Up and Away -flimsy

My version of Amanda's pattern from the book, Sunday Morning Quilts.  

I randomly put some plain white squares in the rows.  I thought of this after I started sewing the rows together (of course) and just put them in without too much thought.

I could have used some in the upper right area-but those rows were already sewn together when the idea occurred!

I'm quite happy that this is a flimsy; it was on the design wall for way too long. Hopefully, it won't stay a flimsy near as long.

42 x 55

I bought this book last year!  

I'm starting to get annoyed with myself buying books and then never making even one quilt from them.  

I'm annoyed since I'm running out of book shelf space AGAIN! 

So I made this top from two partial charm pack I had, Reunion and Simply Style. I added one extra row of blocks.

Urban Pods was finished at the end of April.

I've been waiting for good weather to take some outside pictures.

I gave up waiting.

The design wall with Up and Away progress; not much. I have the 10 rows sewn together in the upper right corner.

I feel sure that soon I will lose patience with this sitting here and sew the dang thing up, even though it sitting there and being sewn a few rows at a time is the plan...

I sewed a sample spider web block (ala Bonnie Hunter).

I saw a quilt on Pinterest using pieced fabric for the center area and really liked it.

I don't really like my grey centers.  It might look fine on an entire quilt, but I don't have that much.  I'm going to do another one with much lighter pieced centers.

Customer quilts are threatening to overwhelm-the closet and my mind.

This is Carol's 

E's & 3's with a variegated thread.

and the back

I finished the Swoon pillow.

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.

Distractions

On Monday my quilt guild hosted Lorrie Faith Cranor.  She gave a presentation of her quilts and designs and then on Tuesday led a workshop on her Interleave design.

The weather was awful and I almost didn't go but boy am I glad I did!

Lorrie is a lovely person and excellent teacher.

We were to pick 4 FQ of fabrics that went well together but had good contrast.

Geeze louise, picking fabrics makes me crazy. I must have pulled 20 fabrics out of the stash.  Then after the guild meeting and seeing her quilts in person, I came home and picked different ones!  

 Here are my fabrics prepped and ready to be cut into 1 inch sections!

Of course I forgot my camera, so one of the other ladies taking the class took these and was kind enough to send them to me.

starting to see the design 

after I got home I finished the last few rows

squared it up to 16 inches, made binding and finished it.

Here it is hanging in the dining room. 

This pattern is Helix (Sine Wave)... I have NO IDEA what that is-but I like it in a quilt!

Today I started another one. Same pattern totally different fabrics. I have better contrast with these and like the effect even better.

This is a quilt as you go technique, and after adding each strip I would piece a  hst unit for my Up, Up and Away quilt (from Amanda's book)

 and finally reached 589!

That's just enough to make the quilt (if I've added correctly) woo-hoo!

There's the last one and the jar I've been keeping them in.  

I started making them back in August. It will be fun to lay them out one of these days. one of these days soon I hope.

Medallion Flimsy

I really like this pattern.  I went way out of my comfort colors

(that would be blue)

on this one.  

Oh and in my last post I said I needed 'a couple hundred' hst for the Up, up and Away quilt

...silly me it's 589. 

 I have 85 made now.

But Kathy made hers in what seemed like no time so I'm not worried.

 :)

Yesterday, the bike gang went out again!

We left at 9 am and got home at 9 pm.  We were some tired puppies!

Paul, Scott, sil Mary, bil Ed 

Scott behind us on Rt 59 a few miles from the dam

 Our destination was Kinzua Dam.  I'd never been there before and it was so cool.

 I even saw an eagle!! so excited about that!

Kinzua Dam

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Today I needed to really give the house a good cleaning but I still spent some time sewing.

I took a picture of the Modern stack n slash that I finally got the binding done on.

50 x 53

After this picture I washed it and it crinkled up wonderfully.  I just straight line quilted it but I didn't use channel locks just 'eyed' it. So it's not perfectly straight and I just estimated the distance between the lines too. I quilted it one way then reloaded it the other way and quilted it that way.  I really like how it turned out.  

I got another row of feathers quilted on Aster Manor.  I'm using wool batting on this one. It's the first time I've ever tried wool.  It really shows the quilting.  I'm quilting it very close, doing all-over hooked feathers and hope that is OK with wool to quilt it so densely.   

I've been working on piecing the diamond (triangles on the corners) of the Medallion blocks.  I was having trouble seeing the cutting line I drew because the overhead lighting casts a shadow on my cutting table.  I was getting a bit frustrated when it hit me that my Ott Light is sitting in the corner unused.  

So I dragged it out, plugged it in and 'wah-lah' no more shadow.

Here are my medallion blocks.  

just 6 more to add the triangles too

As I'm piecing these, I started a new Leader/Ender project.  I stopped using the L/E method a while back, it just sorta happened.  But I've been saving my binding triangles and even cut some from 2.5 inch squares to make this quilt.  I don't have near enough triangles yet but what the heck it's a start.

in no time at all I have over 20 made. only need a couple hundred more. This will take some time. :)