Mid Winter Red - making progress in Summer

At camp, during winter 2015 (Aussie winter) I made these blocks from a Mid Winter Red layer cake, using a tutorial by Missouri Quilt Co.  The pattern is called Disappearing pinwheel by Missouri Quilt Co, but I have been referring to them as Pinwheel in a Churn Dash on my UFO list.

 The 20 blocks were relegated to the naughty box because the outside edges were all on the bias, due to the construction method (ie quick and easy!).  

Hence the blocks were all slightly different sizes and needed trimming.

I hate trimming!

However I love buying fabric.  So with sashing and cornerstone fabric purchased these blocks came out of the naughty bin.

Confession; I never trimmed them!

I just pinned carefully and sewed them to the correctly sized sashing and pressed, pressed, pressed.

They look pretty good to me!

I ran out of sashing, but have ordered more by snail mail.  

In the meantime its nice to know that one UFO is back on track.  

Happy quilting Sue.

a new beginning?

Due to the pain I am having pain in my right shoulder I have been looking to reduce activities that aggravate it.  However I had a days sewing booked in, whats a girl to do?

With minimal time to prepare, I tore through my project boxes looking for an "easy" project for the day.

Alas everything required either fabric purchases (which means a road trip) or was more complicated than I had the brain space for. 

Except for this layer cake, and length of charcoal shot cotton I had bundled together, with a pattern!

 Yep, I started a new project!  With a few turns of the Go Cutter I had my layer cake and background cut into 2.5" strips.  And then I could settle into some mindless piecing.

All that piecing resulted in all these long stripes, which I have also sewed into pairs.

That took all day, but all I have to do is sew the pairs all together and I am 3/4 finished!  

This is the free pattern I am using;

Meet in the Middle

and I have pinched the photo of the finished quilt (68" x 80") by the 

designer Jo Kramer from her blog: Jo's Country Junction

A very simple strip quilt, but perfect for my days sewing as everything came out of my stash and I didn't have to think beyond sewing five different strips together.  My colours are very different from this photo, so hope to have a finished top to show you next time!

Happy quilting, Sue.