Blog BOM Block # 8

Shop hop...

We (me & Libby) had a blast! I drove on Wednesday. We started out at 9am and didn't get back home until 8:30 pm!  Since we now use a GPS, we didn't get lost once in over 200 miles of driving. 

The second day Libby drove, another 175+ miles!

I took pictures of all the shop hop quilts:

                 It's my favorite part of Shop Hop seeing the same blocks....so different!

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Tomorrow we head for the beach.

I'm so excited I can't stand myself!!

I won't have a computer... so c'ya when I get back......

Design Wall Monday (Week 23)

Another Monday already!! 

Here is my wall.  I have the leader/ender 9-patch & Snowballs back up. I think a 9 x 12 block setting will give me a good single bed size quilt, with a border or without....we'll see.  So I will need to make 38 more blocks.  I just love the scrappiness of it. 

The batik blocks to the right are 9" blocks the 1st 2 are block-a-days. I'm making the next bunch of 12" blocks from batiks with a black background and 9" blocks from brights...but I got confused and made these 2 from batiks~ The 3 on the far right row are the first 3 blocks for this year's Shop Hop Progressive quilt. I'm using the same batik color-way so the 2 block-a-days will hopefully fit in! I think I like to make things difficult for myself sometimes. 

The shop hop starts this Wednesday through Saturday; 12 shops. Libby and I are going,this is our 5th year, I think.

 I believe this year we finally have the perfect itinerary; efficient while avoiding the city of Pittsburgh during rush hour; which has been our nemesis in the past! Last year was the first year using a GPS--didn't get lost once. Of course, our getting lost, confused and turned around in the good ole days of MapQuest made for some hilarious moments.

Several times we'd be amazed at MapQuest's accuracy and singing its praises only to be cursing it's existence later as we drove on and on looking for "Lovey Lane"...which we never did find.

A few times I thought we were going to end up in Ohio. And actually another year we did. We were on the PA turnpike and were suppose to get off the last exit BEFORE the Ohio line and we were gabbing (I know it's hard to believe!) and missed it. The nice toll booth man let us u-turn at the toll plaza and head on back into Pennsylvania.

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These are June and Augusts'  Monthly minis; they were on the wall earlier for this photo.

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This weekend was a local guild's show. (Blog-less, Libby and I entered quilts. Here are her three entries.  It was Libby's first show, she received 2 ribbons. She was very excited!

 

My Mariner's Compass quilt was voted "Viewer's Choice". I was excited too!

 

The show is held in a little church and it was impossible to get a straight on shot as the rows were so close together.  It was a fun afternoon of looking at quilts, talking about quilts...you know-all that good stuff!

For more quilting 'good stuff'. Visit Judy's.

Block-a-Days

Tonight I finished blocks for 6/14-21. 

1st "Block-a-Day" top

56 x 69

(12" blocks)

I went from thinking the blocks were yucky and a waste of my time to really liking the top; amazing what some sashing and a couple borders will do! I need to remember that. The sashing fabric I had. I did buy the gold and print for the 2 outer borders.

This is off the wall and on a hanger. The binding is made, lest I use the fabric for something else (been there, done that!).

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And here is the July Monthly Mini.

I haven't done June's yet. 

I was hoping to have this done for my Memorial Day Picnic. I finished it on Tuesday (ha-ha). 

Design Wall Monday (Week 22)

This is the first quilt from my Block-a-Days-cool beans. 

I have the 2nd & 3rd borders cut.  When I first started to play with these blocks I was ho-hum about them, but they're growing on me. Check out other walls here.

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And barely got the current bl-a-days done by Sat. evening. I'm up to June 14th! I've started 2 new colorways: Batiks with black background for the next bunch of 12" blocks and 

the one 9" block on the far left is in 'bright' colors.  I have a good bit of those fabrics and there are 20 more 9" blocks in the calendar (yea, I flipped through and tallied them!)

The 2 at the top are 10" blocks that I'm using Astor Manor and coordinating fabrics.

The block on the far right is a 12" in CW fabric. I need one more and I'll have the 32 needed for my quilt layout...woo-woo!

Sea Stars 74 x 90

The binding and label were finished last night.

The hanging sleeve finished this morning.

The pictures are still warm in the camera!

Drop off for the quilt show is next Tuesday...no sweat!

  I did an all-over "Swirly Echo" from 

The Pajama Quilter Reloaded workbook.  I used KingTut #907 in the top and a med. blue vareigated Aurafil in the bobbin. I forgot to take a picture of the backing, it's just a medium blue paisley I already had.