Borders

I have the pinwheel border on one side of my quilt. Have the rest of the pinwheel blocks done just need to sew them into strips and then to the quilt. Put a final green border around the outside and this quilt will at last be done. Not a lot of progress to show for the last few weeks. Guess I've been out enjoying summer.

Snowballs and Nine patches

This is the top I hoped to get done this month. The blocks did get done and pieced together. But the border hit a bump. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do for the border. So I was laying out different fabrics to see what looked the best. I had the small squares planed already I then decided on a green border then I wasn't sure. If I stopped with this I'd have got it done. But.........I did come up with some pinwheel blocks from the cut offs from the snowball blocks. Think I'll border each pinwheel block with more green. The quilt really needed to have more of the orange in the border to make it look better. Sorry don't know how to explain it. So I guess I have some more piecing to do. At least I won't have those cut off bonus HST sitting around looking for a home.

Basting

2 more basted after a having a break. The realtor showed the house 2 days in a row. So had to pick up my mess. Was nice to have a break but now I'm back at it. I got the pattern for both these quilts from Blogs, The bottom one is freeze frame from Judy at Patchwork times. It was a quilt for an hour project from Oct 2009.






The top one is from Bonnie Hunter at Quiltville called Scrappy Bargello the pattern is here on her web site .

I did it a couple years ago Bonnie had a Bargello challenge to use up your ugly fabric. Someday I would like to do another one using pretty fabric and get the hills and valleys to go all the way across the quilt with the same fabric.

So this bring me up to 5 basted quilts not quite 2 a day I wanted but I'm still working at it.

February UFO

I just pulled my February UFO out of my sewing machine. I got the top done and I sewed a back for it. I knew at the beginning of the month that getting it quilted this month would be to much. I am going to keep focused on it and hopefully get it quilted in March. This quilt was a BOM that Judy did in 2009. She emailed a block pattern once a week. It was a fun doing the blocks. But after I did the blocks I stuck them away I didn't want to tackle the sashing. So thanks for the pattern Judy and the challenge so I finally after 2 years got it done.

Check out how the other ladies are doing with Judy's UFO challenge at her blog HERE.

There is about 80 of us taking up the challenge.

Now I have to go dig out me March UFO.

2009 Stash Report week 46

Week 46 guess I missed a few weeks.
For the year I'm at 61 yds busted. Far short of my goal of 150 for the year but 61 yards is pretty good for me. I did manage to do some mindless sewing and get this string quilt top done. And to use up some yardage I whipped up the backing too.
Check out Judy's blog to see what other quilters have been up to this week.



It wasn't windy today she didn't have to hold the quilt down!

Freeze Frame Quilt

I had to put on the borders quick but here is the finished top. Thanks Judy for a great quilt. Go HERE to se all of the quilts.

Remembering Grandma

My design floor has a finished top.

This top is done!! I wish I could start right in on quilting it but, all my basting pins are being used. Guess I should do some machine quilting and get a few of the basted tops done. Then I could count something as all done instead of just on to the next step. For the quilt I used scrappy lights for the back ground and scrappy for the reds/rust. For the green I used all the same fabric the alternate blocks I couldn't find a blue like in the book I liked.

Instead I thought a lighter cream would make the green blocks show more. I like the fabrics
I picked and love the finished top. And I am going to love this quilt on my bed when I get it quilted.

When ever I post about the quilt someone always asks where the pattern came from. So it's from this book. It's the 4th quilt I've made from the book. (yes it's a good book)And here is a picture of the quilt from the book.

The blue pinwheels really give it a different look then mine. But I'm a less busy person I like traditional and simple.

Basket Weave String

Stash report day. I've missed the last few weeks but am ready to get back in.
It's been a month since I last reported. No new fabric in. And I did a little sewing but mostly I donated some fabric that I was gifted with a few years ago. Maybe a lesson there if someone gives you their ugly fabric because they will never use it you probably won't find a use for it either. So I removed and used 21 yds from my stash. So for my yearly total I'm at.....

50 yds 33" Busted

Just this morning I sewed the blocks for this string quilt. I started it around the first of the year. I love the basket weave pattern and am surprised at the effect.

And look how lucky I am this little quilt I made last year fits almost perfectly on my new table. Feels good to be almost settled in the new house not too many boxes left to unpack.

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.

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.

Stepping Stones

This is from last week I added the border and made a pieced back.

Not the best points on the HST.

Wonky Squares Quilt

This week I kept on track with trying to finish up tops that are almost done and adding backs for them. I layed out the blocks for this quilt and decided to make it a little bigger. I made an extra 24 blocks and added 2 borders the quilt is now a big 85x 91 inches. Should fit on my bed nice. I enjoyed sewing these blocks no patterns just sewed up pieces and strips and ended up with blocks. Didn't have to match corners or points. I started each square with a square 3 to 5 inches, then added a strip around 1 to 2 inches wide.

Then added a triangle to each side, squared them up a little then added a final border to make the squares 9 inches. I pieced a lot of the stripes to add to the scrappy look and to use up the smaller pieces that I had.

I'm using this fabric for the back.

Borders and Backs

After 2 weeks of big fabric purchases my total stash busting is looking pretty low. The end of April is 1/3 of the year and I am far behind my goal for the year. So this week I thought I would challenge myself to a week of borders and backs. I'm going to dig out the quilts I have almost done, sew up the blocks, add the borders and make up some backs. With hope I will be at 50 yards busted by Sunday so I will be right on track for the year.

First I made a back for this quilt.

I then sewed these sawtooth blocks together added a couple of borders and made a back. "That red, white and blue strip has been looking for a home for quilt awhile. Glad to get that one out of the stash.

2009 Stash Report Week 15

And I was doing so well!!! The weather has started to turn and it's been great. I haven't had time for sewing not when I can be out and about. I was hoping to finish the binding on a quilt and I didn't even get one side done. The quilt I wanted to get machine quilting I never touched. I wanted to finish Judy L's Bears in the farmhouse quilt but couldn't find my striped fabric I wanted to use on the border. My only sewing time from last week was the time I spent looking for that fabric. I found it on Sunday and sewed it up Monday Yeah some pictures of something!!!

Lost some ground on my stash busting. Ouch I had a big purchase.

Added this Week: 20 yds
Fabric Added Year to Date: 43 yds 18"Fabric

Used this Week: 3 yds
Fabric Used Year to Date: 64 yds 18"
Fabric Busted from Stash This Year: 21 yards 18"

2009 Stash Report Week 13

This week the Realtors showed the house everyday so any sewing I did had to be picked up before the next showing. I did finish the binding on a wall hanging this week did half the quilting on another small quilt but, mostly tried to focus on getting this quilt ready for quilting. Scrappy Mountains Majesties from Bonnie Hunters web site. For this I got a mission accomplished. A problem did a rise with the batting. I didn't have batting big enough for the top this batting is the same size as the quilt so I just used it. I hope to either trim 2 to 3 inches off the border or piece in some batting as I quilt were it is going to be short. Don't tell the Quilt Police. The quilt is made out of old shirts and a few other scraps and I plan on using it on the bed in the camper if it's not perfect it's not a big deal It's going to get a lot of use.




From my stash I used some blue check homespun for the border and made a pieced backing for the Scrappy Mountains Majesties quilt.

Added this Week: 0 yds
Fabric Added Year to Date: 26 yds 18"Fabric


Used this Week: 5 yds 16"
Fabric Used Year to Date: 57 yds 12"Fabric

Busted from Stash This Year: 36 yards 25"

Next weeks goals....
Finish monkey wrench quilt
Quilt Scrappy Mountains Majesties
Finish 2 more doll quilts

Civil War Diary Sampler

Today should be called progress day. I finished the broken dishes top. I finished the scrappy mountains top( pictures tomorrow). And as a leader ender when I was sewing up the blocks of those 2 quilts I added the borders on this one. How many days can you sew up 3 quilt tops.
I used EQ to come up with some 6 inch blocks and made this sampler similar to civil war quilts I have seen on many blogs. I had planned on buying the book but the local quilt shop was out so I just started with a few blocks with EQ. I really enjoyed making up a few blocks and using some blocks that were already on EQ. The last 3 or 4 blocks that I made I just used up left over pieces from the first few not the best blocks but they worked not all the blocks can be shinning stars. Note the one in the bottom corner that looks like a H. What was I thinking. Get this last block done???