Potential Multitasking

No doubt, every quilter has multiple projects on her agenda at any given time. Sometimes when I am headed up the steps to the quilting room, I am running down a mental list of what I will work on. Often, it's a struggle between what I want to do as opposed to what I ought to do. Just yesterday, I walked into the quilting room only to face several varied options for where to direct my attention. 

The project I would choose first - the one I want to do - is to quilt this Ohio Star quilt, built from a block exchange we Frankfort girls did in 2021. In 2022, I completed the top, and I considered it completed without borders. Since pulling it out of storage, I've been reconsidering the no-border look. The more I studied it, the more I leaned toward putting some borders on there. 

Without borders the quilt measured 70" x 62". That just didn't seem large enough. Borders were definitely needed. That sent me searching for options and came up with a neutral for an small inner border and a reddish print for the outer border. I've now added a 1.75" inner border along with a 6.5" outer border. 

I am ready to load it onto the longarm. That's what I want to do.

Now for the project that I've been procrastinating on just a bit. I've agreed to make a t-shirt quilt for a friend. He gave me 12 shirts a couple of weeks ago, and I finally have them all prepped. That was what I procrastinated about. Such tedious work, prepping t-shirts.  I have dug through my stash for three fabrics to use as sashing strips, corner stones, and border. These are laid out on the end of the longarm.

My next step on this quilt is to cut the sashing strips and cornerstones, and then assemble the quilt top. The recipient of the t-shirt quilt will appreciate the playfulness of my selections. The blue fabric in the foreground is to be the border. The red will be cornerstones, and the white dots will be sashing strips. This project is very hush-hush, so you'll not see too much about this until it is gifted - in March of 2027. Since I will be in Florida, I need to have this finished by the end of December.

The final endeavor awaiting me is to do a random fabric-pull. A friend has asked for fabrics that she can use to make quilts for nursing home donations. She had an abundance of solid fabrics and needs prints - any style, any design, any 'era.' I have a hefty stack here on the sewing table which I am donating to her cause. I am sure I can pull another batch, if she wants more.

The projects just keep changing all the time. I love finishing these quilts on the long arm; after so many years of making the flimsies, to have this working longarm is an absolute dream. That said, I still prefer starting new quilts. I never grow tired of that part of the quilt-making process. All the diversity of the steps along the way keep things interesting.

Happy Quilting, Friends!

Jayne