Several years ago, my friend Lynn and I both purchased the Red & White Gatherings quilt book designed by Lisa Bongean of Primitive Gatherings fame. Neither one of us ever made a quilt from the book so last year I challenged Lynn that in 2025, we each needed to make a pattern from the book. We could put our own twist on the quilt but the project needed to be based on one of the patterns and it didn't have to be a full sized quilt.
In my January post about all the quilts I wanted to work on this year, I shared that I wanted to make the feathered star quilt called Starlings. I love feathered stars! That was the plan when I wrote up the list but I've since changed my mind. I have made a small version of the Love Triangle quilt.
There are a lot of HST's in this block, I really didn't want to pieced the huge amount of HST's for a full sized quilt.
The checkerboard border blocks finish at 1.5" but they look larger in the photo.
My small not-quilted version finishes at 43.5". For now she's hanging in the 'to be quilted' closet.
Bonnie has published her new Leader & Ender challenge, Four Patch Fun! I don't make Bonnie's L & E projects every year, I want something simple to run under the needle and I don't participate if the block includes HST's or QST's. I might start the new sew-along sometime but while I stitched Love Triangle, I sewed 2" squares together to make twosies then I sewed 2 twosies together and made 4 patches. The plan is someday to have a simple scrappy patchwork quilt, simple and easy without fuss.
I wrote about organizing my sewing studio in last week's midweek post and several people commented on all the space I have. Yes, I am fortunate have a very large studio. We have an unfinished basement under the house and my studio is the full south half. I've added carpet remnants, because I usually walk around in my bare feet (in the summer anyway, other seasons I wear heavy socks), to cover the concrete on that side. I've also added LED lights to the rest of the south side. I feel fortunate to have so much room and when I'm done sewing, I can leave the mess and go upstairs. Walking up and down stairs helps keep me limber, at least that's what I tell myself.
Here is a link to the post I wrote about my sewing studio when we moved in 3 years ago, it has evolved from then. I've added more shelving and switched the placement of the cutting table and sewing machine cabinet. I also added another display wall. I do run a dehumidifier from the first of April through the first of November. I empty it daily, more stairs exercise.
