Design Wall Monday (Week 40)

I’m working on the Center Appliqué Medallion for Blog BOM from Shannon.

I’ll be machine appliquéing this:

My 1^st design wall still has the 16/8 blocks.  The 16” block in the lower left is a new one and now just need to make a bunch more 8” blocks

My 2^nd little wall has my block-a-days and the cut off appliqué one at the bottom is the 9^th Snowbound BOM block. 

Head on over to Judy's for more design walls!

Blog BOM Block for September

I finished it last night and I think it's my favorite block so far. (I think I say that about almost all of them). My good intentions for tomorrow is to seriously start on the applique medallion that will be the center of this quilt.

I finished the last 3 block-a-days I had cut out.

Love the big 16" one, but darn those big blocks take a lot longer to assemble.

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And here are a couple pictures of my lastest quilting forays.

Libby's (no blog) One Block wonder and a little "Awesome" panel that belongs to a friend who l-u-v-s anything squirrel-ey, that was just a treat to quilt--too much fun!



and 2 more of Libby's. She's made several of these Picture This patterns, but this is the 1st one I've quilted for her.

Block-a-Days and progress

I've been busy quilting and binding this little quilt.

It's a raffle quilt for the SCAA (Sudden Cardiac Arrest Assoc.) 



I hope it's a good raffle for them.

Tisket Tasket is done.

well, the top is done!



The Scarf, Aster Manor and Crab Apples

My first scarf is finished!!  It is going to keep me very warm.  It's about 60" long.  I just kept knitting and knitting, figured it was better to use it and have a very long scarf than stop and have a little ball of yard leftover and nothing to do with it.

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In between housework and other stuff I've been working on A.Manor. The sashing strips are all together along the right side.  The 2 bottom rows are already sewn together. I did that right away to get the bottom row off the floor, since Annie thinks fabric of any kind on the floor is her cue to make a nest!

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I only put together 1 block a day this week, the log cabin one on the left; hoping to catch up on those today and tomorrow.

The block on the right is my sample block for my next L/E using 2" squares. The quilt is called Crab Apples by B. Hunter. It's in her latest book, Adventures with Leaders and Enders.   However, the blocks in her quilt are smaller since she used 1.5" squares.   I wanted to use 2" squares to make the blocks finish 12".  So that meant re-sizing the paper piece pattern for the trunk part of the block!

It actually worked and since the p.pc. section is only 4 fabrics I was able to make it the first time correctly!  :)

 

Friday Finish and a start

The dresser and nightstand are done.   They look way better in real life!  Paul hasn't had a chance to put the mirror back together and onto the back of the dresser, which is ok since I'm not sure if I'm going to re-arrange the bedroom furniture.  Where I have the dresser right now, under a window; I'm not sure it would look right with the mirror.  I'll need a few days to get used to this and then decide.

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On the quilting front, I started the Aster Manor 10" Block-a-days.

In this 1st picture that one block in the bottom row was just too dark and stuck out no matter where I moved it.

  So it's out of there and I made a replacement block. (bottom row 1st pieced block on left in picture below) 

I also felt that the chain setting blocks were a little busy looking. So I cut 2" x 10.5" sashing strips from a light fabric and 2" setting squares from the same Moda 'crackle' brown.   This is one of the few times I actually had enough fabric for such a change! I have about a 3.5" strip of the light fabric  and THREE 2" squares left! 

Much better, I think. 

They aren't sewn together and I may play with the block placement a bit...looking at this picture -I'm thinking it's pretty good.

Not quite Wordless Wednesday

Ta-da!

73 x 90



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