Lots of Progress this Wednesday

Amazingly I had a some what productive week. I was able to put together another one of my ups and downs  block for my 4 x 5 modern bee, if you are interested I did write a tutorial for this one.

All the rest of my progress was in the prepping projects realm, but productive nonetheless.

I prepped all of my 4 x 5 modern bee blocks.

And I cut all the strips that needed to for the background of my zig zag quilt. Now I just need to cut the strips into squares and start making some flying geese.

OL so lets be truthful here, it was only sorta productive. That is if I over look the fact that I got distracted and played with cutting up the scraps for my 4 x 5 blocks into other usable sizes. Since I used my Accuquilt go cutter to cut the parallelograms there were lots of random scraps, mostly because I only cut to parallelograms with each 4 1/2 inch strip times the 4 prints for each of the 6 blocks I am making. Anyhow, from the small triangle scraps that were left over I was able to get some 3 1/2 inch triangle halves and a whole bunch of mini hexagons.

All I did was lay the triangles over the go die, in this case both the 3 1/2" triangle and the hexagon die, and wheel it through. Then out popped these nicely cut pieces. I like the cute little hexagons, they just make me happy. The best part was that I had some 3/4" hexagon papers hiding in my sewing room and the fit the smallest hexagon on my go die. 

 

So I made a hexagon flower. Even though the 3/4" pieces had a 1/4" on each sides I really did have trouble using that small of a piece of fabric with that size template I wonder if they make smaller ones. I think that is something I am going to have to research on that.

In other notes of being easily side tracked I also used the bigger left over pieces from the same 4 1/2' strips with 2 1/2" die and cut a whole bunch of squares. I also grab some other random scraps from my overflowing scrap pile and cut them up to. Then I decided to use them as a leader and enders project.

I have seen this pop up a few times on some of the blogs I read and decided to try it myself. It is from Bonnie Hunter, you can read all about it over here at her blog quiltville, But for a quick idea of what it is, is when you chain piece you start with a leader so your threads don't get tangled and one at the end so you are ready to sew next time. I have done this with junk scraps before, but instead of using a piece of fabric you plan on tossing, you use squares, that you can then use to make a quilt. I figured I might as well go for it so that I can do something my overwhelming scrap pile.

There you go that is all my progress for the week. I had hoped to get lots done this weekend, but instead I spent it cleaning, gardening, and helping my sister-in-law pick fabric for her wedding quilt that she asked me to make for her. Although all of that was productive too, I never got to the fun part of actually making any thing. At least I got some prep work done this week so I will be ready for my 4 day weekend coming up.


Oh yeah, by the way, this is post #298 for me and I am planning on having a giveaway as for my 300th post. I already know what I am giving away and it may be part of the reason I was extra distracted this week... I kept thinking about what my plan was and then I couldn't resist playing with some myself... now the big question is will what I got show up before my 300th post. If it doesn't that is ok, because I already purchased  2/3 of my giveaway from some LQSs.

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