Rolling along

Tonight I finally went to sew the sky of the beach quilt. I've been procrastinating for about a week. And guess what? I couldn't find my sky fabrics anywhere! All I know is that I got them out with the rest of the beachy fabrics when I started the quilt. So I spent the evening giving the study a much-needed once-over, and clearing the sewing table. I must have put over 100m of fabric away! And still no sky stash. Luckily I bought a couple of new sky prints at the Festival of Quilts a few weeks ago, so used one of those to piece the sun's rays, and at least have something to show at last!

I also bought a wooden seam roller at the quilt show, and instead of getting out the iron in this heat (still officially spring, today we reached 43C (about 110F); it was still over 40 at 7pm, and didn't drop below 30 properly until 5am the following morning) I used the roller to press each seam a I built the segments on their foundations. A very handy and effective simple tool.