Call me crazy. . .

Well wait a minute before you call me that.

In 2021 I purchased a pattern from Sentimental Stitches. Every Friday that year, I’d get an email containing 7 quilt block patterns. All year long I made quilt blocks. In the end I made a quilt containing over 11,800 pieces. 

In January of 2022, I purchased this pattern titled 4.5 inch tiny blocks. Today I finished all the blocks plus one, to make my quilt.

It still needs several borders. As for how many pieces, I didn’t keep count. I just know it’s a whole lot less pieces. 

2021 quilt, titled 3-inch tiny blocks. 

And now it’s 2023. I purchased another pattern. It’s titled Call me crazy! Here is sample pictures Gay posted of it. Every Friday you get one pattern. The block will be only 6 inches square. 

I know I’m addicted to paper piecing. I’ve been sewing on paper for more than 20 years. 

 

This is another pattern I ordered from Sentimental Stitches. It makes, I believe a 16 inch square pattern.

I’ve sewed several, but they get very little attention anymore.

Okay go ahead Call Me Crazy In the meantime, I’ll be in my room sewing. 

365 block challenge quilt is completely pieced

Here it is all pieced.

If I have the counted correctly my quilt has 11,180 pieces in it!! It finished out at 84 by 105 inches. 

Since January 1, 2021, I have worked on this weekly. I could hardly wait until every Friday morning to receive the email containing the 7 blocks of the week.  Every block is different, no 2 alike. They start as 3 1/2 inches and when sewed together make a nice little 3-inch square block. 

I purchased the program to make this quilt from Sentimental Stitches. It is a technique called paper piecing.  I ran the patterns off onto tracing paper, and then sewed through the paper, then removing it before sewing the blocks together. 

 I believe Gay is offering this pattern again for 2022 if you hurry!

This is the fabric I used the most of.  It's a bolt of fabric I purchased from a friend when his wife, who was an expert quilter died.  It's very old, only 36 inches wide. I would cut off a couple of yards, wash and dry it and iron it before I used it in the quilt. I did not wash the colored fabric. 

I sewed the entire quilt on this Singer model 206 K machine. It was manufactured in 1953, a year after I was born. It's beautiful with a domed case.  It's the first vintage black zig-zag machine I have acquired. 

I posted pictures to my Facebook account and most times to my Instagram account of the 7 blocks of the week. It was always hard to show the actual size. Sometimes I used coins for references. 

This is the very first week!

It's always fun to look at the back. 

Here's a close-up back view. 

I liked this one, notice I fussy cut the star to be in the middle. 

Of all 365 blocks this one had been picked probably as most people's favorite.  A square in a square.

A good block to embroider the year it was pieced.

This block contained 65 pieces of fabric. I thought that would be the most.  However, the following week, one came with 68 pieces of fabric. 

 

68 pieces of fabric in one 3-inch block!!!!

This is maybe my favorite block.  Something about it looking round, I guess.

There's always lots of tiny pieces of paper everywhere. I use tracing paper to print my patterns on. 

Now I need to get it in the frame, and I will be hand quilting it. My plan is to quilt around every 3-inch block. 

Life is good.

Now on to the next adventure, thank you Sentimental Stitches, the next project is 4 1/2 blocks!

Successful surgery. Praise the Lord.

Surgery went well on Wednesday 2/6/2019.  We were home about 2 in the afternoon.

Every time a new nurse or technician came into the room, I’d have to verify my birth date, so by the time surgery was over, everyone knew it was my birthday .  Nurse Lorie even gave me a birthday scrub hat to wear during surgery.

This time next year I plan to have a double celebration, birthday and cancer free. That’s my plan anyway. You hear me God?

I've been laying low.. My hubby has spoiled me beyond means!  I have received so many cards, gifts, cookies, meals, comments, encouragements and prayers. Thank you all! Everyone means so much. Life is precious as is good health.

The surgeon called us Friday and was happy with the surgery. She said she got all the cancer. Luckily she only had to take one lymph node and it was cancer free.

When the incisions heal I will take four weeks of radiation.

Since this is a quilting blog, let’s get back to that.  Here’s a few things I’ve completed in the last few months.

This is another top for my friend Margaret. She loves to embroidery. These blocks are of cute little log cabins, so I just had to set it together with traditional log cabin pieced blocks.

I started these paper piece blocks years ago. My January resolution was to finish them. #score. The patterns are of sunbonnet Sue and overall Sam, rolling through the 12 months. I combined them with

a pieced blocks. Someday I will hand quilt it. It’s twin bed size.

This was a quilt I made for my great nephew, Bowman. I pieced it, another great aunt, Janie hand quilted it.

My friend Judy found most of this fabric at tag sales. She asked if I could do Elvis justice? She had traced the kneeling Elvis, he was about 6 inches tall. I took him to Staples and they enlarged him to about 36 inches. He is machine appliqued to music fabric I found at Hobby Lobby.  Hopefully the church ladies will start quilting him next week. He will be auctioned at the church picnic in August.

Until next time . .. . .

Patti