Civil War Chronicles

Last year I started way too many things, including the Civil War Chronicles Block of the Month. I managed to mostly keep up through Month 5, then not so much. Month 5 got the center done, and assembled. This will be on point in the finished quilt.

Now I am trying to pick up and finish some of the UFOs I started last year. Here is Month 7 - Kissing Lanes, one block will go in each corner. Next up, month 6.

These both seem rather washed out, oh well, maybe next time the richness of the fabric will show up.

Grandmother's Choice BOW 5

This week we did New Jersey. I modified mine from the 8" version to be the version in Blockbase, a nine patch based block. Still loving this fabric line! And glad I got more of some of the fabrics!

Grandmother's Choice BOW 4

This week's Grandmother's Choice took me all week to make, Kansas Sunflower, hand pieced. Hope this next week's is easier!

Grandmother's Choice BOW 3

This week was Union Square. Finally a 9-patch, kind of at any rate. I did use Marti Michell template A-3 for the center squares (on point). The corner squares were cut with a regular ruler and the triangles were cut with EQ templates, to make it easy to trim the corners (their HST templates have the same trimmed corners as Marti Michell). Had a hard time picking fabrics this week. Only having a fat eighth makes it tough to fussy cut!

Busy Saturday

After making the BOW, I got back to my Album blocks. There were still a few more signatures I wanted on this quilt, so I made another 6 blocks on Saturday. Still need them signed, but will start stitching this together between bouts of quilting on Cornucopia of Thanks. That got a bit of stitching yesterday, and another block today, so far. Hope to get three more done today, but we will see. Have the next quilt design basted to the top, ready to go.

BOW 2 Amethyst

Grandmother's Choice BOW 2 was Amethyst.

Continued with the "Morris and Company" fabric. I got a packet of the whole line, in eighth yards, and I am hoping that will be enough for all of the blocks! I also got a few bigger pieces, but was not thinking of this quilt when I got them. So we will see. EQ will get put to good use when figuring out the setting and if I have enough fabric to do it.

New BOW - Grandmother's Choice

Barbara Brackman has started a new BOW to celebrate Woman's Suffrage - Grandmother's Choice. I'll be doing it in fabric in the style of William Morris. Here is the first one, appropriately enough "Grandmother's choice". I will say that this time I am converting them to 9" to make nine-patch blocks easier. I have an EQ7 project that will be populated with the blocks that Barbara picks. She very nicely includes the Blockbase number, so I don't even have to draft it!