Block 3

Curved rail fence block

16.5 inches

still piecing the sashing sets!

I'm halfway there!

The back of a customer quilt-love the yellow and the wonky feathers.

and because we're nutz-we took a ride on Sunday!

Brrrrr.

So nice to be quilting again

forgot what a stress reliever it is for me.

Although, having a pile of quilts waiting to be quilted can be stressful...go figure.

One less to do now.  

I'm going to put the binding on it tonight. I will probably have to machine it both front and back as my left thumb is on the verge of splitting again and I know hand stitching the binding down will do it in for sure.

A while back Carol over at Brown Quilts emailed me with a project idea. She wanted to make a quilt top, send it to me to be quilted and then have me donate here in the Pittsburgh area.  

 I thought that was a great idea.  

Carol sent a beautiful top made with soft flannels.

I quilted an all-over wave-y swirl. 

Tomorrow I will be dropping it off at the Community Outreach chair for my quilt guild.  There is a new shelter opening this winter and they've asked the area guilds for quilts.  

This one will keep someone in need very warm indeed!

Thank you, Carol, for reaching out so generously!  

When I drop off our quilt, I'll be picking up some more Quilts for Kids tops that need quilting--yeah I  gripe that I'm so busy, but I'm healthy and have more than I need--shame on me for the gripes whether out loud or in my head.

quilt along block 2

I finally finished the 2nd block in the Curve it up QAL I'm doing.

The blocks are big and although I'm nervous about curves; I haven't had any trouble so far.  

It's back!

I had to fiddle with the tensions, which always makes me sweat.

The CW leftover topper is done and just needs binding.

Autumn Gatherings is loaded and I just need to find the time to quilt it.

I'm running out of year and have 3 of my own tops that I REALLY wanted done and off my to do list and out of my brain.

Too scrappy

so I'm sewing along and all of a sudden looked at the wall and thought um no, this is too much.  I like it but my eyes are sorta jumping around.

It could be in part because Hurricane Sandy is playing havoc with the weather and I'm in migraine land right now.

Regardless, I did this.

Blue and grey, mostly medium and dark with a few fabrics that are blending OK for my eye-a dark purple, brown and perhaps a green. I know I could just go med/dark but I do like a bit of contrast. 

So I'll be spending some quality time with the seam ripper 

While un-sewing I will have to think about whether I want to put all those now defunct setting strips in the backing of this one... hmmm   I hate the thoughts of not using them up as I'm trying to use these things up not create more.
I'm certainly not un sewing all those sets-just the twosies and perhaps a few foursies that have blue/grey squares in them. 

I did put a couple borders on the UFO I had on my wall and it's now a flimsy-woohoo.

A few days ago I was on Kathy's blog. She was part of the Wicked blog hop

I found my way to Debby Kratovil's blog.  She is the block-a-day designer that I spend 2010 with.
I loved her Bat Applique project and started it immediately (if not sooner)*wink*

12" x 12" 

I finished it yesterday-if I had my HQ I would have micro stippled it, which I'll probably do when she comes home. For now it's just stitched around the bats.  The binding is completely by machine too.  My left thumb is split to hand sewing hurts and is so clumsy with a band aid on it.

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and yes it's raining here, light and steady and bone chillin' cold.
bleck!

The mailman brought

more than bills and junk mail today!

I've been lurking, snooping looking at wool related blogs lately, and I found Three Sheep Studio . Rose was having a little giveaway and I thought what the heck!

Well I won!  How awesome.

And today the little package arrived.

It's a Beaded Berries Kit with lovely wool too!  I will be making a blueberry strawberry-how fun.

Thanks so much Rose!

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In other news, I had the day off today! woo-hoo.  My to do list was so long and in my head (I should have written it down) that I woke up at 4:30am and couldn't go back to sleep.  It's 6:15 pm as I write this and I'm still going strong.  

I started sewing at about 6am and am so happy that I got my block a day blocks together, one more flimsy.

It needs a name. I'll work on that at some point.  I really should get a label made while I'm on the computer and thinking about it. It measures 68 x 90.

I think it's pretty cool.

I've been sewing my Dresden sashing together as my Leader/ender I have a bunch of twosies of 2.5" squares and thought I better sew a few together and audition them to be sure I like it.

I do like it. I cut some of the background fabric for the setting squares and I like that too.

The other side of my design wall has all the other projects I have going on right now-I think that's all of them.

Oh I don't have my guild's block a month up there but that's not anything I can work on until I get the next months pattern.  The piece on the bottom left is some more block a day's that I put together at the beginning of the year, never really decided what to do with it. I'm thinking now of just adding a border and calling it a table topper and just get on with it.

I do have to get going on this.

 

  I want it done for Christmas. I got the pattern sometime this year, early too. Oops, may have just jinxed myself.

Oh and today I mentioned Thanksgiving 

(we have it here) just casually but still, it's been spoken about

time is sure flying by.