WIP Wednesday 7.31.19

Seriously? It's the end of July already.  Summer is flying by!  Here's what I accomplished this week:

I'm happy to finish my Cafe' Mocha quilt -- Amanda Murphy Designs (ugly fabric quilt).  I started it back in 2012!

I made these two owl blocks in pink scraps for the RSC19.



Challenger Baseball state tournaments took up some of our weekend time.  This happened to most.

I started playing with these Wings of Spring blocks that I won in the March, 2019, Block Lotto.



I currently have 65 on-going projects.

Pieces Still Need to be Cut & Sewn

1.  Cheddar Jack cat pattern from Mama Spark's World 

2.  Digging up Bones (Owen's dinosaur quilt)

3.  Rock Island Campfire Quilt

4.  Picadilly Circle

5.  ...And Sew On BOM at Quiet Play (one block to go)

6.  Go Four It! -- Scrappy 4-patches started as leader/ender June 2017

7.  Patriotic Folk Animals (from Americana Quilts Book) -- hand work for school

8.  Parallelogram Strings -- 2019 String Along at Humble Quilts, started 1.31.19
9.   Leah Day Building Blocks QA
10.  Jelly Roll Rug
11.  Classic Meets Modern BOM
12.  Mod Mod QA (turning this one into a baby quilt) (from block Lotto, mostly circles w/lines)

13.  Owl's Well That Ends Well (RSC19 project started 1.26.19)

14.  Linen and Threads - Mystery Sampler SAL Sew-to-go bag project started 1.21.19

15.  Temperature QA (2019 block-a-day according to high and low temps--changed to table topper.)

16.  Kite Girl (RSC14)

17.  Amish Country BOM (from Lynn, Johnna's mom)

18.  Cabins at the Lake (from Fons & Porter Magazine) (only one house block complete.)

19.   2.5" Scraps from Dani making "cracker" blocks

20.  Sand Castles -- Bonnie Hunter string quilt started January, 2019 -- an RSC project

21.  Little Houses (3.5" blocks)

22.  Pumpkins & the Beanstalk (a second quilt.)

23.  Set of note cards and envelopes

24.  Simply Summer Sensational QA with Kevin the Quilter 2.5" blocks (started 6.27.19)

25.  Slabs with White Rectangle (RSC14 started -- need blocks each month)

26.  Bonnie Hunter Box Kite class from March, 2017 (Will make baby quilt.)

27.  Super Mario QA

28.  2015 Orange, pink, grey kite blocks (from Accuquilt die, RSC17)

29.  Maroon Sampler Quilt

30.  Gypsy Wife QA (started again with Angie at Gnome Angel, August 2017) (2019 QA)

31.  Kathleen Tracy’s 2019 Mystery Quilt -- Facebook QA started in March, 2019. 

32.  2016 Plus Blocks (from left over pieces of Soul Searching blocks)

33.  RSC16 Folk Art Birds

34.  Kevin the Quilter's Sapphire Stars Mystery (started Summer 2017) 

35.  Mosaic Mystery Quilt with Meadow Mist Designs (started July, 2019)

  

Blocks Still Need to be Made

1.  Bluepatch Mystery Quilt

2.  Scrap Crystals (working on blue pieces for RSC15)

3.  We Can Do It Skill Builder Sampler

4.  Kim Diehl's Table Topper from her book Simple Charm (Started August, 2017 for to-go bag.)

5.  Finding Nemo Scrappy Trip quilt (my seams don't match Julianne's seams...)
6.  Drunkard's Path Variation baby quilt

Blocks are made but need to be sewn together (and/or some sashing)
1.  Block Swap Adventure Orange/Yellow Sampler (2011-2012)
2.  Cruise blocks won from Libby
3.  Orange/Blue Fish Blocks (that I won)
4.  Split Stars (blocks won from Block Lotto; October, 2012)
5.  African Violet baby quilt (Block Lotto inspired)
6.  Tall Fly (blocks won from Block Lotto, February, 2013)

7.  Fortune Teller (RSC14 started)

8.  Sonja's Windows string quilt 

9.   Block Swap Adventure (2013) Churn Dash Blocks 

10.  Tula Pink's City Sampler 100 Modern Quilt Blocks (New QA starting 5/7/17 Gnome Angel)

11.  Flower Baskets (blue and white with some applique) Block Lotto win 10/1/18

12.  Pre-printed cross stitch pillow sham (May, 2018 sew-to-go bag)

13.  Bonnie Hunter Garden Party (started 3.18.17.)

14.   Cathy's CRAZY BY DESIGN.  It's the Dot Dot Dash Bag. (new to the list April, 2018)

15.  Block Lotto December Scrappy Stars (blue/purple) -- I won the star blocks December, 2018.

16.   Soul Searching -- needs a fun, scrappy border (possibly piano key?)

17.  Love Laugh Quilt Christmas Improv QA

18.  Wings of Spring -- Block Lotto win 3.31.19

Quilts back needs to be made (tops are done) 

1. Card Trick (pink and blue) HUGE charity quilt for local quilt guild
2. Hunter green large (bubbly -- will be a challenge to longarm) charity quilt for the local guild
3. Bubble Gum pink and navy charity quilt for local quilt guild
4. Good Fortune -- A Bonnie Hunter Quiltville Mystery started Thanksgiving weekend, 2018
5.  O - H - I - O quilt 2.5" blocks

Ready to longarm

1.  Catchin' Some Rays needle turn applique crib quilt started March, 2018 (adding EPP hexies!)

I'm linking up with Susan at Quilt Fabrication for Midweek Makers.

I'm linking up with Lorna at Sew Fresh Quilts for Let's Bee Social.

Challenger Baseball State Tournament

This past weekend we had the Challenger Baseball State Tournament.  It was a fun event.  Challenger Baseball is for individuals with special needs.  Temperatures were in the 80's.  There were alot of events happening... baseball, a playground, lunch, games, ceremonies, snacks...  It was a lot of stimulation for some -- even me.  Sometimes people get cranky (including me and our son.)  But it was a fun event, none the less.

 There was a very colorful park that our son really enjoyed.

For the most part he was happy for the day.

Sometimes you just need to back up and chill out.  This was between games.  There was a cool breeze blowing through my truck!

Being real... exposing all my chins (and necks...).

He's tall enough to cheat on the monkey bars now. 

Wings of Spring -- A Block Lotto Quilt

I won the Wings of Spring blocks in the Block Lotto back in March (2019).  I only needed one more block to make the suggested quilt layout by Sophie.   A couple of blocks are turned a little differently than Sophie's layout -- those were an accident  a design choice.  This quilt top is coming together quickly!

I'm linking up at Em's Scrap Bag for Moving It Forward Monday.

It is my goal to finish this quilt for the month of August.  It's going to be a busy month.  My husband is on vacation for a few weeks.  Our anniversary is coming!  This is my birthday month.  School starts on 8/21.  I hope to have to can tomatoes this summer.  I love canning!  This is my OMG August goal to finish this quilt.

I'm also linking up to What A Hoot Quilts for BOMs Away!

Slow Sundy Stitching

Today I'm working on putting the binding on this Cafe' Mocha quilt.  Machine stitch first...  I'm being bold with this quilt and using this oddball green for the binding.  I don't usually contrast like this.

This is what it looks like.  You can read more about it here.  It's my OMG! quilt for July.



Linking up at Slow Sunday Stitching.

RSC19 Pink Owl's Well That Ends Well

This week I had time for two 12.5" blocks (12" finished) for my Owl's Well That Ends Well project.  Again I posed the wings just to be different and give the quilt some interest.  I love seeing these blocks in different colors.  This is going to be a fun quilt when it is finished.

Inspiration is from the book Quilts for Scrap Lovers by Judy Gauthier.   I just changed the block size.  I think the original block size is 15.5" unfinished.

I found a great FREE PATTERN site this week.  It had a lot of red/white/blue inspiration!  Check it out here.

I'm linking up with Angela at SoScrappy for the RSC19.  Check out all of the creative links today at RSC19 @ soscrappy.

The Ugly Quilt Has Been Renamed "Cafe' Mocha"

I searched back to October 14, 2012!!! and found these pictures for the Ugly Fabric Challenge.  It's late Thursday night, but I'm happy that I finished putting the borders on it early this morning. :)  I love the looks and feel of this quilt.  It is no longer going to be deemed the Ugly Quilt.  I will be calling it Cafe' Mocha because that is the pattern name by Amanda Murphy Designs.

I also loaded it onto the longarm frame.  Won't be long now...

Since this quilt has a feminine feel (in my opinion) I decided to quilt it with my Circle Lord giant template board called Cosmos.  It's a floral and swirl design.  Below is a pic from behind the longarm. 

I have a super important job of waiting for a FedEx delivery tomorrow for my husband.  It's a signature required delivery.  I know that there is an option that I can pre-sign for it online...  Let's not do that.  Let's find a seat hmmmm say like from my sewing machine... hmmmm where I have to sit and wait facing the driveway.  SWEET!!!  My kinda job.  I may have to be at my sewing machine for HOURS tomorrow.  I may have a Friday finish if  I'm lucky.

If worse comes to worse and I run out of sewing... Kevin the Quilter released clue #2 to the SSSSQ today.  Did you see the pic of Cheerleader Kevin?  He's rockin' it!

Here are the fabrics I started out with...



I added these and just a couple of mauves/maroons to it...



I'm linking up with Myra at Busy Hands Quilts for

WIP Wednesday, July 24, 2019

I'm still being productive this summer and sewing up a storm.

Today I hope to finish putting borders on my "ugly fabric quilt", load it unto the longarm, and get it half quilted (I haven't thought of what quilting template to use yet--I'm leaning towards zig zags.)  I have added a border that was one of my pink fabrics, now I'm adding the cream border and next a brown border.

This is my July OMG (one main goal) project.  I was able to add several rows while working on it during the FNSI (Friday Night Sew In.)  Here's what it looked like before borders:



I'm super excited that I finally found this OMG project (above)  I had been looking for it for a month.

I made oodles of pink 4-patch blocks working with PINK scraps for the RSC19 (Rainbow Scrap Challenge).



Oh, before I forget to tell you.  I found a ton of cool FREE patterns here.  It's time to start thinking of my 2020 RSC projects!

I completed all of clue number 1 of SSSSQ (a quilt along on Kevin the Quilter's blog) in 1.5" squares.  (Yes, I am also making this quilt with 2.5" squares.)  That's a bunch more 4-patches!

This item comes off my to-do list!  I completed the longarm quilting on this customer quilt:



I made one more Wings of Spring block to complete my set of 40.  I won 39 blocks in the Block Lotto.  I ran across this project while looking for my July OMG shown above.



I currently have 66 on-going projects.

Pieces Still Need to be Cut & Sewn

1.  Cheddar Jack cat pattern from Mama Spark's World 

2.  Digging up Bones (Owen's dinosaur quilt)

3.  Rock Island Campfire Quilt

4.  Picadilly Circle

5.  ...And Sew On BOM at Quiet Play (one block to go)

6.  Go Four It! -- Scrappy 4-patches started as leader/ender June 2017

7.  Patriotic Folk Animals (from Americana Quilts Book) -- hand work for school

8.  Parallelogram Strings -- 2019 String Along at Humble Quilts, started 1.31.19
9.   Leah Day Building Blocks QA
10.  Jelly Roll Rug
11.  Classic Meets Modern BOM
12.  Mod Mod QA (turning this one into a baby quilt) (from block Lotto, mostly circles w/lines)

13.  Owl's Well That Ends Well (RSC19 project started 1.26.19)

14.  Linen and Threads - Mystery Sampler SAL Sew-to-go bag project started 1.21.19

15.  Temperature QA (2019 block-a-day according to high and low temps--changed to table topper.)

16.  Kite Girl (RSC14)

17.  Amish Country BOM (from Lynn, Johnna's mom)

18.  Cabins at the Lake (from Fons & Porter Magazine) (only one house block complete.)

19.   2.5" Scraps from Dani making "cracker" blocks

20.  Sand Castles -- Bonnie Hunter string quilt started January, 2019 -- an RSC project

21.  Little Houses (3.5" blocks)

22.  Pumpkins & the Beanstalk (a second quilt.)

23.  Set of note cards and envelopes

24.  Simply Summer Sensational QA with Kevin the Quilter 2.5" blocks (started 6.27.19)

25.  Slabs with White Rectangle (RSC14 started -- need blocks each month)

26.  Bonnie Hunter Box Kite class from March, 2017 (Will make baby quilt.)

27.  Super Mario QA

28.  2015 Orange, pink, grey kite blocks (from Accuquilt die, RSC17)

29.  Maroon Sampler Quilt

30.  Gypsy Wife QA (started again with Angie at Gnome Angel, August 2017) (2019 QA)

31.  Kathleen Tracy’s 2019 Mystery Quilt -- Facebook QA started in March, 2019. 

32.  2016 Plus Blocks (from left over pieces of Soul Searching blocks)

33.  RSC16 Folk Art Birds

34.  Kevin the Quilter's Sapphire Stars Mystery (started Summer 2017) 

35.  Mosaic Mystery Quilt with Meadow Mist Designs (started July, 2019)

  

Blocks Still Need to be Made

1.  Bluepatch Mystery Quilt

2.  Scrap Crystals (working on blue pieces for RSC15)

3.  We Can Do It Skill Builder Sampler

4.  Amanda Murphy Designs (ugly fabric quilt)

5.  Finding Nemo Scrappy Trip quilt (my seams don't match Julianne's seams...)
6.  Drunkard's Path Variation baby quilt

7.  Kim Diehl's Table Topper from her book Simple Charm (Started August, 2017 for to-go bag.)

Blocks are made but need to be sewn together (and/or some sashing)
1.  Block Swap Adventure Orange/Yellow Sampler (2011-2012)
2.  Cruise blocks won from Libby
3.  Orange/Blue Fish Blocks (that I won)
4.  Split Stars (blocks won from Block Lotto; October, 2012)
5.  African Violet baby quilt (Block Lotto inspired)
6.  Tall Fly (blocks won from Block Lotto, February, 2013)

7.  Fortune Teller (RSC14 started)

8.  Sonja's Windows string quilt 

9.   Block Swap Adventure (2013) Churn Dash Blocks 

10.  Tula Pink's City Sampler 100 Modern Quilt Blocks (New QA starting 5/7/17 Gnome Angel)

11.  Flower Baskets (blue and white with some applique) Block Lotto win 10/1/18

12.  Pre-printed cross stitch pillow sham (May, 2018 sew-to-go bag)

13.  Bonnie Hunter Garden Party (started 3.18.17.)

14.   Cathy's CRAZY BY DESIGN.  It's the Dot Dot Dash Bag. (new to the list April, 2018)

15.  Block Lotto December Scrappy Stars (blue/purple) -- I won the star blocks December, 2018.

16.   Soul Searching -- needs a fun, scrappy border (possibly piano key?)

17.  Love Laugh Quilt Christmas Improv QA

18.  Wings of Spring -- Block Lotto win 3.31.19

Quilts back needs to be made (tops are done) 

1. Card Trick (pink and blue) HUGE charity quilt for local quilt guild
2. Hunter green large (bubbly -- will be a challenge to longarm) charity quilt for the local guild
3. Bubble Gum pink and navy charity quilt for local quilt guild
4. Good Fortune -- A Bonnie Hunter Quiltville Mystery started Thanksgiving weekend, 2018
5.  O - H - I - O quilt 2.5" blocks

Ready to longarm

1.  Catchin' Some Rays needle turn applique crib quilt started March, 2018 (adding EPP hexies!)

Recently finished

1.  Customer green patchwork quilt (CM)

I'm linking up with Susan at Quilt Fabrication for Midweek Makers.

I'm linking up with Lorna at Sew Fresh Quilts for Let's Bee Social.

Cafe' Mocha -- Moving It Forward Monday with the Ugly Quilt

I'm still working on my Cafe' Mocha (Amanda Murphy pattern).  Row by row.  It's been a WIP for several years (2014ish).  The pieces need resewn because some of them are coming apart from me handling them too much back then.  But I'm still working...

I love it!

Working on it during the FNSI (Friday Night Sew In) really helped it along.

I'm laying out the pieces on the floor next to my sewing machine/computer area.  I'm hoping to disperse the different "ugly fabrics" as much as possible.  (Seriously, I'm loving the looks of this quilt.  I don't think there's anything ugly about it.)

I'm linking up at Em's Scrap Bag for Moving It Forward Monday.