2025 OneThing #24 - Put Binding on Medora Quilt

I'm blogging Tuesday, but I had the binding on by Sunday. I had hoped to also have the label and hanging sleeve on it, but that hasn't happened yet. My "true" one thing was helping with building the pole barn. It has been much more time-intensive than I could have imagined!

 

I won this pattern at an MQ meeting and decided to make the crib sized quilt to see if I liked the pattern well enough to make a bigger quilt with different fabrics. I used fabric that I already had in my stash.

 

The top went together pretty quickly at a quilt retreat in March. I went to my friend Rose's house in April to longarm it. That took longer than I expected for such a small quilt!

 

I had made the binding at that retreat, so trimming the quilt and sewing the binding on was done before we came to the lake. I was able to do some stitching each day to sew the binding down on the back side.  I really did think I'd get the label done and sewn on as well as the hanging sleeve for the June show. Oh well.

What I worked on instead was helping with construction of a different kind! I am too chicken to climb up on the scaffolding, but I held things and carried things and fetched things. I shoveled a lot of dirt to fill in some of the ruts left by the telehandler. (That thing is a beast!)

I'm so grateful to my brother-in-law Mike and my sons for helping us get this pole barn built. Today (May 20) is for attaching purlins (the horizontal boards that connect to the uprights and provide a surface for attaching the siding).

Studio Post #37 - Minor Repair and Medora Progress

This past week, I expected to spend more time in my studio . . . but that didn't pan out.

I did put a pocket patch on a pair of old jeans. Because I like to tuck my cell phone in my back left pocket, that's where I get the most wear and tear (until it won't even hold my phone any more!). This isn't pretty, but neither are the jeans. I can use the pocket again! 

 

There was also a pretty good sized hole in the right knee, so I put a piece of fleece on the inside. That feels good on my knee and my youngest grandson can still "pick" at the loose fabric on the outside.

 

Yes, I used red thread. I just didn't care about color coordinating it. The patch below looks a bit weird because I pulled out a scrap of fleece that "matched" the shape of the damage to the denim. I just sewed around it!

 

I also pressed and cut some pieces for the Medora quilt I'm working on. No photos until I've made more progress. Some of the cutting is putzy and I refuse to get a special ruler to do it (though I could probably put out a call to borrow one). I won the pattern a few months ago and thought I'd give it a try. I'm making the crib size quilt to see if I like it enough to make a larger one.

At our MQ monthly meeting yesterday, I connected with my friend Rose. We have a strategy for Teresa's brother's quilt and dates in January for me to go to her house to long arm it. That's progress!

2024 Studio Blog #32 - Medora Pattern

 At last Saturday's MQ meeting, I won a pattern! The 2025 show will feature "Medora" quilts. The pattern designer (Jill Blair of Materiella) was at the meeting and shared some of her quilts. Then she gave away twenty copies of the pattern. I'm not much of a pattern person, but I could also stand to follow directions and be more careful!

Since I can be a bit wild with my ideas and sewing, I decided to start by making a crib quilt. It's small and do-able. So when I got home from the meeting, I picked out some fabrics. That's it. That's as far as I got. But I love feeling excited and inspired!

If I like the design and the process, I may make a larger Medora quilt. It would be so nice to have a quilt in the 2025 show. And I'd love to build up a stash of baby quilts to give as gifts when someone's expecting.