Colorways by Vicki Welsh

Yesterday I was with my quilt club sewing on a new veterans quilt. I started this one last month and got hung up at this point.

I put this block together only to realize that this isn’t the “block”. My black and white diagram wasn’t terribly clear and my notes were nonexistent. I guess that when I cut the kit I thought it was self-explanatory. Turns out, it wasn’t.

I spent the last part of that day figuring out exactly how the quilt needed to be constructed and giving myself some actual guidance. I came in yesterday ready to go.

First I made the blocks. This is the “block”.

This is the sashing.

I got all of the blocks and sashing made and started piecing the rows. I think I might get this top together today. I’m honestly not sure yet if I’m going to like it but, if nothing else, I will have used up a lot of scraps. The tan background is all scraps from backing of other veterans quilts. The colors are hand dyed scraps.

We had our normal monthly meeting Tuesday night and I brough home quite a haul of quilts and tops. 23 finished quilts were turned in! Half of those were from one person. We have a small quilt club but they are a prolific group.

But that’s not all! They also turned in over 10 more tops to be quilted. I already had 3 at home and I think Brenda has 3 or 4 more. The one I’m working on now will be yet another one to add to the TBQ stack.

I have to get busy quilting and dyeing some quilt backs.

That motivated me to come home yesterday afternoon and get the ditch stitching repairs done on Eclipse. I don’t expect I’ll do anymore quilting on this until after we get back from Maine in September. But it’s stabilized and the rest of the quilting is filler quilting, which means fun quilting.

Then I moved on to get 2 veterans quilts loaded and ready to start quilting. I’ll get started on these this afternoon.