City Weekend Project

"City Weekend, Hmmm"

Have you ever wondered where they get some of the names for the fabric lines?  I am sure it can be found in an interview somewhere on the interweb, but it is much more fun to make up stories and ideas in one's head instead, I should think.  I would share these fantastical stories I have made up for each line I play with, but I wouldn't want it to get back to the designers just in case there is something they might find offensive.  It does however keep me secretly amused as I sew. [laughter]

In progress, auditioning fabrics for joining strips

My lovely husband was good enough to get my computer back up and running (Ie. plug it in) so I could get caught up on Downton Abbey; the keyboard sticks a little but I can survive as long as I have a mouse and a bit of Tissue!  I have been attempting to watch while picking out the mess I made of a  free-motion-quilting stitch I tried to do on this project.  Leah Day I am not, but she assures her faithful followers that with practice and time (and perhaps a lot more practice) one might complete a new stitch she whips out as quick as a dream!

I decided to just wing it and go with a sort of doodle stitch that reminds me of 79.56% of my Public School Education.  Nothing against Public School Teachers, by the way,  I just owe my life to Librarians.  It's just I was often sent off to the Library because I was reading Persuasion while Dick and Jane were running, so I learned early it is easier to just read the textbook and to doodle.   And as usual, I digress.   I have almost decided to keep this quilt for a wall hanging, but we shall see.  My favorite Quilt is almost always the last I have completed or the one I just started!

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I plan to connect the bricks on this project using Leah Day's Quilt-As-You-Go Method.  We will have to see if I can get this one done.  I suspiciously hear Bob the Builder chanting in my head, but that might come from having an almost 1 year in the household who likes to repeat things.  I am also focusing on the Scrappy Hearts wall hanging I started about an hour after I got home with the fabric on Saturday.  You can see more about that on my Sunday List HERE.  The fabrics are gorgeous and I am so delighted with how they are going!

I have one last focus this week, which is some labels for two quilts I made last year [see POST].  Since one of them was auctioned off I wanted to wait to make a tag once the Winner was chosen, but someone wanted to buy the twin so I have that one to do as well.  I have been writing tags with a marker as I have seen by many of you out there, but if you go on Clover & Violet you will see tags/signature blocks of a different sort, one I really want to master--the art of embroidery.

Need to clean chalk lines off and then attached to Quilt #2

Fingers got  tired so this is where I am at for this Signature block

I need to cook a turkey tomorrow so hopefully I can get everything finished up and delivered tomorrow night.  Since I keep getting asked about the Turkey I will save you the time from wondering!  I am clearing up room in freezer and fridge for party food for Miss Z's First Birthday.  Plus Lent starts next week so trying to get temptations out of the house!
* Shanna