T Stands for Tuesday and Update on Wool Quilt

   Hi Everyone,

        T is where we share our post with a drink related photo with our hostess Bleubeard and Elizabeth. I look forward to this event and seeing what everyone has been up to and viewing their art and crafts.

    Last week Larry's sister, her daughter (12 years old) and husband wanted to get away for a bit so her husband could get some R&R from his Vet clinic.  Our lifestyles are totally different but we did get together a couple days. It was another very hot and humid week so Larry didn't take them out on our boat-they couldn't get up early and here by 7 am at the latest. and Larry just can't be out there in that heat any more. They did fish off the dock a couple of times and caught fish-they were small so didn't keep them. He also let them borrow fishing poles to take to their rented condo on the lake so they could fish as well.

     They did spend an afternoon at one of our state parks-Lake in the Ozarks State Park and had a good time. They rented a condo for the week so they could cook their own meals, and they also decided to look at lake homes and condos for sale. She says they will be back in October to look again. They are about 6-8 hours away from this area of the lake-and her husband says it would be a perfect place for him to hide away for a long weekend.  So we'll see what develops.

   I have been working on my wool quilt top this past week. 

       This was all from felted down sweaters and wool clothing that I had in my stash. I had allot of of it so this quilt really used up a bunch. I still have plenty to cut up for weaving or rug hooking, mixed media projects, and wool appliques for a folk style quilt-on cotton. 

   The quilt sewed up pretty well. The most time consuming part was to really pin-use allot of pins, and to press all the seams open-a challenge on some of the double seams together that were sweaters. My walking foot worked perfectly for this project. 

   These are photos when I finished up sewing all the rows together-the stickers to the left are the number of the rows so I could put them together in order.

   Last night I finished up steam pressing all the long rows of seams open

  Here is that photo    I am quite pleased with the results. I had originally designed the lay out for butting the edges together-no seams that way-which didn't work out at all. I hadn't thought to add more of the rectangle pieces in the rows to offset all the double seams when sewing the rows together. So I would suggest that if you decide to make a similiar quilt.

I have been debating if I want to use a batting or not, I found this batting in my stash that I only paid a dollar for. It is very thin so I think it will give the quilt a little body. I laid it out on the quilt top to help flatten it, and then folded it with the top.

For the backing, I had wool yardage in my stash from garage sale finds but decided it would not be real "cozy" as the wool was a bit scratchy.  I did have two pieces of brushed cotton in my stash, but decided it wasn't quite right for this. So I went shopping online, couldn't find what I wanted at a low price, so went on ebay and found this cotton flannel-I think it's perfect. three yards for $25.00 free shipping

   I think I will still layer this-quilt top-batting-backing, and sew around the edges leaving an open to turn-and then blanket stitch around the outer edge, and add ties in the blocks to hold the batting together.

    I don't have any art to share this week. 

         I did win a signed book though, and photo shows my beverage reference. The brand is Ice that is carbonated water with flavorings.

    This is the author I shared awhile back for her novel The Blue-the search for indigo. That was a really a good book. This one is a short story that I really enjoyed by her as well. So I was thrilled when I got the email that I was chosen to win.

Looks like we are beginning to get out of the high 90's -finally It is still hot and humid here though.

  Hope you all had a good week  Happy T