Quilt Reveal: Blue Ornaments

 As usual, in December, the photo quality is much diminished.  Today, I want to introduce you to Blue Ornaments, my mini quilt of the month for the month of December. 

This little quilt provided a little distraction from the Quote Quilt until I realized I am going to add fusible to the backing, and not the front of the quilt. This means, I can keep adding more stuff to the Quote Quilt while I prepare the backing and fusible. I'll show you my additions to the Quote Quilt in another post.

In the meantime, this little quilt is a wholecloth quilt made with three circles from a fabric I recently got from Joanns. I think it is pretty enough to stand on its own as ornaments. I quilted the sandwich lightly, added the ornaments with a decorative stitch, and then quilted it a bit more with a Decobob thread I got as a sample.

The backing is the same fabric as the binding. I took photos of it outside in the snow, but they were all upside down. I didn't want to confuse you more than needed in a topsy turvy year, so this photo will have to do until I can get a better photoshoot. By that time, I might have added some bows to the strings.

Inspiration Squirrels

Since I didn't work this week, I have been trolling the internet, and there is such an incredible amount of inspiration there.

On Facebook, Lona Powell is sharing her daily Coronavirus lockdown experience. She writes fun and quirkly positive notes and makes a watercolor to go along with it to describe her day. I see her posts on the Art Journal Junkie group. She is on Day 273 so she has been doing this for a while. Many people have asked her to publish a book when she is finished.

Also on Facebook, another person has started a journal about her memories. She hasn't posted very many, but it is also fun. Her style is different but the concept is the same, adding drawings and words to present different topics. She did one about school memories which was fun because it talked about the one piece gym uniforms. I remember having to wear them and the awful showers we had to take.

I already told you about the art classes I took with the London Arts Group.  There are many people offering art classes now.  YouTube also has so many,

Craftsy is back and offering a year's membership for $5. 

On blogs and on Facebook and Pinterest, there are so many inspirational quilts. I usually find 13 quilts I want to start each day.

2020:  Weeks 50 of 15 Minutes to Stitch

Can you see the two planes are in this photo?  There had been a lull in plane traffic this year and even though it has become more frequent, I didn't think it was so frequent that they had to have the planes so close that both could fit in the same photo.  I hadn't seen planes that close in all my years of living here, but this year, this is the second time I have seen this. I know that they are at different altitudes and are not in danger of running into each other.

This week's appliance race winner was the computer.  I was able to restore it to a previous point and so far, it seems to be cooperating again. It took a day of trying different solutions and another day and night for the restore process to happen, but we got through this and we are now on speaking terms again.

This week, besides all the internet traveling, I have been shopping for holiday gifts. I have started getting the backing and the second layer of fusible cut and pieced. Sandwiching will happen this week, hopefully.

About those 13 projects a day that I want to start, I succumbed to temptation and have started a quick and simple mini quilt. I find that the minis can keep the urge to start quilts satisfied without taking too much time to finish and without taking too much time away from the main project. I just have to bind it and will show it to you when it is finished.

15 minute days this week -- 7 out of 7

15 minute days this year -- 294 out of 348 days

Success rate  = 84%

 

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