Howler

It was a busy weekend and not much time for sewing. The Howler took me 3 hours and 10 minutes.  I struggled with joining Part A to Part B to Part C and finally decided it was what it was.

I started the Flying Ford Angelina but haven't taken any photos yet.

Stash Report for February:

0.2 metres!  That's it!  I was looking for a few fabrics for my POD and stopped in at Fabricland this weekend.  Sticker Shock!  Their newer quilting cotton are $27.00 and $38.00 a metre!  I try to shop locally, but I can't see paying this much for fabric, especially when I can buy it online for half of this.

Total Fabric Purchases for 2023:  21.55 metres

Not for the Faint of Heart - Lucius Malfoy's Death Eater Mask

I'm committed to making at least one block or one major component of a block each week.  It's a good thing this was a long weekend - Family Day in Ontario - or I would not have completed this block.  12 hours and 25 minutes!  I haven't decided if I'm going to include Lucius' wand so will finish the block later.  

There are 214 pieces in this mask!  I thought about giving up but am happy I stuck with it.  It's time to make something a bit easier though.  Phew!

I am amazed at what I see in a photograph that I don't see in real life!  Look at the first photo I took of this mask.  

It looked ok on the wall.  It wasn't until I was looking at the photo when I was uploading it to the computer that I noticed the errors.  See the circles below.

I ripped back a portion of three sections and replaced three black pieces with gray fabric, sewed the three seams back together and voila!  The end result is the first photo above.

Bonus:  DH thinks it looks like a mask!  Yahoo!  

A Productive Week

Last week was quite productive.  I finished one block and two sections for my POD.

This block took 6.5 hours to make.  The green and silver tie is for Slytherin House.  The green is a nice emerald green (DS's birthstone) and the silver has some nice glittery bits in it

I spent an incredible amount of time lining up the striped fabric on the lower 3 books, and almost no time pinning the yellow fabric.  Look at the areas I circled.  That yellow fabric is perfectly aligned!  How did that happen?  I can only suggest that since this is a Harry Potter Quilt, it must have been magic.

This wand took 2 hours and 50 minutes  DS turns wood and one of his favourite woods to turn is bloodwood.  I choose this fabric because it's the closest colour I could find.

These Quidditch goggles took 5 hours and 20 minutes to make.  I should have chosen a different colour range to make them as they blend into the background more than I would like.  I might do some embroidery around the edges to define them a bit more.  I'll wait and see how I feel after I make a few more blocks.

I did a lot of research this week as well.  I didn't track the hours but  it consumed a good portion of the weekend.  I now have an extensive list of blocks I would like to include in this quilt.  Now I need to figure out how to fit everything in without having it too big.

Note:  The patterns for this quilt are all free at Fandom in Stiches under the Harry Potter tab.

Crookshanks, the Sorting Hat and the Golden Snitch - POD Progress

 I finished Crookshanks, the Sorting Hat and the Golden Snitch.  It took 8.5 hours, including the 2 hours it took to make the Golden Snitch.  After I posted it to the POD Facebook account, I realized I sewed a piece of background fabric where I should have put orange for Crookshanks' tail.  This took another 30 minutes to  rip back 4 seams and replace the offending piece.  I'm getting very good with a seam ripper.  

9 hours in total for this double block.  All, in all though 4.5 hours for a single block isn't bad.

Crookshanks is missing a small section from his tail near the brim of the hat on the right side.

Crookshanks' tail is fixed - small change but a big difference.

I was going to work on the Howler next, but my printer isn't working so I started on the tie block.  It was a challenge to get the striped fabric that I used on the end of the book pages lined up.  I happy with the final results.

                                      

3 books - Check out the open ends.  The stripes line up from the long piece with the small triangle on the end.  Yahoo!

Fabric Purchases for January 2023

Total purchases for January 2023 - 21.35 meters.

No finishes...yet.

I purchased:

- some solids for Elizabeth Hartman's Bjorn Bear.  It will be a baby quilt for a new great nephew

- a nice red for a future Christmas quilt

- a blue background for a Quilt-along by Quilt Doodle

- some white for the background of a Hallowe'en quilt-along by Cackling Stitches

- everything else is for my Harry Potter quilt - POD