More swoon pictures

Pittsburgh is in the frigid zone weather wise but I figured if I wanted a couple pictures of the entire quilt I'd have to go out today.

I forgot to mention the quilt measures 90 x 106.

 I loved making it and quilting it; I hope to make one of my own this year!!

As usual I apologize for crapola photos!!

Swooning Somerset

I am very happy that the guild raffle quilt is done!

I custom quilted it. 

The background in a swirl and the block background with the same swirl only as a fill. Each block I quilted differently.  I sewed the binding to the top but someone else will hand sew it to the back!  Yea!!

The back looks pretty cool too. 

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!

Three Rivers Quilters annual show was last weekend.

 This was my entry. 

I didn't take too many pictures the show was quite crowded.  They have a slide show of the winners here.  The Best of Show quilt is amazing.

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I finished this customer quilt yesterday afternoon. It's all flannels top and back.
I did a swirl echo on it (from the Pajama Quilter), it gave it really nice texture, especially with it being flannel fabric!

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I loaded my little Swoon block sample and got that quilted before I load the next customer one.
I'm going to make this into a pillow...so my first Christmas gift is about done!

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Urban Birthday is a flimsy.

On the design wall now is this one from Sunday Morning Quilts.
 I am going to try to just take my time with this
 and piece the rows s-l-o-w-l-y.
(ha-ha --I did say "try")  
I don't need another baby quilt (right this second anyway) nor do I need another flimsy.

This pattern uses the cut off triangles from piecing binding. I use 2 1/4 inch strips for binding rather than the 2 1/2 strips most people use. I didn't have enough of them so I would say a good half of these I just cut from the 2 1/2 inch strip bin. 

After I got it all arranged on the wall, I thought perhaps I should make it bigger.
And then I smacked myself and came back to reality.

Customer quilt finished.

I quilted wonky feathers all-over using a green thread. 

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Another co-worker has landed in the hospital and so I was asked to make a quilt.

I thought perhaps I'd make the Swoon pattern.  It's one I've been just itching to make.

So I got the pattern.  

But decided perhaps the blocks were a bit big. 

 I  re-drafted and made a sample block and although I love the block either bigger or smaller, I nixed the plan on using it. 

Truth be told I want to make it for ME!!!!

I added the borders on the sample block and now have a 20 inch square Pillow!

yea.  

I decided on an 8-pointed star block for the gift quilt. I'm using hst so they're going together quickly.

The blocks finish 16 inches and I have the pieces all cut for 6 more blocks.

I'm using a FQ bundle from Minick and Simpson called Bar Harbor.  I've had it in the stash for a while so it's time to use it up. 

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I did re-load my Jonquils & Stars quilt and did a background in all the blocks and I have the binding sewn on.  

AND THEN my thumb split AGAIN!  

(dang you dry winter air.)

So I have three sides to hand stitch but with the thumb wrapped in two band aids I'm having a heck of a time.  I haven't had a chance to take more photos and  before I do, I would like to do a little searching on how to take better quilt photos since they never show the quilts and quilting like I want them too.  It's very frustrating to me.  I just need MORE TIME...aggggghhhh

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I have run out of the light grey fabric for this modern baby quilt so it's done!

I have the blocks sewn into rows of two so far.

I made the 'bull's eye' off center by a row-just to be rebellious-ha! 

The row of leftover blocks at the bottom I will sew into the back. 

I love it.

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In an effort to get my flimsy's done, I loaded my Metro Medallion quilt.

 I am going to use rulers on this one too-gotta use 'em if I'm ever going to be good and comfortable with them.  

I do like the precise results I can get with them.  

I know it's just practice, practice, practice! 

--and a good deal of frogging--

But dang I'm impatient, impatient, impatient. :)

There's that time issue again!

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and look who's 2 month's old already! 

Sleeping like a baby!

Be-still my heart. 

Life is so good!