I am headed to Seattle on Saturday for the Pacific Northwest Quiltfest. Our guild organizes a bus tour to travel to this quilt show every two years.

There are going to be 50 vendors at this show. I remember one of the exceptions for fabric purchases was fabric purchased at a quilt show–lucky me! Can you see me smile!

Today was a statutory holiday here in B.C. so I spent another 6 hours in my quilt studio–quilting bliss!

Look what I found………………..another box of 9-patches.
Remember what I said in my last post about my quilts not being finished until they feel like they are done? Well, finding these extra blocks makes me think that I will have to add some more blocks to the Nine Patch Path quilt. Right now, it is 12 blocks in total and is the size of a large lap quilt–60″ x 78″. I am planning to utilize these additional nine patches to make the quilt 20 blocks in size–4 blocks by 5 blocks. The extra blocks will make this quilt “bed size”. I need 49 nine patch units to make 8 blocks–the exact number of nine patch blocks in the box I just found. This is the Nine Patch Patch as it stands right now – 12 blocks in size. I added a piano key border to the Left Over quilt. I guess it can’t be considered finished until the Nine Patch Path is complete. When I make the rail fence pieces to join the nine patches I will end up with more left overs. I am not sure if I will start another Left Over project or if I will add to this one. The Left Over quilt is now 41″ square.
I will be going back to work tomorrow and 6 hour sessions in the quilt studio will come to an end–how sad.

I spent most of yesterday in my quilt studio. I didn’t time myself, but I would estimate that I was piecing for at least 6 hours. I am to the point of adding the borders to the Nine Patch Path – it is now 12 blocks in size.

I was going to post that I had finished the Leftover quilt to the flimsy stage. However, after looking at it again this morning, I think it needs something else, so I am taking it back into the studio for another border treatment. This black border was intended to “coral” all those little 1 1/2″ squares and be the outer border. Now I am thinking that it should be an inner border with another outside border treatment. This piece is now approximately 32″ square.

My quilts are “done” or complete when they feel like they are done or complete. This is why sometimes my quilts end up so large. I just keep working on them until they feel right. I am not big on planning my quilts. The rest of my life is pretty structured so I find it quite liberating to be so free with my quilting. I prefer to follow only the most basic quilting rules and let the rest “just happen”.

Today is the B.C. Day holiday so no one is going to work today. Another day to spend in the quilt studio!

I spent 2 hours this morning and another 2 1/2 hours this evening piecing. I managed to get 9 of the Nine Patch Path blocks pieced, sashed and joined together. I was going to stop at this point, but I like the pattern so well that I think I will add another three blocks to this piece and make it rectangular rather than square.

I also started piecing together the leftover sashing bits. I am not sure what size this will end up. It is fun to think that every last little bit is being put to good use.

This is the progress so far on the Nine Patch Path. I finished three more blocks tonight.

I spent two hours in my studio piecing tonight. I don’t usually keep track of the amount of time I spend piecing or quilting in a particular session. However, because Judy L. was asking how much time we spend quilting in a day, I thought I would pay attention. Of course the time went by very quickly and if I hadn’t paid attention to the time when I started, I would never have guessed that it was two hours that had gone by.