WIP Wednesday 9/3/14

School is back in session.  I will hopefully be back into the swing of things as far as quilting goes soon!  Here's what I have been working on lately:

Yesterday I finished block 9 of the Pat Sloan Globetrotting Mystery BOM.

 

Here's all the blocks thus far.  I'm not that thrilled with my colors at this point.

 

I also made Block 8 this week:

 

 

I'm caught up with the blocks for the Sew at Home Mummy Classic Meets Modern QA.

 

 

I finished longarming swirls on the 2014 Pegasus charity quilt for my local quilt guild.

 

 

Here's the Window blocks that I made for the August Block Lotto.  They will be put in the mail tomorrow to three of the six lucky winners.  What a fun time with scraps!

 

 

I had to unfortunately learn how to butcher chickens.  These "Craigslist" Barred Rock Chickens never got better from eating each others feathers.  They would not eat any of the chicken feed that I offered them and would only eat scraps.  The three of them would lay less than seven eggs per week.  But I did learn another skill -- butchering chickens -- thanks to YouTube.

 

 

 

New Projects This Week
None

Pieces Still Need to be Cut & Sewn

1.  Underpants Project 

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

3.  Rock Island Campfire Quilt4.  Picadilly Circle

5. ...And Sew On BOM at Quiet Play (one block to go)
6.  MSBHQAL (Molli Sparkles Broken Herringbone Quilt Along)
7.  Bonnie Hunter's 2013 Celtic Solstice Mystery
8.  Gypsy Wife QA (recycling  Red/White Flower Basket Quilt into this project & duds.)
9.  Quilt Doodle Doodles Designs 2014 BOM
10.  Love Laugh Quilt Christmas Improv QA
11.  Classic Meets Modern BOM
12.  Mod Mod QA

13.  Pat Sloan Globetrotting BOM 

14.  Super Mario QA

15.  Spring Sampler Series at Cora's Quilts

 

Blocks Still Need to be Made

1.  NY Beauty

2.  Orca Bay
3.  We Can Do It Skill Builder Sampler
4.  Red Frosty & Friends quilt #3
5.  Maroon Star Sampler Quilt
6.  Color coordinated hexagon quilt
7.  Gourmet Quilter Sampler
8.  Bluepatch Mystery Quilt
9.  Amanda Murphy Designs (ugly fabric quilt) (Set as a Q2 Goal)
10.  Drunkard's Path Variation baby quilt
11.  Finding Nemo Scrappy Trip quilt
12.  Blue Frosty & Friends quilt #1
13.  Blue Frosty & Friends quilt #2

Blocks are made but need to be sewn together (and/or some sashing)
1.  Block Swap Adventure Sampler (2011-2012)
2.  Butterfly Blocks (that I won) (Set as a Q2 goal)
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) (worked on these blocks this week.)
6.  Tall Fly
7.  Block Lotto Dud (Orphan Block Quilt)

Quilts back needs to be made (tops are done)

Ready to longarm
 1.  Market Day Sew Along (Heartspun Quilts)

Quilted, needs binding
1.  Dutchman's Puzzle
2.  Born on the 4th (needs to be completed by 8/20 for the county fair)

Completed this week:
1.  2014 Pegasus Charity Quilt for our local quilt guild (longarming)


 My WIP count this week went from 39 to 38.  My WIP goal for New Years Day 2015 is 19.  I'm linking up with Lee at Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday!

 

I am working from this list right now.  I need to get caught up on my BOM's and county fair projects.

 

1.  Complete my Born on the 4th flag quilt before the fair deadline of 8/20.

2.  Completed my mounted block before 8/20 for the same fair.
3.  Complete my Paris, France block for the Pat Sloan Globetrotting BOM.
4.  Pull bright green scraps for the RSC14.
5.  Pull black and white and bright scraps for the Block Lotto windows blocks for August.
6.  Pull fabrics and make Sweet Tooth row for the Quilt Doodle Designs BOM.
7.  Cut fabrics for the July Toasty Mugs row for the Quilt Doodle Designs BOM.
8.  Cut fabrics for the June Northern Hockey Skates row for the Quilt Doodle Designs BOM.
9.  Cut fabrics for June Star block in the Cora's Quilts Super Mario Brothers QA.
10. Cut fabrics for July Cloud block in the Cora's Quilts Super Mario Brothers QA.
11. Cut fabrics for August Mushroom block in the Cora's Quilts Super Mario Brothers QA.
12.  Finish longarming Pegasus 2014 charity auction quilt for my local quilt guild.
13.  Select fabrics for the ugly churn dash block for the quilt for my local quilt guild.
14.  Decided how I want to quilt the Market Day Sew Along from Heartspun Quilts blog.
15.  Finish Block 8 of the Spring Sampler at Cora's Quilts.
16.  Finish Block 9 of the Spring Sampler at Cora's Quilts.
17.  Complete the August Churn Dash block for the Classic Meets Modern at SewatHomeMummy.

Globetrotting BOM with Pat Sloan -- August

Block 8 of the Pat Sloan Globetrotting Mystery BOM is Paris, France.  I really like the design of this block.  Here's mine:

Classic Meets Modern BOM -- September

This month's block for the Classic Meets Modern BOM at Sew at Home Mummy is the maple leaf.  I did mine in one color with improv HST for the leaf points.  Here it is:

 

I'm linking up at Sew at Home Mummy's blog for September Maple Leaf block. 

 

Summer fun

 

 

Pumpkin Pie Cupcake Recipe

1 15 oz can pumpkin puree
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 cup evaporated milk
2/3 cup all purpose flour
2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 12 cup muffin tin with silicone liners, foil liners sprayed with cooking spray or just spray the cups with cooking spray. Either of these three methods will make it easy to take the cupcake out after it’s cooked. Paper liners make it difficult to remove the cupcakes.
Mix the pumpkin, sugar, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla extract and milk. Add the flour, pumpkin spice, salt, baking powder and baking soda to the mixture. Fill each muffin cup with 1/3 cup of the mixture. Bake for twenty minutes and let cool for twenty minutes. Remove cupcakes from pan and chill in the fridge for 30 minutes. Top with whipped cream and sprinkle more pumpkin pie spice on top and serve. Makes 12 cupcakes.

Friday Finish -- 2014 Pegasus Charity Quilt

I finally finished a project this week!  This quilt was pieced by members of my local quilt guild.  My part was to longarm it with swirls.  It turned out great!  Love these civil war colors!  This quilt will go to the annual auction that Pegasus Farms has.  This is a horse riding establishment that caters to those with special needs.

 

 

Thank you, thank you, LQG member that gave me a solid back to use for this quilt!!!  Although I love pieced backs (for myself).  I especially love it when someone else gives me a one-piece back!

 

 

It seems like forever since I posted a Friday Finish!

 

I'm happy to link up today's finish with Richard and Tanya Quilts for the Link-A-Finish FRIDAY.

Beach Towel Hide-A-Key Tutorial

Beach Towel Hide A Key Tutorial

I now that summer is almost done here in Ohio.  I'm posting this for a friend that recently went to the water park with us.  I'm also linking up with Kathy, the Chicken Chick for the Clever Chicks Blog Hop.

Welcome to my first tutorial.  This is my simple Hide-A-Key Beach Towel idea.  I don't like to take a bag or purse to the waterpark.  This is where I keep my "valuables":

To make this, you will need a cheap beach towel, about 10" of Velcro (both sides), and a sewing machine and thread.

Cut Velcro pieces evenly for both sides.  In this case these strips were cut about 4.75".  Securely sew Velcro with a zigzag stitch onto the ends of the towel, leaving a small space for where the towel will be folded.

 

Hook Velcro together and fold towel.  Double stitch on edge of towel to make a "hem". 

 

 

Stitch to make pockets on each end.  I made one pocket about five inches long to accommodate a camera, credit card, and key.

 

 

 

I stitched about 10" on the other end to accommodate a bottle of sunscreen.  The center area is void and not used as a pocket.  You could use the whole end of the towel, but I want to be discrete when getting things in and out of the pocket.

 

 

Hope you liked my first tutorial. If this is your first time here, welcome to my blog.

Scrap Saturday 8.16.14

I'm starting to get some of my sewing mojo back after having so much fun with our seven-year old son.  I finally unpacked the quilting items that I took with me on vacation (which I touched very little -- that's a good thing!)

This week I worked on Little Window Blocks for the August Block Lotto.  I used my green scraps, but then threw in a few other colors.

This is all thanks to the Rainbow Scrap Challenge, 2014. I'm linking up with Angela at SoScrapy: ScrapHappy blog.