Jan 01: What is one more quilt among so many? LOL Rudy is going to have one colorful booth at the trade show later in January. 
Jan 01: Will use the logo colors using Kona Cotton solids. Rudy will try to get his logo done elsewhere & then just lay it over the quilt center.
Jan 02: Fabrics are ordered. Have solicited the help of Patricia Ritter of Urban Elementz to help with the panto.
Jan 03: Auditioning fonts--will use serif font for "sharp sewing". Also getting familiar with the piecing plan. i.e. 

• # strips of each color & width
• # squares per color combination & size.

Jan 05: IQ loaner is here. Now own upper & lower case alphabet letters in a simple font created by Patricia Ritter of Urban Elementz.
Jan 06: Working today on turning the logo text into a pantograph. Have posted first pass. Rudy likes it so now it needs a bit of tweaking.
Jan 07: Thread: Bottom Line White to match background. Batting: wool. 
             Made a schedule. HA HA HA! No way, Jose! I mean, Rudy.
Jan 08: Fabrics are here.
Jan 09: All fabrics pre-washed & cut.
Jan 10: Making 1/2 square triangle blocks using Strip Ruler method.
Jan 11: Cut & pressed all the blocks. Ready to sew. Backing & binding are ready. This quilt is now top priority.
Jan 12: Sewing blocks together. 208 square or 1/2 square triangle blocks will become 13 4x4 star blocks joined into 3 rows.
Jan 13: Finished small star rows. Joining the rows & making the stars.
Jan 14: Third day of piecing...Finished the center with all the stars. Now the borders.
Jan 15: Finished the second border only to discover I have a major case of friendly (wavy) borders. Looking back I can see it coming... Stopped to be sure my loaner IQ was okay & to test my pattern. It could use some tweaking... Quilt top finished. Will tweak the pattern for a couple of hours.
Jan 16: Re-tested my pattern. Loading and quilting. Quilted & squared. Attaching binding. Adding Wonder Clips. Shipping Express tomorrow. Monday us a postal holiday.
Jan 20: Rudy received his quilt.
Feb 11: Quilt back here to finish the binding.
Feb 27: Bound.

Dec 30: Rudy is with the company where I buy my Wonder Clips (see Suppliers page). He contacted me about a quilt he wants to promote is business at an upcoming show in January.
Dec 31: We considered using Moda grunge fabrics ....
Jan 01: But decided to go with Kona Cotton solids. Rudy will try to get his logo done elsewhere & then just lay it over the quilt center.
Jan 02: Been working on the Cut & Sew pantograph. IQ crashed so I lost the design & all 4 quilt layouts. A loaner computer is on the way..
Jan 03: Getting familiar with the piecing plan

• # strips of each color & width
• # squares per color combination & size

Jan 05: Loaner IQ is here. Re-programming my unfinished panto I was working on when my IQ crashed. Now I have an & created by my sister, Sandy Daugherty to add to my Serif Uppercase Alphabet created by Ellen Munnich. Offering two layouts but any density is fine. Rudy's choice of course. 
Jan 07: Thread: Bottom Line Light Yellow. Batting: wool.
              Made a schedule. HA HA HA! No way, Jose! I mean, Rudy.
Jan 08: Fabrics are here. The yellow & the red are off. I have enough red on hand to substitute.
Jan 09: All fabrics pre-washed & cut except the yellow. Rudy is working on matching his logo yellow to fabric.
Jan 10: Making 1/2 square triangle blocks using Strip Ruler method. We have a yellow I found at a local shop that matches the shade on a box of bobbins Rudy sent me. Thanks, Rudy, for both. Washed the yellow fabric.
Jan 11: Pressed the yellow fabric and then cut & sewed the remaining strips. Will delay further work on this quilt until the Sharp Sewing quilt is being longarmed. Backing and binding are ready.
Jan 18: Back to this quilt. Finished cutting everything. After pressing all the squares seams open, it is back to the tedious matching points, basting, checking and finally sewing the 13 star blocks.
Jan 19: Still piecing...
Jan 20: All 13 star blocks are done.
Jan 21: Center of quilt is done & starting on borders. Got the first & hardest one on.
Jan 22: Stayed up all night (21st) & finished piecing the top. Checked & tweaked the programming. Loaded. Quilting. Quilted.
Jan 23: Squared & binding attached. Clipped with Wonder Clips. Ready to ship. Photos are dark because there is heavy fog and freezing rain outside. Rudy decided I should do the binding and then ship. Too late for this show. I did my best but just couldn't get it done any sooner. Several all nighters & going with minimal sleep, the stress of trying in vane to meet the deadline was disappointing for me and especially for Rudy. I will not work under such deadlines in the future. I must say Rudy was a delight to partner with on his logo quilts. The biggest cause of the failure was my very poor estimation of the time required to do these quilts.
Jan 27: Binding finished.
Jan 28: Shipped.