To-Do Tuesday Edition 2

What’s under your needle?  Here is last week’s list along with this week’s Tuesday To-Do list:

To-do Tuesday from April 18th:

  1. Complete the purple woven quilt top
  2. Send it off for long-arm quilting
  3. Begin sewing blue/gray quilt
  4. Continue sewing strips for 16-patch blocks
  5. Add sashing to ABC wall hanging #1

 

To-Do Tuesday for April 25th:

  1. Continue sewing strips together for blue/gray quilt
  2. Continue sewing strips together for 16-patch blocks
  3. Add sashing to ABC blocks

 

Yup, one purple woven quilt top complete.  Fifty-six blocks made – check; seven blocks sewed together = one row – check;  eight rows sewn together – check.  We even decided to add a border.  Once it was complete we took it to the long-arm quilter for quilting.  We’ll give you an update in a few weeks.  Woohoo!  Here’s a sneak peek of the border – we had chosen a batik for the first version of this quilt and we were still able to use it because it matched well enough:

 

Batik Border

 

#1

Our new list is much shorter.  Up next is the blue/gray quilt, another queen size quilt. Sue has started cutting up the fabric.  As I mentioned last week, we chose two Moda Fabrics:  one is called Ombre Graphite and the other is a blue-hued Shirbori.  The pattern is called Jimmy John, and we are using the gray ombre fabric as the background (or the white in their pattern).  I showed a few of the cut strips of the ombre in this article as well as a link to the pattern, if you want a peak at those.  Here is a picture from the JJ pattern:

 

JimmyJohn

 

#2

We’re still working on the 16-patch and framed 4-patch quilt.  I just about have all the strips sewed together in sets of four.  Sue will then cut them for me and I get them back together into their sets of 16.  It takes 18 of these blocks added to the already complete 17 framed blocks.  Once those are complete we can start piecing the quilt top and before you know it I’ll be quilting away.  ~smile~  You can see a sample of the strips in the header picture of today’s post.

 

#3

Our last to-do Tuesday project is the first of the ABC quilts for our Etsy shop (found here).  All the A-B-Cs have been hand appliquéd – I am almost done with the next set for the second wall hanging.  I still haven’t started on adding the sashing to each letter and then the rows can start to be formed.  It’s hanging cutely on the project wall, waiting patiently for its turn to be worked on.

 

Link Ups

I’ll give you an update on these projects next Tuesday, May 2nd (can you believe it’s going to be May already?)!  I’m linking up with To-Do-Tuesdays, Linky Tuesday, WOW Wednesdays, My Quilt Infatuation, and Finished or Not Friday.

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8 Responses

  1. Christine says:

    I love that purple batik fabric! So glad you could use the first fabric chosen too! I can’t wait to see what the quilter does with this one. Thank you so much for linking up!!

    • Roseanne says:

      Hi Christine! It was just a fluke that the batik matched, I think. It’s a week today . . . so maybe next Friday or Saturday we’ll get a call. XX – fingers crossed. ~smile~
      Roseanne

  2. Patricia says:

    Your purple quilt is gorgeous, but that JJ quilt is amazing! I was drawn to it and couldn’t stop looking at it! So pretty!

    • Roseanne says:

      Hi Patricia! Thanks for the nice compliments – you are so sweet. The JJ quilt is coming together so easily . . . much better than that darn purple one (which has been named the quilt from H). The worst part is all the lint from the jelly roll – I am covered after sewing a few strips together! HAHA I ‘plan’ to work on it quite a bit this weekend: if that pans out remains to be seen. ~smile~ Roseanne

  3. Susan says:

    Such pretty fabrics and colors in those quilts! Thanks for sharing on Midweek Makers

    • Roseanne says:

      Thank you so much Susan! I love these link websharing – I love seeing what others are working on. It’s so inspiring for me and motivating too. ~smile~ Roseanne

  4. Sharon - IN says:

    That is a beautiful batik to border the purple woven quilt top! Hope you show a picture of the quilting when you get it back from the long-armer!

    • Roseanne says:

      Hi Sharon! Thank you for your comment. We really weren’t sure about that border . . . I wanted the quilt bigger but wasn’t sure if I loved that batik. Phew – it feels good to hear someone else say it looks good. ~smile~ I will certainly share a bunch of pictures when we get it back. I hope it looks fabulous! I’ll just have to add the binding (my favorite part). ~smile~ Roseanne

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