Fanciful Quilts

And there is real progress! Yes, indeed.  Two full passes of quilting.  Brightly variegated thread was chosen...and the pattern? Words fail.  Call it a combination of X marks the spot and swirlies across the sashing.  Throw in a bit of meandering also.  My Xs are not quite straight but it will do.   To sum up:  so far, so good.                                                                                                             And then there's the every growing piano key border.  No, haven't measured the length yet.  Very doubtful it has reached the magical width yet... around 300".   And that will be sewn to these blocks: Blocks...

And yes, it IS a snow day.  Looking out from the landing just outside the Treehouse.... Yup, there is snow out there.   Schools are closed....so I imagine there's a lot more snow than I had thought.   Yes, we live above a chess club.  For now.  House hunting is quite an adventure.   Progress! Backing loaded on frame for Fussy Crumb Bird Block flimsy.  I thought I had squared it up nicely...but obviously not.  The backing had been hung up for quite awhile ... the ole "the wrinkles will remove themselves if hung up long enough" theory (theory is just theory)....and the squaring up obviously did not take happen other than trimming off both ends of the backing.  To remove or not remove..... In the meantime.... Strip blocks continue to grow.... And grow...... And finally ....almost finally.....just FOUR more 6 1/2" blocks to go and viola - I will have the required thirty-six 12 1/2" block...

Nothing sparks my interest than something new. Oh pfffttt. I just do NOT like following directions nor a pattern. Scrappy strip blocks. What a great way to use scraps (and who doesn't have a few - ahem - bags of scraps?!?!). In the retreat room (aka sewing area which I share with Riley), I've whipped up over 50 of these babies. Four 5 1/2 strip square blocks sewn together and then trimmed to 10". Seems like I could whip up a quilt in no time. I jest and surely you do too. Not being one with the mathematical mind (other than balancing the checkbook), I used 2 inches of a beautiful mottled gray blender in between each block. I do believe we quilters call that "sashing". When I become a quilter with terminology, I'll let you know. At any rate, put a few together - threw it on the bed and nope, not quite wide enough. Added a few more blocks. Threw it on the bed. Nope, not quite wide enough. Finally at 7 blocks, it's wide enough. I think. That...