Knitting at Night

Overachiever

I was running out of a good variety of blues and greens for the Thousand Pyramids quilt, so I spent Saturday cutting out more. As I've said before, I don't use templates any more. It's so easy to cut out strips, and then cut the strips to size using a triangle ruler. Maybe too easy. After a few hours of cutting, this is what I wound up with:

Over 600 new pyramids! Oops! So I guess I have enough for another quilt now.

Labels: batik quilt fq, bluejay, cat, green, mica, thousand pyramids

This Is A First...

...because I'm only halfway done with my Thousand Pyramids quilt, and I already have the backing and the binding chosen and bought. It usually takes me a while to pick a backing, especially since I have fallen out of love with plain white, which used to be my backing of choice. I still have a queen-sized log cabin quilt that I finished well over 10 years ago sitting in my closet waiting for me to chose backing and even worse, I still have to figure out how I'm going to quilt it. I think I'll wind up sending it out, because the thought of having to hand quilt all that fabric acreage gives me the chills.

Anywhoo, here is the binding and the backing, along with the photography and quilting supervisor. He certainly is a busy boy these days. I chose a light green batik on the right of the picture, for the backing; and a dark green batik, on the left, for the binding. My not-so-local quilt store was having a summer sale, with 20% off selected fabrics, and 30% if you finished the bolt. There was a bit more of the light green than I wanted, but it didn't cost too much extra (read: $3.00!) to buy it, finish the bolt, and get a 30% discount!

Labels: batik, batik quilt fq, cat, mica, thousand pyramids

WIP Wednesday

Oops! Forgot it was Wednesday, so I dragged my unwilling quilt holder (aka Eric) outside to hold up my current WIP so I could take a photo of it. I'm moving right along on it; I have 10 rows done, although I don't think all 10 rows are visible in this picture. I have 12-14 rows left on this - I haven't decided which. I'll see what happens when I get 22 rows done.