"Everywhere"

for NEXT Easter decorating. 

*smiles*

(9 x16)

Happy weekend to all.

Small Treasures

                                                         is a flimsy.

(23.5 x 36.5)

    I'm very happy with this little quilt!  

I am very happy to be done with 108 flying geese!

I will bind it with the same light print that I used for the skinny (1/2 inch finish) sashing. 

I spent a little time last night looking through my two L/E books by Bonnie Hunter and have started to sew my 2 inch squares together-a light and a dark-for my new leader ender.  I'm not sure which quilt I will make but after digging around in the 2 inch drawer I had a moment of "enough is enough" too many in the drawer. So we'll have to see where this one goes.

I started making Winter Scraps as a L/E but it went so fast the center is already together...no pictures yet.

Last night I pulled a LOT of loops on Skinny Santa~yes I'm still trying to finish him in January.  

I think I might just make it.

DWMonday

It is all together!! 

whoop-whoop!

Someone asked last week if I had a picture of the original fabric.  That's it on the floor.  

I auditioned a few fabrics I had in the stash for borders but didn't like them.  I'm going to set this aside for a bit and ponder it.

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Small Treasures is on the wall now

I have to sew the 3rd row of flying geese together and then decide on fabrics for the rest of the quilt.  You can see a picture of the finished quilt at the end of this post here.

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My Henrietta Whiskers top is loaded on HQ so hopefully I'll get that done this week too.


I'm linking up to Patchwork Times -a great way to see what others are working on.

just a quick update

The 2nd Witch is in is finished.

 It was on my 2010 list and I'm glad it's done and put away.

I didn't say anything but I caved further on Thursday;  I took my laptop down to my sewing space and pieced The 12 Days of Christmas from Temecula Quilt Co

I think I might hand quilt it. 

I say that because this is what HQ looks like right now.

GASP!

That black piece on the table is the bottom side of my track upgrade.  We started putting it together this afternoon, well I supervised cleaned up the boxes; Paul is doing the actually assembly. 

 And then the phone rang. 

 He got called into work. 

Always the way it goes.  

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This morning was the guild's newbies class.  It was a very informative class. I enjoyed it very much and from an April Cornell charm pack I made this

I think it will be a spring table topper.

I only have 6-7 charms left, looking at the photo now I think I will make two more blocks  and call it a table runner.

I'm very close to having all the little flying geese made for my Small Treasures quilt.  I had to cut out a bunch more 1.5" squares for it. 

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DWMonday

The wall is the same as last week.  I was hoping to get at least one row on the OBW sewn together but it wasn't to be.

So here is a picture of my 2nd design wall.  It's the same as before Christmas except for the bottom left. The four patch rows I got together yesterday and the four flying geese blocks...

...I only need 104 more for my small treasures mini quilt. I snagged the picture from the All People Quilt web site. 

I'm not even going to comment on the rest of the second design wall who knows how long that stuff will be there.

I've already visited a few other design walls via Judy's.

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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Block-a-Day Week 5

I think I have 7 "christmas fabric" blocks now.  I've changed how I'm storing these--I had them in date order but now they're by size.  

Yesterday my friend Libby and I had a sew/gabfest here at my house.  She got here about 9:45 and we cleaned up a little after 4pm!  It's amazing how much we can get done while talking :)  I worked on Feb. and March's blocks for my Many Thanks BOM quilt. I still need to do the hand embroidery on them so they're not finished yet.

 I also worked on my bl-a-days.  

I started the Misty Pine paper piecing wall hanging I got on that quilting bus tour I went on this past fall.  I finished putting it together last evening. 

And finally, I don't think I showed a picture of February's Monthly Mini. 

This evening

I made this little cutie.

It's called Mmm....Hot Cocoa.  It's the first of a BOM series from Patch Abilities. Libby (no blog) gave me the pattern and the matching hanger the week before Christmas, our LQS will be carrying all the patterns.  I used my scraps, even scrap batting, sometimes just a quick little project is just what I need to do.  I will hang it somewhere in my kitchen tomorrow.

We're doing this mini series, and Many Thanks BOM, which we plan on getting together once a month to work on the block and anything else we have going on and have a gabfest, we are still planning on doing the block-a-day with this calendar; I already received the companion CD but the calendar has yet to arrive.