Design Wall Monday

I had my list of projects to work on at retreat.

First on the list was to put the binding on this quilt.

I'll hand stitch it down this week while watching tv at night.

Next up was to finish up the doll clothes.

I had the pants finished and made this shirt.

I'll make the remaining shirts at home and mail them to my friend this week.

My machine doesn't like to sew skinny knit seams.

But she does great paper piecing which was my next project

 and what I worked on the rest of the weekend.

I ended the weekend with 20 completed Virginia Bound quarters and

18 more with the centers sewn.

Mindless string sewing is a great retreat project.

When I got home from retreat, 

my energy level was low but my mind wouldn't shut off.

I decided to create a temporary design wall to work on this baby quilt.

It wasn't as easy as it was in my mind but I got it done.

Now I'll make progress on the baby quilt.

 Monday morning edit:
Blocks fell off into a pile on the floor.

I'll continue to use my bed as a design wall until I purchase some foam insulation.

BooHoo.

As I do with each retreat, 

I stopped to take a picture of the tree snag.

The fall colors were stunning.

The weather was clear and cold and beautiful!

My project list is long but my energy level is high!

We had a great time with friends old and new.

I especially love when I can retreat with one of my daughters.

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Design Wall Monday

What a fun, full week I've had! 

My plan was to quilt and quilt I did.

Tuesday was a good day to channel my friend Julie and get some basting done.

I set up my basting tables and basted 4 quilts,

2 baby quilts, 1 twin and 1 queen.

I had one already basted and on the machine with the quilting started.

When Ernie is away hunting for the day,

I take advantage of no interruptions.

This is the Calendar Wall Hanging that was 1st up.

I can't show it to you until I share it with the gals at Christmas Club.

I'm so happy to have it finished finally and can't wait to hang it.

Next up is baby quilt 1.

I don't know who designed this block. 

I've searched and searched but have no idea.

It was fun to sit down at EQ7 and figure it out.

Baby quilt #2

These will both go to a local charity.

I loved digging in my strip bins and using up strips from our swaps.

It was also fun deciding on backs for these.

I wanted fun and bright (and fabric out of my stash!).

My next retreat is next weekend.

I had already planned to work on Virginia Bound from

Bonnie Hunter's book Scraps & Shirttales.

My string bins are overflowing and I've wanted to make this one for a very long time.

Friday I decided to cook up my last Blue Moon pumpkin

and get the puree in the freezer.

My friend Pam gave me 3 of these,

I gave 1 to Crystal.

I saved the seeds from my 2 to share.

She saved her seeds too.

We are going to have plenty of pumpkins next year.

Isn't it pretty.

I don't think mine is going to last very long.

Hubs has decided he really really likes pumpkin bars.

We celebrated this weekend with Leland.

He's in the blonde in the middle.

Happy 9th birthday Big Guy! 💗

My plan for this week is to take a short break from quilting.

I'm going to make some doll clothes for some special girls

 and a couple sweaters for myself.

Then it's back to quilting.

This is the next quilt to be quilted.

Have you watched Angela Walters' on You Tube?

She has a series on Dot To Dot quilting.

That's what I'm going to do on this one. 

Or we can say that's my plan. 😉

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Design Wall Monday

I'm pressuring myself to get caught up with the 2018 UFO Challenge.

I'm starting to write this blog post Sunday morning.

I am working on the borders today.

This is the UFO for August.

I was so afraid to start quilting it.

But after a heart to heart with myself,

I decided to go for it!

I wanted to use rulers.

My machine did pretty good for a while.

Then we started to struggle.

It was no fun anymore so I took the ruler foot off and went to free motion.

Now that was fun!

Lots of fun.

Not perfect by any means but neither am I.

And this is my quilt so no big deal.

Of course the seam ripper has to come out to play.

The machine has to be threaded right to get a good stitch.

At least it was an easy take out.

Sunday morning the borders have begun.

Can I do it?

Can I get the binding on it so I can take it to the beach to finish?

Not if I don't get back to it....

To Be Continued. 

It's so fun winning the bobbin chicken game. 🐔

I knew I must be close so when I was ready to turn to the next border,

I checked.

I win!!!

This time... 😀😀

and the next 2 times, I was the looser. 

That black stuff...

That's a Teflon oven liner. 

I need to replace my supreme slider so I tried this.

It works great.

I bought it from Amazon last year and finally tried it out.

I just marked the needle hole and made it larger 

and tape it down with painter's tape.

Quilting is done, binding is sewn on.

Waahoo!!

I was going to get the next UFO out to baste today but
a cute little 6 year old reminded me that I said I would make her a new apron.
So a new apron will be made instead.

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Design Wall Monday

Nothing on my design wall this week!

I am so close to being finished with this month's UFO from 

the 2018 UFO Challenge at Patchwork Times.

I am still 2 behind but I'm ok with that.

I need to add the binding but it's ready to go.

I wanted to grab a picture before dark.

Tumblers was the Quiltville 2015 Leader/Ender Challenge.

I used my Accuquilt 3" tumbler die to cut my pieces.

At some point I decided I wanted a dark border.

I used up so many little pieces of fabric!

I still have so many little pieces of fabric!

A few years ago, my friend Harriet gave me bags of panels.

I have used some of them for the back of my

Ultimate Scrap Quilt Like Julie's.

This time I cut 4 different fabrics into 10 1/2" squares.

It's kinda hard to tell that I arranged them in a diagonal pattern.

I love this piece.

I used lots of fun prints. 

Why do I always have to fold over the backing?

Guess it's not fun until the seam ripper comes out.

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June's UFO Complete! WaaHoo!!

The 2014 Hexi BOM turned out cute!

Again I ask myself why did I wait so long.

A cute back.

This is for my grandson Leland.

He doesn't ask for much and when he first saw it, he loved all the blocks.

Today I asked him if he wanted it.

You should have seen that precious face light up.

It was fun to try to write words.

 Hugs, hearts, kisses and love.

This was a pretty good book. 

Not greatly exciting but it held my interest and kept me quilting.

Now that I am caught up with this years UFO Challenge from Patchwork Times,

I need to hunt down July's UFO.

It's in there somewhere.

Edited to add cuteness.

He likes his new quilt.

Design Wall Monday

WaaHoo, I sewed! and sewed and sewed!!!

Beach sewing square in a square blocks.

These will be a border for an upcoming UFO finish.

More beach sewing.

The final blocks for Mischief Quilt.

The 1st 2 rows are being sewn together.

Deli Geese was May's UFO and it's now complete.

It's headed for the beach for outside sitting.

I started a new project. 

I saw this quilt on the TV show Home Improvement.

I had to back it up, pause in just the right place and take a picture.

Then I started doing an internet search until I found a picture of  a whole quilt.

I found a picture of an Antique Diamond Star on Linda Franz's website.

That story lead to this story at Piece N Quilt.

So I got out some recycled shirt fabric and then ordered diamond papers from Paper Pieces.

When the papers arrived, I had to cut fabric.

Then I had to baste a few.

They are large enough that I won't glue baste. 

I need lots more variety.

I need lots more time to cut but until I do, I have plenty to baste right now.

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May UFO Is Finally Finished!

I'm still behind on my 2018 UFO Challenge.

June's quilt is up next.

I'm so excited to have this finished the May UFO.

It took longer to quilt than I thought it would but

you really need to sit at the machine to get things done.

I'm a firm believer in finished is better than perfect and

this is far from perfect! 

I used flannel for the back and

quilted it with lots of curves and swirls.

It was pretty fun.

About mid way I wondered why I didn't just meander!

Really I wanted to practice free motion curves and there were a lot of them!

It's now in the washer and will live at the beach as a sit outside and cuddle quilt.

I've pulled out the June project.
I made the backing and the binding.
I'm ready to baste it and get started on it.

Design Wall Monday on Sunday Night

Last week was a super busy, fun week at the beach. 

We cane home Wednesday and after catching up with everything,

I started quilting the Deli Geese Nickel Quilt, 

which is my May UFO.

After stabilizing everything with the walking foot,

I switched over to free motion quilting.

I'm working on my curves.

I have a long way to go. LOL 

This precious babe is my great niece Timberley.

I delivered her quilt to her the other day and got some serious baby cuddle time.

She is such a doll and so is her mom!

This clock is now decorating my sewing room.

Such a sweet birthday gift from our daughter DeeDee.

She knows me so well. 

This week we are headed back to the beach. 

I'll work on my quilt Monday but don't think I'll finish it before we leave.

I have a couple of cutting projects that I plan to work on getting kitted up this week.

I joined a charity quilting group at the beach but I won't be there when they meet this month.

I'd like to have 2 or 3 quilt tops ready when I am able to go.

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Design Wall Monday

What a full, full week!

I picked up On Ringo Lake that my friend Jane quilted.

Lots of TV binding time and it's now finished.

Pictures next week after the reveal at retreat.

Of course there has to be a mistake that you find after the quilting is finished.

Thank goodness I'm not a perfectionist so it will not bother me that it's there.

Tuesday was a full day at home alone.

I picked up ORL and sewed the binding on

I made backs and bindings for this quilt and a baby quilt.

I pulled out the tables and got busy pin basting.

Before he came home, both quilts were basted and tables put away

and I was DONE! 

EXHAUSTED from a full day of taking major steps forward on 3 projects!! 

I'm hoping to start quilting this week but

retreat starts Thursday so that might not happen.

Needing another project to take to retreat, I pulled out my Moda Be My Neighbor UFO.

I'd seen one at the church where I picked up ORL and loved the way the sashings and borders were.

I decided to take my rows apart and add sashings.

I haven't worked on it since the November 2016 retreat.

The instructions were all printed, even some fabrics were chosen.

Now the last 5 blocks are kitted and ready to go.

I think it takes longer to choose and cut the fabric than it does to sew these awesome blocks.

It's fun to be excited about this UFO again.

I went to my favorite on line fabric store and bought the sashing fabric (It's a light gray)

 and 2 pieces for outer border, binding and back.

Maybe I can get the sashings cut before Thursday, just in case I get that far on the project.

I tell ya, I am in UFO busting mode!!

No sewing over the weekend because I was with these people while their parents

worked their booth at a craft fair.

What a fun, exhausting weekend we all had.

I got to sit outside and enjoy this view with my morning coffee.

Later in the day, friends brought their horses over to pasture.

I think it may have been the highlight of the kids weekend.

Enjoy your week.

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