Today starts "National Quilting (Sewing) Month"! YAY! Of course, being a quilter, we are always sewing . . . right?
I have been doing my part since last week when my daughter left. I got back to sewing on my basket weave scrappy string quilt. It was originally going to be a lap quilt, but I really liked it and decided to enlarge it. It is now up to a queen size quilt and has the overlap on the length to cover the pillows. Today I have been finishing up adding the blocks to make it queen size. So I greeted "National Quilting (Sewing) Month" at 5 a.m. this morning with my project on the machine . . . see picture below.
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| Sorry about the quality, this was taken with my phone! |
That's the phone book pages you see on the back of the quilt. I used my old phone book pages for foundation piecing. Our local phone book is the size of half of an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper. I cut the blocks to 4 1/2 inches square. That way I can get 2 blocks out of each half sheet. One of our phone books is enough, with some left over for the next project, to make this queen size quilt.
What are you working on during this "National Quilting (Sewing) Month"? Is it something you have been working on for awhile or did you just start it within the past few weeks? I would love to hear about it or see pictures of your projects!
Meanwhile . . .everyone keep on quilting!
Aveli
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