It's one of those weeks where I'll feel lucky if I get 15 minutes of sewing time each day. I wish I could say this has to do with holiday busy-ness, but it doesn't. My sister and I had to take a deep breath yesterday, and have Mom admitted to hospice care. It doesn't mean that anything is imminent, but it does mean that they will provide comfort care for her at this stage of life. But it is a big step to take. I hope I'll get to some sewing - it sure helps me to have something else to concentrate on, even if just for a little while.
What I really want to work on are the next steps on Pieces of My Life, and I am making slow progress on that. First, I finished the quilting on section two, and then I started in on the steps to attach the top two sections of the quilt together. Here's how it looks on the back. The two sections are connected with a two inch strip of sashing.
Because I'm using leftover strips of the backing for this process,
you would hardly know it's there!
Flipping the quilt over to the front, you see this - a strip of batting in that space between the two sections, and the blue sashing sewed to the left top section of the quilt.
The next step is to do some pressing and get this sashing strip sewn over the batting section and top-stitched down to the other side. Here it's just finger pressed over, but you get the idea!
The blue sashing is going to make an interesting design through the quilt - I'm hoping it will look like a big bow tying up a patchwork package!
As time allows during the second half of this week, I'm planning to get this step finished and then move on to layering up the third and fourth sections of the project so they can be quilted. I also want to spend some time on my Table Scraps project for December.
Fingers crossed that there will be some time to get to those tasks!
Linking up with Quiltfabrication for Midweek Makers.
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