Quilting Updates: Theme – Let’s Make Cake

I would like to re-institute a weekly staple into this blog.  Actually, it has never been HERE, but it was on my last blog.

For this week, I will update you on what I have been working on.

Once a month I go to Grandma’s Attic, a local quilt shop for quilt club. Each year Rachel, the owner, has a different theme. There is a fee to join each year ($10), and a monthly fee ($10) to get the materials.  There is stories, jokes, historical research, camaraderie, popcorn, cookies, coffee, tea, water, fabric (of course), etc. Each month we get a pattern and fabric, in a color-way of our choice. This year’s theme is “Let’s Make Cake”, so we also get recipe cards and helpful hints for the kitchen.  😀

With the packing, storage, and moving – blocks gathered in a couple of places, some even being misplaced.  As I have been finding them, I have been gathering them all together.  In the evening, on Mother’s day, I finally got a chance to cut out each block.  I put the fabric back into the zip top bag with it’s pattern. For  a future moment to being to piece the blocks together.  Last week and this week, I have been squeezing out some moments here and there.

Let me show you what I have so far:

Let’s Make Cake Quilt

Double X Block

I would have had the American Made Autumn color way done also. But I had mis-cut some of the background fabric. I will have to buy more before I can finish that block.

Bachelor’s Puzzle Blocks

Road to Oklahoma Blocks

The Mayflower Blocks

Alsace Lorraine Beauty Blocks

Flying Geese Blocks

Oh! In case it isn’t really clear, I am doing two autumn themed color ways this year.  The theory/plan is that they will combine into one larger quilt.

I have also been working on a few other things (no photos, at least so far):

~My poison caramel apple knitted and beaded shawl

~blue knitted blanket

~flower of the month embroidery blocks – specifically Block #7 – July – Water lily

~still unpacking and thinning down my belongings (this will be ongoing for a long time, I fear)

I hope that your week was(so far) and is(to come) a good one!

 

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