Yet another new project!

Before I show you my new project let me show you what I did late Wednesday evening. Remember this fabric from yesterday's post? As I was putting the reject dog bed fabrics away I took another look at this one and then remembered my ugly blue sewing chair. I've recovered these kinds of chairs before so figured I could do this one too. 

Off to the basement for the screwdriver, allen wrenches and staple gun. About an hour and a half later I had a new sewing chair and a few cuts from pulling out the old staples.

It's not the most modern upholstery but it looks a lot better than the filthy blue that was on it before. I think I paid less than $50 for this chair many years ago and it's still my favorite, and most comfortable, sewing chair. (I'm not showing the underside.)

​I also needed to get a project ready fast. Today is the monthly sewing days with Country School Quilters. I needed a new project to sew on with my new travel sewing machine! I'm looking forward to giving this one a test drive this weekend.

After the great presentation we had Tuesday about all the good that our veterans quilts do, I just had to start another one.

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I've had this Hunter Star die for a while and it seems a fine one to start with.

In my stash I found a 3 yard gradient that I dyed a long time ago for another project that fell off the "to do" list. I needed about 6 yards for a veterans size quilt and I found some yellow, a couple of orange fabrics and a green fabric to go with the gradient. There's no plan for color placement. I'm just going to sew a bunch of blocks together and see how it goes. I did starch all of the fabric before I started cutting. I make my own starch with this recipe.

The Hunter Star die looks like this and 4" strips are the perfect size. One pair of strips can make 1 12" block. I run 4 strips through at a time. I can run 6 layers but I get less distortion with 4 layers and it doesn't really take that much longer. I don't know yet if I'm going to make 12" blocks of matching fabrics or make the whole thing scrappy. I'll make some 6" components and see how it looks.

By the time you read this I should be set up and sewing. I even had enough fabric left for binding.