I ended up ordering another one of the jelly rolls. Even though I’m pretty sure I had the name of the color I needed, the color on the screen and the color of the fabric aren’t always the same, so I couldn’t be 100% sure. I also couldn’t find the color I thought I needed at any of my local shops, so I thought it was better that I just get the jelly roll. That way, no matter what color it was that I needed, it would be there. Anyone have a suggestion for what to do with the rest of the blues? I have a ton of them…
While I am waiting for the order to show up in the mail, there was an open sew yesterday with my guild that I had signed up to go to. I decided to break out two of the other quilts I was planning and get some work done on them. The Oregon waterfall quilt was one, and the “Hus Ved Havet” quilt was the other. Let’s talk a little about the Oregon waterfall quilt. As a reminder, this is the image:
The plan was to use the puzzle piece method that I’ve had iffy success with – the same method I used for the Tracy Arm quilt, only without actually printing the image out on fabric. The challenge for this version is that there is no sky, and I have not used the puzzle piece method on an image – real or imagined – without a sky.
Previously, I had projected the image onto my design wall and drawn the rough outline of the image onto a piece of paper, making the template for the image. I also had all of the fabrics (except for, as it turns out, one that I conjured up out of my stash today). The next step was making the templates for the fusible.
This is not a terribly difficult quilt. With the work I did yesterday at open sew making the templates and getting them onto the fusible, I could have finished the layering of the puzzle pieces tonight if I had had any energy left over from my very busy weekend. But no, there was no energy left, so I got as far as ironing the fusible onto the fabrics and cutting out the puzzle pieces. The rest of it will have to wait until tomorrow, when I will be keeping my hands busy during the Executive Committee meeting (on Zoom) that I have to attend. So this is where I stopped today.
This is a good start! There’s obviously a ton of stuff missing – there needs to be more trees, and I might need to fill in some details – but I can actually see the image, and I like the fabric choices I made.
With chorus on pause over the holidays and the gym closed for renovations until the day after Christmas, I have no reason to leave the house for the next five days (except perhaps to go to the mailbox to fetch a jelly roll). To some people this might sound like hell, but I am in heaven! It’s cold, and I’m lazy. Let’s see what I manage to finish over the next week or so…
Also stay tuned for the “Hus Ved Havet” quilt update – I had a chance to work on that yesterday, too, and I’m excited!