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Monday, March 25, 2019

Weekend Stitching: Rainy Days and Storms At Sea

Saturday was stormy and cold.  The Scientist in Training and I headed out for a necessary shopping expedition anyway.  The SIT has a poster presentation over her undergraduate research at a regional chemistry conference in a couple of weeks and needed to add some professional attire to her college wardrobe of jeans and graphic tees.  Plus we have a family wedding coming up at the end of April, so both of us needed dresses for that.  We found slacks, shirt and a jacket for the SIT, plus wedding appropriate dresses for both of us.  That accomplished we had lunch in Tulsa and then drove home in very heavy rain.  

 Once we got home, she started on some organic chemistry homework, so I spent the rest of the rainy afternoon up in my sewing room finishing off a few more blocks for the Storm at Sea quilt. 
Storm at Sea
Paper Piecing Class by Carrie Randell (Quilter's Hideaway)

 I really love the bright colors in this project.  On Sunday, I finished cutting all the dark blue pieces and started assembling those blocks.  The large diamonds are paper pieced, the other blocks are not.  I still need to cut the fabric to make the purple blocks.  Once I do that I can easily finish off a few more economy blocks that go in the bottom corner.  

 Between starting the Storm at Sea and the Daisy Chain Mystery this month, I've lost a bit of momentum on my quilt plan.  Inverted Star was finished last week, next on the 2019 list is the Christmas Mystery quilt.  It's quilted, but needed to be trimmed up for binding.  The trimming got done, as did stitching together the binding strips. I was getting ready to sew the binding on to the front of the quilt, then remembered the label wasn't ready. 

The label was finished, printed, soaked, rinsed per the instructions, and dried.  It's sitting by the sewing machine ready for the framing strips.  The label says this will be finished in March 2019, that may be a bit optimistic. We'll see. 

 It's Monday, so there are lots of fun linky parties to check out.  My favorites are Main Crush Monday, Monday Design Wall, and Monday Making.
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13 comments:

  1. maggie fellowMarch 25, 2019 at 8:01 AM

    so, besides quilting, and science, you can go shopping for clothes and find something - you do have super powers.

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  2. Libby in TNMarch 25, 2019 at 8:17 AM

    I see something exciting happening with your Storm at Sea! I just bought Deb Tucker's ruler for the diamonds; I hope it will help with my accuracy since I don't like paper piecing.

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  3. LIttle Penguin QuiltsMarch 25, 2019 at 10:13 AM

    I love the way your Storm at Sea blocks are looking! That's going to be a beautiful quilt!

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  4. Home Sewn By UsMarch 25, 2019 at 10:14 AM

    Hi Kate! Your Storm quilt gets more beautiful as you add more to it. I just love the deep jewel tone fabrics you selected for this quilt. Oh, I can hardly wait to see it complete. It sounds like you've got a lot done in spite of having a busy weekend. ~smile~ Roseanne

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  5. QUILTING IS BLISSFUL, DIMarch 25, 2019 at 11:00 AM

    You are about the fastest shopper I know--
    you can go and find all those goodies and be back home early--
    and still have energy to sew--wow!!!
    luv, di

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  6. SewgreenMarch 25, 2019 at 1:12 PM

    I love seeing the storm at sea quilt in progress. I love how they look, but sometimes figuring out how it gets put together confuses me. So seeing it on your design wall like that is cool!

    Thanks for sharing!

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  7. CherylMarch 25, 2019 at 8:54 PM

    The storm at sea is looking great, I really like the diagonals of color.

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  8. Frédérique - Quilting Patchwork AppliquéMarch 26, 2019 at 1:54 PM

    I love your Storm at Sea, beautiful layout!

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  9. PreetiMarch 26, 2019 at 3:38 PM

    You and SIT went dress/attire shopping and no one took pictures??? Very disappointing.
    On the up side, I am sure this (Stormy at Sea) will become a spectacular quilt :-) Hope the weather is warming up nicely.

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  10. chrisknitsMarch 26, 2019 at 7:45 PM

    Good to see things are moving to the finish. I can't wait to see Storm At Sea pieced!!

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  11. Alycia~QuiltygirlMarch 28, 2019 at 8:36 AM

    Oh the Storem at sea is just beautiful! I do love those colors too!

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  12. Nancy @ Grace and Peace QuiltingMarch 29, 2019 at 7:18 AM

    Sounds like it was the perfect rainy day to work on Storm at Sea!

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  13. JenniferMarch 29, 2019 at 6:43 PM

    I love the colors in your storm at sea! Glad you had luck shopping, we are going to do that tomorrow, fingers crossed!

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