Monday, May 19, 2008

OC updates and our Senior Center Sampler

I am happy to report that I finished all of the blocks for Clue #3 in the Orange Crush Mystery and got a start on #4. Here are all of Clue #3 Orange Crush Mystery Clue 3 Group and 2 of them up close. Orange Crush Mystery Clue 3 And here are the 6 I've done of Clue #4. Orange Crush Mystery Clue 4 For #4, I have all the strips cut, then lay out one of each as Bonnie suggests, cut them with the Easy Angle ruler, sew one strips' sets together at a time, position them on the cutting mat, then place my 4-patches into those 4-5 blocks, trying not to have the same fabric twice in one block ~~ guess that makes mine a "controlled scrappy" arrangement. I'd like to move along on this project some more this week, but first I need to do some work on the sampler quilt we are doing at the Senior Center.

Last Wednesday at the Center we (read that as "I") got the 4 rows sewn together on the fronts. We are doing this as a quilt-as-you-go so each block has already been quilted. Senior Center Sampler Quilt - sewn together Now I need to begin the work on the back, positioning the batting, trimming off some of the batting, and figuring out how to fold one side of the backing pieces over the others so that it looks neat when finished. I am hoping some some of the other ladies will be able/willing to help with the handwork of stitching the backing pieces together. I've not done this before except on a sample, so we'll see how it goes. This quilt will be given to the Center to hang when we finish. Then we are going to start work on some Turning Twenty quilts.

4 comments:

BitnByAQuiltingBug said...

Looking great on the mystery. I'm loving this one as much or better than the last one.
Regina

Unknown said...

OOOOOO....AAhhhhhh! I am loving your mystery quilt colors....the blocks look fantastic. My colors are so crazy that I've decided to put all related colors in the same block....all that scrappy color was making me crazy....I don't think the orange I chose is standing up in the block....I like your sample quilt also....lovely
hugz
Pam

Candace said...

Your OC blocks look great. This is going to be a fun mystery to solve.

Helen in the UK said...

I really like your colour choices for the OC. The spinning star blocks look great :)