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This past Saturday I spent time at the Maritime Modern Quilt Guild's Sew-In Day.  I had a great time gabbing and sewing, my two favourite things.  I worked on making more selvedge blocks for a future unknown quilt.  I was truly inspired by all the projects in progress and just the plain old love of quilting.  I kept the momentum going when I got home that day and started working on finishing up a few projects so I can start a few more new ones!


I decided on the quilting design for my little "Slices" piece.  A simple wavy stitch approx, 1 1/2" apart did the trick.  I used a Sulky Blendables #30 weight variegated thread in colour No. 4006 Autumn.  I prefer this thread because the colour changes are close together than other brands I have tried so you get a much subtler look.  I just love how this range of oranges looks on each of the fabrics, especially on the blue/purple row. Bit hard to tell from the photo, but I just love the look.  I used a Superior Titanium 90/14 topstitch needle.   Still not sure what I am making with this 25" square but will decide on that soon. 

"Slices" 

Yesterday, I got to work sewing up the units in "Basic Puzzle" and I had a big helping hand from RetiredHub.  I set my sewing machine up next to my design wall in the hallway where I had the pieces of this quilt.  He matched up the units, one by one, passed them to me, I sewed the seam, passed it back to him and then he put them back on the wall in the correct order so as to not get them mixed up. (120 seams) On my own, that would have been a lot of getting up and down.  It was such a great help and now I only have to sew the 15 rows together and the top is done.  I will do that tomorrow.  This one will be fun to quilt I think. 

"Basic Puzzle" rows all sewn together

Hope you had some time to quilt today!
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