Month Nine

 One more simple flower. This time I basted each petal around the plastic template, cinched it and ironed it. This was much easier than needle turn appliqué despite the extra step.

And these are all twelve blocks for the Stonefield quilt by Susan Smith...Month Nine. For the last three months of this block of the month quilt, I stopped going in order so I'm gathering the blocks back together. This is for accounting...not for how the quilt would go together...which we only have currently as a theoretical construct.

I did notice that over at Kathy's Quilt blog for her Slow Stitch Sunday, there were a few participants working on the Stonefield quilt. And if you would like some nutritious blogging content, check out this post by Rebecca Grace Quilting.

P.S. Any extra characters or symbols in this post are a secret communication from my supervisor.

One more block

 

Here's the block that I finished today. The instructions to the Stonefield quilt calls for two of these blocks. Then there are four more blocks and I will be finished with the blocks for the quilt. The quilt instructions call for a flying geese border and hexagons to complete the quilt, but I am not going there. I am thinking I will finish it like making a fine wine...store away the blocks for a while and let them age (but not ferment, hopefully).

Block progress and Cats

I found myself slowing down considerably working on the Stonefield quilt by Susan Smith and decided I needed to add more fun and cats.

I needed a second version of the same block. This is where I learned that I have a lot more "random design" fabric than symmetric design. I am especially low on symmetric cat designs.

You may remember progress shots of the block on the right. I became stalled at the thought of sewing 24 small circles but once I got going I discovered that thinking about them was worse than actually sewing them. 

I was supposed to make three blocks with simple flowers with a small circle center but those evolved into cat heads.

Meanwhile, in the universe of real cats, Molly has added supervision of a neighbor cat to her supervisory duties. 

Meanwhile, Buddy is working on acquiring his license to be a princess. Thankfully, Molly has a second princess tent so we didn't have to enact The Princess Wars...certain to be an upcoming Disney movie.