Having painstakingly warped up for what weavers call a Log Cabin pattern (but it looks more like Rail Fence to me as a quilter), I am over halfway through weaving my new table runner. My husband has been fascinated and has asked a couple of times 'but how does it work?' as the pattern develops seemingly by itself. To which my answer is: "I have no idea!". I'm just following the diagram for the warping colours and the two weft colours. It's something to do with the ups and downs of the two colours interacting, but I have no clue, lol. The difference between a dabbler like me, and an actual weaver. Anyway, I'm very pleased with how it's looking.
Thankfully the weather has turned cooler this week, so I've been up in the attic a few times quilting on my Pink Doiley Quilt. I decided to go with the same panto design 'Finer' that I used on the New Zealand quilt, as I couldn't find anything I liked better online. The bowl-shaped Glide foot on my Handiquilter is skating beautifully over the applied doileys, and I've only had a couple of thread breakages as the power needle punches fairly easily through the crocheted doileys.
Down in the sewing room, I made another version of the Sunhat pattern and this time avoided any tucks or pleats. The fit isn't bad, I wore it out yesterday and it stayed on my head in a light breeze. I'm not going to win any fashion contests but the broad brim shades my face well.
I also couldn't resist cutting up more Japanese fabric to sew another Soft storage box.
Having completed the small projects and cleared the decks, I pulled out my Double Wedding Ring quilt which I haven't worked on since before going to Japan in April, and sewed another block. I also pulled out all the previous blocks to see where I am at. The one I am currently sewing is Block 13 out of 16.
My basket of pre-sewn arcs appeared to be getting rather low, so I did an audit. I need 3 more blocks which will requires24 pieced arcs. I only have 14 pieced arcs left, so I need to assemble another 10. I have leftover cut wedges in various colours but probably not enough, so I may need to pull out my scraps and cut some more. I think I have enough background and accent pieces already.
Another project I hadn't worked on for a few weeks is the 1:48 scale Betterley quilt shop kit. This week I added the patterns and tomato pincushions to the stand I had already assembled, with only one pincushion pinging off into the void never to be seen again which is a better result than I feared.
I have also started the repetitive task of assembling over 100 tiny fabric bolts. After cutting out the fabric and bolt inners, each one requires winding the fabric around the inner then gluing the tiny flap down. It's sort of meditative.
File Cabinet Mountain has now dwindled to more of a hillock. It has become easier to discard things, especially quilt patterns that I know I will never make because they have hundreds of tiny pieces in them. I think I had this delusion when I was younger that I could make anything if I tried hard enough. In my declining years, I now realise that I really don't enjoy making repetitive blocks and that I am not a very accurate quilter - particularly with triangles. So the huge folder of star quilt ripped out patterns and framed medallion quilts pretty much all went in the bin. Life is too short :)
I've been enjoying a new video game the last few weeks, it's another souls-like called 'Lies of P' and feels very similar to the Dark Souls franchise only probably a bit easier (apart from some fiendishly long runs between bonfires which I had to break down into saved chunks to get through).
And suddenly it is getting dark by 8pm, where did the summer go? Time flashes by when you are hunkering indoors to avoid the heat waves.
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