You may recall that for the last two years I've participated in the Instagram-based quilt-along for Tula Pink's City Sampler hosted by Gnome Angle. The basic premise is that that you post a block a day from the book in order each day for 100 days. And of course by day 100 you have a pile of 6" blocks!
The 2016 blocks remain in piles, unsashed and unfinished. However,the 2017 blocks were finished quite promptly after the end of the sew-along as Christmas quilts for Mia and Jess. The 2018 quilt-along started in July when I was feeling particularly rough with this pregnancy, but I forced myself to join in - it was the push I needed to do at least a little bit of sewing, and I figured that by the end of Summer, my energy and sewjo would be back and I would regret not joining in. My energy and sewjo are only just coming back now, as we post our final blocks, but I don't regret joining in at all. I'm glad I did some sewing over the summer!
Rather than start a new project, which I knew would get me in trouble with The Committee, I decided to earn some brownie points with The Committee and use this opportunity to make progress on a quilt I started *a while ago*.... I've looked back through blog posts and it would seem that this start was pre-Mia - January 2014! I started making 6" blocks in Architextures and Botanics fabrics by Carolyn Friedlander. I made 28 blocks using patterns from a variety of sources, and then didn't touch them again.
But 100 days after picking them up again (and adding in some of Carolyn's later fabric lines), I now have 130 blocks and this layout. And it's all pieced! I confess that I didn't love it at first, but it's definitely growing on me!
Now all I need to do is get this quilt finished - pick a backing, buy some wadding and quilt it! Not adding sashing definitely helped me get to this point. And it's on my Q4 Finish Along list!
The 2016 blocks remain in piles, unsashed and unfinished. However,the 2017 blocks were finished quite promptly after the end of the sew-along as Christmas quilts for Mia and Jess. The 2018 quilt-along started in July when I was feeling particularly rough with this pregnancy, but I forced myself to join in - it was the push I needed to do at least a little bit of sewing, and I figured that by the end of Summer, my energy and sewjo would be back and I would regret not joining in. My energy and sewjo are only just coming back now, as we post our final blocks, but I don't regret joining in at all. I'm glad I did some sewing over the summer!
Rather than start a new project, which I knew would get me in trouble with The Committee, I decided to earn some brownie points with The Committee and use this opportunity to make progress on a quilt I started *a while ago*.... I've looked back through blog posts and it would seem that this start was pre-Mia - January 2014! I started making 6" blocks in Architextures and Botanics fabrics by Carolyn Friedlander. I made 28 blocks using patterns from a variety of sources, and then didn't touch them again.
But 100 days after picking them up again (and adding in some of Carolyn's later fabric lines), I now have 130 blocks and this layout. And it's all pieced! I confess that I didn't love it at first, but it's definitely growing on me!
Now all I need to do is get this quilt finished - pick a backing, buy some wadding and quilt it! Not adding sashing definitely helped me get to this point. And it's on my Q4 Finish Along list!
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