Wednesday 23 March 2011

Progress on a few projects....

I made some progress in the sewing room in the last two days. I had the blocks on the design wall for the selvage cubes and the One Block Wonder. I had bought an audio book last week and plugged that into the computer and listened to it as I sewed the rows and background together. That made a somewhat boring job a lot more enjoyable. Here is the selvage cube top so far. I decided to go a little bright with the background since it's going to hang in my sewing room. The next step is to make a selvage piano key style border around it and then a 2 1/2" orange border and then I can get it quilted and hung up!  Update:  The finished quilt can be seen here.

My daughter in law came over Tuesday afternoon and we did the final arrangement on the One Block Wonder. As soon as she left, I started sewing the hexagons and cubes together in rows then started sewing the rows together. This morning I finished sewing the last few rows and trimmed the bottom edges. I'm really liking this project. I hope to pick up some of the navy blue on Friday for a border around the whole quilt. I'm thinking of a gold lippy between the navy border and navy binding. I think that would frame it nicely.


7 comments:

The Cozy Quilter said...

Nice to see these projects nearing completion--I love your 3-D boxes!

Ellen said...

Love the one block wonder quilt top!

comicbooklady said...

That is an amazing use of selvages! I love it!

Riel Nason said...

Neat selvage cubes. Aren't selvages fun!!! I love making selvage quilts. Your orange background is perfect with them!!

Sandra said...

Love the selvage cubes! Reminds me that I need to get serious about saving them for a project.

Quilt Rat said...

LOVE those selvage cubes!!! AWESOME!

Selvage Quilter said...

Love your selvage quilt!!!