Free Silk

 

On the freebie table at Sew Day there was quite the selection of fabrics available. I spotted this piece of maybe obi (kimono sash) fabric, it's the right width, so it might be. It is a quite beautiful print, a lightweight silk.

There was this interesting section with a printed black and plain white stitched on one edge.Not sure what it was meant to be.

It's really pretty and I just liked it, the print is super interesting and sort of collage-y. 

And yes, I've added it into my 2025 fabric tracker.

Many Bindings Day

 

Today at Sew Day, I spent my time making binding, lots and lots of binding. For the City Sampler and the Bohemian Wife quilts. Both soon to be going to a long-armer for quilting.

And then the binding for Metro Twist.

I only did the first step of sewing the binding on as I didn't have the matching blue thread to final stitch it down. So close to done with this one.  That was a lot of binding for one day's work, phew, glad it's made.

Dyed Threads

 I ordered some new hand-dyed embroidery threads from Deb Lacativa's Dirty Threads online shop. Aren't they beautiful? It was very very hard to choose which set to order, there were so many that were quite tempting. 

I'm planning to use these on the rest of the Snake in the Garden stitching that I have left to do. That made me chuckle when I saw the two stamps on the envelope celebrating the Year of the Snake. An auspicious year to finish up that long-in-process piece.

Metro Quilted

 

All the quilting is done on now Metro Twist now and I'm happy with how it looks.

I'm glad that I went with the simpler, sparser design instead of the fussier, intense one.

As of now, the print circular shapes are left un-quilted, I liked them being more forward on the surface of the quilt.

But now that I've had a look at it from the back, I'm considering putting some quilting through those circular "ropes". They seem like they're kind of too baggy because of those spaces being so un-quilted, but I'd also rather be done at this point. Another day up on the design wall for me to decide (and to make the binding). 

Metro Twist Centers

Finishing off the rest of the Metro Twist quilting, I started out with one test section.

And then I did a few more. I like the look of it.

Two rows done, five left to do.

Here's a closeup of how one of the corners looks with all the sections quilted.
 

June To-Do

 

Here's the beginning of the new month design wall picture. It shows that I'm indeed working on one of my UFO projects, making the backing for the City Sampler, the big print of the snake in the garden will be the main part of the backing and I've done the math for augmenting it to be the right size. You can see the City Sampler top folded up in front of it, along with the fabrics I'll be using for the backing and the binding. You can also see that I am still not working at all on Sour Grace. That one is still pinned up on the right hand side just as it was at the end of the Jane Sassaman class in February. 

I'm continuing to use the not-so-new configuration of my to-do list below, as it more closely follows the database categories that I use to keep track of all my work-in-progress. I've added a Design section this month. Note: the use of 🥏👽  by a project name indicates that it's on the 2025 UFO Finishes challenge list of six projects that I committed to at the beginning of the year.

QUILTS

Design

Complete EQ8 design of Selvedges Showing.

Pantone Project - work on a overall design, either in EQ8 or up on the design wall.

Continue Assembly

Keep working on Sour Grass Grace from Jane Sassaman class.

Old Town Mystery Quilt - assemble blocks.

AG Stamp Quilt - continue to make more blocks using the cut-out stamp block borders and centers from Tula Pink fabrics.

🥏👽 Trim to size and then sew the 12 columns of the 2023 Temperature Quilt together.

🥏👽 Bohemian Wife - make the binding. Decide on whether I'm quilting this myself or not.

🥏👽City Sampler- finish putting together a backing, make the binding, take to a long-armer to be quilted.

Quilting

🥏👽 Trinket it's already sandwiched and ready for quilting.

Final Steps

🥏👽 Metro Twist - finish last bit of quilting and add binding, sleeve and label.

🥏👽 Running Out of Raincloud -  hand-sew down the facings, sleeve and label.

HANDWORK/BAG/CLOTHING PROJECTS 

Make a Cotton Candy pouch for myself.

Oxbow Tote - cut out and begin the assembly.

Toned-Down Circle Sampler - source correct size of grey background felt, arrange and appliqué the circles, start embroidering.

Y.E.S. Coat - continue making pieces/blocks. assemble on foundation, cut out lining pieces from the fabric that I dyed

Snake In The Garden - Finish hand stitching

Kawandii - Finish hand stitching/assembly

Hey! All Finished!

🥏👽Slopes is all done.

Spring Talking to Summer is all done.

Two quilts were moved to the finished section, hooray. And one was moved to the final steps section too. Progress is continuing to be slow but steady. 🐌🐌🐌 Forward!

June Swooning

 

It's either June swoon or gloom, this year it's swooning as the heat is high and the flowers are a'bloom. See the recent Flower Friday post. This month's monthly marker is made from the Metro Twist quilt that is in the process of being fully quilted.

The monthly marker was made with the apps, Kaleida Cam and SnapSeed.

Here's the 1SE video, one second every day of my May 2025. 

Monthly I-Did List

1. I finished quilting,, made the binding, bound and finished the Slopes quilt.
2. I posted about my garden a few times.
3. I bound the BAMQ challenge quilt, Spring Speaking to Summer just in time to turn it in.
4. I made binding and bound a Community Giving quilt.
5. I made postage stamp blocks for a Community Giving quilt and assembled the top.
6. I sandwiched the Metro Twist quilt, and began quilting it
7. I started designing a quilt in EQ8 for the MQG 2026 challenge.

That's a lot! I'm feeling pretty good about the amount of work I've been getting done through the tumult of family stuff. I wasn't as active on social media, posted on BlueSky 21 times, on Flashes 7 times, on Instagram 5 times.  I attended the BAMQ meeting in person which was super fun.