March!

This morning was cloudy and dreary, but I did venture out for yoga class. The sun came out this afternoon, so bright and cheerful looking, however the air is COLD! An excellent afternoon to spend in my happy place sewing room.
After my trip to the bank on Friday, I thought I had lost a $20 dollar bill. I was thinking that I hope whoever finds it will make good use of it. Today I discovered it in my iphone pouch! Happy dance time!
What I am working on quilty wise:
-hand appliqueing the 25th and last block for Applique Affair.
-machine appliquing a Dresden Star block see photo)

Recent Finishes 7-7-17

Three finishes off of my UFO list: 

"Scrap Basket Blossom"

A Kim Diehl class project

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"Yes We Can"

A kit bought several years ago from Primitive Gatherings at a Cincinnati International Quilt Show

"Bloom Creek"

A guild challenge from a pattern in "English Paper Piecing" by Vicki Bellino

April 30, 2016

A cool and rainy day. Got my herb garden planted this week, so this gentle steady rain is very welcome!

I cut out some pieces from 30's reproductions for my bow tie blocks earlier today, and this evening am

working on a Lucy Boston block; English paper piecing.

I was inspired by a quilt guild member's progress on her blocks to get going on mine again. Now I'm running out of papers!

November 2015

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Took a guild class from Jean Shaw in September. She taught "Lincoln's Watch", a Red Crinoline pattern. Made a lot of blocks at LLQA retreat first week of November, and now have all 99 blocks made and am putting them together. Stepped out of my box colorwise. Started with my collection of French General, and added other pieces. 

Also working on a gift quilt that I can't show yet.

And I finished a dish towel apron started in a quild meeting several years ago.

September 2015

 Stars in a Time Warp Chintz block

Machine quilting Morning Glory

Stars in a Time Warp chocolate brown and silver blue

Stars in a Time Warp lace print

 

Finished an Edyta Sitar wall hanging.

Blue Moon Quilting July 2015

There are two full moons this month, hence the term "Blue Moon"!

Finished "Clarissa's Garden" doll quilt, which was started in Kathleen Tracy's class on May 9.

She shared some of her scraps, so I have included a few pieces of her fabric in it. 

"Early Indigo". Stars in a Time Warp blocks

" Lapis Blue"

June 2015

Finished String Table runner from LLQA class. 15" x 30"

More Stars in a Time Warp blocks.

April and May 2015

Upon returning to my long neglected blog, I found some post drafts. I'm publishing them today (September 24, 2015).

This post documents some of my quilty happenings from April and May 2015.

Keeping up with "Stars in a Time Warp" block of the week project from Barbara Brackman's Civil War Quilts blog. These are paisleys.

My Tree of Life won a first place ribbon at guild show in April.

Scrappy Irish Chain second

Trick or Treat second

Scrap Basket Blossom third

Paducah trip Ricky Tims concert. Went with two friends, had a great time. Next year going for four days!

Main Street Quilt Company in Shelbyville was featured in Quilt Sampler magazine.

I drove down for their celebratory open house and bought this.

Some of Kathleen's larger quilts displayed at class.

Kathleen Tracy of Country Lane Quilts came to our guild to teach a class on making doll/small quilts. She's the author of several books including "American Doll Quilts". I'll post a photo of the finished project later.

I was installed as DQG evening chair (in absentia). Was birdwatching in Ohio with hubby and had to miss the installation dinner. This rose was given to me when I got back.

2015 Goals

I've made a list of some long time UFO block of week or block of month projects, and plan to work on them this year.

I've started by finishing block # 4 Kansas Sunflower from Barbara Brackman's Grandmother's Choice BOW from 2012-2013. It's hand pieced-got frustrated and put it away until this week! Finished is better than perfect!

Two Finishes

Two quilts I finished in fall of 2014 "Trick or Treat" In time for time for Halloween!

And Scrappy Trips is done!

A Good Start to "Quilting Season"

This post is for October 4, 2014

Finished the little wallhanging "Starflowers" 12 x 15 inches. Pattern is from "English Paper Piecing" book by Vicky Bellino.

Got the Scrappy Trips top done, now to baste and quilt. Decided no borders.

Finished Trick or Treat quilting and binding at long last! Plan to make label and hanging sleeve this week.

Rainy Day June 10, 2014

Cool and rainy, doing the applique on my Tree of Life wallhanging. I prepared the shapes by ironing the seam allowances onto the sticky side of freezer paper, and stitching by  machine with zigzag and invisible thread.

Retreat!!

Had a great time last week at the LLQA retreat at Pilgrim Park near Princeton, Il - a nice facility in a wooded valley near the Illinois River. We sewed, shopped at Quilter's Garden Quilt Shop in town, ate, napped, chatted; but mostly sewed. I made good progress on three of my UFO's.

This isn't a good photo, but its the layout for the top center of my Edyta Sitar Spool quilt. I did get it sewn together. Now to do the border applique. Our local guild did a swap for the "thread" parts of the spools. For three months we each signed up for a different color and made enough of that color for the others on the list. I was fired up to do the applique as soon as I got home, but first I need to get my churn dash and 30's bowtie blocks done for the LLQA swaps for the June 14 meeting. Hope to finish those by tomorrow.

May 17, 2014

Applique Affair block.

I finished my 15th block this week. Nine more to go, maybe the top will be finished this year.

May 12, 2014

Making 5 inch churn dash blocks for LLQA exchange.

A Finish in February

I finished "Hexagon Flowers Doll Quilt" from one of Kathleen Tracey's books. I joined her Yahoo group and have now done two of her quilts for the "small quilt a month" project. This is English paper pieced flowers appliqued onto a background square; and I hand quilted it.

Feb. 10, 2014

Weather is very wintry cold and snowy; I am getting things done!

Baby quilt for Henry is done. (I did go to the shop and after seeing how much a new bobbin case would cost - over $100!), I took the screw off my bobbin case and was able to snap the spring back into the slot. Yay!! Works just fine.

Machine quilting "Wind and Dishes"

Baby Quilt Progress and Delay

On Wednesday I started machine quilting Henry's quilt, in the ditch with the walking foot, and couldn't get the stitch to look right. I rethreaded the machine, changed needle, moved upper tension-all to no avail. Alas! Found that the bobbin case is broken, because there is no lower tension at all. I tried tightening the bobbin case screw, but that didn't do anything. The hook must have bent or loosened when I dropped the case the other day. Will have to take a trip to Rochester to have the shop repair or replace. It's so darn cold I haven't been leaving the house-but this afternoon it's supposed to get up to the upper 20's so I may go.

Chrissy's T Shirt Memory Quilt

Ironing shirt fronts to fusible interfacing.

Trimming them up.

My DGD Chrissy came over last week and we cut up a big bag of her shirts from high school and college. I've now finished ironing them to the interfacing and trimming. Waiting for her to come back and arrange them into a layout. Second semester at Millikin has started this week, so don't know when she can get to it!
 In other news, I have made a few more bowtie blocks. For a good size quilt I figured I need 289, and I have 71 now.

I'm swap chairperson for evening guild meeting, and have started the "thread" units for Edyta Sitar's Spool Quilt. Hope the swap goes well, and participants follow the guidelines!

January 8, 2014

Still pretty cold out, so stayed in - but have to go to book club tonight.
I am making progress on my UFO reduction plan, and am working on current projects as well!
The binding is machine sewn onto Hexie Doll Quilt, and is being hand stitched to the back.

 

 

Finished the last two Dixie Diary blocks - now need to get fabric for setting. I am almost finished with the stars for EPP project.