Blue Stars

I guess this got really wrinkled. I sewed the rest of the blocks together on Monday and then made the back. I used some of the extra blocks but still have three. I guess they will be added to the rest of the orphan blocks. As I was sewing the last little bit of the back a Realtor called. Can I show your house in 20 min she says. I say yes and spend the next 20 dashing around cleaning. The quilt got scrunched in a dresser drawer and I just took it out today to show to blog land wrinkles and all.

2009 Stash Report Week 26

26 weeks and the half way mark for the year. I haven't dropped out yet Judy I just missed a couple weeks. This week I used almost 4 yards and made no fabric purchases. So for the year I've busted 29 yards. I purchased 103 yards so far this year and used a total of 132 yards. So I may not be as close to my goal as I had hoped but I am rotating fabric. week 26 reports

Design Wall Monday Hearth and Home

Judy at
Patchworktimes has Design Wall Mondays check out what every one is doing.

I started this one right after the first of the year. I just finished the last block and I'm working on the layout before I sew up the blocks. Then I will add a border.

2009 Stash Report Week 24

After missing the last three weeks here I am. I was gone on a wonderful relaxing vacation and have been busy doing summer things since I got back. The weather is finally warmed up and out side is a wonderful place to be.

So far this year I've busted 24yds and 29"
Losing ground the last 3 weeks I added 14yds and used only 1 yd 21".

Design Wall Monday Blue Stars

Over at Judy L's she is asking what's on your design wall. So here it is. I've been adding the blue borders to these star blocks I inherited from my mother. I have to add a few more muslin sashing strips and then a border.

Vacation and Basting

I'm going on vacation and should be back next weekend. Before leaving I wanted to get a couple of quilt tops basted for quilting. So yesterday I got out the quilt stretcher frame and started to pin bast quilts. How many quilts can I do with the pins that I have. More then I thought. I want to do this one first and I might smuggle it in to the camper with my sewing machine. My hubby won't notice. I think I can hide them in the couch it looks like a normal couch but the seat opens up like a trunk and holds lots of stuff.

This is the dear Jane block I enlarged. I used old used shirts for the fabric. I need to upgrade my digital camera and get a new one this one is 6 years old and the pictures I've been taking lately just haven't been the greatest. Or the basement is to dark and I don't have the flash set right. Sorry

When the cat wants to sit on a quilt you just can't win. Chase her off and she comes right back. I added a close up of this quilt. It has lots of issues put I finally got it together mistakes and all.
The camera does better with close ups.

I love the big black paper clip thinggys I bought to hold the back and batting to the boards. I makes it so much easier then pinning. Thanks.... to whose ever blog I seen them on. They even had a tutorial. I wish I could find it back to share.

Okay how could I not notice that square until I see it on a picture and the quilt top is already basted. How could I sew a solid 9 patch in there instead of a muslin and print one. That's not going to be fun fixing.
Yes that mistake is still there.
I've tried to take pictures of this quilt before and they never turn out. It really is a neat quilt. Maybe a new camera can do it.

And if you counted that's 6 basted quilts. I was hoping for 3 or 4.

And now I'm off for a week of vacation.

2009 Stash Report Week 21

An easy report for this week nothing added nothing used. This week I'm not one of the last to report on Judy 's blog. The only sewing I did this week was this morning while I had coffee. I finished the last 4 feet of binding on this quilt. Really need to start doing a little hand work every morning again.

I started this quilt at least 8 years ago. And I know it was half hand quilted last time we moved about 3 years ago. A good UFO to get done.
The back is just a solid navy blue shows off the hand quilting.

2009 Stash Report Week 20

This week I added more fabric then I used. I just can't seem to hit 50 yards of busted fabric. So I went from 46yds busted to 37yds busted.

This week I added 11 yds 8" and used 2 yds 8". The only sewing I did was on the blue star blocks.

I'd show another picture of them but it would be the same as last week.

This picture came in a email.............. someone did a lot of crocheting.