Design Wall Monday

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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Design Wall Monday

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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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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2018 UFO Challenge April Update/May Plans

I used April to catch up on Judy L's UFO Challenge. I was a slacker and now I'm an almost caught upper.  That's what I'm calling it.

My April project was to get out my Mischief Quilt and get to work on it again since it is my only hand stitching project. I took parts and pieces with me on the last beach trip and got busy glue basting everything I had cut and kitted. I have 4 blocks remaining to piece with almost 6 added to the pile I already have. Not a bad month.  I'll continue to work on it since I'm enjoying it again.  I am only making it into a wall hanging instead of a big quilt.

For May, Judy L chose UFO 12. I'm super happy about that. Just last week I ordered backing fabrics for 5 more UFOs and picked a brown/cream polka dot flannel for this quilt. This is going to be so much fun. The plan is to  use Angela Walters' method of Dot To Dot Quilting that I learned from her Craftsy class. I haven't done it for a while and I'm really looking forward to playtime on this quilt.

But first I will finish March's UFO. Close, oh so close!

So in a nut shell, the month of April was a huge UFO busting success for me. I started the month with these plans and finished with 2 quilts completed, 1 almost quilted and big progress on Mischief Quilt. I see good things happening in May.

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. 

The Mischief Quilt

The Mischief Quilt

Or as I am calling it, Squirrel!

I follow Karen TheDIYAddict on Instagram.

She's been sharing these awesome epp blocks.

I fell in love and had to check them out.

Variation #3 is my favorite.

I ordered the kit.

It came a few days later.

I watched the videos and

started pulling batik strips that I have accumulated from strip swaps.

The aqua is for my center octagons and the pale green is for the neutral kite shapes.

Honestly I was only going to make one block to see if I liked it.

Originally I cut enough pieces for 7.

I sewed up one block and immediately started on number 2.

I know I'm weak.

I went back in and kitted up 18 more blocks.

And have the papers kitted up for the next 25.

I can rationalize all of this.

Of course I can. 😃

My On The Road Project is getting pretty good sized.

I need a small project to take to my Binding Friends group on Wednesdays

or to the beach.

This will be perfect.

I hope I don't finish it before the 15th when we meet again.