Design Wall Monday 12-2-13 & Nov Stashbusting

HEY FOLKS!  It's December!  Yikes! 

Here's what I'm working on, no not piecing it, quilting it on the long arm.  Jenny made this over the last year or so as a quilt along.  Now that it is done I'm doing custom quilting on it.  It's challenging to come up with something different to do in each of the 1" strips between the rows.  Here are some close ups.

I'm doing "water" look in this border.  I'm keeping the lines parallel to the inside of the quilt with the corners done on a diagonal.  I will have to turn the quilt to efficiently do the side borders.  But it is really easy to turn quilts with the snap on system.  

Below is one of the houses.  I am tickled with the roof top.  I carefully marked the places I wanted to start, hit in the middle and end up at.  My "U"s aren't perfect but they certainly look good as a roof! Jenny is going to have a whole lot of threads to tie off on this quilt.  I've been tying off on some but I really need to focus on finishing this as we are going up to Jen's this week. 

I didn't post my Stashbusting stats so here they are. It was a good month. I've almost used more fabric than I have acquired for the whole year.  Yee Haw!  Of course, if I hadn't cut the placemat fabrics wrong I would have USED more fabric for the year.  But I'm getting really close. 

2013	Fabric In Month	Fabric in Year	Fabric Out Month	Fabric Out Year	Total In or Out Year
November	7.0	92.21	12.75	91.265	-0.945

How about my goals this week?  Most items are checked off for at least working on them.  Some need a bit more to finish but I'm pretty happy with what I got done. 

Week of November 25, 2013

Load and quilt Kay’s green quilt√

Make more placemats (I’m aiming for 10)√

Finish hand sewing binding on black, white and bright baby quilt√

Sew last two rows of x block together and on to the rest of the quilt√ blocks are in rows but not on the quilt

Cook and Enjoy Thanksgiving Dinner√

Make one more house block and get it in the mail√ block made but waiting for address – I’ve lost it!

Load Jenny’s Row-by-row quilt√ and several rows are done

And coming up this week: 

Week of December 2, 2013

Finish quilting Jenny’s quilt

Finish and mail a secret project

Keep working on placemats (4 to go)

Make 2 pillow cases for Christmas Quilt

Keep up on the knitting projects

Visit Mt Vernon

Visit with Sophie, Natalie, Jenny and Brian

Sing at the Advent Lessons and Carols service

Check out Patchwork Times to find links to Design Walls across the Web. 

Happy Quilting All!