Oh where did October go?

At the beginning of the month My CW Dresden was BOUND, LABELED and ON THE BED!!

I do believe this is the first quilt I've ever made that actually fits my bed perfectly.  

I'm not kidding.

woot-woot!

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Meg and I traveled to The Mount (Mount St. Mary's Seminary & University) for the seminary's family weekend.  

The weather was perfect-warmer than we expected---I packed wrong!!

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I put this top together, it's from all the blocks I collected from the members of  The Mod Squad group from guild.  

I demo'd the blocks last spring at one of our meetings and asked if anyone was interested in making a block or two, I would make a quilt from them  and we could donate it to our community outreach committee. The only guideline was white background fabric.

The row of small blocks in the center were pieced from the hst cut offs from the larger blocks-love it!

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I agreed to be the chairperson for our guild's next raffle quilt.

I don't, ehem, play well with others; so I am a committee of one.

Well, I do hope I'll be able to get someone to sew that dang binding on for me-haha!

The last raffle quilt was made with CW repro fabrics so I wanted to go in a different direction with this one.

After much deliberation with myself, I kid you not; I decided to make Swoon!  It's been hovering on my want/need to make list anyway right??

Then I spent a good week deciding on fabrics and then waffling on the "committee's" pattern choice!

geeze-Louise

I finally picked Somerset by Fig Tree and then spent another couple days waffling over that!  

Could you just imagine if I actually had to discuss these options with others and deal with their opinions?!

me either -- M.I.G.R.A.I.N.E.

The blocks are 24 inches big.  

Each block takes 2 fat quarters, with no room for error!  

Here are the first 3, I have 7 made now but can't seem to find a picture-perhaps I forgot to take one.

The plan is to make 12 blocks, which will make an 80 x 106 quilt.

I've been trolling wasting time on Pinterest and have found a few alternate layouts which I may play with a bit after the blocks are done.  

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I've cut back my days at the card shop and the last two weeks I'm starting to feel like I'm not spinning quite so fast. 

Always trying to find that elusive balance-- 

aren't we all? 

fun times, fun times.

Life is good!

Finish X3

My two door banners are finished.  

I thought to make quilted curtains in the windows when I was quilting the  2nd one--bummer 'cuz I think it's soo cute--just like I made curtains in my house windows when I was a little kid!

And a Penn State quilt for my nephew as well.  

(E's and 3's in navy blue thread)

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I put the blocks from the Mod Squad group up on the wall.  I don't think I'll get any more blocks from members, so I thought I'd start playing with the layout.  

I've started cutting 2.5 inch strips for sashing and will either make one more little block for the center row or spread them out.

It  will make a happy donation quilt for the guild from our Modern group!

  

Weekend sewing madness (seriously)

On Saturday our guild's group met.  I was asked to lead a demo.
So I showed these adorable fabric boxes.
They are addictive and take less than an hour to make one.




 Check out the tutorial, this is why I'm always bouncing from one thing to the other too many great projects out there!

....I saw this post from Kathy a few weeks ago and thought it would be a great block for our modern group to make a donation quilt for the guild.
You can find the pattern here .
 I made a couple sample blocks but changed the block size from 9 to 12 inches.

block on left I used 'made fabric

....Yesterday, I made two Star Fling blocks and
two 'baby' blocks with the leftovers...

The triangle pieces that get cut off are too big to toss.

 When you add the 2nd square,

 because this is a floating star, you get a 2nd HST that looks like the ones in the 2nd row of the picture below.

 I cut 4 background pieces and 1 center piece same size as my  leftover HST's

the big and the 'extra' laid out for sewing together

And 

Ta-da! 

 an extra wonky cute little star block.

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On the design wall. 

On the right is Urban Birthday, using the Little Black Dress fabric line.

 On the left. is Urban Pods. I found the grey fabric that I thought I was out of.

I love the Kaffe fabric I'm using for these blocks so I'm sewing them into strips for my new spring purse.