I have a problem. No, seriously, I have a PROBLEM. I love making quilt tops! It's so fun to watch all those random bits of fabric come together, one bit at a time - and then, suddenly, you have a completed quilt! Well, a quilt top that is. It's not really a quilt until you have the backing and batting and quilting stitches in it, and the binding sewn down front and back... and that's where my problem lies. I LOVE making the tops - they're pretty, and fun to watch as they come together - but the backing and batting just don't give me the "rush" that I get from completing a top. So, I end up with a pile of tops, and there they sit, until I have a deadline to finish one of them. I got a new sewing machine a few years ago that makes quilting them much easier, but even that hasn't made much of a dent in my pile of tops. So, you probably know where I'm going, right? I'm going to post a pic of one of those tops, and tell you about getting it quilted by month's end - but you'd be wrong! I don't have that kind of motivation today....
So, what
am I going to do this month? I'm going to finish the blocks that I need for my
disappearing pinwheel quilt. I bought 2 packages of fat quarters a few years ago, hoping to make a Swoon quilt with them, but when I pre-washed them, most of them were just shy of being the right size to get a Swoon block cut from them. They'd been put in a box, and were almost forgotten, until I switched my sewing room to the spare bedroom downstairs and they reappeared. The pieces are big enough to get 2-10" squares cut from each of them, so I hope that it will make a decent size for a quilt. I'm not sure what I'll use for the pinwheel border - I'll have to see what I can find in my fabric bins! Here's a pic of some of the pinwheel blocks:
And, once again, I'm aiming to finish this quilt top before the 26th of the month - I hope to be successful this time!
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