More Kitting Preparation

While I was hunting out my strange, stripey fabric I unearthed another unrecorded UFO. 

At least I had an EQ8 printout, and a status card, but no list of sizes I was cutting. I'm sure when I packed this away all I cared about was getting it out of my sight, and I was confident that I would remember all the sizes and strips I needed. I measured everything, including a lot of strips that were included in the project box, and wrote it all down on the back of that card.

I also made up one of the kitted blocks to make sure that everything really did fit together, and yay, it did. So now I want to fully prepare a lot of kits for these 9" blocks so that over summer when I'm confined to the AC I can just open this box and sew.

I have 32 of the Sawtooth Stars for the Annette Gero quilt prepared, and a stack of 6.5" squares, so all that can sit in it's box until I want to sew on it. It's no different to buying a pre-cut kit from a quilt shop really, and I'm relishing the thought of playing with these little stars.

Oh dear, looks like I've succumbed to the latest Quiltville mystery. I'm making one quarter of the units needed, and if I feel like it later on I'll make more. I certainly have enough of these colours in the stash.

This ice blue fabric is so prone to fading; it's a loss of colour everywhere it's folded, and it's happened to most of the early material in my stash. It looks like a grubby yellow line, but it doesn't wash out. I'm cutting the faded bits out and using the good bits, and I'll just enjoy the quilt until it fades too. And if I don't use this stuff then I might as well throw it out right now.

This is another very old piece that I got in a scrap bag. I had a pink and brown version of this and I treasured every scrap, but it's long gone. The colours are perfect for Lupine and Laughter, so I'll be using this as my neutral. 

Seeing as 2 of my fabrics are ancient I'm digging out some old pinks to include too. The above pink is at least 40 years old, and I bought it because it reminded me of our baby blankets.

Pink on one side, yellow on the other. I wrapped my babies in this blanket too, it's so soft and cuddly and full of memories.

It even has the label intact.

I like the emphasis on all new materials, because a lot of bedding was stuffed with old army blankets after the war years, or shredded cotton clothing. One cushion that I unpicked was full of old stockings and underwear; double yuk!

 I hope the finished design has a vintage vibe, because my fabrics are vintage 😁.

When in Queensland DIL Naomi schooled Isla on how to cut out a pattern using a projector system and a rotary cutter, and then Isla sewed it on the coverstitch machine. 

She is justifiably proud of the result. It should be roomy enough to fit her next year; we are leaving long sleeved weather behind here, and moving into summer mode.  Naomi put a lettuce edging around the edges, which Isla was very impressed with. Her Dad was a bit mystified by how enthused we were about it, but he's a guy. He doesn't understand these things.

(I spend more time fighting with Blogger about the formatting and the position of the photos than I do writing the post. It's strange how it used to work perfectly until they 'improved' it. 😠)