Popsicle Sticks is a finished flimsy as of last night.
This is a big quilt – King size – finishing at 112″ x 112″. This quilt looks larger than it is when it is draped over my bed as my bed is only a Queen size.
The pattern is a Terry Atkinson Design.
Today, we had more of the white stuff.
I guess it was premature to think that winter was on its way out!
This morning, we woke up to a layer of freezing rain covering everything.
Although the ice coating on everything is pretty, it is definitely not safe to be driving or walking in this weather.
It was safe to stay inside and quilt though. 🙂
By 11:00 pm, I had finished making all the blocks for the Got Stripes quilt – with the exception of one. I was short a green background strip. I need to cut some green background pieces to finish the last block and to replace some pieces in a block that is already pieced into the quilt top. I made the mistake of reversing one piece of background fabric–front for back so I will need to do some reverse sewing.
I also finished the binding on my Fire Escape quilt. After finishing the binding, I spread the quilt out over the table to take a picture.
A picture without the flash shows the colours of the quilt to be a little closer to reality and shows the swirl quilting design a little better.
You just know you are in for one of those days when it starts with this:
The snow continued to fall here last night. The snow mixed with high winds (60 to 80 km/hr) resulted in white out conditions and a bit of a wild drive to work today.
Barbecue season and meals in the backyard seem so far away.
This truck is not going anywhere soon.
On the quilting front, progress is being made on piecing the blocks for Got Stripes and on attaching the binding to Fire Escape.
I am currently working on row 7 of 11 on Got Stripes. Rows 1 to 5 are completely joined together. Row 6 blocks are joined to one another but row 6 is not yet joined to rows 1 to 5. I have just started working on row 7 – only one star block assembled so far on that row.
The binding has been attached to Fire Escape. When I can steal a few moments, I work on hand stitching the binding to the back of the quilt.
