February round up

5 days after my last blogpost I had a bad fall badly bruising my ribs.

My sewing was on hold all month. Just over a week later my daughter and grandson arrived for their visit.

5.5 weeks later I’m still not totally recovered, heavy lifting still causes twinges so to be safe I won’t be finishing the binding and quilting the 3 tops until April.

In the meantime I got to sew some of my snail trail blocks and also squirrel away at some curved piecing as my pain diminished to niggles and I could finally lift my sewing machine back onto the table.

I cut clamshells and apple cores using my AccuQuilt dies out of some random large scraps I found in my decluttering phase.

I love how the apple cores look like rectangular shapes with opposite convex and concave curves. They are easier to sew together into pairs than I expected.

Today’s task will be to press the remaining pairs I’ve sewn together before making a proper quilt layout on my design wall.

Then I’ll be able to experiment with the clamshells which I think look a bit like “paddle fans”.

Right now they look complicated to sew however AccuQuilt have done the hard work to simplify how they fit together so watching a video and sewing slowly I know that they will go together well.

Until next time