Acromantula -another block done for my POD

I finished another block for the POD.  Acromantula - 4 hours and 10 minutes, including the 40 minutes I spent sewing the head with the wrong fabric.  I'm happy with the final result.  

 

I used glow-in-the-dark dinosaur fabric for the eyes.  The eyes are smaller than the nail on my baby finger, but it worked!  

      Oops!  Wrong fabric for the head.    Glow in the dark dinosaurs    Can you see the eyes glowing?

I think I'm becoming obsessed with this quilt.  I'm thinking about it all the time.  I even wake up in the middle of the night thinking about the next block I'm going to make, and the one after that.

I want to make ALL of the POD blocks but need to be realistic.  They won't all fit in one quilt so I'm carefully considering my choices and how I can fit smaller blocks or parts into the larger blocks.

I started the Sorting Hat and Crookshanks - a double block.  I'm going to make the Golden Snitch next and see if I can fit it in above Crookshanks head - as if the Snitch is teasing Crookshanks.

Crookshanks is a sour pus!  It was a challenge to get everything lined up, but perseverance is key.

After I finish this, I'll go back to working on the Ripped Book block.  I'm going to put the Howler above it and then combine it with the Monster Book of Books to make another double book.

POD Progress

 I sewed several times last week and am happy to have finished a few more blocks for my POD.

     Standard Book of Spells 1 - 7                Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans

The Standard Books took 2.5 hours.  Bertie Bott's took 4.5 hours.  I spent a few hours working on the Acromantula block and totally wasted 40 minutes sewing the head with background fabric instead of the head fabric.  Ugh!  I also spent 3 hours sewing the Ripped Book (the book the Monster Book of Monsters is eating).  I made a few errors but made some creative choices to "fix" the errors.  The Ripped Book was quite challenging but I'm very happy with my progress.  I'm particularly happy with how I lined up the pages (lines).  That took a LOT of time and effort!

              Acromantula needs a new head!                                      Ripped Book

Choosing fabrics for the individual books is so challenging for me.  Why?  A bookshelf has all kinds of books and the covers aren't colour coordinated.  I need to get over it/myself and make choices.  

I'm still working on my list of UFOs.

Back!

I can't believe it's five years since I last wrote.  I was never a prolific nor regular poster but truly hadn't realized that five years had gone by.  I'm a better blog reader than a blog writer.  

I'm getting ready to retire in 1 1/2 years and am working hard this year to prepare.  That means I need to tidy up some unfinished business so I can start retirement with a clean(er) slate.  I'm making a list of UFOs which made me think about this old blog.  None of the projects I previously listed as UFOs are finished yet AND I've added several more to the list.  I'm a good starter and sadly not so much a finisher.  

I'm happy to have the previous pages for history.  I make notes now when I'm working on a quilt.  I didn't do that before.  The Monster Book of Monsters block (pictured above) is from Fandom of Stitches.  It's part of a Harry Potter Quilt, called Project of Doom (POD) that I started in 2017.  It's paper pieced and took 6 hours to make, not counting the 5 years in between start and finish.

The Monster Book is eating another book.  The text fabric represents the book that is being eaten.  I specifically selected certain sections of the text as secret (or not so secret) messages for the recipient.  The adjacent block will have the ripped book.  I'm not sure when I'm going to make that block.  Maybe during my next vacation as it has several small pieces which will take a bit of concentration.