Whew. School is back in session, and my son is busily filling up my afternoons with Mom-Taxi jobs. Gymnastics, parkour, and Drum lessons were attended, along with the always exciting “Back to School Night”. In addition, my husband was on a business trip, so I drove to the airport twice. With all of that going on, I did manage to get some work done on my various projects. 
First, I developed a downloadable pattern for my Cloud9 New Block Blog Hop. It is available for download on Craftsy. It is the first pattern in my pattern shop, and it is a freebie. Next up I will be developing a pattern for the full quilt using this block.
I have been busily creating blocks for the #100Days100Blocks challenge. I’m a few blocks ahead, because once I get started I hate stopping. Since I have 34 done now, I stuck them up on my design wall and starting arranging the colors. I want to make sure that at the end I don’t have 75 blue/green blocks rather than a good distribution of colors. Of course, I want a rainbow quilt.
I was intending for this to be just Tula Pink fabrics with some solid-ish blenders, but I keep hearing other fabrics clamoring to get in. It’s an interesting project, and seems to have a mind of it’s own.
I finally paid some attention to my Burst blocks and got the top pieced together. I’m not thrilled with how the points don’t match up. I can’t let go enough to just enjoy the wonky aspect. I do love the pattern, so I will invest in the ruler Man Sewing developed and give it another try. I believe this top is destined to be quilted and given away.
I made a reversible hairband from Crafty Gemini’s video tutorial. It was easy, and I had everything I needed on hand. I didn’t fit my head very well, so I sent it off to my sister before taking a photo. Pending her feedback, I might be making a bunch of these to give away as Christmas gifts. I liked that it used a jelly roll strip, but I think a narrower piece will work better for me.
I managed to finish the next round of my Hexagonquilt La Passion. I was clever enough to cut all of the pieces I need for the next round, take them on vacation with me, and lose them. Now I’m out of the cream color. I’m waiting for my fabric order to arrive so I can choose the next fabric to use.
I pulled out some of my Katja Marek Quilts on the Grow blocks that I had started a few months ago. I stitched these two together, and then went looking for my focus fabric. It is MIA. I think I’m 6 months behind on this project. The idea of searching through closet boxes to find this piece of fabric makes me unhappy.
Finally, I tackled basting my Snowflake Shimmer top. I decided to try spray basting again. All the cool quilters seem to be using it. I used my patio, which didn’t work extremely well. The top and batting are nicely adhered, but the back has a lot of puckering. I am glad that the tutorial Yvonne shared suggested pressing both sides before quilting. Now I have the chance to fix it before quilting. It would be easier than pinning, but I really am not a fan of the sticky spray everywhere. I think my next step will be getting a folding table from Costco so I can do this in my garage. I will definitely not use it inside my house.
We were supposed to have a barbecue this weekend. I’m delighted to say it was cancelled, because we are supposed to have a storm. Woohoo! Can’t party, can’t do yard work. Sounds like quilting time to me! I am planning on doing straight line quilting, so once I get started that part should go fairly quickly.
Hmm. Maybe I did get a lot done this week, just not on any one project.
What a busy week!
Wow, you have had a very busy and productive week! I hope that the ironing step helps get out the wrinkles on the back of the snowflake shimmer quilt, and I wish you a delightful and cozy weekend of quilting! 🙂
I seem to be having those weeks a lot lately too. Where it doesn’t feel like anything was done because no check marks were made on the “To-Do” list, but ultimately a little progress was made on quite a few things. 🙂 I think this weekend holds a lot of checkmarks for me.
It looks like you have some pretty amazing projects in the works though!
Thank you, and good luck this weekend!
Did you just iron the whole sandwiched quilt to get out the wrinkles? I bought several tables from Sam’s Club to use in my garage for spray basting quilts. Two summers ago, I spray basted one quilt in my house and the sticky glue got on the floor. My husband and I walk around barefoot in the summer and we were wondering why the bottoms of our feet were just black! After 2 days and 2 good floor washings, our feet were back to normal color. Do not attempt this at your home unless you like to scrub floors or like black feet.
I had to pull some of the back off and iron it flat. It worked out fine – I’m just a whiner about the basting. I suspected that dirty floors would be the outcome of spray basting inside. I can just play dumb if my patio gets messy.
Wow, looks like a VERY productive week! When I get wrinkles like that on the backing, I just flip it over, smooth out, and sometimes pin along he edges.
I think you got a lot done as well. You work the way I do . A bit here and there on everything and it feels like nothing gets done.