It’s been a long time… however, I haven’t actually sewn/quilted anything in the gap because I was planning and surviving my own wedding – eek! So, I’ve been back in the sewing room and have some updates of nearly completed projects…
Expect this to be a long post.
I’ve been working on the Raspberry Truffle quilt from Bloom Creek. (This picture is from their site). This has been a mother/daughter project that’s been months in the making. I really loved this quilt when I saw it in the LQS, and a year later when the store unfortunately went out of business, they had leftover kits for 60% off.
My mom bought it for me as a gift and we made a pact to divide the blocks and collaborate. 
This worked nicely for both of us, because I can’t appliqué (not because I don’t want to try, my machine’s zigzag function is broken, lol), and my mom doesn’t really love machine quilting. So we divided up the blocks, and now I’m down to finishing the borders.
I admittedly threw down the quilt for the day when I realized I was missing 2 of the foursquare cornerstones for the border. I normally am lazy about quilting and only about 20% of my corners ever match, so with this I went out of my way to line up corners, ripping seams and redoing seams… I feel a little insane. I’ve watched the sixth season of Lost and Twilight (4 times) while making this quilt.
Also, I’ve managed to injure myself multiple times. I think quilting could be considered a dangerous activity. Besides pin pokes, iron burns, sewing yourself to your work and the mental injury when you realize you’re cutting up perfectly good fabric into tiny squares and sewing it back together… I’ve managed to sprain my ankle sewing this quilt. We have hardwood and my clear ruler ended up on the floor, so I slipped on it going between the ironing board and the sewing machine. I am still foggy on how I twisted my ankle, but I think it was from crashing into a dresser and spinning around mid-air because I really didn’t want to hit the ironing board with hot iron on the way down. I got a slew of other bruises from the fall, including my hip from hitting the dresser. Don’t fall in a house with hardwood floors. Just don’t. On the upside, when I burned my finger on the iron later I already had a bag of ice handy…
However, all frustrations aside, I really am loving this quilt and I only have the 2 sides of the outer border left to sew in the pattern.
Things I’m considering and could use feedback on:
This quilt is currently 60”x80”, and twin batting is 72”x90”. I have managed to finish the kit with a TON of extra 5” charms, so I’m seriously thinking I’ll add a charm border varying pink and brown charms.
How to machine quilt this… the sampler in the store has some amazing swirly floral stuff that I can’t remember. So I really need some suggestions! Thanks.
Other Things…
I have a whole stack of projects and fabric in my queue.
Among the fabric I have some coordinating pastel florals, some pink and brown prints and veggie print fabrics I want to make potholders out of. The stack on the right is projects in progress…
My first quilt, with the care bears. All of the nighttime fabric happens to glow in the dark, so I bought some glow in the dark thread and I’m planning on quilting stars with it. This quilt was only loosely ditched, so it’s been needing additional quilting for a long time.
Halfway there… I’m working on a reversible pink and black quilt in Asian inspired prints. Instead of having a top and backing, one side is black with pink sashing while the other is pink with black sashing. I’m looking forward to assembling and quilting this one. I have one side fully assembled and the other is cut and ready to be pieced.
Not even remotely started, but this should be an easy/fun one. I have a bunch of this panel-ish fabric with large gerberas in various colors on white, or white on various colors. I don’t think I’ll get too fancy with the top for this. The backing is pink minky, which is why this will be so fun. Minky is brand new to me… and super soft. This was another amazing clearance kit.
Well, that was a lot to read through so thanks for sticking with me. I should have some finished project updates soon. In the meantime, I have that whole fabric stash and I could really use ideas for what to do with it! If anyone knows of a great pattern or small project (I love small projects), please post in the comments. Thanks!
