Design Wall Monday 2-24-2014

My design wall has old stuff up.  But I did spread out these blocks that are going to Janet who is part of the FCQEquilters group.  They turned out pretty nicely.  Janet will be making Quilts of Valor with these blocks. 

I started quilting the shaded 9 patch quilt that you can see here. 

Here's what the border is looking like.  I thought I was going to love the quilting I had planned.  It will look fine but it isn't as great as I thought it would be.  Sigh.  But I do like the border.  I think I will be stitching on the white chalk line I used to line up the panto. (um, not the diagonal one on the corner!) 

On to the goals from last week.  Not bad but I really don't have much to show for it. 

Week of February 17, 2014

Make backing for Split 9 Patch√

Load Split 9 Patch and start quilting√

Sew down first block of Christmas Favorites√

Make a Valentine block from Small Quilt Talk Challenge√

Decide on next BOM for Country Piecemakers.

Continue using Mystery for Relay as leader and ender – I cut some more pieces but no sewing

Make last FCQ Equilters block & mail √

Buy white background fabric for Polka Dot Challenge Quilt√

Make Febuary Color Challenge block – PINK√

Week of February 24, 2014

Finish quilting Split 9 Patch, (hum I’ve always thought of it as shaded 9 patch I wonder when I changed the name?)

Make and apply binding on shaded 9 patch

Sew pieces of first Christmas Favorites block together

Start next Christmas Favorites block

Make sample block for Country Piecemakers BOM

Cut triangles for Mystery for Relay UFO

Have a great time at the Mid Atlantic Quilt Festival

That's it for today.  Make sure you sneak on over to Patchwork Times and take a peek at all the great Design Wall posts. 

Happy Quilting All! 

Pink Saturday

Well, except it's Sunday.  But I will be linking this post with SoScrappy for the pink Saturday linky party.

Here's my pink block.  It was a lot of fun to make -- so quick and easy to sew with the Sizzix triangle die.

And here it is with its blue friend.

I have to say I am enjoying looking at these two blocks on my design wall.  They'll be up there until I need the space for something else.  And, why did I not join the color challenge before?  I like using up little odds and ends of fabrics and this really does a nice job of that.  Of course, if I were making more than one block it would do an even better job! 

Happy Quilting All!  

Design Wall Monday 2-17-14

Snow is still on the ground but melting nicely.  I should have gotten a lot of quilting done but instead I goofed off and read and baked. We don't do much for Valentine's Day.  Pat was out singing Valentines for the Barbershop group of which he is a member.  I stayed home all day and baked his favorite rolled out sugar cookie.  Then I went wild and put a glaze on them and dipped them in colored sugars.  Way too much sugar for me but I love the taste of them.  He was happy to have them. 

I did spend one afternoon working on a machine embroidered sweatshirt for me.  I am so ready for spring to come that I thought this would be perfect to wear over the next few weeks. (One thing I marked off the goal list this past week.) Hum, I should have picked a different color for the "S" as it does seem to blend in with the shirt.  Ok, so I am awaiting "pring." It was about 100 minutes of sewing and then you add the color change.  No wonder it took all of one afternoon. 

Pat has been busy the past couple of weeks too.  He made this gorgeous oak quilt ladder for me. Left pic is the beginning of the ladder.  Right is the finished, empty ladder.  Below is the ladder in place with some quilts hanging on it. 

                                     

Hum, I think I need to add some brighter quilts to the rack.  The top one and the bottom one are QOVs waiting for me to figure out how to make a label on the embroidery machine.  Plus, I can't decide whether to enter the red, white and blue one in the Faithful Quilter's show this year.  Decisions, decisions.  I can only enter 5 and I've got 2 chosen already.  

Next up is the weekly goals.  I wasn't all that successful on getting things done this week.  But I did read about 4 books.  Nothing hard, just light entertaining fair including Janet Evanovich's newest Stephanie Plum book, Takedown Twenty. It was another entertaining romp through the life of a not so talented bounty hunter. 

Week of February 10, 2014

Continue working on 1^st Christmas Favorites Block √

Make more FCQ Equilters blocks & mail √ 1 more to finish

Make backing for Split 9 Patch oops

Work on A Tisket, A Tasket nope

Embroider lavender sweatshirt for me! √

Cut & sew units for Mystery for Relay Quilt #?? It’s a UFO now. √ started on four patches

Make another pincushion for swap√ success

Week of February 17, 2014

Make backing for Split 9 Patch

Load Split 9 Patch and start quilting

Sew down first block of Christmas Favorites

Make a Valentine block from Small Quilt Talk Challenge

Decide on next BOM for Country Piecemakers.

Continue using Mystery for Relay as leader and ender

Make last FCQ Equilters block & mail

Buy white background fabric for Polka Dot Challenge Quilt

Make Febuary Color Challenge block -- PINK

It's time for me to head up to the studio.  Since Pat retired we work out at the Y first thing on Monday mornings.  He is a morning person and I am definitely a night owl.  He has to drag me out of bed wake me up on work out mornings.  We do our normal routine after getting back so I really don't get to writing this until 10 am or so.  (I know I could write this early and then schedule it to post but, honestly, that just isn't going to happen!) 

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Happy Quilting All!