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Thursday, January 8, 2015
Quilt Doodles 2014 BOM Blog Hop
I'm excited to be part of the Quilt Doodles 2014 BOM Blog Hop. Hopefully this will motivate me to finish the border, quilting, and binding. These quilts are adorable!!! Have you seen any of them? This pattern was designed by Cindy of Quilt Doodle Designs. Cindy is also gracious enough to giveg away some prizes to those who participate and to those that comment....
Mark your calendar so that you can see some really cute quilts!
Mark your calendar so that you can see some really cute quilts!
2015 Finish-Along (FAL) Goals
I have made the following 2015 plans to finish these quilts in the first quarter of the year:
1. Urban Churn Dashes (baby quilt) This project is still in the block making process.
2. Scrumptious Butter Churn (quilt) Blocks are done; sashing to begin.
3. Plaid Patches (table topper) This was quilted this week. It needs binding!
4. Quilt Doodle Design BOM. The top needs to be complete by my blog hop day of 1/26. I'm hoping to have a complete finish by then! Here it is the last time I posted about it. It needs borders, a back, and longarmed.
I'm linking up with Adrianne at On The Windy Side.
1. Urban Churn Dashes (baby quilt) This project is still in the block making process.
2. Scrumptious Butter Churn (quilt) Blocks are done; sashing to begin.
3. Plaid Patches (table topper) This was quilted this week. It needs binding!
4. Quilt Doodle Design BOM. The top needs to be complete by my blog hop day of 1/26. I'm hoping to have a complete finish by then! Here it is the last time I posted about it. It needs borders, a back, and longarmed.
I'm linking up with Adrianne at On The Windy Side.
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
WIP Wednesday 1,7.15
Happy January, 2015. I've got a lot of quilting plans in store for 2015. I ALWAYS have more than fifteen projects going on at one time. This year my plan is to finish two quilts for every one I start. Wish me luck on that one. Let's get started with what happened this week.
I quilted my Plaid Patches quilt with the longarm template from Circle Lord called Cosmos. Here's my 27" table topper. This was one of my RSC14 projects, playing with 1.5" strips of browns and greys. The pattern can be found in the book Fast, Fun, and Fabulous Quilts, by Connie Tesene and Mary Tendall of Country Threads. Here's the front:
Here's a poor picture to show the back and the quilting:
Here's the first two rows of my Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilt, Grand Illusion. I'm calling it the first two rows because the first row (with the constant blue squares) is the sashing row. The next row are the six Grand Illusion blocks. I went with the constant blue squares in the sashing because my scrappy colors are just sooooo crazy. Hopefully I'll do a row of sashing and a row of blocks a week. You can check out Bonnie Hunter's site, Quiltville, for more info on Grand Illusion.
I'm linking up with Lee at Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday!
I quilted my Plaid Patches quilt with the longarm template from Circle Lord called Cosmos. Here's my 27" table topper. This was one of my RSC14 projects, playing with 1.5" strips of browns and greys. The pattern can be found in the book Fast, Fun, and Fabulous Quilts, by Connie Tesene and Mary Tendall of Country Threads. Here's the front:
Here's a poor picture to show the back and the quilting:
I made the first sampler block within the sawtooth star for the RSC15. You can find out more about the RSC15 at Angela's blog, soscrappy,
Deb from StitchinTherapy has motivated me to string it along this year too. I'm going to work on Sonja's Windows. It is from America Loves Scrap Quilts 2009. I made all 10 blocks on New Years eve/day. Here's my string blocks to start:
I took in FIVE customer quilts to longarm! (Sorry, no photos at this time.) Soooo excited!!!
I'm linking up with Lee at Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday!
New Projects This Week
1. None
Pieces Still Need to be Cut & Sewn
1. Underpants Project
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. MSBHQAL (Molli Sparkles Broken Herringbone Quilt Along)
7. Spring Sampler Series at Cora's Quilts
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 (turning this one into a baby quilt)
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 (turning this one into a baby quilt)
13. Super Mario QA
14. Grand Illusion -- Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilt 2014
15, Sew Sweet Simplicity BOM (made from shirt scraps)
16. Kite Girl (RSC14) Need one more red block and sashing made
Blocks Still Need to be Made
1. NY Beauty
2. Orca Bay
3. We Can Do It Skill Builder Sampler
4. Sweet Simplicity BOM
5. Finding Nemo Scrappy Trip quilt
6. Color coordinated hexagon quilt
7. Gourmet Quilter Sampler
8. Bluepatch Mystery Quilt
9. Amanda Murphy Designs (ugly fabric quilt)
10. Drunkard's Path Variation baby quilt
5. Finding Nemo Scrappy Trip quilt
6. Color coordinated hexagon quilt
7. Gourmet Quilter Sampler
8. Bluepatch Mystery Quilt
9. Amanda Murphy Designs (ugly fabric quilt)
10. Drunkard's Path Variation baby quilt
11. Scrap Crystals (working on blue pieces for RSC15)
12. RSC15 Sawtooth Star Sampler
Blocks are made but need to be sewn together (and/or some sashing)
1. Block Swap Adventure Sampler (2011-2012)
2. Block Lotto Dud (Orphan Block Quilt)
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 are made but need to be sewn together (and/or some sashing)
1. Block Swap Adventure Sampler (2011-2012)
2. Block Lotto Dud (Orphan Block Quilt)
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
7. Scrumptious Butter Churn All blocks are made!!!
8. Sonja's Windows string quilt
10. December 2014 Block Lotto Big O blocks that I won 12.31.14!
11. Quilt Doodle Designs BOM, 2014 (needs border)
Quilts back needs to be made (tops are done)
1. Celtic Solstice (Bonnie Hunter Mystery 2013)
Ready to longarm
1. Little Letters QA Quilt (A RSC14 project)
1. Celtic Solstice (Bonnie Hunter Mystery 2013)
Ready to longarm
1. Little Letters QA Quilt (A RSC14 project)
2. Customer Quilt #1 -- Churn Dashes
3. Customer Quilt #2 -- Scrap Squares
4. Customer Quilt #3 -- Bonnie Hunter Stars pattern
5. Customer Quilt #4 -- Browns and Golds
6. Customer Quilt #5 -- Scrappy Fun
Quilted, needs binding
1. Plaid Patches Table Topper (A RSC14 project) -- just needs binding.
1. Plaid Patches Table Topper (A RSC14 project) -- just needs binding.
Completed this week:
1.
47 -- Current WIPS
00 -- Finishes for 2015
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Plaid Patches on the Frame
On the frame today I have my little 27" square table topper. This pattern is in the book Fast, Fun, and Fabulous Quilts, by Connie Tesene and Mary Tendall of Country Threads.
I am quilting it with an edge to edge design from Circle Lord called Cosmos.
Monday, January 5, 2015
Grand Illusion - Time to make Blocks!
Here's my first two blocks for Bonnie Hunter's 2014 Mystery, Grand Illusion.
I'm linking up for Mystery Monday at Quiltvilles Quips and Snips. Check out what the others did.
I'm also linking up with Cynthia at Quilting is More Fun Than Housework here. For her first Oh Scrap! linky party. She will be posting great ways to use those scraps with ideas and tutorials and maybe even a free pattern! Come join the fun! (There's a new button on my sidebar.) I think the title Oh Scrap! is just so much fun!
I'm linking up for Mystery Monday at Quiltvilles Quips and Snips. Check out what the others did.
I'm also linking up with Cynthia at Quilting is More Fun Than Housework here. For her first Oh Scrap! linky party. She will be posting great ways to use those scraps with ideas and tutorials and maybe even a free pattern! Come join the fun! (There's a new button on my sidebar.) I think the title Oh Scrap! is just so much fun!
Saturday, January 3, 2015
RSC15 -- Scrap Saturday -- Blues
Welcome to my first post this year for the RSC15 (Rainbow Scrap Challenge, 2015). I LOVE the RSC!!! It motivates me to use my scraps.
This week I made the 6.5" block, Whirling Geese, and then surrounded it with the sawtooth block.
This photo was taken from Angela's blog, SoScrappy. This will be the layout for these blocks.
We had more blue fun last night. Since our son has to go back to school on Monday we are still letting him stay up late (until 11pm or so). He's really getting in to the cutting apart of pieces (and getting good at it!) This time he also wanted to lay out the parts and take a picture of them.
I'm linking up with Angela's blog, soscrappy, for the first Scrap Saturday of 2015. Happy New Year!!!
This week I made the 6.5" block, Whirling Geese, and then surrounded it with the sawtooth block.
This photo was taken from Angela's blog, SoScrappy. This will be the layout for these blocks.
We had more blue fun last night. Since our son has to go back to school on Monday we are still letting him stay up late (until 11pm or so). He's really getting in to the cutting apart of pieces (and getting good at it!) This time he also wanted to lay out the parts and take a picture of them.
The first picture is the one he took. :) The little flying geese units are blues and neutrals. The nine patches are blues and aquas and greens.
When working on the Grand Illusion mystery quilt (by Bonnie Hunter) I overcut the green squares. This was just a sign for me to find another project for them. These blocks are for Bonnie Hunter's design called Scrap Crystals. It's in the book More Adventures of Leaders and Enders (AN AWESOME BOOK!) Yesterday on Bonnie's blog, Quiltville Quips and Snips she posted about Scrap Crystals in Plano. You can see her post here.
It's raining here in Ohio. Looks like a good day to keep chain piecing those blues and neutrals HST's!
I'm linking up with Angela's blog, soscrappy, for the first Scrap Saturday of 2015. Happy New Year!!!
Thursday, January 1, 2015
New Years Sewing
Since I didn't do a New Year's Eve mystery I decided to work on my string basket. Here's the progress I made. Even though the string basket doesn't look like it went down much, I did get to use a lot of the long strings. These blocks are 14" square.
You can see the string quilt that I will be working on here: http://www.mccallsquilting.com/mccallsquilting/articles/Sonjas_Windows).
Can't wait to see fast progress!
All ten blocks are done for the first step. Although the fabrics are completely random, I was neat that I had a lot of the red/white peppermint stripe fabric to put in each block. Maybe that will give it a little uniformity? I'm not sure what color I'll be using around the blocks (sashing) yet. I'm just know that it will all be the same fabric and definitely from my stash.
Deb from StitchinTherapy has motivated me to string it along this year too. I'm going to work on Sonja's Windows. It is from America Loves Scrap Quilts 2009.
You can see the string quilt that I will be working on here: http://www.mccallsquilting.com/mccallsquilting/articles/Sonjas_Windows).
Can't wait to see fast progress!
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