{"id":1952,"date":"2014-01-25T18:42:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T00:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?page_id=1952"},"modified":"2015-02-26T17:49:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T23:49:16","slug":"2014-winding-wayswheel-of-mystery-quilt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?page_id=1952","title":{"rendered":"2014 – Winding Ways\/Wheel of Mystery Sofa Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"

1\/24\/14:\u00a0 <\/strong>Started cutting and piecing segments of Winding Ways.\u00a0 Hope, after paying $12 for the templates, I enjoy hand piecing this quilt top.\u00a0 If it goes well, I’ll make it bed size.\u00a0 If it doesn’t go well, I’ll make it sofa size and gift it.\u00a0 If it goes REALLY well, I’ll do both!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Winding Ways\/Wheel of Mystery Quilt embryo<\/p><\/div>\n

2\/2\/14:<\/strong>\u00a0 I was a little apprehensive hand piecing the curves on the Winding Ways blocks.\u00a0 All the instructions I find either online or with the templates I purchased are for machine piecing.\u00a0 Since I was in the market for handwork, I decided I could overcome any hurdles hand stitching might create.<\/p>\n

There was no need for apprehension.\u00a0 These blocks go together beautifully with only minor easing.\u00a0 Thus far, I’ve stitched 20 blocks without a hitch.\u00a0 The biggest challenge is cutting out the pieces.\u00a0 They create LOTS of scraps!\u00a0 My crumbs\/scraps box is overflowing!<\/p>\n

I haven’t decided how big this top will be but I will continue piecing until I quit.\u00a0 Currently, I’m enjoying it.\u00a0 Here are some of the 8 1\/2″ blocks roughly laid out:<\/p>\n

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Winding Ways 2-2-14<\/p><\/div>\n

2\/21\/14:\u00a0 <\/strong>Finished piecing the main body of the large sofa sized quilt and spent last evening auditioning borders.\u00a0 At first I considered adding a pieced border but every one I tried overwhelmed the original design.\u00a0 I’ve settled on a thin black frame with a gray blender wider border.\u00a0 In the gray area, I plan to add quilting in black thread.\u00a0 I still need to order backing, which I expect to do this weekend.<\/p>\n

I don’t know if I’ll add the borders by machine or by hand.\u00a0 Thus far, the top is totally hand stitched.\u00a0 It seems almost a sacrilege to introduce machine stitches but stitching around this top twice seems a lot of wasted work.\u00a0 Besides me, who will notice?<\/p>\n

I’m using extra blocks (and new ones I’m hand piecing) to make Lolita a new dog quilt.<\/p>\n

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Winding Ways 2\/21\/14<\/p><\/div>\n

3\/4\/14: \u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Haven’t spent much time on this quilt as I’ve been making a shirt for Jake this week. \u00a0 The shirt is done so today, I’ve added framing borders to this top by machine.\u00a0 They are currently nothing exciting but I hope they’ll be pretty after quilting.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s how the top looks now:<\/span><\/p>\n

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currently measures 62 x 70<\/p><\/div>\n

Tomorrow, I’ll add borders to the matching dog quilt and sandwich both.\u00a0 I’ll hand-basting each.\u00a0 I plan to hand quilt the large one and machine quilt the one for my dog.\u00a0 I’m itching to get started!<\/span><\/p>\n

3\/11\/14:\u00a0 <\/strong>Began hand quilting the sofa quilt.\u00a0 Thus far, after stitching 2 circles, I love how it looks.\u00a0 Sandwiched, basted and marked the dog quilt preparing for machine quilting but haven’t started the\u00a0 process yet.\u00a0 No rush!<\/span><\/p>\n

4\/2\/14:<\/strong>\u00a0 Finished hand quilting the main body and have marked the border.\u00a0 Will start quilting that part tonight.\u00a0 It’s turning out even better than expected!<\/span><\/p>\n

5\/8\/14:\u00a0 <\/strong>The border quilting is complete and the binding has been machine sewn in place.\u00a0 All that’s left is to hand stitch the binding and launder the quilt.\u00a0 Close!\u00a0 With leftover pieces, I’ve completed one dog quilt and have blocks for another.<\/p>\n

5\/17\/14<\/strong>:\u00a0 The Winding Ways sofa quilt is finally finished!\u00a0 It was set aside with only inches of binding still left to hand stitch but now it is complete and laundered.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know why I allow other projects to distract me sometimes but it happens.\u00a0 I\u2019m glad I didn\u2019t let this one languish for months!<\/span><\/p>\n

This sofa quilt was hand pieced and hand quilted.\u00a0 It measures 68\u2033 x 58\u2033, has a narrow frame and wider border (both mitered).\u00a0 The backing is a wide, dark gray fabric with black curlicues.<\/span><\/p>\n

The hand quilting was done in a hoop, using YLI 40\/3 ply ecru colored thread, following the intertwined circles.\u00a0 The border is quilted in a twisted ribbon design and includes my name and date.\u00a0 The binding is black.<\/span><\/p>\n

There were quite a few remaining bits and pieces left after assembling this quilt so I made extra blocks and assembled a dog quilt measuring 42\u2033 x 35\u2033.\u00a0 I still have enough blocks left to make another one the same size.<\/span><\/p>\n

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UPDATE:\u00a0 06\/09\/14\u00a0 <\/strong>Gifted the sofa quilt to James, who will undoubtedly give it a good home.<\/p>\n

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