With Judy's announcement that she was a new Grandmother the other day, I figured she was going to reschedule her August Quiltathon that was meant for this weekend. Therefore, yesterday, once I hit the quilt room, I didn't check back in with her at all.
Well.....that lady! She still has full intentions of hosting her quiltathon. Her first post about the QAT is here, listing the fabric requirements: Judy's August Quiltathon; and her second post is here, listing the unit sizes for the blocks. When I read about it last night, I was ALL SET to spend today quilting away with her QAT!
But first, I wanted to take a few minutes to tidy up the scrap collection pile, and cut some of these down to 2" at the same time :) {{See the copy of the directions on the left? I'm running out of printer ink :\ }}
And, OF COURSE, as I was tidying......something ELSE jumped out at me!........
And my August 2012 QAT took a detour-----all the way back to 2009/2010!
These fabrics have been sitting since 6/28/10 with all the intensions of being made into Judy's Freeze Frame pattern that she offered out to us in 2009 as a Quilt for an Hour pattern.
SO, I was off!
Hour #1.
I pulled the 3.5" squares from the scrap drawer. Some of the 2.5" borders were from the 2.5" strip drawer, but four of them needed to be cut from the fabrics I set aside.
Hour #2
ALL of these 1.5" units were pulled from the 1.5" strip drawer! No repeats in this quilt YET! And I've barely cut into the fabrics I originally set aside for the quilt. My goal---BRIGHT and FUN colors!
I'm using white as the light background; and black for the dark background (different from my original plan.) I WANTED to make a black quilt, and had full intentions of using black with Judy's August 2012 QAT......so I'm sticking with the black plan :)
Stay tuned for more Hourly steps. Lunch is over. Cassie chose Pizza Bagels----YUM! Great choice Cass!
Happy Friday!
{{1:00 PM update}}
Hour #3
Hour #4
3 comments:
You go girl!! Not sure I'm going to do this one right now.... already have 5 UFOs in the works.
Great choice! I loved this quilt pattern...makes me want to sew it again!
Ha,ha, I thought I was the only one that projects hid from! Good for you, looks like you're having fun and getting something done too! I love the colors. I won't be doing her QAT this time. I'm working on getting a space cleared for my new toy. My frame is in at the store but the machine isn't. It should be in today or Monday...Have fun with the QAT!
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