January 30th

Wow that was a fast month!

So I just finished the NYB

I am really really happy with it.

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I have the first row quilted on the Swoon quilt.  I'm doing a larger swirl in the background between the blocks 

and the same swirl only small as a fill in the white areas of each block. After that's all done, I'll go back and quilt in each star.

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I got to babysit this morning😍

If you would have told me a couple years ago that the most fun ever is sitting and crawling around on a living room floor playing with someone who drools, can only says few words: hi, bye,uh-oh, happy; I would not have believed it!!!  But it's true!!!

Fun times, fun times!

Life is good!

New York Beauty

I feel like I could just continue making blocks and playing with the layout of this forever!

I did rip out the outside wedge shapes on two of the blocks that were  just too light. Amazingly, I was able to save the block!!! Yea

Each block is an investment in time and the idea of ruining one made me stop and think.  But I know me; and if I hadn't my eye would forever be drawn right to them.  Not good! 

Of course as I'm looking at this photo I see things I could move...

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I did start quilting the Swoon  raffle quilt quilt--another yea!  

I was planning on custom quilting it.but then I remembered I had pressed the seams open so there went that idea, which involved a lot of SID. Oh well.

My plan is to have it finished in a week or two! 

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I have finished a few customer quilts this month too.

Fun times fun times!!

Uh-Oh

Someone's design wall has project overload!!

1/2 way there

I've been making good progress on the NYB blocks.  

I have a customer quilt that needs finished this week and then I need to start quilting the guild's raffle quilt. 

It's going to be a busy couple of weeks!

Fun times - fun times!

Life is good.

Sew day

Today ML came over to sew- it was great! So much to catch up with so much to sew.

I had great expectations!

First I made some fabric...it takes a lot longer when you spend more time gabbing than sewing 😊

Next I worked on my NYBeauty blocks.

OK I only worked on and completed this one arc ( I really thought I'd get at least two blocks pieced) 2 as in one block has 4 arcs!!!

 These ones I already had done:

This project was on the goal list for 2014.

       Um it didn't happen 

I don't think paper piecing and I will ever be besties but I'm determined that this quilt will grace a wall in this house this year!!  There I said it.

I have 11 + months.  

I ain't worried

         ....yet

November and December

Lots of customer quilting went on

I spent the day with my granddaughter and she pieced her first quilt top!!

I made three "Jingle Pillows" 

One for me...

two were gifted!

We celebrated Jo's first birthday!

And Paul was home for his Candidacy Mass.

He will be ordained a Deacon in May.

and the quilting continued 

helped Meghan make a snowman tree!!

-I made the nose out of felt

 and painted the 3 button ornaments while she was as work-

she did the rest!

It is so cute.

 Finally the hair grew long enough to donate.

10 1/2 inches--that was a bit scary.

The new me...my neck was cold for days ha ha!

Jo is walking now though she still crawls when she really wants to get somewhere fast!

**notice the chair blocking the hallway...we now have a gate**

We spent Christmas morning with the grands and had brunch at their house 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!