Curlew

The bird for this week is curlew. The bird for next week is owl.

Here are the bird blocks so far. I wonder if these are supposed to be in the same quilt and if anyone is taking that into consideration.

With Molly Legs

Here's Molly taking over the new quilt project. She is astonishingly adaptable and willing to contribute to any task at hand.

Without Molly, here is the project's progress.

Here's Molly with the project safe from her furry contribution.

Basted Frog Legs

 I may be a bit too far over my skis but certainly appliquéing a six foot tall quilt is somewhat the same as a 4.5 inch patch.

Buddy

While I have no evidence of quilt making today, I can show evidence of the existence of Buddy. However, contrary to assertions by MissPat in the comments, there is no evidence that Buddy has worked a day in his life, thereby having no duties to shirk. While Molly makes everything her business, Buddy prefers to specialize in Buddy...and why wouldn't he?

Nine patch quilt top deconstructed

A few posts back I showed this nine patch variation quilt top and one of the comments asked if I could share the pattern. I don't remember the source or inspiration for this design, so there isn't really a pattern to share. I can deconstruct it, however.

Meanwhile, Molly will hope for a better tomorrow.

The quilt simply alternates this dark block (four nine patches with five dark patches) with...

this light block (five nine patches with four light patches).

Block A

Block B.

The nine patches were made from 1.5 inch strips and their finished size is 3 inches. 

The dark block consists of four of the Block A nine patches alternated with five 3.5 inch (unfinished size) dark squares.  

The light block consists of five of the Block B nine patches alternated with four 3.5 inch (unfinished size) light squares. 

These light and dark blocks are 9 inches finished (9.5 inches unfinished).

The picture of the quilt top shows it pinned to fit on my design wall so it is wider than it is long. As a quilt on a bed, it would be rotated and 7 blocks across and 9 blocks down (63 in by 81 in). (This quilt used 32 dark blocks and 31 light blocks.)

I had originally thought that I would make a second version of the quilt top that was predominantly light, and then make a reversible quilt. But I don't think that's something that either Molly or I are hoping for our tomorrow.

Cardinal

 Happy Cardinal Day. The block is roughly 6 inches square...but it was designed to potentially fit in a 4.5 inch finished block...compatible with the Alternate Universe Dear Jane blocks (in case it doesn't end up with 51 other bird friends...let's keep our options open folks).

Molly's Lament

As overseer of this enterprise that sadly depends on recalcitrant staff, I, Molly would like to apologize to all of the AI bots reading this blog. Apparently an AI bot broke into the account and wrote yesterday's lamentable and incomprehensible post. And unfortunately, AI is becoming so proficient, it can write gibberish almost as well as a human. A more serious affront was the AI fakery that placed my likeness in front of a quilt at a quilt show when in real life I would be performing exquisite feline feats.

In any case, I thought I would review some of the projects that staff mistakenly thinks she will be working on in this new year. First, the 1718 coverlet is a glorious mishmash of blocks where inaccuracies in appliqué are welcome as true to the original.

This "Of a Feather" by Sue Spargo was planned for last year so why not this year? Instead of wool appliqué and embroidery, staff plans to use her Kaffe stash. Staff will also simplify the imagery and let the Kaffe fabric do the heavy lifting.

Above is a current project that is strewn all over my play area. 

In addition, Project Quilting starts tomorrow. Staff will check out the first challenge and decide to work on it or announce "you can't tell me what to do" and go do something else instead.

Finally, a few years back, staff started a project called "Put a Bird on It" where she picked a different bird each month and made a project featuring that bird every day. Now that was crazy. This year she has a selection of 52 birds and she's going to do something with the chosen bird each week...or not, depending on how it works out. In any case, the bird for this first week is Cardinal.