The Green Stripper

Red, orange, yellow, green.  Green is the next colour of the rainbow so I worked on my green strip last week so it would be ready for Guild night.  These rainbow quilts will be something else to see when they are all completed.  I hope they are finished before the summer.  I had a lot of green so I used light and dark in order not to be too dull or too washed out.

Green strip

At one of the groups I go to it was time for a birthday so we had a little celebration.  I think 81 years is something to celebrate.  

A young 81 year old Leila

We even had Birthday Cake.

Peggy.

Orange Strippers

This month our Quilt Guild is asking us to make an orange strip measuring 14 1/2 by 68". I had enough in my stash to make the whole strip this time and I am all ready to hand it over in a few weeks time.

Orange Strip

Next month we will be making a yellow strip, following the colours of the rainbow.  I don't think I will have enough yellow, so I may just make a shorter one.

Peggy.

My September Blocks Are Finished

I finally finished my Craftsy Block of the Month for September.  I had never done a drunkard's path block so it was nice to learn something new.  I made a different block for my first one because instead of cutting the templates I bought Elisa's templates and they were the wrong size.  I learned a lot from using them though.  I also watched her video which was a lot of help using these templates.  I needed the squares to finish at 3 inches and when I used the templates they finished at 3 1/2 inches so in order to make a 12 1/2 inch block I had to put a border around what I made.

September Block Number One

For my second block I made templates so that the block would finish at 12 1/2 inches.

September Block Number Two

Joined at the Hip Block

Our Guild has a wonderful program every month.  Some very talented people put together a very interesting program at our September guild meeting.  First we had a Phys Ed teacher talk to us about keeping fit and do some exercises when we are quilting.  Many of us tend to hunch ourselves over and tense up when we are quilting and she tried to help us loosen up and relax.

Next the committee showed us some strippers.  They spent the weekend making strip sets of all the colours of the rainbow.  The strip sets were 14 1/2 inches by 68 inches.  They asked us to make a red strip set for this month.  I don't have enough reds to do that, so I recruited a few friends to make 14 1/2 inch squares in red and we will sew them together to make our strip.

My Red 14 1/2 inch square.

Peggy