Kit’s Stitchbook

Life got lifey. Nothing big or dramatic, just exhausting and requiring our attention and not enough bandwidth to blog.

My outlet through everything going on is making stuff with a needle. Or a couple of needles.

I’ll probably get to all the things I started in the last few months eventually, but for now I’m really excited about a new quilt I’ll be hand piecing and quilting.

Y’all I’m SO EXCITED about this next quilt I’m hand piecing and quilting. I’ll probably get to all the other things I’ve started (note: not finished) eventually. But for now:

Current State

I just started prepping this project. This is destined to be a four-patch quilt that will probably be better envisioned as a giant white-and-riotous color checkerboard scrappy-ish quilt.

The inspiration for this quilt started with the brightly-colored tiny charm pack Eye Candy by Ruby Star Society I found at my local quilt shop. It was the only one. I almost didn’t get it because I didn’t know what to do with only one pack.

The answer, of course, was get a bunch of packs with similar colors and make it scrappy.

Some of these I got myself with the Eye Candy pack. Some were a gift from My Benefactoress*, as well as the white fabric strips that will become squares.

The big prep I wanted to do was to mix the squares so that it looks scrappy, not a bunch of random fabric design lines smooshed together.

As I mentioned earlier, I plan to hand piece this quilt. I was concerned about how accurately I’d be able to put them together, so English paper piecing to the rescue!

I’ve got hexagons I’m using as templates in another project, and I didn’t know if square templates were available. I found these from Paper Pieces. Not an affiliate, just a fan! I did briefly consider cutting out square templates but please recall the aforementioned exhaustion and lifey-life. I found these templates to be reasonably priced, and promised to be accurately sized. These should carry me through the whole project. No doubt I’ll review them in the future.

They all got put into a box I reclaimed from my kid who decorated it with stickers. That’s as far as I got before the demands of motherhood called. But that’s as far as I wanted to get, so it was a successful session.

Next Steps

I need to make sure I’ve got my thread and needle in my notion tin. The tin moves with various projects. There is a needle I use on another quilt that will work well for this I believe. So I just need to put the thread in there. I’m planning plain white thread but maybe I’ll get wild and choose a color. I think I have some teal thread.

*my mom