Block a Days

I finished the Block-a-days for the week (3/29-4/4). 

I spent some time looking at all the blocks I've made-yikes the pile is growing.  I'm going to want to start playing with them when the design wall is free again. I have 25 12" blocks from assorted Christmas fabrics so that should be the first one I work on...

I started to put the OBW together last evening, only the first 2 rows are together. I'm taking my time so I don't get them out of order, nervous, nervous about that!

Jelly Roll Block and a Potato Chip Bag

I made the potato chip bag last night. It was quick and pretty easy for me.  I am directionally challenged so having things inside out/right side out like you do with totes/purse patterns is difficult for me to 'get'.  

The block, which is really square and not wrinkled in real life is the 3rd block in the Jelly Roll Sampler quilt along.

The One Bl wonder hexi's are done and I want to move some around today and tomorrow.  I want to try to get the dark ones at the bottom up near the top left and I can see a couple more that are sticking out too much. (According to the book, they should sort of 'moosh'. ) Taking a picture really helps see it.  I was getting a little car sick feeling looking at the wall without my glasses and then flipping them down again to move a block.  I'm going to print this photo and see if that is helpful.

Design Wall Monday (Week 13) March 29, 2010

The One Block Wonder wall has grown. I only have 20 or so hexagons left to make. (yea!)

 I also bought new fabric for another one, but I don't want to cut it out until the first one is all arranged and I can take it off the wall. 

I haven't decided yet if I want to wait until the 2nd class to start the assembly of the blue one or go ahead on my own. I guess that will depend on what I think of the block arrangement after the hexi's are all done and how much time I have.The pattern below the fabric is for a small purse called The Potato Chip Bag

(because you can't make just one!) I've been wanting to make one of these for-e-v-e-r. It just keeps getting pushed aside. I'm hoping for this week to be the week.

This weekend I finished these 3 new monthly mini's.

Block-a-Days, OBWonder update and a Mini quilt show!

Blocks from 3/22-28th.  They are on the floor because

I'm still playing with the OBW's. I have 2 sets left to sew together.  I keep moving them around.  The holes will get filled when I make some more.

I bought fabric for a 2nd one it's "zebra-y".  I'm not going to cut it out until I have all of these sewn together--pacing myself!

I had a few of my quilts out yesterday showing them to company and after they left I took some pictures. This is my Harmonic Convergence quilt-quilted.  

This was a mystery quilt from LQS from a few years (4-5) back.

This was also a mystery quilt from the same LQS, I think it's even older than the one above.

This quilt is called "Scrapalicious".  I'm going to be donating it for a raffle at our church in the next month or so (whenever they're ready for it!).  I made this all from the stash.  It measures 82 x 90.

This one was in Amer. Patchwork & Quilting some years back.  If you can look at it closer, you'll see that each block has a "partner block" made from the same fabrics just in a different orientation.  It was a fun quilt to put together.

A little self "horn-tooting" (blush)...

I entered my Spring Journey Sampler quilt in a local guild show.  I was surprised and thrilled to receive a 3rd place ribbon! 

I had 2 reasons to enter this quilt:  first I was so  happy to finish it and so pleased with my feathers on it that I wanted it 'seen'!  And 2ndly, I wanted the critique of a non-partial judge.  

There were 18 quilts in the same catagory as mine.  And the other quilts were bee-u-tee-ful, so I felt very good about getting a ribbon at all.

And although it clashes with my livingroom (ugh). I have it hanging for Easter anyway-  I do want to look at it for a bit longer before it gets put away and last but not least-- I must get some use out of the dang hanging sleeve I had to sew on to it for the show!

Another One Block Wonder picture...

So just for fun I thought I'd stick the first stack up on the design wall....oh be still my heart... I'm in love!  I've since moved a couple of them around. 

I got a migraine today, bummer, the medicine helped keep it from going full-blown, but it still put a good wammy on my day. No sewing. Tomorrow will be better I say, crossing my fingers, legs and eyes.

One block Wonder Pictures

I'm having a ball playing with the OBW hexagons.  Here are 3 pictures of one set of triangles.

Block-a-Day 3/15-21st

Oh I was busy today!  I finished my week's worth of block a days.  I really enjoyed making them all.

And I made the 2nd JellyRoll Block, it was fast.  

Design Wall Monday Week 11 - March 15, 2010

On my wall this week are the 1st two hexagons for my new quilt.  I took a One Block Wonder class on Saturday. The 2nd part of the class in in 4 weeks. We have to have all of the hexagons sewed for the class. I have 108 sets of triangles.

 Here's a picture of the original fabric.

Still on the wall from last week is the first Jelly Roll block (I think the 2nd one will be out today)

 and the label for my niece's T-shirt quilt, which I'm happy to report was quilted yesterday. WAHOO! The binding is ready and I'm  hoping to sew that on today.  I'm still hand sewing the binding to the M. Compass so no finished pictures yet.

Block-a-Day

Goodness what an awful picture and I just realized it's turned sideways (my little tree block looks like they're pointing to the left). 

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I love to quilt feathers but mostly I just put them in borders. 

Tonight I quilted feathered wreaths.  I only marked the circle.    I practiced a few of them on my white board and then started quilting. 

I was pretty dang pleased with the results.

Framed

I was able to get a nice 8x10 wall frame for the Easter sampler yesterday.  I had to go to a 2nd store for the frame for the applique piece.  I ended up with a 8x8 desk frame. I had to remove the 2" border strip but in this case, I think; less is more.

Design Wall Monday Week 10

Here is the wall this week. I plan to sew the baby quilt together, this quilt isn't needed until April so probably won't quilt it just yet. The little applique block to the left is from Bunny Hill Designs BOM.  I am in a book club and this will be a little "thank you" for our moderator, Marsha.  

And finally I follow Kaaren at The Painted Quilt she has a First Friday Freebie, the link should take you to this past Friday's post about it.

And here is mine, just finished last evening.

I haven't done a stitchery project in soooo long.  I really enjoyed this.  And it was so sunny yesterday afternoon that I sat on the deck (with a sweater and a big hoodie on) and stitched for about 1/2 hour...heaven.  I do miss my deck in the winter.

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McTavishing or is it McWerleying?

I've never done McTavishing on a quilt yet.  I've practiced on paper and my white board.  

 So I'm still quilting my Mariner's compass quilt.  I have all the borders, sashing and outlining around the compass done. (that was in blue thread so it matches pretty close...I spent almost all the time quilting it in the dark so I could see the stitching).  I started the background today. I almost chickened out on the McTavishing...I have already done a fair amount of frog stitching before I was happy with the quilting I did on the compass (ended up just SID and had to pick out the "fancy quilting design I though would look so good-not) 

so I didn't want a repeat of that.  But I went ahead and tried it.

I quilted around 2 of the star points and then changed from a regular thread to Sew Fine (which I had in the bobbin anyway). 

I'm pretty happy with it so far.  I'm still getting the feel for the direction changes. So 1/2 a block done...24 more to go.  

I came up from downstairs to get my camera to take the picture above and look what I found.

It's good to be the King.

I made my first block for the Jelly Roll Sampler Quilt Along that I joined.  

I'm using an Evening Mist jelly roll and yardage from Serenity by Diawabo that I already had in the stash.

Design Wall Monday Week 9 -March 1, 2010

Here's my wall: far left 4 of this weeks Bl-a-days, the middle are the start of another Boxed Squares baby quilt and the the bunny on the right is my March Mini quilt. I personalized this choc. bunny by taking a little bite out of his ears....just like I'd do in real life! 

Here's the start of my Boxed Squares quilt.  My second one.  I need this quilt for an April baby due date.

And this is my other "project", not on the wall but on the sewing table. I keep wanting to start a 'leader/ender' quilt...but haven't taken the time to cut out some squares or triangles. So I'm using my small circles for my latest Crazy Curves quilt.  I have all the big  and small circles pieced.The small circle blocks just need to be joined 4 together to be the same size as the big circles and then I can start laying out and assembling the top. So that's what I'm using as leader/enders. It took a little longer to piece the 2nd t-shirt quilt sewing these in between rather than a little triangle or square but I made a lot of progress.  I was amazed.

 

And yep, the 2nd t-shirt quilt is together, I worked on it most of the day and evening Saturday...until the Olympics came on in the evening.

I have my M. Compass about 1/2 quilted  here's a very bad picture (-sheesh the glare is awful-) of the top feather border. I take pictures like this mostly so I don't forget what I'm doing on the top border by the time I get to the bottom border and so I know which direction my feathers are heading....I used to feel like I was the only one who did this until a while back it was discussed in a blog and lo an behold lot's of others have the same "memory" issues.  So nice to know I'm 'normal'.  *wink*

 

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