Poppins Bag Complete

And here it is.

Poppins Bag

I would love, love, love to make another one of these. But it took sooooo long to complete. And it was a struggle the whole way along so maybe next winter, when the days are short and I need a constructive project to do, a second will be attempted.

Earlier today (after dealing with some crappy (literally) issues) I ventured over to Pieces in Thyme for the sashing for the t-shirt quilt. Here's what I brought home.

For Adrianne's t-shirt quilt

It's already been prewashed and ready for handling. Not immediately, but soon.

After taking Hazel down for a swim (78 degrees today) and finally getting the time to blog, the remainder of today will be spent working on more selvedge blocks. Long arming happened mid-afternoon, and only two more rows to go to finish the Tula quilt.

It Started Out Productive...

...yesterday. The Poppins bag is nearly finished but am struggling with getting the stays inserted. Jim's helping hand will be needed to finish. The Tula 100 Blocks top was worked on somewhat.

And...

...then it got nice outside.

The lawn and flower beds were crying out for me to deal with them, so out I went for the remainder of the day.

Today started out like yesterday left off, but now it's becoming cloudy and rather dismal.

I. AM. GOING. TO. STAY. IN. THE. STUDIO. TODAY.

A Few Projects

Yesterday was take-advantage-of-gloomy-weather day.

The Poppins bag was first on the list. As far as supplies allowed was as far as the project went. When ordering the Craft Tex, I thought I had ordered enough, but found out yesterday it was not only the wrong size, but only one was ordered. It needs two.

Moving along to the Long Time Gone pineapple blocks. Two were nearly done before lunch. Five more to go.

The afternoon consisted of long arming and working on the selvedge top.

Tula Pink's 100 Modern Block Design

The long arming on the Tula piece is going to take much longer than anticipated. The meander being put into the fractured windows on the off-white section is very closely quilted. Even though the machine is set to manual and at about 50%, the time it's taking was surprising.

The seventh border is set into the selvedge piece and only one more fat border to go. The next border is half-square triangles and it too will take a lot of time to make each of the blocks needed. They are six inches in size and each is set at a diagonal with a variety of sizes of selvages needed.

Today is sunny and is supposed to be warm-ish. The windows on the house are looking pretty grungy and part of today may be working on those. Maybe?!

Going to a Quilt Shop

Aunt Effies, in West Branch, is a very nice quilt shop. She has a lot of everything there and it's set up more open then most quilt shops I've visited; which makes shopping very easy. While mom had to trek down to her art emporium where some of her paintings are available for sale, I went quilt shopping.

I. DIDN'T. BUY. A. THING!

I KNOW!

WHAT THE HECK?

I realized I have a lot of projects going on here and decided I needed to (once again) get some of these off my list before getting into anything new. Once in a while ya just gotta say "Enough," and actually finish some of what has been started.

When arriving back home, two more pineapple blocks for the Long Time Gone top were made, I worked the zipper into my Poppins bag, and looked ahead on what my next row (border) is on the selvedge top. After about 9:00, I settled down to start sketching out what I'm going to put into my Tula Pink 100 Modern Blocks top. Oh, the possibilities!

And I'm still undecided.

Oh the real estate!

Getting anything to really wow me was hard, but I came close on a few designs. I think this one, because it is so open, is going to need to be loaded and preview paper needs to be put over to play around and see what will work out best for the design.

So, Tula Pink 100 Modern Blocks, after hanging on our loft bannister for over four months now, you are finally going on the frame today.