Blue and Yellow blocks

A larger picture, with just the blocks I have done, still with EQ7

Loyal Union Sampler - Blue and Yellow version

I am a bit farther along in my blue and yellow version of the Loyal Union Sampler because I made some blocks for Jennifer and did them in the blue and yellow color scheme before I made a block using her fabric. This is an export of an EQ7 quilt using images of the blocks done so far. I thought this might be better than 20 individual pictures. But if you want to see them, check my flickr link, they are all there.

I am leading a Block of the Week, we are on week 5. Upcoming weeks are not necessarily the blocks you see here!

The many projects

My current projects are each holding their own right now. I finally finished the zigzag on Love Entwined, getting it to a photo opportunity.

The Loyal Union Sampler quilt is begun, or that should be quilts are begun. I decided to make two, one like the cover picture using Anneke's Collection from Red Rooster fabrics and the other in blue and yellow and white. The setting is going to be totally different for each quilt. The reproduction is pretty easy, since I am using the same fabrics Jennifer used (I actually bought them thinking that there would eventually be an LUS pattern). The blue and yellow and white takes a bit of thought since it is totally scrappy. Someone was talking about Lollyquiltz and how she set her Farmer's Wife Sampler, and I think it will be perfect for the blue/yellow/white version, see here.Here are a few fuzzy blocks from each type (I am making them both at the same time, except for the few I made when testing blocks for Jennifer).

And finally, continuing on the Civil War BOM with the Stitchin' Witches:

This one is Union Square.

Love Entwined BOM2 and BOM3 progress

Even though I didn't quite finish with the BOM2 assignment, I went ahead and started on parts of month 3. Still have some more of the pink daisies and the zig-zag border, but I am making progress on that. I couldn't make up my mind on fabric for the zig-zag for the longest time, but finally did. I ended up stripping together 20 lights and 20 darks and using a paper template to mark the zig-zag. I started pressing the darks on one side, then decided just to go with needle turn. So far, so good. I am also needle turning the gold blobs. Most of this has been done with freezer paper and starch, but that just seemed harder with these bits than straight needle turn.

Stitchin Witches Civil War BOM

I started up this block of the month a few months ago, keeping up with the blocks but not with the bits in between. Hope to get to those soon.

I've been using the leftover taupes from my Farmer's Wife Sampler, somehow they grew .

Quandary

So now the quandary begins – when to begin on my Loyal Union Sampler quilt. I have been anxiously awaiting this book, which I actually don’t have yet, but will within the week. I also don’t actually have fabrics picked yet, although I do have a border fabric selected so I can choose block fabrics that coordinate with it, and background fabric (white, to be washed and pressed). I also have a few ongoing projects that I would like to see completed, or caught up, before I begin LUS.
1. Love Entwined BOM – would like to be caught up
2. Civil War Stitchin Witches stitch along – this is a mystery BOM, but I kind of figured out the mystery, and wanted to be caught up and possibly ahead, at least with blocks cut out, before starting LUS.
3. Album of Quilters – get it quilted! And bound.
4. Quad P – would really like to get this into PIQF, and in order to enter it, need to get it bound and photos taken by early September. Yikes!
5. Other quilts to be quilted – Victorian Wheeling collection sampler, Fourth of July Fireworks quilt, Grandmother’s Choice and Out to Sea, none as pressing as the above, but would like to see them done by the end of the year.
6. Other quilts currently piecing – 8” sampler blocks, as the mood strikes, using leftovers from the Victorian Wheeling collection, lately been doing the SBS BOW (when it is a 4-patch based block) and the somewhat neglected Two plus 2 medallion quilt.
So, right now I will continue with current projects, and keep to my original schedule which assumed I would get the LUS book at the beginning of September. I'll start the BOW prep then, and hopefully only be working on LUS and Love Entwined at that point!
Oh, yeah, I have my grandson's quilt to make by his birthday in January! And I want to use some of the leftovers in LUS.

Shipshewana Amish QAL - more progress

a few more blocks, getting closer to being done