Lady Of The Lake

I did finish a quilt this week.  I sewed the binding on and hand sewed it down.  The blocks are lady of the lake.  The half square triangles are bonus pieces from the spool quilt  I made.  Guess I have a couple matching 4th of July quilts now.   

May UFO

This is what was picked for my UFO for the month. It's the bag I've been collecting all my small quilt projects in. I counted and there are 30 different projects in the bag. I'll have to get one a day done!!! Guess the challenge is on. I started by doing some sorting. I'm starting with the items that are nearest to getting done.





Here are the first 2 completes. A cup cozy and a little quilt. Both only needed one or 2 sides of binding sewn down. An easy start. I'll try to post all the projects as I finish them.

Gray Bias String

Gray Bias String Quilt

I got one done this month. This is the UFO for April I was hoping to finish up. I had inherited a few bias tape packages from a friend what to do with them I would never use them for what they are made for. The narrow ones are really worth less to me but the wider ones may be useful. I washed them and used a few of the grey ones for the centers of some crazy string blocks. Used some other grey fabric scrapes to make a few more. And I have a quilt. Why this was a UFO for so long was.... The back had a lot of terrible wrinkles in it after quilting. ( I tried a different basting method that was a disaster) So I dug it out ripped out some quilting basted the areas and requilted and requilted till it was better not perfect but alot better. I sewed on the binding and I got it done by the end of the month.

Broken Dishes

It's done I looked back and I started this quilt in June of 2008. I'm giving it to my grand daughter for her 3rd birthday in March. I started the month with the quilt about 1/3 quilted. It's been sitting in my sewing machine at that stage since last May. And the things got busy and crazy and I just stopped sewing for the summer. Now thanks to a few good snowstorms and very cold weather I back into the groove of sewing. Hopefully I'll get a bunch more done this year. I'm off to a good start so far.

This is the first quilt from Judy's UFO challenge you can check it out at Judy's blog HERE . For February Judy picked number 10 on the list. I'm going to have to get busy to get it done by the end of the month I only have the blocks done. But it will be a good UFO to get off my list. I'll post about it latter this week.

2009 Quilts In Review

Not in any order here are the quilts I finished in 2009. I finished 12 but need to find pictures of 2 yet and some I never took pictures of them completed yet. Here is what I have for now.
I may have to take some pictures and come back and edit this post a little.

Shirt Quilt

Just showing off the back first.Shirt quilt is done. I started this quilt last winter. I thought I would give sewing with second hand fabric for a quilt a try. I had been collecting shirts and started in. Cutting up the shirts is a lot more work then I thought it would be. And the fabric from one shirt to the next is not very consistent with the others. The main problem I had was one would be a lot more stretchier then what I'm used to. I love the homey homespun look of the quilt but doubt I would collect more shirts for future quilts. That said I will have to make one more to use up what I have left. A red white and blue one to use up all the red shirts I collected.

For a pattern I used a Dear Jane block H-1 Peek-a-boo if you have the book.

To stay with the thrifty theme of the quilt I used a old blanket as the batting. Machine quilted it with my sewing machine. I quilted circles in the centers of the blocks the meandering between the circles.

I used leftover pieces of shirts for the back and an orange shirt I cut up for the binding.

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.

Shoofly Potpie

This is the quilt I finished last week. It was from Kim Diehls book. I altered the quilt a little but the inspiration came from the book. I have some homespun scraps I had gotten from a garage sale and have been looking for a scrappy project to use them in. I mixed in a few flannels and really like the finished quilt. I machine quilted it on my sewing machine using swirls.

Feathered Star Applique

I did get a quilt done this week it's my first applique quilt. Since I started my applique has really improved. I had a lot of trouble with the ruffles along the leaves so don't look so close. I also never came up with a good way to make small circles so for now I don't have them maybe someday I will add them or else I thought I could just use some buttons.

I went back and found all the pictures I have of the progress of this quilt. It is from a Kim Diehl book Simple Traditions. I like the border and think I will try to do something similar on another quilt some day.
My sewing machine area never looks this neat when I'm really sewing I usually have 2 or 3 projects I'm sewing.




Feathered Friends Applique
And a picture of the back.