Looks kind of like a pile of dirty laundry. It's not. But I guess I'm airing some. Can you tell that sewing rows together is not my favorite thing to do? I end up with piles like this from time to time next to my chair at the sewing machine. When it gets pretty high I do something about it - I force myself to start sewing together rows before I can do any other sewing related thing. Depending upon what needs to be done I make little goals about how many rows need to be sewn together each day or how many blocks need to be completed each day.
So what's in the pile this time? Are you curious? If so then read on.
There's a bunch of nine inch Triangle Tile blocks ( I think that's what they are called) that need rows sewn together.
After these HSTs are sewn into blocks and the webbed ones are made into blocks I should have 56 blocks that can be sewn together into rows and thrown back into the pile.
And then there's my little butterflies. All blocks are sewn together into 20 rows and now I just have to sew those 20 rows togetherr.
Also in the pile are rows of Happy Animals.
And then there's the String Star blocks for my One Monthly Goal all sewn together into rows now.
Then there's a pile of these little Whatchamacallits that need to be sewn together. I made these from some of the 1.5 inch scraps left over from the String Stars. More on those later.
And there are some of these little rails in the pile. All they need is ironing. No rows to sew together on these.
And finally there's an orphan block partially sewn together. I started sewing it together but noticed I hadn't used the same solid or tot for one of the colors, darn it. So I tossed it aside and made another one the right way.
And that's the process for some quilts. Not all follow the same process though.
Thanks for sharing (confessing) your process. Don't the pieces get wrinkly if piled up for too long?
ReplyDeleteGoodness, all those quilts in the process of being sewn up. Now I don't feel so bad about all the quilts-in-progress in my sewing room!
ReplyDeleteyou sure have a lot of rows to go together...hugs, Julierose
ReplyDeleteSO much variety - one seam at a time!
ReplyDeleteThis must be why all of a sudden, you have 5 or 6 finishes all at once. I have a bunch of WIPs, but they're not all piled up in one big mountain.
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Wow so many beautiful projects to choose from! If you don't like sewing rows, have you thought about making big blocks (like your insane quilt that only had 16 blocks?). I don't mind the rows - by that point, I am looking forward to seeing how they all look together. I guess it is good that I can't envision what they will look like sewn together, even if I lay them out in rows.
ReplyDeleteCreative chaos! Interesting and slightly scary to have a peek into your process. I don't mind sewing rows, but go through phases where I hate sewing on borders. So I leave them off. Then there are times when I hate piecing backings. That one's harder to work around, so usually I just wait until the backing mojo fairy visits and I make a bunch all at once.
ReplyDeleteWow. That's a lot of rows to sew. How do you finish so many quilts if you don't sew rows? Somehow you must find a way to get them done.
ReplyDeleteI hate that part too but once completed oh what lovely tops you'll have
ReplyDeleteI hear ya on the row-sewing, but it's the pressing afterwards that sets me to whimpering...
ReplyDeleteYou always have so many quilts on the go and I'm always so impressed! I really like the one you call little butterflies.
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