superbowl sunday

Did those of you living in countries where the Superbowl was aired watch it?  I watched for the commercials...the hubby watched for the football.  Most people I know watched it for the commercials.  How sad is that?  We're more interested in the funny stuff going on between the big event...

Besides the game, I kept busy this weekend.

First I finished quilting the wonky kitty stars quilt.

Then I sewed on the binding.

My sewing table is right next to a big chair, so big quilts get propped up on the chair arm by default.  I was sewing, but apparently not fast enough...

Excuse me?

(Skitter, my neurotic kitty, was helping.  She's such a sweetie when she decides not to be afraid of everything, it was hard for me to have to tell her to move.)

I was going to hand sew the other half of the binding down during the superbowl, but I just wasn't feeling it.  I read instead - stopping for commercials, of course!

Then I started cutting and cutting and cutting and cutting for the anniversary quilt.  I ran out of tan and off-white, but what would I expect considering that I didn't have a pattern for a queen size quilt, but a 64x64 throw!  I guesstimated yardages, I was wrong.  But I kept track of what I needed for next time.  (Cough..next time...right...)  I went back to JoAnn's today to get the rest of the fabric I needed and ended up at two stores because the first had sold out of the off-white since I was there on Friday!

That's in the wash, along with fabric to make the black, turqouise and red quilt from here.  I waited until today because the March/April issue of Quiltmaker didn't come out until today.  (And I was that annoying lady at the store asking for the magazine because they didn't have it out yet, but I knew it was supposed to be.)  I was hoping they'd have directions for all the different versions, but no, of course not.  So I guessed (again) about yardages.  I suppose I'd better cut these pretty quick just in case something else sells out!

But I thought I'd share some of my efforts for the anniversary quilt.  I did make progress.  I sewed a LOT.  Two bobbins were emptied in this process!

So you heard about the cutting...

Line up and tape down the Angler tool (because who wants to draw diagonal lines across 64 squares?).

Sew, sew, sew...

Cut, cut cut...

(whew...that's a big stack...and it never did get any shorter...)

Press, press press...

Cut, cut cut...

Rearrange...

Turn one pile 180 degrees...

And they all will look the same in the end!

(Whew!  I didn't screw that up after all!)

A little more sew sew sew (with lots of pin, pin, pin), cut, cut, cut, press, press press and...

And a little bit of time trimming off those bits from the corners...

All 32 blocks are now 5/9 done.  :)

And if I add that you need to cut your squares 1.25 inches larger than what you want your finished square to be, I think we've got a mini pictorial-tutorial.

(For mine, the block is a 9-patch that will finish 12 inches.  So each square will finish 4 inches.  So I cut my starting squares for these quarter square triangles 5.25 inches.  Easy peasy and they came out great!)

I can't wait to get back to these, but I should probably also be working on my monthly UFO project...choices, choices!

Happy quilting,

Katie