A Finish and pictures

Jelly Roll Quilt Along top.

Close up of quilting

Many Thanks after re-quilting

I used a poly batt and it was way too puffy.
 I re-loaded it and quilted it to death.  

Today I put the borders on my L/E 9-Patch & Snowball top 

65 x 84



Design Wall Monday (week 32)

This is my finished Jelly Roll Sew Along top.

Yesterday, I changed out the dark brown fabric in the churn dash block (lower left corner of layout)

and I'm much happier.   

I sewed this together. It measures 44 x 44. So now I'm thinking about making some more blocks maybe 10 more 8" blocks to add a row on top and on bottom.  A border all around and it will be a better size for a throw.  

I also put up my Jelly roll blocks and thought they would be my DW Monday post.  But once I had the sashing fabrics picked and started putting it together I didn't want to stop and it went together so easily--wonderful!  I had a one yard cut of one of the Daiwobo fabrics that I wanted to use for the outer border, but of course was about 1/4 yard short.  So Saturday evening I decided I would go to the quilt shop that carries this line and see if she had any more-or pick something else out.  Well, this morning after I got home from church and a quick trip to the grocery store. I went back into my room and thought it was silly to go buy more when I have enough leftovers to piece a border.  So that's what I did.

LUV it.

The jelly roll was Evening Mist from Moda with a few leftover (and the sashing and pieced border) DAIWABO selection for EE Schenck Eo.--it says so right on the selvege!

I also pieced and pressed the binding for this quilt and for the Morris quilt.

Block a Days

First, here is a shot of my 2nd design wall with one block from the 4 color-ways/sizes of block-a-days I'm working on.

The big one on the right is a 16" block, I've used leftover strips and some Aster Manor fabric.  I have 4 of these blocks.  I'm going to make nine 8" coordinating blocks and use those for a lap size layout.

The Bright fabric block (top left) is a 9" block. I have a little piece of paper pinned to each block that has a tally count on how many I have made.  I finally got tired of every couple weeks digging out the box of blocks and re-counting them. :)

Bottom left block is the next set of 12" blocks and I'm using my leftover Morris Workshop fabric. I don't think I'm going to have enough of a variety so I have a jelly roll of "blessings" fabric that goes well and I'm throwing some of that in too. 

And the bottom center block is a 10" and that's my Aster Manor fabric (although in this block that rust fabric is not AManor, but one that plays well.) 

I have 16 of these blocks so far.

Here is the 1st design wall with some of the lastest completed blocks.

And yesterday I made my 11th Jelly Roll block.

I've also been working a bit on the Tisket-Tasket machine applique.  I've got the first 3 done.  And since I LOVE to do machine blanket-stitch I've changed my goal from stitching 2 a week to 1 a day.  It's like a little treat and with the 2nd machine set up now. I just roll my chair over and start stitching.

 

I do need to pick a day soon and spend it sewing string blocks. The basket is filled to over flowing. And a day for crumb blocks as well.   I totally forgot about that little project and I think it's over 1/2 done.

Lest I forget

Jelly Roll Quilt Along Block #7.  Put a fork in it...it's done!!! woo-woo.

Block a days & Jelly Roll #6

I have been sewing away on my block a days and this bunch is from 5/21-31!  I'm 2 weeks ahead and feel good about this with vacation and shop hop in June.  I'm still using the CW fabrics for 12" blocks. The last 2 blocks in the 2nd row however, are 8" blocks, the star one is a signature block that I will use for the label (yes I made it in place of a dumb one). The spools block I may add strips to and bring it up to 12". The 3 in the bottom row are 10" blocks and I've been trying to remember to use a jelly roll and charm pack of Aster Manor I have when I make a 10" block.

Yesterday was the posting of the 6th block in the Jelly Roll Sampler Quilt Along and I pieced it tonight; so quick and easy it's delightful!

The colors are a bit bright, it's much softer in "real life". 

Jelly Roll Block #5 and ETC...

I made it yesterday.  I also sewed together 20 hexi's for the OBW.

2 more piles of 20 and I'll be ready for the fun part of arranging them!  Last night I bought OBW Encore.  I do want to try and put a few cubes in this quilt.  

Last week after I posted about my swirly feathers on Libby's quilt I got some very nice compliments, and I thank you all kindly.   Mary emailed me that the quilting looked like something her sister did but she quilted it way smaller as a background fill.  I had a Pat Sloan Tall and Skinny wall quilt called Daisy Baskets.  The pattern was in Amer. Patchwork & quilting June 2005 issue.  I quilted it with 1" wide sort of echo's using my dsm, which was all I had at the time and never liked the quilting, but loved the wall hanging and it was finished. So on Friday I unsewed it and re-did it. Quilting this design teeny takes A LONG time, sheesh! but I really like it now.  Here are a few pictures while I was working on it:

And here is a picture I literally just took (because I forgot to take an "after" shot when I finished it).

LUV it!!

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.

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.

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.