Out to Sea - top done

A quilt for a friend who lives on a boat, for when he retires. He wanted a Mariner's Compass, so when I took a class from Judy Mathieson, I decided to start his quilt. He will be retiring soon, so I pulled it out of the UFO pile and began to work on it diligently! Now a top, and waiting for the backing and batting to arrive.

Out to Sea - some major progress

The last time I blogged about Out to Sea, the Ocean Wave blocks were really just a pile of HSTs. I have been plugging away at them, step by step, and finally have the blocks finished. This was when just a few were done.

And this is all sixteen of them.

And finally, they are attached to the center, with just one more plain blue border to go. I need a bigger design wall!

Ocean Wave blocks for Out to Sea

Piles of half square triangles, 15 of them, eight deep, enough for the 15 remaining Ocean Wave blocks. Also have all of the corners assembled. Enough for tonight.

Out to Sea progress

Working on these Ocean Wave blocks in segments, got one done as a guide, and now all of the centers are bordered with HSTs. Next up, the corners, then everything left can be put together as HST units

Out to Sea progress

I have been working away at the next round, although no blocks are done yet. There will be 16 Ocean Wave blocks in the next border. These blocks have a plethora of Half Square Triangles (HST), 40 units per block plus another 16 small triangles, 4 large triangles and a large center square.
I have been using Marsha McCloskey's method for make batches of HSTs, starting with squares, cutting bias strips, assembling strata and then finally cutting out the HSTs.

I am not done. I need 640 HSTs. I have about 400 done.

Breaking up the cutting a bit, I started assembling the corner units to attach to the center squares.

I've been busy, just not much to show for it yet! This is what it will grow up to be, someday!

Out to Sea progress

Finally getting back to the Mariner's compass I started several years ago in a Judy Mathieson class. It got set into the background square when I took another class from her at Empty Spools. And last weekend I finally got the Square in Square blocks done with the embroidered lighthouses. It is up to 54" square, and needs another round or two to bring it up to queen size.