Hell my friend,
Well Covid has finally eased off. I just have a stuffed up nose and a bit of a hoarse voice left-over and that's about it! Thank goodness! And thank goodness for sewing easy projects in colours that make me happy. What would we ever do without our sewing machines?
I got the Take 5 quilt together and I have to say - I love it! Take 5 is a perfect pattern to use up beautiful prints like these and it goes together so quickly. Every time I make one of these I'm constantly surprised at how much I like it. I made a Christmas Take 5 several years ago to donate to a fundraiser and I always planned on making another one - well, here she is!
I also found a deep red wide-back in my stash, you can see it on the right side of the picture, that will be perfect for this quilt.
Next up, in my quest to deal with the mountain of Christmas fabrics in my stash, is this wonky log cabin. This has to be one of the most freeing projects I have ever worked on! Seriously, this is just a throw it together and it will work out later sort of projects that I don't usually do. And man is this using up some bits. I always tear my wide-backs, because they get cut so wonky off the bolt, not anyone's fault, but they load so so much better if they are torn before they are loaded. Anyways, I used the torn left-over red to cut some squares and rectangles for the centre pieces of the log cabins and then just went for it with piecing strips and bits. A great way to use up the odd shaped piece of tear-off fabric.
I squared these up using my Studio 10.5" square die but you could use the one for the Go Big too. This is pretty big for this style of quilt, and you could make these smaller, say 6.5", but I like the bigger size.
After pulling out my Christmas 2" squares bin I realized that I could use a few of these as well for the initial pieces - win! Why, oh why does this bin never seem to get smaller no matter how much I pull out of it? Well, to be fair, I added a LOT of squares to it after I processed the scraps from mask making. Sigh - someday this will be depleted - right?
Probably not, but a girl can dream right LOL!
See what I mean? This is filled to the brim!
I've also been playing a lot with my sourdough bread. This is a really easy recipe that is 100% whole wheat. It doesn't spring up as much as a 100% white recipe but it's delicious and just beautiful with soup. If you make sourdough bread - give this one a try.
My husband liked this loaf so much that he would only cut the right side of it and hasn't touched the left yet LOL!
Next up, I just bought some tea towels to do a tutorial for the oven handle cloths I made for a friend. Stay tuned for that and happy quilting!
