My blog has been greatly neglected... which indicates how my sewing progess has been going. I've picked at things here and there but not enough to start some momentum. Excuses, well I can come up with a hundred. All valid, but when push comes to shove they are just that - Excuses. This year is speeding through and I have only one full finish so far. I'm all over the place and I jump from one project to the next before completing anything. I was itching to work on something easy but I had so many wip's and ufo's that its hard to justify starting another project. What to do?
The good thing is while I haven't done much of anything, I also haven't been hitting the fabric stores to add to my fabric hoard. I've discovered my fabric tastes change constantly so unless I need something to complete a current project or I'm going to start a project immediately I'm going to refrain from visiting stores & online shops. Now that I said that, you know a bunch of fabric lines that I will fall instantly in love with are going to start popping up in my social feeds...
Last weekend I took a hard look at what was on my design wall it all seemed too fussy for my poor cluttered brain. Honestly, I can't take anything more intricate right now than strips for a log cabin, rail fence or maybe a rag quilt. With that honest self evaluation the decision was made. That jelly roll from last Christmas is exactly what the sanity police ordered.
I added in the elf material because I just love it. I started by cutting all the strips in 6.5 lengths and a white jelly roll into 2.5 squares. Simple chain piecing sewing one white to one of the Christmas stack.
It didn't take long to get a fair number done, from there combing two strips together then 4.... and voila! Can you believe it? While I know many can fully complete an easy quilt like this in less than a day, it took me about 20 hours from start to finish. I have to say I didn't stress making this one, I just enjoyed the process. I thought it may not be 'Christmassy' enough but my husband thinks it looks like wrapping paper. lol i'll take that as a win!
With the top done I realized I didn't have anything for backing so went to the local fabric shop this afternoon for the first time in months and bought 2 meters of chenille and discovered it was a 40-50 % off everything sale weekend. I stopped myself from looking at anything else and only bought what I went in for.
I'm sure I've mentioned before that I love chenille/minky backs on my quilts I think it makes them a bit more cuddly. So far I've made nothing larger than a lap quilt so I really don't have the worry of extra weight and living in Ontario the warmer the better in winter months. Picture was taken after dark, it's actually more turquoise and matches the colour in the top.
I hope to get this sandwiched and start quilting it by the weekend! Thinking simple quilting and red binding but we'll see once it's all quilted. I haven't been this excited to finish a quilt in a long while!
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