Monday Making

Right now I'm almost done quilting my beachy quilt (no official name yet) and working on piecing my new Christmas quilt which will (finally) use up the last (or most of the last) of the Christmas Figs fabric that came with the Epic Christmas Kit of either 2018 or 2019. This is one of the blocks:

 

The pattern is Scrap Jar Stars and I've made it before, for my friend Michael with vintage 1930s fabric that he gave me. This time the fabric is Christmas Figs by Joanna Figueroa. It's a simple, versatile pattern that works well with scraps or with a theme like this one. I will be able to machine quilt this myself and the finished quilt will likely be a gift.

 

I have 1-2 days worth of hand quilting to finish on the beach quilt and I have binding ready to go so I can just slap it on and be done.

This picture shows the entire length still to be quilted- that's nothing!

This week I have to work on the three string blocks I have to do for the outgoing members of the NYC Metro Mod Quilt Guild's board and get something together for the retreat coming up this weekend. The two projects I have under the machine- the Christmas quilt and the remaining work to be done on the crumb stars- aren't going to be enough for the weekend.

This is my retreat bag more or less ready to go. I have to find a power strip and make sure I have patterns for the projects I'm bringing. I'm bringing one quick project to use up a charm pack and some scraps, and a jelly roll I'm planning to sew into a herringbone throw for a friend.

Today is going to be a busy day between working and my piano lesson later tonight. Better get to it!