Turnover Quilt / Christmas Lemonade Quilt

In last week's blog was titled Making Lemonade,  I wrote about the four turnovers I bought that wouldn't work for the project I bought them for. I said I was going to make lemonade or in other words find a way to use them. I had thought about doing a disappearing something. Well, this week I started on this. I think I will call this quilt Christmas Lemonade.

matched up triangles

In fact this week I worked on this quilt (or another project) every night but one. First, I sketched out a few block on graph paper to be sure I was going to like how my ideas was going to work out. Then I started with matching up light and dark triangles. This was a little difficult because there were definitely dark, medium and light tones and not equal amounts of all three. So some medium tones got put with dark tones and light tones. But eventually I got it worked out.

chain piecing

Then it was on to sewing the triangles together. For those who have never chain pieced, Try It!!!. I love to chain piece. There is something very soothing about just running one piece after another under the presser foot.  I makes things go fast and all the pieces are in a chain when you are done. You just snip them apart and go to pressing.  Here is a picture of one turnover chained pieced.

one chained turnover

 I did one turn over a night for the first three nights. However on Thursday I only matched up the triangle of the fourth turnover. I worked a 12 hour shift that day and was rather tired. Like I have said before, tired and quilting aren't a good combination. Plus we had the missionaries over for dinner and that is always a good time.  I didn't get to the final turnover until today. But in one week I have sewn and pressed open all four turn overs.

all four turnovers

This week I hope to trim and start cutting these squares in fourths.
I will only have enough finished squares to do a throw. But that is okay. I don't usually do holiday themed bed clothes anyways. The throw will work out for the grand kids to cuddle under or lay on to watch TV. Or maybe I will give it to one of my siblings for Christmas. Who knows right now I am just enjoying the creating process.



Goal up date: This is the first week I did something quilt/sewing related every day but one. If it was not on the quilt then it was cutting pieces for another quilt. The one day I didn't sew, I did spend with my husband doing errands, looking for shelves for the studio and then being with the kids. I have not done any more on organizing the studio but I will this week. I am still looking for the shelves I want for it.  I also need to get the studio measured and sketched out so I can lay the studio out for the long arm machine. I have also scheduled the time to go to the APQS roadshow in Jacksonville, FL in February. So I am still working on the goals.

How are your goals coming?