Les Bleus d' Alsace, Continued

Today I'll share the rest of the quilt...oh yeah! I finished the hand quilting, so it is done!

Here's my backing! When I saw it in my stash I thought it was perfect!

You may be able to see I machine quilted in the ditch between the blocks. My hands don't tolerate too much hand quilting anymore. 

I do simple labels. Ever since I killed my printer printing a fabric label I stick with my own hand writing now.

Large squares and smaller squares I hand stitched on the diagonal. I did use my Hera marker to mark the line. Then I hand stitched on the dark blue/star points.  

 

I wasn't sure it would be enough but I washed it and it looks great!

Thanks for sewing along. I'll put up a linky soon so we can see them all in one place. 

French inspiration!

I haven't talked about Elsa lately. 

She's doing so good!

When we went to France and Germany my daughter, niece and nephews took turns staying at the house. It would be pretty hard on the ole gal to be at the kennels for 2 weeks. She was so relaxed when we got home, it was a great idea. 

It feels like we have found the right combination of meds and glucosamine (we switched to Wuffes and can tell a huge difference!) She goes in her toy bin and comes out with the ball. We throw it a few times and she's happy with that. 

She loves to camp and loves little Zack!

I hope you are having an amazing week. Happy Sewing!

Les Bleus d’Alsace 2026 Quiltalong- Part 3

Here is my Les Bleus d’Alsace! 

The first thing you see is the dark blue, but keep looking and you'll see the stars made from shirtings. 

Unlike most of the other quiltalongs, this one does not have an antique I used for inspiration. Lovely fabrics were the key to making this one enjoyable.

My quilt is bound, but not complete! I'm still hand quilting it.

Here is the layout. I put it together in rows. It's pretty straightforward. It should measure 22.5" square. 

Here is the quilt on my  blue Adirondack style bench! Love it!

I'll be back on Wednesday with my backing, label and how I quilted it. 

Thanks for sewing along!

 

Civil War Quilt Group- interested?

 

A friend and I are starting a local Civil War quilt group (in person) and I've had a few of you asking about an online version. There are a lot of online groups so if I put in the effort I would like to make sure there is enough interest. It would run fairly parallel to what we are doing in person. 1 hour, once a month. I would talk a little Civil War history, Civil War style fabrics and have a pattern or two and each month you could share your blocks, any challenges or pleasant surprises. Obviously if we move forward I will button up details. Cost would be $10 month. Starting January 2027. Thanks!

I've created a poll on the Facebook group, but if you aren't on Facebook please leave a comment or send me an email at humblequilts@gmail.com if you are interested.

Please take the poll OR email, but not both so I can gauge accurately.

Lori

Les Bleus d’Alsace 2026 Quiltalong- Part 2- Time to Sew!

We will start sewing!

I'm going to tell you how I did this step and if you have a better way, feel free to use it!

I took my 96 1 1/2" squares and pressed them in half, wrong sides together.

Then I laid it on the 2 1/2" width dark blue, as shown. 

I sewed just a thread or two away from the pressed line (toward the corner) . 

Press, then add the other square to the other side. 

The 2 squares I added on the end I used the same fabric.

When the rectangle was nice and pressed I trimmed any peekaboo pieces from the squares. 

You should have 24 rectangles with triangles on each end. 

Ta-Da! That's it for today. It was a tad tedious, but that is the "hardest part"

My week at a glance:

Hit a deer. 

Went camping

Then drove to Idaho for my nephew's wedding!

It was Eastern Orthodox and very beautiful and meaningful.

All of the family was dressed up and together!

Love One Another.

Have a great week.