WIP Wednesday 5.30.12

Things are moving pretty slow in my quilty world.  Our son that will be five soon is now out of school and boy do we have a bucket list of things planned for the summer.  Major quilting will resume around September.  But I'll pick away at a few projects that I have on hand when I can't sleep or when I convince him to take a nap... but if he needs a nap, I know I'll need a nap!

Here's what I got done this week on my "ugly" quilt.  I will definitely have to rename it.  This is about a third or so of it...  It is also sideways in the pic.  I am falling in love with more and more as I go.  It's Cafe Mocha pattern by Amanda Murphy.  You can find the pattern here.   This quilt is definitely worth the time I am putting in to it!  Can you believe that these are the fabrics that I got in the In The Bag Ugly Quilt Challenge?

I am working on my Mystery Modern Mini Round Robin border.  Some of the people in the group are quite creative.  I'll post about this top-secret border in December after the recipient gets her mini back.  Hopefully it will be in the mail by the weekend.

I cut up some fabric to try to get in on the Zigzag challenge at htMarcia's Crafty Sewing blog.  I don't know if I have time for this one before the deadline, but to win the prize of the talented Marcia to quilt it for me would be an awesome prize!

Here's where else I will be busy this summer.  Most of my garden is planted now.  There's a lot of work to be done, but with my "little helper" I'm sure it will all work.   Yesterday I planted green beans, tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, and beets.  I'll plant the vining stuff later this week.  Here's a couple of pics:

These are my fancy tomato cages.  Last week while my husband was at work I borrowed his cutting torch and cut up a couple of tv antenna that I have been saving.  These tomato cages should last a long, long time.  I love the way the tomatoes will climb up the center, come over the top, and flow back down for perfect ripening next to the stem.

Completed Projects --  3 partials

Completed a few more rows of my "ugly" quilt
Completed cutting strips assemblies Marcia's Crafty Sewing Zigzag Challenge
Started sewing pieces of border #3 of the Mystery Mini Round Robin

Currently and SLOWLY in Progress: 8

Cafe Mocha (In the Bag Ugly Fabric quilt challenge)
New York Beauty QA (need a ton of pinwheels... only 8 beauties completed)
Dutchman's Puzzle (finally purchased border 5/14/12.)
Block Swap Adventure block for June

Orca Bay (piecing together the last step) (I'm getting tired of moving these bins around.)

Bluepatch Quilter Mystery Quiltalong (need two stars and one braid)

Victorianna Fabric Party Quiltalong (need five rows to catch up)

Summer Series Quiltalong (stilll need more random blocks)

We Can Do It Skill Builder Sampler (need three very pretty blocks to be caught up!)

30"x30" Quilt for the June 2012 quilt show...grrrrrrrrr

Drunkard's Path Quiltalong (still piecing sub assemblies)

Modern Mini Round Robin (working on 3rd round)

Quilt Tops to be quilted: 4

Oh Susannah! Mystery QA -- California King
August Block Lotto African Violets baby quilt to be put together (May's 12 UFO project)
Kaleidoscope QA
Jelly Roll Race - Lap quilt
Chasing Chevrons (back made and ready finally)

Projects on Hold: 3

Flower Basket Quilt

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WIP Wednesday 5.23.12

This week I finished the block for this month's FMQ Challenge.  LOVE Leah Day!  She is a great teacher.  Here's my block done in the stippled rr tracks:

It's not very easy to see in this photo.  Plus, the fabric is seer sucker...  But I like it.

I also received the little mini this week for the Modern Mini Round Robin.  Sorry, can't post a pic... don't want to spoil the surprise!


I got all of the tedious stips cut for the Cafe Mocha "ugly" Quilt in the Bag fabric challenge.  I'm so glad that I took the time to cut these with my 1 1/2" strip cutter from Accuquilt.  They are so nice and even.  I only put two rows together.  But they look awesome with all those little pieces.  I think the challenge for me will be mixing the colors as I go.  I'm not going to lay it out on a design wall.  I'm just going to wing it.  I think I have enough different fabrics that they will play okay together no matter how I arrange them.

Completed Projects -- 4

Completed FMQ Challenge block for the SewCalGal FMQ Challenge
Completed cutting strips assemblies for Cafe Mocha "fugly" quilt and sewed a couple rows
Found the perfect arrangement for my NY Beauty blocks...  just need to make about a 100 more...

Currently and SLOWLY in Progress: 8

Cafe Mocha (In the Bag Ugly Fabric quilt challenge)
New York Beauty QA (need a ton of pinwheels... only 8 beauties completed)
Dutchman's Puzzle (finally purchased border 5/14/12.)

Orca Bay (piecing together the last step) (I'm getting tired of moving these bins around.)

Bluepatch Quilter Mystery Quiltalong (need two stars and one braid)

Victorianna Fabric Party Quiltalong (need five rows to catch up)

Summer Series Quiltalong (stilll need more random blocks)

We Can Do It Skill Builder Sampler (need two blocks to be caught up!)

30"x30" Quilt for the June 2012 quilt show...grrrrrrrrr

Drunkard's Path Quiltalong (still piecing sub assemblies)

Modern Mini Round Robin (working on 3rd round)

Quilt Tops to be quilted: 4

Oh Susannah! Mystery QA -- California King
August Block Lotto African Violets baby quilt to be put together (May's 12 UFO project)
Kaleidoscope QA
Jelly Roll Race - Lap quilt
Chasing Chevrons (back made and ready finally)

Projects on Hold: 3

Flower Basket Quilt

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A Quilty Friend

Aren't quilty friends the best?  Look what my friend Chris gave me! She just found out that I liked quilting.  Wow, 33 quilt books and magazines... just because she is "downsizing" and didn't think she would be using them.  Here they are on my couch.

And yes, they look bright and cheery on the first big quilt I ever made (Four in 9-patch) next to my pillow that I won from Julie's blog, and then there's my Eclipse Block Lotto quilt on top of my Pineapple Block Lotto quilt (my Supernova quilt is also on the couch but you can't see it...)

Normally I read quilt books and magaines at the bus stop and in the waiting room at speech therapy (once a week).  There are only five days of school left.  Better plan some reading time...

Don't forget to check out all the giveaways for giveaway day by Sew Mama Sew.  Here a couple alerts:

http://quixoticcrafter.blogspot.ca/2012/05/fast-friday-fat-quarter-giveaway.html
Win five fabulous fat quarters called Bella Citrus from Quixotic Crafter. 

FNSI Results

Oops! I forgot to post my Friday Night Sew-In Results...  Didn't accomplish a whole lot, but I'm still working on my "ugly" quilt... which I think the colors are just perfect.  Here's what's on my fancy design wall curtain:

Someday I'll learn to rotate my picture on Blogger so that you don't have to look sideways.  Teehee.

May Block Swap Adventure

Last week I gave you a sneak peek of the block that I did for Debra in Texas.  Debra is my Block Swap Adventure partner for May.  Here's the whole block.  It was really fun to make.

Giveaway alert!!!!

http://havingfunquilting.blogspot.ca/2012/05/awkward.html



Ends May 28, 2012

 

 

WIP Wednesday 5.16.12

Happy birthday to my sister, Cindy.  Some day (probably next year) I will make you a special quilt out of fabric from my mom and grandma.  Here's what happened in my quilty world this week:

On Mother's Day I was given time to cut out the quilt I am making for the In the Bag Ugly Fabric Quilt Challenge (see button on sidebar).  I have decided to go with Amanda Murphy's Cafe Mocha pattern (and of course just make it a tidge bigger).  There are a LOT of pieces for this quilt.  Hoping they all line up one by one!  I only have one row sewn together.  Many many more to go.

The horizontal and vertical fabrics are interesting.  The cream with the flowers was "fugly" that I won several months ago.  The brown in the strips is one of the fabrics that I got for $3/yard at our LQS that is going out of business (the owner is retiring).  Here they are:

And here's the rest of the great deals of fabric that I bought this week.  I got all this (43+ yards) for only $132!  It's all nice stuff.  It was all $3 per yard.  Most of it is Moda.  I do have a plan for a lot of it.  I went in the shop with lists and patterns in hand.  Some of it is for backs and borders for things on my "to do" list.  Unfortunately my quilting will come to a big halt on 5/29.  That's the last day of school.  But my five year old and me have tons of fun planned for the summer and I'm excited.
But look at this lusious fabric!!!

Here's the block that I made for my May swap paterner in the Block Swap Adventure.

 It's fun to play the May for Me Bingo going on at:

Tonya at Hillbilly Handiwork

Sharon at Vrooman's Quilts

Snoodles at Lily Pad Quilting

and Marcia at Crafty Sewing & Quilting

It's a lot of fun.  I'm probably not supposed to show my hand, but here's my card so far:

BINGO UPDATE!!!

After I posted this I checked today's BINGO draws. 

I've got a BINGO!!!

Here's my bingo words in row "I":  Bumble Bee, Bat, Lemon, Tea Cup, Bird.  Now I wait 24 hours or so to see if anybody else has the same "I" BINGO.  If there is more than one person calling bingo then our names go in to a drawing.  Fingers crossed, fingers crossed.

Yes, I know I have another bingo that is horizontal.  Someone already won that prize.  I don't think they have a prize for a horizontal/vertical cross.  I'm just happy with a BINGO!

Completed Projects -- 4

Completed May Block Swap Adventure block
Completed cutting fabric pieces for Cafe Mocha quilt

Currently and SLOWLY in Progress: 8

Dutchman's Puzzle (finally purchased border 5/14/12.)

Orca Bay (piecing together the last step) (I'm getting tired of moving these bins around.)

Bluepatch Quilter Mystery Quiltalong (need two stars and one braid)

Victorianna Fabric Party Quiltalong (need five rows to catch up)

Summer Series Quiltalong (stilll need more random blocks)

We Can Do It Skill Builder Sampler (need one block to be caught up!)

30"x30" Quilt for the June 2012 quilt show...grrrrrrrrr

Drunkard's Path Quiltalong

Quilt Tops to be quilted: 4

Oh Susannah! Mystery QA -- California King
August Block Lotto African Violets baby quilt to be put together (May's 12 UFO project)
Kaleidoscope QA
Jelly Roll Race - Lap quilt
Chasing Chevrons (back made and ready finally)

Projects on Hold: 3

Flower Basket Quilt

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In the Bag Ugly Fabric Quilt Challenge

Here's what I sent my swap partner, Terrie, for the In The Bag challenge.  Remember, part of the challenge was that you were supposed to send your partner UGLY fabrics -- a total of two yards of it!  Oh dear, poor, poor, Terrie!

Good luck, Terrie!

This is what Terrie sent me.  Aren't these fabrics great?  I LOVE them!  I think I already have a pattern in mind and need to pull a few things from my stash.  Can't wait to get started!