cobblestone series

Crooked Cobblestone finished.............. from Exuberant Color

The binding was finished around 7 last night. I took many photos, and even though the sides and top are straight, they look curved or slanted in every photo. I finally had to give up and just select one to crop and post. I think this is #13 of the batik Crooked Cobblestone wall hangings. The blocks in this one were made in 2016 and this was the selection left after making #12. I finished designing and sewing the top in January 2024. I started quilting it in March this year but put it aside for awhile before finishing it ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 month, 2 weeks ago. under cobblestone series , nature

More of the same................. from Exuberant Color

Are you tired of seeing this binding? Me too. I didn't spend much time on it yesterday but did get a little over half of one long side stitched. That leaves half of a long side and a short side left to stitch.

I checked the rain gauge yesterday morning and it had .6" in it. Not enough for our suffering lawns. Now we are in for a week of mid to high 90s, cooling off to mid 80s, all starting tomorrow. Also very high humidity will accompany it.

Meanwhile the basted, next in line to be quilted is ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 month, 2 weeks ago. under basting , batik , binding , cobblestone series

Binding more................ from Exuberant Color

My binding choice is looking good on the Crooked Cobblestones wall hanging. I finished the long side and also finished one short side and turned the corner onto the next long side.

While my daughter and granddaughter were visiting we went over to the next town to the furniture store and sat in many recliners to choose one that fits me perfectly. My old recliner was at least 31 years old and just not comfortable anymore. The furniture store is family owned since 1886 and they offer free delivery and free removal of the furniture you are replacing.

We finally ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 month, 2 weeks ago. under batik , binding , cobblestone series , home repair

Binding started...................... from Exuberant Color

Yesterday afternoon I put the very first Crooked Cobblestone quilt on the design wall and put the new one next to it (before binding was started). I was pretty sure the new one was longer.

Later in the day I sewed the binding on and started the hand stitching. I have one long side almost finished. It will probably take me at least 4 nights to get the hand sewing done.

I checked my tomato plants and there are 22 little tomatoes on the three 4th of July variety plants. There are blossoms but no tomatoes on the Rutgers or ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 month, 2 weeks ago. under batik , binding , cobblestone series

No more markers...................... from Exuberant Color

Do you see any safety pins marking centers not quilted? No, I don't either. I finished all of the quilting yesterday. Now I need to trim it and hopefully the piece of fabric for the hanging sleeve is still where I think it is. Right now I'm thinking some shade of green might work for the binding. That would go well with the backing fabric too.

I found 2 more small Peony blooms while roaming through the backyard garden. I didn't remember that I had a white one over by the southwest corner.

I'm seeing buds ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 month, 3 weeks ago. under batik , cobblestone series , machine quilting , nature

A little progress................. from Exuberant Color

A friend came over yesterday and we planned a quilt that we have both made before, both of us have gifted the quilts, and we both want another that we can keep. We had Subway sandwiches for lunch and had a lot of fun.

I got 8 more centers quilted after I wrote yesterday's post and then got 10 more quilted last night.

I'm just adding 3 closeups of some blocks in the quilt because there isn't much else to show.

Now I have more than half of the centers quilted, 86 done, 76 to go.

I ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 month, 3 weeks ago. under batik , cobblestone series , machine quilting , nature

Quilting and digging in dirt................. from Exuberant Color

I was spending a lot of time looking for the centers of blocks that needed to be quilted around. I decided to mark all of the unquilted ones with a safety pin, all 94 of them. Then I counted how many I have quilted around and there were 68. I'm not even half done; I'm disappointed by that for sure. Those numbers were after I quilted around 8 centers last night.

When I dug up the largest of the volunteer tomato plants yesterday, I found out it was 4 plants growing very close together. I also dug up ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 month, 3 weeks ago. under cobblestone series , machine quilting , nature

Looking for a backing........... from Exuberant Color

This quilt top is next in line for basting to prepare for ditch quilting. I needed to find a batik for backing yesterday. It is 37 x 58" so I need almost 1 3/4 yards of fabric.

The first place I look is the 2 shelves of multicolor and large design batiks. Most of them are hard to use because the color changes so often in them.

When I first look through the stacks I'm looking for larger yardage pieces and pull them out. The one one the left is more blue, not green as it looks here ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 5 months, 4 weeks ago. under batik , cobblestone series , stash

Pressed and trimmed............. from Exuberant Color

I went back through my archive photos and think this is #13. One was sold as a top.

This ended up 37" x 58", almost 5 feet tall. I didn't have to make any more blocks; they were all in those 11 plastic bags sorted by size. This one is a little different than my previous crooked cobblestone quilts because of a smaller variety of colors in the blocks.

Here I am in 2012 at a gallery in NC with the first 10 crooked cobblestone wall hangings. All have been sold or gifted except the top right and the ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 year, 6 months ago. under binding , cobblestone series , kaffe fabric

Sewn but not pressed................... from Exuberant Color

I sewed in 3 sessions yesterday and got extra pieces added to either the top or bottom of 6 of the 11 columns to get them closer to the same length. I ended up putting the extra 3" column between columns 4 and 5 instead of between 5 and 6. I sewed the columns together last night but haven't pressed it yet. That comes next and then I will trim the bottom edge for a nice straight finish. It is about 37" x 58" now. There were 24 blocks of various sizes leftover after assembling this.

We are above ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 year, 6 months ago. under cobblestone series

Binding finished.............. from Exuberant Color

Like most batik bindings, this one seemed like it took forever but it was only 5 days. The top was 70" x 91" before quilting so it was a lot of little stitches in the binding.

I folded part of it back so both ends of the quilt show, both the light end and the dark end. I hopefully will get it up on the design wall for its portrait today.

I added more columns of crooked cobblestone blocks on my design wall yesterday morning. If you look at the 2 side edges you can see I need to trim ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 year, 6 months ago. under binding , cobblestone series , nature

On the design wall..................... from Exuberant Color

At the left are all of the rows of the Marcia Derse fabric quilt I was working on. No decisions made on how to finish it. I decided to put some columns of Crooked Cobblestone blocks on the design wall to see what I have available. I used 5 different widths of blocks for this.

I spent the earlier part of the evening hand stitching the binding. I have 3 corners done and 1/2 of a long side and 1/2 of a short side left to stitch. Batik binding and batting make it a slower process of hand ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 year, 6 months ago. under batiks , binding , cobblestone series

Old blocks................ from Exuberant Color

While I was in the basement doing laundry I started looking for a bag of crooked cobblestones. Since I have emptied 4 project boxes so far this month I thought I should continue looking for blocks already made in past years.

In the bag were all of these separate bags of crooked cobblestones that are measured and packaged by width. On the sidebar of this blog is a photo of a Crooked Cobblestone wall hanging, the first one that I made. Here is a post when I was sorting them by size, 2016. They have been waiting a long time ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 year, 6 months ago. under batiks , cobblestone series

More updating photos.............. from Exuberant Color

While I still had the auxiliary lights set up for photographing quilts I decided to take a new photo of Crooked Cobblestones I. I have sold or gifted all of the rest of the series.

I took a series of detail shots too while I was at it.

Many people have asked if there is a pattern for this. It is totally improv.

Some of the centers are less than an inch on one edge, others are over 3" on one edge, whatever size the scrap was that I picked up next.

I found a bag of over 150 blocks ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 3 years, 10 months ago. under batiks , cobblestone series

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