Saturday, July 6, 2013

I had the pleasure of sewing together a patriotic project for Kerry on Independence Day.  I'll give it to her later today when I see her for a bit of sewing in the afternoon.  DH and I celebrated with barbecue baby back ribs, chunky veggie slaw, pinto beans, and some fine crafted beer.  While I was preparing the slaw I listened to the fireworks going off in Maryland.  It was fun listening to the BOOM and BANG over the phone with my parents!  Of course we saw and heard our local fireworks display too.  Hope yours was fun also.

Today I've finished all the border pieces.  I'll be putting all the blocks together next.  I'm pretty certain I'll have Kaskade off the Design Wall and my July UFO started before the weekend is out.

Enjoy Saturday!

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Kaskade Today with twirled stars!

Thanks everyone for your suggestions on arrangements of some of the stars.  Can you see a difference?  I swapped one dark block for a light one that has a darker background.  I knew I wanted to move that light with the darker background towards the side.  I also swapped out the centers on a couple.  I think this version is a go!  Full steam ahead later tonight!

Kaskade on Design Wall Monday, July 1st

July 2013 UFO #8, Layer Upon Layer

This is the project to work on in July.  It is a Country Threads design that I knew would work well with my stash.  It's yet to be named with one of my special "K" names, but will definitely be on my Design Wall this weekend.

Both of the ice cream quilts for the 1st/2nd graders of Moore, OK are done and will be in the mail this week.  Kerry's patriotic mini is up next now that I have all the fabrics at hand.  I'm still planning on it being finished when I see her on Saturday!

Enjoy your Wednesday...

Design Wall Monday, July 1, 2013

Happy Monday and the start of the second half of 2013!  Can you believe we've already reached the halfway point?  We've been having some very hot weather in San Diego lately, but today at my home the coastal breeze was wonderful.  I'd thought the air conditioner would need to be turned on, but no!  I had every window open in my home which made it somewhat difficult to keep all the pieces of Kaskade on my Design Wall.  Now comes the time to ask you what you think of the color layout...  It is all scrappy so its easy to move things around.  I'm thinking there a couple of stars are too dark; perhaps a change of the center  is needed and that one star almost in the middle looks darker than others.  Changes coming!

This is the start of the borders.  I need to cut more of the neutral triangle.  Fortunately I'll have enough to get me all that will be needed.  I can't leave Kaskade up on my Design Wall too long...Aunt Marti of 52Quilts has selected July's UFO!  I'm off to see what is in store along with the 13 in 2013 Parade of June's UFOs.  

Enjoy both shows at www.52Quilts.com and www.patchworktimes.com!