Yesterday, I did get another Month done on my Women of Courage Block of Month. Month 8 was "Mary Wilson". She was an Operating Room Supervisor for a field hospital on Anzio beach during World War II. She was the first woman to be awarded the Silver Star for leadership under fire.
The block is fairly easy to make, you start with the pieces, which are just triangles and squares. You are going to make 8 of these blocks.
You start with making 16 hour glass units, by sewing the triangles together.
Then you make 8 half-square triangle units.
Wants all the units are made your just need to assemble the blocks, by sewing the brown squares to half of the hour glass units, with the blue pointing to the top. Then sewing the other half of the hour glass units to the half square triangles. Making sure the blue of the hour glass is pointing to outside.
Once you have those done all you have to do is sew them together to complete the block.
The finished block will measure 9 1/2" x 9 1/2" unfinished. I'm getting closer to be able to start assembling the blocks and getting this one done.
Well off to the sewing room, so make more blocks done. Have a great sewing day!
Tina
Yesterday was a day full of successful errands, for us. We spent the day getting Passports renewed, looking at vehicles, and booking a Alaskan Cruise. In Mid June, my husband and I will celebrate 25 years of marriage. Were has the time gone. So he said to celebrate he was taking me on a Alaskan Cruise. So yesterday afternoon, we booked our cruise, we are so excited, since the cruise leaves on our anniversary. We will have a nice Ocean View room, just need to decide what excursions we want to go on now.
So today, I will be spending part of day working on the website, since the bugs are fixed and the changes are about finished, we are in the home stretch. But I plan to the rest of the day, is to sew more of the Women of Courage blocks I need to finish.
Hope everyone has a great sewing day!
Tina
Yesterday, I got back my Janome 7700 from the doctors, her thread cutter was not working probably, plus she needed a good cleaning. I'm a happy camper. I like my backup Janome, but it is not my 7700. I really recommend getting your machines cleaned every year to 18 months. They collect a lot of line at the bottom and need lubed.
So, I decided to test out my machine by working on the Women of Courage Block of Month that has become a UFO. I think the last block came last summer sometime, really can't remember when it wrapped up. But I have decided to get this one finished. Everything I have been finishing the last couple weeks will be heading to the longarm for quilting. These will all be great quilting practice for me.
The Women of Courage quilt, was designed around great women in our history. I left off with Block 7- "Sacagawea". We are making 16th blocks.
The blocks are made from different size Triangles, and squares.
Starting with sewing red floral on the sides of the brown squares that measure 3 11/16". This is the first time, I made something with 1/16th". It was kind of interesting to figure out, but luckily the pattern had instructions how to locate the 11/16". It is basically in between 5/8" and 3/4".
Once all those are done, you can start sewing the green floral triangles on the side making 32 of these halves.
Take 16 of the halves then flip them so they are on the other side and combine them and press open and the block is finished. Very easy block to make.
I have 5 more block to make to finish this quilt.
Today, I don't know if I will get any sewing done. This is Wednesday and Husband is off and we have errands to get done. Sometimes, it is easier to them on weekdays. So, I hope everyone has a great day!
Tina
Yesterday, I decided to go ahead and make the next block in the Kansas City Star Block of Month, this month we are on block 3.
Block 3 - "Four Crowns", was first printed on November 22, 1933 in the Kansas City Star Newspaper. The block was a little more complex than the first two, I have done.
The block is easy to cut out. You are using 4 basic fabrics and cutting them into squares and rectangles.
Then you will be making 8 flying geese in two different colors of fabrics. And 8 half-square triangles. Then you have everything prepared to start assembling the rows together.
The first and last rows looks like this. You combine the half-square triangle and the 2 1/2" squares to make the outsides and then sew the flying geese unit in the middle.
The next row in use the a little different color scheme, but are done the same way.
The center unit combines the red and blue flying geese units together on the outside of a 4 1/2" square.
Then you just sew all 5 rows together and you get the finished unit, measuring at 12 1/2" x 12 1/2" unfinished.
So far the units are looking pretty together. Looking forward to next months release.
Today, I will be back in sewing, I'm finishing up some old block of months that have become UFO's.
Have a great day, and say warm under a quilt!
Tina
Hope everyone had a great weekend! Mine went to fast it seems like. Saturday, my husband had to work so I spent the day adding products and content to the new site. We are very close to finishing now, I found a few bugs to be fixed but we are in the home stretch. Sunday, was a productive day in the house, cleaning wise, about every room got a cleaning except for my oldest son, Patrick's room. He is response able to clean his room. Felt great to get all that done. I even did a little clean and organization in the sewing room. Time to get back in there and make it unclean again.
The end of last week, I finished a new little wall hanging kit that I pick up about a year ago at the Virginia Quilt Show, in Hampton. This one will be for my sewing room, once i get it quilted and binded. The kit comes from Block Party Studios, it came a panel and fabric. I just need to get the backing, I will look for that in my stash.
It is started with this panel, which I love. Then they have you make star block, stack of fabric, spool blocks and flying geese.
The stack of fabric under the star block, is foundation piecing on a piece of muslin. It was very interesting to make doing it that way. But it definitely came out cute. I will add some color and life to my white walls in the sewing room.
Today, I'm planning to get some sewing done. I got a new block for the Kansas City Star BOM, i will be doing. I'm still working on how I want to quilt the Star Burst table topper. I'm leaning toward feathers. So, I may be quilting on that this afternoon.
Have a Great Monday, hope you all can do some sewing and quilting today!
Tina
