Saturday, February 23, 2019

This Week's Quilting Progress

Circle Block 264


I sat down to watch a show (Frontline) and thought I should be stitching something, and since I had talked about the Stitch Meditations, I thought some handwork would fit the bill.  I made a circle block instead of a separate Stitch Meditations to make more progress on that quilt. It reminds me of a shirt I had a long time ago.

Jeans Quilt



I was going through my bedroom, using the Konmari method, ala Marie Kondo, and found this quilt in the bench/chest. This quilt is one of my oldest, if not THE oldest UFO I have. It looks like I stuffed a couple of big unfinished quilts in the chest to get them out of the way.  Way back in the early 90's, I had sewed some jeans together, improv style, and planned to applique and embroider designs on it. It has an eye, a fish, a house, and a tree already appliqued on it. All of these were made out of jeans as well.  I remember asking my family members for stuff to add to this quilt, and my mother had given me some patches, but I hadn't added them to the quilt.

Anyway, I also found, in a separate place, some fireman embroidery patches my mother had given me and  I thought I should add them before they got lost and make more progress on this quilt. They have numbers embroidered on the stabilizer EQ0173, EQ0174, and EQ0179. I looked them up just for fun, and you can still buy them for $10 each. Now, my quilt's value just went up by $30.

If I ever make a quilt like this again, I would applique first, before joining the pieces. It is difficult to comfortably add applique in the middle of the quilt. I will try a hoop next time I add anything to the quilt.

I'm not planning on picking up this quilt to finish just yet. I am already feeling overwhelmed with the current Works in Process and the new quilts I want to start!

 15 Minutes to Stitch: Week 8

This week I made six circle blocks, and appliqued some patches on an old jeans quilt.  I also worked on joining the Butterfly Wreath blocks. It looks like I missed reporting a week, but I sewed almost every day so far this year, and for those days I missed, I more than made up for it during the week.

15 Minute sessions of stitching this week:  7 out of 7
15 Minute sessions of stitching this year:  55 out of 55 sessions
Success Rate: 100%

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5 comments:

Nines said...

The weather is blustery here and that always puts me in the mood to hand stitch. I really like how your circle blocks are coming along. I made jean quilts for all of my oldest boys back in the 90's and they still use them.

Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson said...

You are really stying on track this year with consistent sewing time. Our winter has made for a lot more indoor days this year.

seabreezequilts said...

Great keeping it 7/7.

Kyle said...

Your circles continue to be so innovative. Funny about the Jean quilt and that you worked on it. Good for you. Hard to backup that far

Kate said...

I had a jeans jacket that I was going to embroider (back when that was all the rage). I got two cuffs done and that was it. Your jeans quilt sounds like a fun long term project. Congrats on your successful efforts to find time to stitch each day! Thanks for linking up with 15 minutes to Stitch.