Sub-cutting done

It was mostly an "organize" day, but I did manage to get in some sewing time.  I got all of the strip sets cut.

Aren't they a lovely pile? 

Now to sew them all back together again. (Seriously, sometimes what we say makes us sound like we should be committed!) The pattern is a simple checkerboard. There's a great tutorial for this type of quilt over on redpepperquilts.com.

Two more Desert Nights blocks got done as well. The stack grows.

It's time for me to get crackin' on the packin'!

Thanks for stopping by.

A top finished, another begins

The Fat Quarter Fun top got finished yesterday.

I'm really glad I did the piano key border. There's so much piecing in this one that a plain ol' strip-of-fabric border would have looked rather out of place, I think.

Although I have bindings to do, I started another quilt instead. I've had it cut out for awhile. I made the first block last night to test the process.

It's paper pieced (I copied the pattern onto newsprint - so much easier to work with!), so I always have to retrain myself on how to do the Judy Neimeyer method. I did OK, with just a bit of a goof on that rightmost dark piece, but it's in the seam allowance so it will be forgiven.

I also had to test that light purple piece of fabric.  It's almost like metallic tissue and I was worried it might melt. But it was made for quilters, and it worked just fine.  I knocked the iron temperature down a hair "just in case".  

Thank you, quilting fairies, for batiks! It's really hard to tell if you've reversed a piece. Which of course I did. It will be forgiven in the overall quilt.

That's yesterday's progress.  Thanks for stopping by.