Design Wall Monday and...

...November Retreat #2 Project Round Up.

Retreat was a blast!

I always have such a great time and come home so inspired.

I spent most of the time quilting my hexie wall hanging.

This poor thing has been ignored since August.

After watching my friend Neta free motion quilt at last retreat,

I was inspired to quilt at this retreat.

The quilting is by no means perfect but

I sure had fun doing it and watching the progress.

I also pin basted this New York Beauty table topper.

Looking back in the blog, I see it was a UFO that I worked on in the fall of 2011.

So it has now been properly aged and needs be seen and used.

I'm not sure what I'm going to quilt in the border or the curved centers.

So far it's just stitch in the ditch and echo quilting.

Any ideas???

Something is happening with my brand new camera, 

I don't know if it needs charged or if I did something to it so 

I had to used the old standby that doesn't take the best pictures.

Sorry.

I had to use these pictures, I can't miss Design Wall Monday!

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Design Wall Monday

Not much of a change on my design wall from last week.

There isn't much quilting time when there is a new grandson.

I finished the table topper top Sunday night.

I am not making quilting plans for today.

Maybe I'll remove the paper from the back.

See other great design walls here.

When Plans Change

You know how it is when you make plans? I had sewing plans. I was going to finish this table topper and get it basted for quilting. So instead of my hours of sewing marathon I had planned, I just did a few minutes here and there and now I have a finished top. I still need to remove the paper and figure out how I want to quilt it.

I'm not too upset about my plans not working out. I now have 11 more pints and 7 more quarts of green beans in my pantry. I have 9 1/2 pints of apple butter. I made 2 apple pies. I spent lots of time at Crystal and Mike's cuddling with kiddos. I knitted on my new socks. I had a great weekend. I can sew Tuesday.

Design Wall Monday

I have a lot on my wall today. On the right is the Sunset At Sea wall hanging that is patiently waiting to be quilted.

In the middle is my UFO table topper. The left side border is almost all paper pieced and ready to put up on the wall. Then I will do the 8 corner blocks. I'm still not sure about the inner border. I have a couple other pieces to put up and look at for a while.

Then on the left side of the wall on top is clue 1 to Carol Doak's Twisted Mystery. Below that is September's BOM for BOM-QA group and below that is the poor little block rejected block that has yet to be put in the orphan block bin.

The rain has set in here for a few days so I am planning an in the house away from the kitchen retreat. That is after I process that last canner of tomatoes that didn't get done yesterday. And after I check in at Judy L's and spend some time seeing what my friends in Blogland have on their walls.

Design Wall Monday

I spent all weekend finishing the top from the class and kind of got sidetracked away from my April UFO project. That happens pretty often with me. But I'm now back to work.

I needed 4 more sashing sections, made one, thought I'd made the second until I put it up on the board. What did I do?? Why won't this fit??? I used the extra strips instead of the ones for this quilt, so that kind of stopped me right in my tracks. And the fact that someone asked if I was going to stay hid out in my room all day. Umm, that kind of was my plan~~~~

Also on my wall it a little table topper that needs finished. I used a block out of the Quilt Mavens book. Recently Deb Karasik was a guest speaker at the quilt guild. (I am regretting not being a member of the guild because I missed seeing her. Boo Me!) Anyhow, I remembered this little UFO. I got it out, printed a few border sections to make it bigger and now I'm thinking about it more. And I have a plan...........

Grab a cup of something and visit Judy L to see what everyone other walls look like today. I love Monday in Blogland.