Hourglass Progress

A week or so ago, I posted about starting my next quilt:  a scrappy hourglass quilt that I saw on the cover of volume two of Sew Scrappy quilt magazine.

So far, I've made 86 hourglass blocks and the one 9-patch block that so intrigued me about this quilt...

Notice the clothespins?  I stole got the idea from Patty over at A Stitch in Time... I thought it was a great way to keep a count of the number of blocks without using pins to keep them together!

I have also been busy going thru all the 1800's reproduction fabrics and cutting 5" squares.  It takes a while to cut almost 600 squares but I'm doing a little each evening after work...

...and I'll get done eventually!

In Other Quilty News...

...Barbara Brackman of the 2011 Civil War BOW has decided to do another BOW starting this fall.  This time the history will cover the fight for women's rights...

...and blocks will be tied into the history as were the CW blocks.

I have missed the weekly Saturday morning postings of the BOW, studying the block over a cuppa coffee, pulling fabrics, and making a block...  then posting a photo of the block to the Flickr group and seeing others' blocks.

I've not committed 100% to this BOW but am seriously considering it.  One block a week is do-able for me...  I learned a lot with the CW BOW and would like to continue to improve my piecing skills.

I still find it hard to believe that I actually made the CW quilt (still in "flimsy" state as I ponder how to quilt it)...  it was definitely a growing experience!

Shop Hop Extra

On our Saturday Shop Hop, we found out about ....

The sales clerk said it had been at least 10 years since the Sewing and Quilt Expo had been held in Raleigh....   I 'm going to check out the classes!

And see if anyone would like to go with me...