Hope you all had a wonderful July 4th weekend! The actual 4th was a washout for us around here but we had fun on the 5th instead with a cook out and pool party. It was nice to see all the cousins enjoying each other’s company. Rachel was here and I had the opportunity to give her the t-shirt quilt I finished up a few weeks ago. She was happy to receive it!
Over the weekend, the Twilters participated in a July 4th Sew In which was termed #J4SI over in Twitter land. I was able to work on the Window Pane 9 Patch for a few hours. I stitched the borders to it on Sunday.
I didn’t have anything large enough or quite right for a backing so yesterday I ran over to Joann’s and picked up this cute red dot fabric which will serve as the backing and possibly the binding. I have another cute yellow fabric in the stash that I am thinking about binding it with instead.
So here is the red dot…
I also picked up a yard of each of these flannels to make more of the angel baby buntings…
Yesterday while I was sitting at the pool with the kids, I pulled out my English Paper Piecing bucket. I made an executive decision to let the apple core EPP be discontinued. I had about 20 or so finished and you can see one in the corner of this picture…
And while the shape is adorable and I had been so excited to make them, they are HARD!!! They are hard to baste and hard to keep the fabric secure around the shape. My plan was to make several rows of them and attach to a pillow with fabric to match the Christmas Jelly Roll quilt I made last year. I realized that I have been avoiding all EPP ever since because these are a pain. So I’m relieving myself of apple core EPP duty effective immediately. The red hexie flowers are the start of something but I don’t know what other than that the color blue will also be involved somehow. I wanted a 4th of July type table mat. I did make up a graph of how this would go but I don’t have a photo of that handy. I’m back to standard hexie EPP and I am thrilled. I’m hoping to bring my little hexie kit along to the pool in the afternoons and make some progress.
Do you EPP and if so, which shape is your favorite?
