I Am So Excited

 I'm so excited!  Texas Braid is a flimsy or quilt top!  It's so  nice to achieve my goal of getting it to this stage.

Lots of scrapes were used to make this top. But, believe it or not, I still have lots more scraps!  This braid pattern came from Bonnie Hunter's book " Adventures with Leaders & Enders".  You can find it here at Bonnie's shop. 

Now to get batting and backing to get it all the way to the finish line!

Plugging Away

I've been plugging away at putting together my version of Bonnie Hunter's Texas Braid.  You can find this pattern in her book "Adventures with Leaders & Enders".   I cut this all out in 2018 when I thought I was going to be making it at a Bonnie Hunter class.  Instead the class was on Texas Tumbleweeds.  

I have finally finished sewing all the braids together.  Now I am trimming them.  I have about half of them done.  Slow going but it's getting there!

Week 35 Of Project 52

Week 35 of Project 52 is "Texas Braid" by Bonnie Hunter. This quilt pattern is in her book, "Adventures in Leader & Enders."  

This picture is the last time I worked on the Project, June of 2021  I showed it before, here.  Time to get busy on it again!

Quilt Friends

 It's always fun to do quilty things with friends.  I did a little bit of Shop Hopping at the beginning of the month.  June 1 was the first day of the All Iowa Shop Hop (AISH)    This past weekend I went Retreating with some friends.  

And I worked on my Texas Braid for the first time in 2 years.  It's from Bonnie Hunter's book, "Adventures with Leaders & Enders".  Making the rows is time consuming.  I only completed 2 rows the first time I worked on it.  This past Retreat I completed 3.  So I have a total of 5 now.

 I did get all the pieces organized and set up to be a leader/ender, but I'm doing a bunch of chain piecing with those pieces.  I want to get this done, it's been sitting as a UFO for too long!

Cutting Bricks

I've been cutting bricks out of fabric.  These bricks are 5 inches long and I had been using my 2 inch strips but it felt like it was taking soooo long.  

So I turned to my big bin of 5 inch squares and it's feels like it's going so much faster.  Plus I'm getting a big variety of fabrics which I love.  When I make scrap quilts, the more the merrier!

I layer 5 of the 5 inch squares and cut the strips.  I do 2 cuts and I have 10 bricks.  I pin the 10 bricks and stack them in piles of 10.  So far I have 600 dark bricks cut.  I need over 1,000.  I'm excited to be using those charm squares.