Trunk or Treat on the 10th! I'm not ready!

So the ward had the trunk or treat on the 10th of October. I was sewing up until the moment we walked out the door. Dahlia had to have all her pleats or the skirt wouldn't have the right effect. Sorry the pictures aren't so great, I could not get the kids to hold still no matter how I tried.

Neil is a character from the Lego Star Wars game - an Ewok, Clone trooper, Jedi combination.

Marcus is Mario.

Dahlia is a princess (she wanted to be Belle but I put blue in the dress which made her super mad and then she refused to wear it - at least until she changed her mind.)

At least i'm ready for the 31st!

It's October! Halloween fabric here I come!

Hooray! I can break out the Halloween fabric. I wait all year for this. Hold on! I'm just getting started.

Believe begins with a C

I got the title off a Cubs shirt. It's how I feel right now. A full size quilt in such a short time. If I can do it, surely the Cubs can. It's been 100 years!

Still 3 days, but now it's 2, or is it 1 ?

Quilting is done. I put some cubs logos in, two sizes, 8 inch in the center and 5 inch on the outside. There is also a goat. Have to have the goat. No mayo though - thanks for the comment Nat, but you wouldn't have wanted that anyway. I absolutely abandoned making bats, they looked like blobby long things and I had to take them out. Tomorrow i'll start the binding. I'm still trying to decide between red and blue. Neil voted for white, but that's a bad color choice in a binding. I probably won't decide on that until ten seconds before I cut the fabric.

3 Days Left

The sandwich is made. I have spent this morning getting some images of Cubs logos and of course looking for the perfect goat. There has to be a goat.

4 Days left

So I was going along very well until I realized this was getting much bigger than I imagined, I think because it's on point I had the dimensions turned in my mind. I am working on setting the corner blocks and the outer border this morning, and later today. Hoping to get the whole top finished today and get the sandwich made. That may be a problem though, I picked up eggshell muslin because it reminded me of the fabric old baseball uniforms were made out of, unfortunately it's just so sheer and cheap looking. So probably one more shopping trip is in order, two if you include returning the backing I already bought. So, here I go.

Chronicle of a Quilt Foretold

If I were Gabriel Garcia Marquez I would show the quilt first and then reveal slowly how it was created. Instead I have six days to create a Cubs quilt. Yesterday I made sketches of the design and got the center block (the Cubs t-shirt). Today I went fabric shopping and decided on baseballs, with a nice blue back ground, bat fabric, and a selection of red, eggshell and royal blue. I know the blue is too dark, my plan is to use it in the binding. Those corner pieces I still don't have a plan for, but perhaps the baseball bats. I can't "see" it yet. Tonight I hope to get all the pieces cut. Right now the plan is for 12" blocks, with a 17" inch width given that i'm setting them on point. This should work out over 80 inches in width so I haven't yet sketched in a border, I'm not sure I need one yet. So.......6 days and counting.