when things were slow plus being off sick several days I forgot how busy things can be. It was a frustrating week too because our folks in San Antonio just can't get their stuff together. Hopefully, a nice long weekend is just what I need. Dave and I have decided to swap rooms. I am moving my craft room out to the big room and Dave is moving in here. I just don't have room to contain all of my stuff in here any more! LOL I don't think we are actually moving until Sunday - Monday. Tomorrow Clarinda and I are going to Cincinnati to visit some quilt shops. Dave is going to the junkyard. I've been working on the wedding quilt. All of the blocks are done and I am now making the sashing rows that go in between. I am liking how it is turning our. I showed the pictures to the mother of the bride today and she likes it so that is good. I told her I may not have it done before the wedding and she said that was okay. Here are some pictures of the progress

Here is one set of blocks in progress.

Here are all the completed blocks.

The next step is making the sashing rows. The sashing rows are made up of rectangles and squares. There are 71 rectangles and 336 squares. A square will go in each corner and will be folded in half to create a triangle in each corner.

Here is the process for attaching the squares to the rectangles. Each square needs to have a line drawn from one corner to another.

I use my acrylic binding tool to draw the line with a white marking pencil.

Here is the square with the line.

Each square is then pinned to a corner of the rectangle. They are placed on opposite corners and the other corners will be done once the first two are ironed and the seam allowance is trimmed.

Sewing the square to the rectangle.

Sewn square.

Fold square in half. Press with iron. Trim the seam to 1/4" you know have a new color in the corner of your rectangle.

I decided to mock up one of the rows last night because I couldn't wait to see how it was going to look. This is a block row with a sashing unit in between. There will be another sashing row above and under each block row.

This is the table runner that I made for Sherri, my reflexologist. She decided to hang it on the back of the door in her office area, the door is usually closed so the hanging adds a nice touch of color to the area. I am really happy how this turned out and was really happy to see it hanging there. All right, I need to get to work on these sashing rows, they aren't going to make themselves!