Sunday Stash Report, August 7, 2016

Saturday when I had anticipated working on Kalvery...

I found myself driven to the cork birdhouse that has been sitting on my pantry table for the better part of a week.  It needed some remodeling!  Needless to say it took all morning.  I'm not really one to work on this type of "crafty" projects.  No Mom I'm not going to convert =^.^=  It was fun, but there must be a better glue gun than the one I have.  Talking about glue; this project used more than you could possibly guess.  I even fashioned a perch with a cooking skewer for the birdies to rest on before they make their way inside.

Katchaklaus

Next I sewed down the binding on Katchaklaus.  (This is one of the fun names to say along with Kwitcherbitchin' and Kookoo Katchu.)

Small Stars

Block 12

Block 11

I did cut out all the pieces for the last two large blocks and six stars.  I made one extra star just because the fabrics were handy and nearly the right size.  It may either replace one that is in the project now or make its way to the back or the sleeve.

Sashing

Inner Borders

These pieces separate the blocks.  The two fabrics are for the inner and outer border.  The red goes next to the eagles and then around the entire pieced center.  The tan will go next and finally a dark blue outer border.

Today I sew!  See how much I get done when you return for tomorrow's Design Wall Monday.  Oh...no change to my stash stats this week.  See other quilters using their stash through the links at Patchwork Times.

Used this week:  0 yards
Used YTD:  121 yards
Purchased this week:  0 yards
Purchased YTD:  83 yards
Net used in 2016:  38 yards

Around the World Blog Hop, September 22, 2014

Kerry at Kerry's Quilting invited me to participate in the Around the World Blog Hop started by Karen Miller of Karen's Quilts, Crows and Cardinals.  In the next paragraphs I hope to share with you my "creative process".  I'd hoped to link forward to a few of my blogging friends, but truth to be told everyone has something going on leaving no time to keep the "Hop" going from my end.  I will however share with you links to blogs I enjoy reading.

Casabarka, 2010 San Diego Humane Society's Fur Ball

Kerry is a very dear friend.  We met through Canyon Quilt Guild years ago while I was the Project Linus Chairperson.  Kerry had just purchased a Gammill long arm sewing machine with a Statler Stitcher and was eager to practice.  This union produced not only a very strong and enduring friendship but hundreds of charity quilts for Project Linus.  We've continued on with several other charity donations that include an annual donation to the San Diego Humane Society's Fur Ball, the American Legion Auxiliary, the American Red Cross, the Veterans Association, American Cancer Society, and several disasters around the country caused by Mother Nature.  We meet up as often as possible for sewing days that are mutually cherished.  We've done a few projects together, share our stash, and usually take the same workshops as well as attend the same quilt shows.  We've reached that type of relationship that endures time.  Quilting has truly presented me with a wonderful friendship.

So "What am I working on?"  I'm always busy in my sewing room, nook dining table, or a TV table in my family room.  If I'm not busy doing something...sleep overtakes me!  I have two projects in full swing.  Bird Brain by Buggy Barn and Zuckerwatte by Bonnie Hunter.  

Bird Brain aka Krazy Kookoos by Buggy Barn

Zuckerwatte (yet to be named) by Bonnie Hunter

After finishing my UFO for the month I work at fast pace to get new projects rolling.  Honestly I don't have UFOs in the true definition.  My UFOs are from patterns that I've collected and didn't start when I first learned of them.  You know it's the "Quilting Bucket List" that so many of us have.  I do have a couple of projects that I've been waiting to figure out a setting, but I don't see them as UFOs at this state.  

Kourageous

Quilt Square Quilt Along 2012

My Kourageous project was an idea UFO to make 12 blocks that were exotic flowers made with animal skin themed fabrics.  I also have a Quilt Square Quilt Along started with Jo's Country Junction in 2012 that waits for a setting.

Not sure "How my work differs from others of its genre?"  Except perhaps in my naming convention.  Years ago I started this odd thing of using "K" in the names of my cats.  Kaos and Komotion both of which are Abyssinian cats.  Next my Dad helped me name my website after my two loves Quilts and Cats or kwiltnkats.  In keeping with that my blog and next, each and every quilt or project name starts with a "K".  This certainly at times can be a challenge that my family, friends and blog followers help me with from time to time.  There have certainly been some great names created with a "K".  How about Kwitcherbitchin, Kraps, Kosmic Kaos, Kookaburra or Kartwheels.

Kartwheels
2014 Road to California Quilt Show
2nd Place, Traditional Pieced, Small Winner

"Why do I create what I do?  This is simple...I just love the feeling of accomplishment!  The chatter or the sometimes ribbon or the heart warming feeling that is bestowed when given.  I feel overwhelming comfort just walking into my sewing room every morning.  Wondering how much time I can spend enjoying my craft each day.  Hoping it's hours of uninterrupted time.  I wish everyone can enjoy their hobby as much as I do.  It is true that "my soul is fed with needle and thread".

"How does my creating process work?  It doesn't take much more than a publication of a design...certainly among my most popular choices in designs come from Bonnie Hunter, Judy Niemeyer, or the most recently dissolved Buggy Barn.  

Closeout Book Purchases from Buggy Barn

Then of course there is the very strongest of desires to use up my fabric stash.  I've heard it said I'm great with color.  This of course takes time sifting through my stash with each pattern.  I've got my next three Bonnie Hunter, one Judy Niemeyer, and two Buggy Barn designs ready to sew...just need to finish what is started before moving into these.  I have trouble working on too many projects at once.

So in closing here are a few of my blogger friends.  Hope they have something that tempts you to read more from them in days ahead.  Enjoy the Blogosphere!

Janet - http://roguequilter.blogspot.com/
Elaine - http://elaine-hemmedinbyhim.blogspot.com/
Marti - http://www.52quilts.com/
Karen - http://seamstoanend.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Here is Kwitcherbitchin all finished.  The green HSTs with the gray/neutral and black/brown string blocks looks terrific!  Thanks Mom for you oops on the gray/neutral string blocks!  This Bonnie Hunter design Pfefferneuse from her String Fling book is a keeper...  You did hear that Bonnie has another book coming out early next year?  Wonder what wonderful designs she'll give us next.

On to my June 2013 UFO Kloudburst.  Oh I'm still working on appliqueing the centers on the nine compasses of Koriander Kompass.  More on both of these projects as the week progresses.  PJ Thursday can't come quick enough! 

Design Wall Monday, June 3, 2013

Koriander Kompass, 2011 UFO

I have all the border units pieced.  All compass centers are ready for applique.  Finally, I started the sashing.  I put the center sashing pieces on both sides of the center blocks.  At this point the compass centers need to be appliqued in place while the blocks are easy to work with.  But for now...

Kloudburst, 2013 June UFO

Kloudburst has taken over the design wall.  I'll be working on color arrangements within the blocks so I've only gotten to the units within each block.  I don't know if the colors are very representative in the photo.  The darkest color is a royal blue, next is the burgundy, and then two shades of gold.  This project will go together fast until I get to the pieced piano key border...

Kwitcherbitchin

I've gotten Kwitcherbitchin to the hand sewing part.  Working with black binding requires daylight!  I'll be working on it a bit later today when I get home from work.  Lunchtime will be spent appliqueing compass centers.

Hope you are working on something fun this week.  See more projects through the links at Patchwork Times.

Sunday Stash Report, June 2, 2013

Kwitcherbitchin

Kwitcherbitchin is in line for binding.  I'll have this done sometime today along with working on Koriander Kompass.

Koriander Kompass

Due to the center fabric colors I moved some of the blocks around again.  The dark blocks are still in the corners; it is the pinks that I moved a bit.  So how do all these centers look?  I have 28 more background units to make.  I have most of what I need cut out; time for sewing them together.  Chore day should give me enough sewing time.

Monday should be ready to start assembling June 2013 UFO #9 Kloudburst.  I have nothing to report this week either purchase or used.  Next week looks pretty good for yardage from Koriander Kompass.  Kerry has March 2013 UFO #1 Khambray next up for quilting.  If you are interested in seeing either of these two 2013 UFO projects check out my 2013 UFO Page.

Used this week:  0 yards

Used YTD:  155 yards

Purchased this week:  0 yards

Purchased YTD:  47.25 yards

Net Fabric Used in 2013:  107.75 yards

There are more quilters using their fabrics...or purchasing more for projects that they are inspired to make.  See the several links at Patchwork Times.  Enjoy your Sunday!

Saturday, June 1, 2013

Kloudburst, #9 June 2013 UFO

Did you see the Thirteen in '13 UFO Parade Aunt Marti has on her blog 52Quilts.com?  There were a bunch of us who finished May's challenge.  Next number selected is #9 that for me is Kloudburst.  I have my project all cut out and ready for assembly.  Sure makes the going quicker to have that time consuming step out of the way.  Actually the biggest step for me is the selection of fabrics from my stash...making them work AND having enough fabric on what you finally choose.  I am positive all of you scrap quilters understand this all to well =^.^=  For more information on my Kloudburst project you can check here.

Koriander Kompass, 2011 UFO

I appreciate all the suggestions you have come up with regarding the placement of blocks to make the colors work together better.  I have moved the darks to the corners and kept the bright pink in the center.  I sewed at least another hundred 2" HSTs yesterday and used Kerry's protractor to mark and cut the freezer paper compass center template.  I assembled only a few border units before bedtime.  I figure I have the weekend yet to work on Koriander Kompass.  I'm just so close now don't want to pack it up quite yet...

Kerry finished the quilting of my Kwitcherbitchin quilt yesterday.  I will be anxious to get it trimmed up, sleeve prepared, binding prepared, sewed on, hand sewed down, and label in place.  Kwitcherbitchin is a black, gray, neutral, and bright green Bonnie Hunter design called Pfefferneuse.  (Pattern is in her String Fling book.)  I have two guild meetings just two weeks away where I will be anxious to show her off.  For you lucky followers though there won't be two weeks to wait!

Have a great Saturday, hope there is something fun planned for your day.

Sunday Stash Report, January 19, 2013

Kwitcherbitchin is done.  This is Bonnie Hunter's Pfefferneuse design in her newest book String Fling.  My quilt finished at 85" x 85".  I changed the solid border that was suggested into piano keys to follow the string-thing that is going on in the design.  Kwitcherbitchin used 20 1/4 yards of fabrics.

I'm off to a terrific start using stash in these first weeks of 2013.  I sure hope I can keep it up.

Used this week:  20.25 yards

Used YTD:  46 yards

Purchased this week:  0 yards

Purchased YTD:  0 yards

Net Fabric Used in 2013:  46 yards

See how others are using their stash at Patchwork Times.

Thursday, January 17, 2013

I finished the last piano key boarder last night for Kwitcherbitchin.  I trimmed it to 5" wide this morning and attached it.  Another project done!  Thanks Mom for the neutral with gray strings.  This design of Bonnie Hunter's (Pfefferneuse) is one I wanted to make along with a need to lighten my dark browns, grays, and blacks.

I'll be cutting 10 1/2" squares for the back.  The quilt is 85" x 85".  That means at least 90 squares to cut and sew.  These are the fabrics I'll be using to begin with; I'll see how far they take me.  I prefer to use lighter fabrics for the back, but I do want to use my stash so I'll go for these medium grays.  I'll also find a way to put the orphans into the back...give it a little zing!

Yeah!  I have numbers to record as used on Sunday.  Check back soon.  Happy Thursday.

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Kwitcherbitchin is looking terrific with it's two borders almost done.  I have the inner border that is a tiny black and ivory plaid (that reads gray) completely around.  The piano key boarder that is in different widths to match the string blocks in the center of the quilt is on three sides.

This is the reason I didn't get the fourth side done...I ran out of piano keys!  I'll need to get the stabilizer out and cut another 75" off the roll.  I still have a bunch of dark strings already to go. Hope that I can use up what I have without cutting more.  Tonight I'll be sewing more piano keys.

Enjoy Wednesday!

Design Wall Monday, January 14, 2013

Today starts with Kwitcherbitchin nearly complete.  I'm on the last border side.  I really have come to like the way sewing strings on foundation works.  A couple of years ago I'd have thought nothing about sewing fabric strips together for the piano key border...but the sewing and end result seem much more precise using a foundation.  Any fabric, light weight interfacing or paper works.   My preference by far is a tear away interfacing fusible or not.  My SIL found some sewing items at a yard sale and thought of me.  Two of the items she picked up were two rolls of Sulky Totally Stable Iron-On Tear Away Stabilizer.  That's what you see under my machine.  My borders are 5" and the roll was 12" wide.  I cut the stabilizer in half and the length of the border I needed.  The basket has the strips ready to sew and away I go!

At first I thought I'd use a beige inner border, but once I put this gray geometric up and the pieced border next to it...the decision was made.  I have everything prepared now to assemble.  The only thing that remains is a bunch of pins and about an hour.  Kwitcherbitchin will be ready for quilting!

Now what project should I work on next?  For more inspiration see others working on their projects at Patchwork Times.

Sunday Stash Report, January 13, 2013

I have a finish to report!  My Easy Street is done.  I had a time figuring out the corners for the pieced border.  I calculated and made several changes along the way...all day Saturday...but I'm happy with how they have turned out.  I played with the idea of a blue flying geese in the corner, but found that the purple seemed to work best.  I will be using a one piece teal binding.  My Easy Street by Bonnie Hunter that is her annual mystery finishes at 95 1/2" square.  I call my quilt Kushy Kourt.  Sorry not to be able to show the entire quilt; that will need to wait until it's quilted and a sleeve allows me to put it on my quilt rack.

I have a dark string border to work on today for Kwitcherbitchin.  First I'll need to iron some of the fabrics before cutting.  I'm sure this border will go much faster than what time it took for Kushy Kourt.  Pictures on my Sunday sewing tomorrow.  

Used this week:  25.75 yards

Used YTD:  25.75 yards

Purchased this week:  0 yards

Purchased YTD:  0 yards

Net Fabric Used in 2013:  25.75 yards

See how others are using their stash at Patchwork Times.

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Borders are figured out!  Wow what a day making these work.  There will be more photos of Kushy Kourt tomorrow on my Sunday Stash Report.

I have string borders to add to my Kwitcherbitchin project tomorrow.  I need to figure out whether I want to use the green for the binding or the inner border.

These fabrics are from my Mom to consider in my Kuibble project.  Kuibble is my #3 2013 UFO Challenge project.

Design Wall Monday, January 7, 2013

So much going on...where to start?  First I've got Kwitcherbitchin.  I've got a mess on my sewing table for certain.  I've been taking the 12 x 12 blocks down off the design wall much of the day.  Instead of putting a solid piece border on my quilt I will be doing piano keys.  I'm pretty certain that the green dot will be the inner border and positive that I'll be using dark strings for the piano keys.  I've pulled the "keys" out and they are in the basket waiting for me.

Don't you think the green dot will be better than the green/black print?  As much as I like it...I think it is a bit too busy.  The green will probably highlight the dark strings more to my liking. I'm not 100% decided yet; more on this later during the week.

Next up is Bonnie Hunter's Easy Street.  I've decided to add a purple inner border and again changing it up a bit to include a pieced border.  I'm going to duplicate the gray and white/black 4-patches along with the green setting triangles.  I'm still playing around with how the corners will come together.  Perhaps I'll put another block from Step 7 in the corner.  I don't know if you picked up my quilts name from a previous post or not; Janet helped out on this one Kushy Kourt.

I've got a bunch of 4-patches to make...

There's sewing tonight!  See what others are doing today at Patchwork Times.  Have a wonderful week.

Thursday, January 3, 2013

I haven't figured out how I'm going to handle my 2013 UFO Challenges this year.  I participated the last two years with Judy at Patchwork Times, but she's changed her system for 2013.  I'm not sure it will work for me.  I plan to finish a quilt a month as unlike most I'm challenging myself with patterns that I've been collecting and want to make instead of UFOs.  You see I don't have too many real unfinished objects or UFOs.  Got to give it to Judy; she keeps things different and many apparently want to finish multiple things in a month.  Goals are a wonderful thing for certain.  I'd have to break down a quilt project into 4 tasks...not sure that makes much sense for me and there are no set numbers assigned for an unexpected "pick" each month.  I'm going to look around for another monthly challenge for 2013 that will work better for me. 

So for this first month of 2013 I've selected my #11 to finish.  It is Bonnie Hunter's Easy Street.  I've yet to find the perfect "K" name for it yet.  Ideas anyone?  "Street" could easily become "Kourt", but then what would "Easy" become?  I'm on Step #8 right now. 

The other project I'm working on is Kwitcherbitchin that is another Bonnie Hunter design.  Pfefferneuse is from her book String Fling.  I've got it all finished except putting the blocks into rows.  I was asked in an earlier post by the reader "knitnkwilt" the size of the hour glass units.  They are each 3 1/2" unfinished.  I'll leave a comment on his/her blog too in the hope it gets read since an email address is not known.

Let me close today in sending hugs to Heaven for my brother Steve.  He's been gone to us for five years today.  Never will he be far from my thoughts. 

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Monday sewing was all about getting up to pace with Easy Street.  I got my self twisted up in Kwitcherbitchin and slid behind just a bit.  Step 6 I figured was pretty simple so it was put on simmer...then Step 7 showed me I'd better get busy since the next day would be the big reveal.  Bam, bam, and then bam again...three steps released in nearly as many days.  I was determined to get Steps 6 and 7 done before Step 8 was released on New Year's Day. 

Step 6

Step 7 (the first part)

Step 7 (the second part)

Step 7 (the third part)

Step 7

I sure like the finish.  A great way to bring in 2013.  New Year's Day sewing.  The Rose Bowl Parade and Game will be on while my Pfaff hums.  Kwitcherbitchin will have to wait it's turn.  There's going to be two finishes real soon from my sewing room.  Happy Sewing!

Design Wall Monday, December 31, 2012

Here we are the last day of 2012...  I close the year with Kwitcherbitchin on my design wall.  You can see that I have some blocks yet to assemble, but all are trimmed up and ready.  This is a Bonnie Hunter pattern called Pfefferneuse.  Next will be to sew the blocks into rows.  This one is nearly done.  Kwitcherbitchin will likely be my first completion of 2013!

I was so anxious with Kwitcherbitchin that Step 6 didn't get done by today when Step 7 gets released.  Once again a Bonnie Hunter pattern called Easy Street.  I have several of the strips cut out and ready...I won't fall behind!!!

Be careful if you venture out tonight.  Remember to both drive smart and defensive.  Happy New Years!