L in a circle

All I need to do now is tie up the loose threads and wash, then 'm done.

Time elapsed: 5,25 hours. Stitching the "L" took me all of a few minutes but I wanted to practise first.

Actually almost done!

Time elapsed: 5 and a half hours.

After ripping out the wrangled seams of where I broke not one but two machine needles because of sticking to the wrong settings, I appliqued all three dots. And me likey! All that's missing is the "L" and tidying up loose ends.

In fact I was so pleased with the result that I rebooted my notebook to bring you this post!

And then I went and broke two needles

Time elapsed: 3 hours plus 1 hour last night equals a total of 4 hours.

Aaaaargh! I set the stitch width and all such things to what was listed as allowed and broke not one but two needles in ten minutes. Now I have to rip part of the very tight seam and redo it.

But I am making decent progress, having cut and ironed the circles and pinned them to where I want them to be.

Now my husband and I are in disagreement as to where to add the "L". He wants a more traditional balanced look, I want something a bit more quirky and modern.

Almost looks like it's finished.

Time elapsed: 3 hours

I cut the piece of fleece from a larger blanket that had rounded corners and used the one corner as a guidance for the other three

While bias binding works wonderfully on round corners, I'm not sure I'm really keen on the whole process. Cutting on the bias - or any kind of rotary cutting - is a drag, really, and I get frustrated with myself quite quickly.

But once the whole thing was assembled and ironed (no less than four (that's 4! for those who know how little I enjoy ironing), I just clipped it to the fleece using my nifty binding clips. Then I whipped around the blanket using a zig-zag stitch and I was done! Yay! I got the encouragement from Malka and her blue coasters, thanks Malka!

Now, I'm adding three circles cut from the darker pink fabric. Then Ill piece an "L" to the largest one to personalise it for its recipient.

The weekend is near!

As I was dreaming about my upcoming weekend ... and making lofty plans, I realise that I have way too many projects lined up.

But with hubby gone from early Friday till Saturday afternoon, I plan on having a quilting evening in on Friday and I might even get a little bit of sewing done during the day on Saturday.

First up: Lucia's quilt, seeing how this is supposed to be a "quilt in a day", finished inside of ten hours.

Next Projects

Tomorrow my sewing machine will return from its week at the "spa" (aka repair shop), I am planning my next projects (instead of working ...)



1.) A quickie baby quilt for Lucia, my third "quilt in a day". Lucia is the second child of our Argentine-Italian-Spanish friends living in London: white fleece bound in white-ish left-overs of my Moda Quilt Pink stash plus a few circles in darker colours from the same range, one to incorporate an "L". I will time the time spent on this and we shall see whether this is the quickest project yet.

2.) A plane pillow for Theo, little bro to Harrison of the Dragon Quilt. Theo is not my godson but because I started making things for non-godchildren, I figured that he needed something of his own as well. It'll be based on Sky Dreams