RSC16 -- Scrap Saturday in Blue

This week I got a lot of little sewing projects done!  I made some Birds in the Air blocks for the Block Lotto.

 

I made some Quilty 365 blocks using blues

 

Blue shirting background and mystery quilt scraps.

 

 

Blue sky background with icicles.

 

 

I even had time to make some blocks with blue in it for this baby quilt.  It was a little hard to find some sunshine for a good picture.  It was 4 degrees F this morning.  Brrrrr.

 

Here's a little sunshine...

 

I'm linking up with Angela's blog, SoScrappy. for the RSC16.  Check out what other fun blues were used by the group!

 

WIP Wednesday

Welcome to the first WIP Wednesday of the year.  I have been pretty productive this week:

I finished this 16-patch baby quilt top:



I've been putting together blocks for Allietare (Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilt.)

 

I've been working on blocks for the Quilty 365.





I did the first block for the Pat Sloan Secret Garden Mystery Quilt.



I made a classic bow tie block.



I made blocks for the December Block Lotto.



I'm linking up with Lee at Freshly Pieced today http://www.freshlypieced.com/

 

 

New Projects This Week

1.  Started clue #1 for Bonnie Hunter 2015 Mystery, ALLIETARE!

 

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.  Fortune Teller (RSC14 started -- need blocks each month)

7.  Spring Sampler Series at Cora's Quilts (added to the maroon blocks)

8.  Starry Night (my BOM project)

9.  That Quirky Scrap QA with Leila at Sewn (I finally found those four patches I did!)

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.  Spools (Leader & Ender project with Bonnie Hunter)

15,  Sew Sweet Simplicity BOM (made from shirt scraps)

16.  Kite Girl (RSC14) Need one more red block and sashing made

17.  Charm Square Sampler QA by Modern Tradition Quilts

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

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

22.  Little Houses

23.  RSC16 Challenge (swap top) with Julianne

24.  Starry Night (Customer BOM project)

 

Blocks Still Need to be Made

1.  NY Beauty

2.  RSC15 Sawtooth Star Sampler & alternate blocks

3.  Scrap Crystals

4.  Amanda Murphy Designs (ugly fabric quilt)

5. Finding Nemo Scrappy Trip quilt

6. MSBHQAL (Molli Sparkles Broken Herringbone Quilt Along) (making into a table topper)

7.  Drunkard's Path Variation baby quilt

8.  Bluepatch Mystery Quilt
9.  Folk Art Birds (RSC16 project)
10.  23.  ALLIETARE  Bonnie Hunter 2015 Mystery

Blocks are made but need to be sewn together (and/or some sashing)

1.  Block Swap Adventure Orange/Yellow Sampler (2011-2012)

2.  Leah Day Building Blocks QA -- making into a baby 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.  Orca Bay
7.  We Can Do It Skill Builder Sampler
8.  Sonja's Windows string quilt

9.  Block Swap Adventure (2013) Churn Dash Blocks 

10.  The School Bell Has Rung sampler at laugh yourself into Stitches. 

 

 Quilts back needs to be made (tops are done)

1.  Celtic Solstice (Bonnie Hunter Mystery 2013)

2.  Surround Stars Pillow (one big block is here somewhere.  It will be a pillow when I find it.)

3.  Spangled Stars QA

4. December 2014 Block Lotto Big O blocks that I won 12.31.14!

5.  16-Patch baby quilt

 

Ready to longarm

1.  Little Letters QA Quilt (A RSC14 project)
2.  Customer's Flower Sampler quilt (Lisa)
3.  Customer's wall hanging quilt (Lisa) ON THE FRAME for some CUSTOM work!

4.  Customer's Christmas quilt (Lisa)

5.  Humble Quilts Mystery Mini (can't decide how to quilt this)

 

 Quilted, needs binding

1. 

 

Completed this week:

 

 

16 Before 2016 Goal Setting Plus a Few More! Goal Setting

Sixteen finished quilts in 2016 sounds like a lot to do.  But when someone like me has 53 current projects on my WIP (Work in Progress) list, it should be a manageable task.  So here's what I'd like to accomplish for 2016:

1.  Finish Bonnie Hunter's 2015 Mystery Quilt, Allietare!  I have clues 1, 2, 3, and 5 complete.  I shall work on Clue 4 this week.







2.  Finish Celtic Solstice (Bonnie Hunter Mystery 2013).  The top has been complete.  The crazy pieced back still needs to be finished before quilting.



3.  Finish the brown/green/blue/cream 16-patch quilt that was part of a RSC15 (Rainbow Scrap Challenge, 2015) project.  The top is complete; the back is one fabric.  It needs to be longarmed.



4.  Finish longarming (Lisa) Customer's wall hanging quilt which is ON THE FRAME for some CUSTOM work!  This quilt will also need a binding even though it is a customer quilt.



5.  Finish December 2014 Block Lotto Big O blocks that I won 12.31.14!  The quilt has been put together as a top.  The back has been made (one fabric).  It needs to be longarmed and a binding.



6.  Finish a Customer's Flower Sampler quilt (Lisa).  This quilt needs to have the back made larger and then longarm quilted and binding.

7.  Finish a Customer's Christmas quilt (Lisa).  This quilt needs to have the back made larger and the longarmed quilted and binding.

8.  Finish Sew Sweet Simplicity (Customer Quilt) for Maxine.  The blocks are made and need to be put together and then longarmed and bound.

9.  Finish a baby quilt for our speech therapist that is due in June, 2016.  (Gender not announced yet.)

10.  Finish a baby quilt for Baby A for a family at church.  Baby is due in June, 2016.

11.  Finish a baby quilt for Baby B (yes, twins!) for a family at church.  Baby is due in June, 2016.

12.  Finish a quilt top for Julianne.  This will be one of my RSC16 projects.  The pattern we are using is called Soul Searching.  "Soul Searching" is a quilt design by Kathy Doughty of Material Obsession.



13.  Finally complete my Amanda Murphy Designs (ugly fabric quilt).  This quilt has been on my WIP list for far too long.  It's not ugly at all (it's just a fabrics that I got in a swap that someone else didn't like.  But that was way back in 2012! 

14.  Figure out how to sash and border and finish my kite girl quilt.  It was a RSC14 project.  I love these little kite girls!  They really deserve to be finished.



15.  Make a cute baby quilt out of these fabulous kite blocks.  Accuquilt sent me this kite die so that I could be a die tester.  I haven't finished the quilt yet.  I love these cheerful colors!  Now that my fabric scraps are sorted by color it should be a simple fix.  All I need to do is cut and sew!



16.  Finish a red/white/blue charity quilt that will be entered in a contest at the 2016 Spring Tea.  This quilt has not been started yet!  I just printed an envelopes pattern that will work. :)

17.  Finish this sweet 16-patch baby quilt.



18.  Complete this Country Roads Mini.  It was a mystery at Humble Quilts for 2015.



19.  Longarm and Customer's Flower Sampler quilt (Lisa) before summer.

20.  Longarm and finish a Customer's Christmas quilt (Lisa)

Day 4 and 5 of Quilty 365

I missed posting about Day 4 yesterday on 1/4 for the Quilty 365.  Yesterday I worked on the 2015 Bonnie Hunter Mystery, Allietare!  I used a couple of the little pieces that were headed for the scrap bin for the circle block that day.  No, the sky wasn't polka dotted yesterday, although it did snow.  I just liked this shirting fabric in the scrap bin.

Today when I took our second grader to school it was a brrrrrr 4 degrees!  I made some improv icicles.  Brrrrr.  The sky is a pretty blue today.

 

Linking up with Connie at Freemotion by the River here for Linky Tuesday. Come join the fun!

 

OMG! One Monthly Goal!

This month I have one simple goal I would like to complete.  It's this baby quilt that I made blocks during the light green month of the RSC15 and blues that I made this month for the RSC16.

 

I hope it is warm enough for me to longarm it.  (My longarm machine is in another house that is not finished yet.  We do not heat it all the time -- just enough to not have the pipes freeze.)

 

I'm linking up with Heidi's blog, Red Letter Quilts here.

 

You can check out the Flickr Group -- here.

A Sweet Bow Tie

I decided to make a sweet little bow tie block today (8" finished).  I'm sewing along with Caroline at Sew Can She, which you can find the bow tie tutorial here.  I made it in these colors because I still need more fun blocks to go on the back of my Celtic Solstice.    Here's my maroon bow tie block:

 

I'm linking up just this one block at Sew Can She linky party in hopes to win some new yummy fabrics.  The winner of our Classic Blocks: Fresh Fabric sewalong this month will get this sweet little bundle that includes 8 fat quarters plus one 24'' long panel print. You'll be able to sew up a bunch of beautiful baby quilts with this!

Mystery Link-up Monday -- Allietare!

I'm so excited to be so far along with my Mystery Quilt.  The 2015 Mystery Quilt by Bonnie Hunter at Quiltville is called Allietare!  I'm already putting rows together!  I am LOVING the way this mystery turned out!  LOVE the colors!!!

Here's what I have done so far:

 

I'm linking up on Bonnie's blog, here.

 

 

I was quite motivated to get the last of the pieces cut for the Allietare! mystery.  My sewing area is a MESS!!!  Now that I have the final pieces cut, I can take several bins back to the longarm room (in another building) where they belong.  There scraps are sorted by color and it's so much easier to start/cut a project in that room because of all the extra tables and space.  Can't wait to be a little less clutter free in my sewing area!  That will help me work on bigger projects for 2016!