Rogue Ocean Waves

I needed a break from working on Jeff's t-shirt quilt so I decided to pick up the Ocean Waves quilt.  I haven't worked on it for quite a while.  I will say sewing HST and trimming is very relaxing, but you can only do so many.


I cut out a lot of parts.  An old shoe box is nice to stack them in so they are all grouped together.

 I would then  cut my light, draw the line....yes I like to draw the diagonal line.  Then grab about 10 of a color and sew.  Then cut them apart and trim. 

 The bloc-loc HST ruler helps tremendously to trim quickly.  While I am trimming I cut tumblers, hexies,  and parts for other quilts I will be doing soon.

I stacked my HST into a nice under the bed storage box.  All pretty and easy to grab and sew.  I have started laying out one block, sewing the rows together, then holding them in order with a binder clip.  When I have several blocks ready I go and press my seams open, and come back and sew a block unit.  Works pretty well.

Here is what I have so far.  I have some more strips to cut into 3 inch squares and 2 1/2 inch squares and then it will be time to put this up and do something else for a few days.  I really need to get back to my Desert Rose Quilt (Quiltworx).

While I was pressing and playing with the layout in the house, a nice breeze came up out on the sun porch.

I had squares all over the porch, and this is what my nice neat looking box looks like now.  Little did I know that when I titled this post rogue wave that my HST would go rogue.  I will say looking at the layout and my scrappy blocks from the Riley Blake line called Apricot and Persimmon with some solids thrown in makes me happy. 

Of course we know that I had to share my most recent fabric acquisition.

Fun black on whites.  Thimbles, and clothes pins!  And some more chicken fabric for my chicken quilt.  Nancy of Pug Mom Quilts is my fabric enabler lately.  :D