Wednesday, May 25, 2011

What I'm doing

My LeMoyne Star quilt is finished....bound, labeled and on the wall.  I LUV it. 


I did a baptist fan all over, I marked it with chalk so it's pretty consistent.  I used a grayish So Fine in top and Bottom line in bobbin. 
These blocks were made using HST (no set in seams-yeah).  Of course, I made extra cuz I'm weird like that and then what to do with the orphans. I cut a bunch more and did them as leader/enders and made pinwheel blocks. I was originally thinking of just doing that and make a big lap quilt.  But I ran out of triangles and got bored.  I had a bunch of them on the side design wall and suddenly thought "hey! I'll bet I could just use these to frame a nice 12" block.  So I auditioned a few and wasn't thrilled so I let it sit.  I was in my closet poking around for batting scraps (I hang them on a hanger to keep 'em neat) and saw my little red work pieces I'd made, a few last year and some WAY OLDER...I got this one out and it fit perfectly (after I trimmed a tad). 



It's still on the wall, I'm not sure if it's done or if it wants to be the center of something bigger.

And here is my main design wall.


I think I'm becoming a bit scattered. --A BIT you say....:)
The bright charms up in the right are the front and back of a tote, the little doll quilt bottom right is sandwiched and waiting for me to decide if I want to load it and quilt a freehand baptist fan on it or just stitch in the ditch it on my DSM...I keep waffling so that's the reason it's still there.  The 3 random blocks in the center are block-a-days from last year.  They are quilted and waiting to be made into pillows (the little trip around the world will probably just be a candle mat for me to stick somewhere, decoratively of course).
and the left shows my 9-patch blocks waiting for setting fabric (which isn't in my stash) so they are hopefully going to sit until June's Shop Hop. When this year, I plan on having an organized list of what I want/need to buy and not just go into every shop and lose my mind. 

I'm not working on any of these right now.  We're having a picnic on Monday (Memorial Day) and I have a new cushion cover to sew....I made the bottom cover for my wrought iron 2-seat er but not the back.  I want to learn to do this kind of sewing, but dang it's hard for me.  I'll show a picture when I have the whole thing done. 

This morning I put the binding on


It's not looking quite so FEATHER SCARY to me.  yea!
I still have to hand stitch the binding to the back. 


5 comments:

Mary Johnson said...

Half square triangles are my favorite way to make these stars. I was tempted to start 2 new piecing projects today but I was good and worked on my 9 patches. I need to get a top loaded today too.

Vicki H. said...

I love the feathers, they look wonderful! Love the Baptist fans. I studied the hook feather tutorial and I am trying that next. How do you do the Baptist fans without wobbles? Mine were wobbly

Vicki W said...

Your feathers look great! I love the Lemoyne star quilt.

Carol said...

Love your Lemoyne star...I love putting them together with HST's. You've been a very busy girl!

Angie in SoCal said...

I like everything in this post! Especially LeMoyne