Anita’s Arrowhead – Top is Finished
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Since I am on a roll with finishing 1 UFO (hahaha) I have been working on a few more including Anita’s Arrowhead which is a free pattern from Quiltmaker.com. Can’t remember when I started it, but I had all the blocks done and they were waiting to get trimmed:
I used a layer cake, but it’s too long ago, can’t remember which one 🙂 I had to trim them down to 12″ and the easiest way to do this, of course is with a rotating cutting board and nice big square ruler:
Didn’t take long till I had a lovely pile of blocks ready to sew together:
What did take time was arranging them on floor of Nora’s shop…
I don’t know about you, but in these situations, every block I move seems to be in the wrong place… but I eventually had to stop shuffling around and stuck with the layout above. When I sew blocks together like this, I still like to chain sew, so I stack them up in a pile going from top to bottom until I have them all in little stacks:
Then I take them IN ORDER (try not to drop them along the way 🙂 ) to my sewing machine and chain sew them together. I’m sure there are lots of you out there that do the same thing… makes it so much easier I think.
Final top all put together and kindly held up for the photo by DH:
The toes of his socks match… and I vacuumed and mopped the floors just before the next sand storm hit ….
Of course I had to buy batting and backing which kind of annoys me because I’ve got it all at back in Oz, but oh well. I could take the top back to Oz when I go one day, but I want to finish it and have it here, so I will start working on layering it in the next few days.
It’s is weekend here now (Friday and Saturday is weekend here, not Saturday and Sunday). Still getting used to that again. I am hoping to work on some more UFOs this weekend… what about you? What are your weekend plans?
Hi Joy your new quilt looks fantastic and awesome that it’s a UFO out of the way .
Oh that’s interesting about the weekend over there,hope you didn’t get too much dust inside .
I am still ‘maddenly’ working on the last quilt club quilt from NY that I started in 2009–have all 12 blocks done as of this morning and all the little 9 patches done (about 80) of them–hope to do more stitching on them yet today–now I need to take the little 9 patches and put solid squares with them and make them into large 9 1/2″ blocks–fun–yea right!!! but it will be alot of chain piecing so should go fast–we will see—???
Keep stitching–
enjoy the moments-diane
Great job! I’m working on cleaning out my sewing room today, because the sewing group is meeting here next week for the first time. I’m sure there will be a trip to the Thrift Shop, the Dumpster, and the ladies who only do charity sewing, and will use ANY fabric. Along the way, I’ll find time to work on a quilt that I finally started at retreat last week, as well as an ongoing applique project. Or one of a dozen other projects???
Good one Joy & it looks great. Are you going to quilt it on the Bernina? Not sure I could cope with the sand storms, I’ve enough dust here with the opencut coal mines up the valley. (yuk) Look forward to seeing your finish’s next week. Think I’ll have a couple if I can fathom your linky thing. Take care.
My weekend just started. Resting up for the moment so that I can be super sewer in the morning and Sunday too. I hope.
Thinking positive here. Your quilt is cool. Well done. You will just have more stuff in Oz to do later. It’s all good!!!
What an interesting block and all together they look great! Looks like a decent sized quilt too – well done on getting it to this stage – good luck with your weekend sewing plans.
great look…..and I agree sometimes you just have to stop moving blocks around………
Very nice! Isn’t hubby kind to hold it for you 🙂 I had a nice sewing day with friends today – will post about it tomorrow.
Quilt looks great, and funny about your weekend. My weekend finished this morning (Tuesday) after another retreat, and my feet are up tonight and bed will be early!
well done, it looks lovely! You’re steaming ahead on these UFOs! I’ve done…. almost nothing! I have such good intentions, then I get home from work and I’m too tired!!