Mon Oeuvre - Grassy Creek Mystery Quilt complete!

 "Oeuvre" (the works of a painter, composer, or author regarded collectively: "the complete oeuvre of Mozart" a work of art, music, or literature: "an early oeuvre" ORIGIN late 19th cent.: French, literally ‘work.’ - Oxford Dictionary.)

Wow, I haven't posted about the progress of this quilt since January. I guess my focus was abruptly changed when I was diagnosed with Cancer that month. Looks like I was putting together my large blocks at that time. The following photos represent how often I felt like sewing in between diagnosis, surgeries and treatments.

February:

I loved how this piece looked like a stain glass window looking out at our snowy February day. This photo was taken on the 14th, 3 days before my hysterectomy surgery.

May:

It took me a few months to adjust and to heal up and to figure out how to get through my infusions. I got some good sewing in this month,

June:

Sewing the large rows together.

Center done!

Borders sewn on and added to the center.

Flimsy/top done!

July:

I purchased my backing and binding fabrics between my 5th and 6th chemo infusions. After sewing all together, now I wish I'd gone with a bit different shades of the gold and the green fabrics but it's done now and it's fine.

November:

Back to my old self now or so I thought.

Putting the quilt sandwich together. I use adhesive spray and crawl around on all fours with a hard edged ruler smoothing the fabrics over the glue. It's not a perfect or professional system, but it works for me. I can tell my fitness isn't where it has been, I was so sore after I finished this side and then flipping it over to repeat the same process on the backside, I could hardly stand up when I finished.

Quilting in the large diamonds, diagonal rows cross hashing against each other.

Binding cut sewn together and pressed.

Binding sewn to the raw outer edge of the quilt border.

Hand sewing time!

Mitered corner

Complete

I call this my Cancer quilt since it's seen me through my cancer journey.

I've now completed 5 Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilts. I finished this one just on time. The first cutting/sewing clue for this years Mystery Quilt "Rhododendron trail" is this Friday.

My Mystery Quilt refrigerator magnet collection.

*edit update April 2023

This quilt was gifted to our son Joshua.

Mon Oeuvre - Strippy Weave Quilt Complete!

   "Oeuvre" (the works of a painter, composer, or author regarded collectively: "the complete oeuvre of Mozart" a work of art, music, or literature: "an early oeuvre" ORIGIN late 19th cent.: French, literally ‘work.’ - Oxford Dictionary.)

It seems this quilt has been on the back burner since I've had it, but today I completed it! This pattern was gifted to me by a friend I met during my Spartan race days. You can read about that day HERE. Billie is an accomplished quilter and has an Etsy shop where she sells her products. You can check out her site here: QuiltsNTeddyBears on Etsy. 

I lasted posted my progress on this quilt on November of 2020, and I resumed working on it this past June.

In early June I completed sewing the top strips together, using my treadle sewing machine

and I purchased the backing and binding fabrics.

Quilt sandwich time: back, batting & top are spray glued together. I have my own very unprofessional method of making my quilt sandwich, but in the end it works for me.

At the end of October I did the quilting with my Pfaff sewing machine. It just seemed easier to me than trying to wrestle the quilt around the same time as trying to concentrate on treadling.

Quilt sandwich has been quilted! I did diagonal straight lines and then turned the quilt and came back from the other direction for a diamond pattern.

This month I got the binding sewn on.

This morning I finished the last stitch of the binding, then I washed and dried it.

You can never post too many pictures of a finished quilt!!

 The piecing of this quilt was sewn on my 1924 Singer Treadle sewing machine. The quilting was done on my Pfaff and the binding was hand sewn. Thanks Billie for gifting me the pattern in 2018. A lot of life has gone on since you gave me this pattern. I'm thankful I was still working on in this year❤.