Confinement Tula Pink quilt top

There are advantages to being locked up at home. The first few weeks were difficult, adjusting to homeschooling and working at the same time required a lot of patience. There have been so many moments in my life in the last years that I was thinking that my patience was going to be tested .... and sure enough every time there is a new situation ....

I have found a great way of dealing with these moments ... I quilt. So now as we cannot leave our house, except for groceries and bread, which I do at lunch time as less people around, I end up having a lot of time in the weekends.

In March I cut the fabric for the spinning rail fence quilt and re-named it "confinement quilt" a more appropriate name. Also bringing some positive thoughts to the lock down and definitely lots of colours. The fabric used is from Tula Pink's All Stars collection

I enjoyed working on the quilt, taking step by step of sewing the strips (early April), cutting the sub-units, sewing the sub-
units, cutting 9" blocks .... and slowly the quilt came together. The blocks were sewn in diagonal strips. Once done a beautiful rainbow quilt appeared.

I took the top to the garden and hanged it in the plum tree.

I wasn't sure about the outer border, the pattern asked for 4 1/2" strips, I tried 2 1/2" strips, too thin .... so in the end I cut 4' strips. Perfect in between solution.

I will send the quilt top to a long-arm quilter in the Netherlands; Rachel from Stitched in color will do a great job.

Linking up with Patty at Elm Street quilts for my April One Monthly Goal.

OMG April - confinement quilt

I started a new quilt - I will call it my confinement quilt, obviously because I am making it while confined. Unfortunately I won;t be able to finish the quilt as I have no backing and shops are closed. The fabric shop where I sometimes go has an on-line shop - however closed as well. The little shop recently discovered close to where I buy my veggies - closed as well.

I bought the pattern last year from Shabby Fabrics - the fabric used is the Tula Pink All Stars collection. The colours are awesome.

The pattern calls for a black border and am not very convinced yet. The black border does make the colours stand out, so maybe I will just make a small border - or a very small border and a colourful outer border.

I have cut now all the triangles and strips.

I have made the strip sub-units. Next step is to sew the sub-units and cut these up.

My April OMG will be to finish the top - yes an ambitious goal, but am stuck at home. Not much time during the week between work, homeschooling three kids, ensuring three meals a day ... the weekends I reserve time for myself. I had these great ideas of using my commuting time for craftsy things .... so not happening.

Linking up with Elm Street Quilts and the One Monthly Goal for April