Chookshed Challenge #10 - April - Chapel Street Top

The wonderful Chooky "enabled" me down this rabbit hole . . .

It started in 2023 and I haven't blogged about it very much - apart from here (May 2025) when Chookshed Challenge #8 was to make progress on Chapel Street.

At the time it looked like this:

My design wall is just too small!!!!.  

The bottom picture is the bottom of the quilt, and the plan was to finish the colour wash with heading to blacks in the right-hand corner.

So, here is the top...Chookshed Challenge #10 completed.
I am thinking I will add a black border of 2 or 3", depending on the quantity of black I have left, then a wider border of fabrics used in the quilt.  A project for another day.

It's not a great picture - the holder upperer was not up to much.

Thanks Deana, for pushing us along.....I got to a point where - without the Challenge deadline I would have put it aside....I think most of you know that problem.

What will May challenge me with????  (7 or 9 would be OK...LOL)


PS:   I am trying to reply to each comment, but if I missed yours - many apologies!

Chookshed Challenge #8 - Progress on Chapel Street

In 2023 (I think), Chooky tempted me to join her making Chapel Street.
Over time and particularly in November at our retreat at Glenrose, Chooky and I cut some fabrics that we were sharing.

I have worked on it here and there since then, cutting the black pieces and joining to the odd shape. I have not blogged about it at all.

I decided to add this project to my Chookshed Challenge List - as "Progress on Chapel Street", knowing it was unlikely that I would finish a top within the month.  Just as well as this month we took a bit of a trip away from home and no Chapel Street sewing happened for a week.

After a bit of a chat with Chooky, I decided to arrange the pieces in a colourwash fashion.  She is also taking the same approach - go here for a look.

I started by separating the blocks into colours...counting them and making up a graph of how it could work....(gotta love a spreadsheet...LOL)

Always good to have a plan...right??  Remembering it is a plan and plans can change . . .

Then I sorted the yellows into pairs and laid them out, then the reds...and so on...

Then started sewing the rows.
I was quite pleased I got to this stage by late Saturday afternoon...As my eldest daughter is in town, I couldn't sew into the night...

It is now too big for my Design Wall (??)   so two pictures will have to do...

The top section

and the lower bit....missing the top 6 rows.

As you can see I am a bit short of blocks...I knew I would need a few extra and had planned around that ....but as I matched pairs I found a few duplicate fabrics that I didn't want to include...mmm...I will need to find some more green I think...but as the Design Wall is sliding doors to a wardrobe where my fabric lives....I can't look yet!.  I guess I will need to continue on in June and then add borders.

So, not a finish - but I met the goal of "Progress on Chapel Street"

Thanks Deana for pushing us along.