Design Wall Monday on Tuesday

We've spent the last 2 weekends at the beach.

Our time there now is being interrupted  due to hunting season.

Last week while we were home for a couple of days,

I sat down and sewed up 2 baby quilts from blocks that have been done for a while.

I have the backing and binding ready for one and will get he 2nd one ready soon.

I brought home most of my sewing stuff from there.

It's getting to be the time of year when I can't leave my Little Brother

 sewing machine due to the dampness.

We leave nothing on in the bus so that means no heat.

In the purple case is Wild & Goosey.

I thought I was going to make the flying geese for sashing

but I've changed my mind again and I"m going with the

original layout from the magazine.

Here's the link to the blog post Bonnie wrote about her article in the magazine. 

The pattern is also in her Addicted to Scraps book.

This has been my bus project since September of 2015.

It's time now to move it along at home.

I always get excited about fall time. 

Today it feels like fall with the cool temps and light rain.

Ernie is out scouting with his hunting buddies,

I'm going to do a couple things this morning and then hit the sewing room.

I have plans for hours and hours of uninterrupted sewing time.

Design Wall Monday

We spent last week at the beach with family.

Loads of fun for 3 days and then it was very quiet.

So I pulled out Wild & Goosey and started sewing block parts together.

I need to take more scraps with me next time we go for more variety,

We came home Friday and on Saturday,

I set up my outside office.

I printed 2 more patterns so I bound the instructions and glued the sheets together.

Then traced and cut out for my size.

I started with Patterns for Pirates Grampa Cardigan.

I had gotten this fabric on the clearance table at JoAnn's.

I sewed it up that night and know where to make my adjustments.

It is a wearable muslin.

Very soft and drapey.

I need to topstitch and hem and I think I'll add patch pockets.

Sunday was hot so I hid in my sewing room for a while.

I love Doug Leko's new mini Simple Folded Corner ruler.

I got mine in the Quiltville store when I ordered some other things.

It was fun using it on these spools. 

I need to do some work on that red one.

It's not quite right.

Anyhooo, all the blocks for the 30s Saturday Sampler are finished.

Time to cut some sashing and cornerstones and a couple borders and the binding.

Another step closer to busting this UFO.

All the blocks I'm going to make for Triangle Gathering are complete.

This final one will be made into quarters for the 4 corner blocks for the outside border. 

I'm ready to lay these blocks out and sew this into a top.

Now I need a new leader/ender project.

I've been wanting to make another Chunky Churndash.

I made this one in 2007 so it's time to make another.

 I love a good plan. 

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Design Wall Monday

No quilting happened this week.

Fabric was touched, sorted, cut and kitted.

I did sew up a new shirt so the serger and coverstitch machine were used, 

but the sewing machine remained off all week.

I'll try to remedy that this week.

I took 2 bins of fabric and rulers with me to the beach.

I used my Easy Center Square and Essential Triangle Tool to cut my square in a square parts.

These will be used for a border on a UFO.

(There is enough cut to border 2 quilts! 

Why stop when you are on a roll.)

Easy Peasy with the right tools!

Bonnie has an awesome tutorial here if you don't have the ruler.

(Quiltville is my first go to for tutorials.)

I was one of the lucky ones and was able to grab the Easy Center Square ruler 

when Bonnie was selling them.

I also used lots of 2" strips to cut a small quilt.

All the parts almost fit into a quart zip bag.

These are my leftovers.

They will go into my Scrap User's System and the garbage.

Garbage on the left, Wild & Goosey parts, 2" squares and strings and strips.

I love taking fabric to the bus and coming home with projects all kitted up.

The only sewing I did at home this week was on the Mischief Quilt.

I have all the rows clipped together.

It's one row at a time,

trying to stay organized and in order. 

This picture is all the blocks for the first row.

There is a safety pin it the top left corner of block one.

The unsewn blocks stay clipped together with a binder clip, 

the next block is taken off the stack and sewn to the right hand side.

I try to stay organized, really I do. 😉

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Design Wall Monday

We just got home from a few days at the beach.

It's clamming time again.

Yeah. While I don't like them, I do have fun digging.

Until my back hurts and then I'm done 

and go sit in the truck and spy on people with the binoculars.

I sewed a for quite a while on Sunday.

I make 11 more Wild & Goosey blocks and found 5 untrimmed ones in the box.

They are all now pressed, trimmed and depapered.

I still have a lot more to make and

need to enhance my medium/dark fabric bag.

That's on the list for next trip.

I don't want to take too much so I just work with what I have.

It's quite fun.

This is my view from the truck Saturday evening. 

Stunningly beautiful.

I love the beach.

See what my friends are working on at 

Small Quilts and Doll Quilts Design Wall Monday.

I have to wait and check them all out later,

I have laundry to do and stuff to put away.

I love coming home but I don't love the coming home chores. 

Quilting? What Quilting?

We had a fun time at the beach this past week.

It was only the 2 of us.

We had our own little Eclipse Party.

Ernie is not one to sit around and crochet or knit or sew like I am. 😏

He does take some time off once in a while to just read.

He loves his westerns and when he gets in to one, he's all in.

Lots more weedeating, chainsawing and chipping took place on the new lot.

Isn't it amazing!

There is still so much more to do.

It's a jungle!!!

He got a pretty good path made for the fence line.

You know what they say about fences making good neighbors.

Mostly it's to keep our dogs in.

I was determined to finish my Virus Shawl.

I started this in December 2016 after seeing a picture on Facebook.

You know what that's like...ooohhh, I must have one of those!

I can't believe I didn't blog about it.

I finished it!  It's so cozy.

I've used it several times already.

I used Red Heart Unforgettable yarn. 

The color is Tidal.

I love the feel of this yarn but it is not one I will use again.

I like a smooth yarn, not one with thick and super thin spots.

I brought 3 pair of my knitted socks that needed a little mending.

I am not a great darner but I got the job done.

No one ever gets that close to my feet to notice where these were fixed. 

Once these was finished, I got busy on my Meandering Vine socks. 

These were last shown here in July.

I was about halfway into the heel flap when I put them away.

I got them out one morning when I couldn't go back to sleep and

finished the flap and the heel turn.

I picked up the gusset stitches later in the day 

and on the way home just put my head down and got through the decreases.

Now it's mindless knitting in the truck for the next trip to the beach.

One day I sewed on my Wild & Goosey blocks.

I now have a total of 25 full blocks.

Each full block uses 4 3" blocks.

It's probably time to figure out how big I'm going to make this one.

It's fun just using what scraps I have with me.

There is not going to get more out of the bin.

Once the bag gets down low, I'll bring more.

But until then, it's the use 'em up game!

So that's most of the news from the last week.

Until next time...

Design Wall Monday

 What a fabulous 2 weeks I've had!

We spent 8 days at the beach!

Lots of clamming, reading, relaxing, walking, talking, resting.

I worked on Wild and Goosey.

I knitted on socks.

We did a few small projects on our property.

We made major plans for improvement.

Doug and his family visited one day.

It was a wonderful vacation!

When we came home, 

I was in the mood to sew!

I finished my Crabapple quilt.

No picture yet.

I finally got the borders on my Garden Party.

I'd love to have it quilted before retreating with Bonnie,

but that just isn't going to happen because it's 8 days away 

and I have other things to do between now and then.

Clamming finally opened for us and DWFW was generous

and upped the limit from 15 to 25.

That brought out hordes of people.

HORDES!

I'm not a great digger but I do my best and 

Ernie will have yukky clams to eat whenever he wants.

I don't have to ration them. 😉

This is my favorite beach picture.

My gray haired men.

Now it's time to get back to a bit of reality before retreat.

My list is long.

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Design Wall Monday

We spent some time at the beach last week.

Finally, for the first time this year, we could dig clams on Long Beach.

Something about toxins, blah, blah, blah.

I love spending time at the beach!

My beach sewing project is Wild & Goosey.

I added these little blocks to my pile.

I've decided to just keep making the littles so I'll have a good variety 

when it's time to make them into bigs.

I need to add to my little fabric stash for the next trip.

I basted more gray hexies for the On The Road Quilt.

Half the blue rosettes are each surrounded by 12 gray hexies.

Then other half are surrounded by neutral scrappy pieced hexies.

I need to make more of those too.

I glue basted several more Mischief pieces.

Here is my new little sewing set up.

The kitchen table is too high or

my chair is too low. 

This is just right!

We are headed back next week.

Today I'm going to visit the other design wall blog posts that are linking to

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Design Wall Monday

We spent a few days at the beach so I took along some Mischief Quilt block parts.

I have 4 more to add to the ones below.

These are the blocks I had finished before the weekend. 

Except that one on the bottom left and now it's finished.

I sewed a bit on my beach sewing project.

Quiltville's Wild and Goosey.

I added 5 more little blocks.

I have a long ways to go.

10 big blocks done already.

Slow and steady, taking a few more scrap pieces each time we go.

During the week, I worked on my On The Road Project.

The blue row is complete,

including the gray and neutrals.

Yellow and orange, here I come!

I think I'll work on the top row yellow/orange 

and the sides

before doing another blue section.

It's as wide as I want it at the widest point.

I plan to use it on a twin sized bed.

I'll try to remember to get a picture for next week.

Now I need to go catch up with Patchwork Times Design Wall Monday. 

Design Wall Monday...

...Retreat Report

Retreats are always so much fun.

Retreats with your daughter and 10 other close friends are even more fun.

That's what I did this past weekend.

Day 1 started with making these pillow cases for a horse loving granddaughter.

It always fun to have a TaDah moment early on.

Then I went to work on Pineapple Crazy.

Thursday and Friday resulted in 10 more blocks.

I decided Saturday would be UFO day.

I took along the blocks from 2014 BOM at The HEXIE Blog.

At our May retreat, I finished appliqueing the motifs to the background.

We won't go into the details of the sashing cut too short and

 the blocks having to be trimmed down a bit.

Now the blocks are sashed and the top is sewn together.

I can't wait to quilt it and gift it.

After the BOM top was finished I pulled out the new project.

This is called Between Friends Junior from

The Happy Hour book by Atkinson Designs.

This was a kit I had bought several years ago.

I just had to have the right person in mind before starting.

Sometimes that takes a while.

The blocks are ready to be layed out.

I'll do this Wednesday at Binding Friends group.

Deciding a layout is more fun with friends.

Sunday morning I decided to make 2 more Pineapple blocks.

It was raining and gloomy,

perfect for sewing while we waited for the storm to blow over before loading the cars.

The storm didn't blow over.

We loaded our cars in the rain.

Retreat was a blast.

I love to bring my friends over with me to the super scrappy side of quilting.

Marian showed her fabulous black and batik Pineapple Crazy quilt.

I thought she needed a new scrappy project so I introduced her to Wild & Goosey.

I showed my few blocks and hope to be seeing several other friends

 with W & G quilts one of these days.

I didn't sew any more W & G blocks but I did take 5 sections out of 4 blocks and 

turn them the correct direction.

Better to catch that now than when the quilt is finished.

Thanks Marian. 

I predict very little sewing this week due to other things.

My mind will be working overtime planning for the next retreat.

I'm headed over to Patchwork Times to see what others have on their design walls.