Design Wall Monday, November 26, 2012

I have Step 1 complete.  I'm sure there are lots others working on Easy Street.  You can see many of them HERE at the link in Bonnie Hunter's post.  I did not think I would have enough black on whites, but I found a bunch tucked away in my cats and dogs theme stash.  I have a fair amount of the constant grey left.  I wonder if it will be used again?  What color fabric is next up Bonnie?  I like all three apple green, dark red and blue purples, along with turquoise and teals.

From the second football game through to the 3rd quarter of the evening game I sewed down sleeves.  I finished three of the four to do. 

Mom's black and white quilt will be enroute to Maryland tomorrow morning.  It was the first to finish. 

Kerfuffle




Kwiltathon



Knickels

Kerfuffle and Kwiltathon were next.  Kerfuffle will be displayed for a time at work with Kwiltathon following next.  Knickels will be next to finish.

I plan to get some navy fabric tomorrow for my Sister's quilt.  I have several dark blues but none go as well as one that I don't have enough of to get around the quilt.  It is a big quilt from a very old top whose maker is not known.  My Sister has had it for sometime now and it came to my attention in September during my visit.  A back from Rosie's turned out to be perfect.  I am very pleased with the quilting.

Kontinental

Did you have a quilt to donate to the Sandy Storm relief?  I sent Kontinental to New York not too long ago and had confirmation that it made it to the addressee on Friday.  I haven't heard lately if the power is restored to all or not at this time.  There were still pleas during the football games to send whatever you can. 

Hope your last week of November is all you want it to be.  Don't spend too much on this Cyber Monday!  Many others have projects to show through the links of Patchwork Times.

Friday, November 23, 2012

Is your tummy still full?  No cooking a meal for me yesterday.  Instead the two of us went to Mimi's for their Thanksgiving Feast.  It sure was yummy...a three course meal that started with soup or salad.  I choose corn chowder, DH had tomato basil bisque.  Dark turkey meat with all the trimmings next.  Pumpkin pie or bread pudding to round it all out.  I chose pumpkin pie (which we took home) and DH had the bread pudding.  The restaurant was busy which goes to show that not everyone desires to cook which sometimes only means for two.  Very difficult cooking a full on turkey dinner for two...

Kwiltathon

I got this one done on Wednesday.  It is a quiltathon weekend with Judy at Patchwork Times in August this year.  My theme fabric is "Golden Books".  Do you remember them from your childhood?

Thursday I finished everything on Karen's Knines.  I changed direction on the inner border and went with a black print.  I purchased 9 1/4 yards fabric from Quilters Paradise for the back.  I'll add it in in Sunday, but take it off too.  Sorry to say it will be the last time at Quilters Paradise since they close their store front on today.  One heck of a deal on the purchase at $4.50 a yard.  I'll sure miss this shop.

I'm all set, sewing table is clear...Easy Street is next!

Design Wall Monday, August 13, 2012

I've spent a little bit of time starting my August UFO Klappers.  It's Judy's Jazzy Nights pattern from a Quiltmaker issue.  These are the first units...lot's of HSTs.  I'll be using my Bloc Loc ruler to square them up.  Also are the start to the wonky stars.  They'll use the four patches and the template along with the foundation piece and the scraps you see next to them.  The stars are surrounded by the HSTs in the design.

After finishing the Quiltathon project yesterday I kept going on Klappers.  I cut the HSTs in half and started the first of the wonky stars.  I'll spend lunchtime either squaring up the HSTs or making wonky star centers.

I like what I see so far.  I'll be back to foundation sewing later tonight.  Hope you are able to do what you want to in your sewing room.  See what others are working on at Patchwork Times.

Sunday Stash Report, August 12, 2012

I participated in Judy's Quitathon that started Thursday, 8/9 and went through today.  I had my top done about 5pm.  I like how it turned out.  I made the borders a bit different.  The binding will be red.  Thanks Judy for bringing another great pattern my way.

I have all the flying geese done now on Kaktus.  I have a few more HSTs to make and sashing to cut before I can start assembly.  It was good to have the flying geese finally done.

I didn't spend anytime in a quilt shop this week.  I'm still working to get my health up to what it should be.  I spent Saturday sewing with Kerry which was great.  I worked on my August UFO that I'll show you tomorrow.  Since I finished the Quiltathon project I'll be showing a use!  See how others did this week at Patchwork Times.

Used this week: 7.5 yards

Used YTD: 179 yards

Purchased this week:   0 yards

Purchased YTD: 102.5 yards

Net Fabric Used in 2012: 76.5  yards



Friday, August 10, 2012

Quiltathon progress...

From the first introduction about the Quiltathon from Judy I selected my fabrics.  I will be making the smaller size that requires 15 of each block design.  Brick red for the dark, a black and white check for the 2nd border, brights that play nice with the inner border for the squares, and a real cute Little Golden Books theme fabric for the inner border and center square of the two block designs.

8/9/12
Instructions posted for the two block designs, along with cutting instructions.  I calculated that I'd need:

3 - 3.5" WOF strips of the Little Golden Books fabric (yellow)

14 - 2" WOF strips of the brick red (black)
12 - 2" WOF strips of the brights (multi squares)

These were cut last night.  Today at lunchtime I'll sub cut the 3.5" strips and the 2" strips of brick red into their specific sizes.  I've decided it might be faster to sew my 2" strips of brights into strip sets then pick the stitches out where needed to make the set the size needed.  Block A will need two each of 2 squares and 4 squares.  Block B will need two each of 4 squares and 6 squares.  To pull the stitches out will only take the ripper three thread breaks...yes I think this will be quicker for me.

8/10/12
I'll be all set to start sewing which will be assembly style when I get home tonight.  I'll be sewing as many of the 30 blocks together as possible.  There is no further direction from Judy today so I guess we are to continue sewing from Thursday's instructions.  I can handle that!

Stay tuned for tomorrow's progress.  Going to have to start thinking of a name for this project...

By the way I made good progress on the last 34 FG for Kaktus.  They are on their final FG unit of five that are on the foundation.  I'm at the trimming stage, that I'll also work on during my lunchtime today, to be ready for the final wing to be sewn down.  Then all that will remain to finish these up will be to remove the paper.  I also have all the HSTs marked for Klappers.  Thanks Bonnie for getting me through that yesterday.  I'll be sewing HSTs tomorrow at Kerry's...our first sew day together in quite some time.

Sunday Stash Report, August 5, 2012

I'm working away at Kaktus still.  I can't say how much I'm happy to have started this UFO before it's number was called.  All the Flying Geese are kicking me good.  I have an addition to my stash, but will soon show it as a use.  I was certainly tempted to get more because Fat Quarters Quilt Shop had 25% off all Gold fabric.  There was this one piece in particular...my will power kicked in.  Judy, if you ever need a Kansas Troubles fabric let me know.  There's plenty at this quilt shop.  I think I've brought into my sewing room all the neutrals I'll need to finish.  If not my Mom's found a great selection on eBay too.


Will you be doing the Quilt Along with Judy this coming weekend?  I'm planning too.  Yesterday I went through my stash for fabric possibilities.  I'll be using these.  The red for the black in Judy's pattern, black/white check for the red, and the cute Little Golden Books novelty for the yellow.  I thought the novelty fabric would be cute to fussy cut in the blocks centers.  The scale of it is small enough where a good portion would show.  The remaining fabrics are all from the colors in the novelty fabric.  All from stash and no plans to get anything else.  I'll be making the smaller of the two sizes and perhaps change the last border to be the binding still with the red fabric.


I also pulled fabrics for my #6 August UFO, Klappers.  Seems my mind was thinking along the same colors for the two projects I was rummaging my stash for.  That teal blue is one of my favorites.  More on Klappers tomorrow.  Check back then, but right now check out other quilters using up their stash at Patchwork Times.






Used this week: 0 yards

Used YTD: 171.5 yards

Purchased this week:   2.5 yards

Purchased YTD: 102.5  yards

Net Fabric Used in 2012: 69  yards