Design Wall Monday

What a week!

Sickies everywhere.

I spent several days with the kids while they coughed and hacked

and napped and worked through the headaches.

I took my Antique Star pieces to work on.

Baste, baste, baste.

I put a few components together.

It felt good to make some good progress.

But mostly I spent time with the kids.

The only time I went into my sewing room was Tuesday morning at 5:30.

I need to cut quarter square triangles for my leader/ender project.

I'm doing Chunky Churndash and almost all the Chunky parts are finished.

So I set my self up at the kitchen table and cut fabric.

Needles to say, I made a big mistake.

I cut half square triangles instead of quarter square triangle parts.

No biggie, I have lots of fabric and heck,

they might become part of the outer border.

Or they are seeds for another project. 

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Last week was a week full of sick kids.

Since Momma is so close to being finished with her schooling,

we sent her and Dad off to school/work while we took care of the sickies.

I took my Antique Star project to work on.

I basted diamonds while Elliot, the person this is being made for, 

asked how long it will take. 

It will happen sooner if I work on it more.

Then Gramma, maybe you can work on it more. OK? 

Bahahahahaha

It take a lot of diamonds so I cut more.

I really need more shirts for more variety.

Now I am sick with this crazy bug.

I decided to quietly sit and baste Sunday away.

Here are some of my parts.

I have a long way to go. 

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I chased another squirrel! 

There is a super fun Block of the Month that started this month.

Eleanor Burns is doing Fun On The Farm.

Search for this group on your Facebook page.

 How stinkin' cute is block 1!

My piggie has a butterfly on her hip.

I cut more kits for my leader/ender project-Chunky Churndash.

The pattern is a freebie at Quiltville.

Sunday, 4 grands stayed while mom and dad went shopping.

We all had a super long, excited day Saturday so we were all pretty much a bunch of slugs.

Miss MaeMae sat out on the deck with me while I cut some fabric.

I needed to cut more diamonds for my Antique Start project.

I love the chatty chats that we have.

Talking about the new school year, going to a new school but with her same friends,
 how she misses her friends and how excited she is to meet her teacher.

How much she will miss summer vacation and

 how excited she is to take band and learn to play the clarinet.

We talked about the quilt I made her and we sat out here doing the same thing.

The deck is a magical place where peanut butter and jelly picnics happen
and in depth conversations with tow people or 12. 

Saturday was the wedding of our youngest daughter and our newest favorite son in law Vern.

(Old joke, they are all my favorites. All 2 of them.)

Her sister and my other favorite son in law Mike hosted the wedding in their back yard.

Oldest daughter Jenny was able to come from Texas to celebrate.

It was wonderful having all my adult children together for this celebration.

It was a perfect day, my heart was overflowing. 

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Beware of the squirrels.

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I think I may have went in to my sewing room twice all week.

Not to sew but to get something!

We had a very full week of family stuff and adventures.

So the only sewing time I had was in the evening.

I made some great progress on basting my diamonds.

I need to cut more.

 This was where I was last week.

Now row 2 of my pencil box is almost stuffed.

I think I'll be able to put 3 full rows in there.

Then I may start stitching a few of them together.

I have a wedding coming up on Saturday 

so of course I need a new outfit.

I have a pretty good knit fabric stash but 

choosing which fabric to use is sometimes hard. 

I sent this picture to my daughter-

the one getting married-

and had her choose. 

Pretty sneaky aren't I?

I decided to make the Origami Tunic from Love Notions.

That's my plan for today and tomorrow.

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It's been a busy busy week so not much sewing has happened.

I took some quiet time today to sit down at the machine.

Easy, quick piecing on this Triangle Gathering and Strings top.

I put the blocks into separate piles and reached over and picked up the top block.

No layout at all.

I have the fabric laying out to cut the borders.

This will be a nice cuddle on the couch quilt.

In the evenings, I've been basting diamonds for the Antique Star quilt.

I'm just going to baste and baste and baste. 

I did sew 1 star block together but I decided to wait on any more.

I pulled out a bunch more of my shirt fabric and need to cut more diamonds.

I love the soft feel of the recycled shirts. 

This is going to be a great quilt!

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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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