Step 2 for the Workshop

This is a soldier quilt that I quilted for Betty the other day. I really like the way she put this together. I played a little with the quilting on this. Instead of stitch in the ditch I used a wavy line, meandered in the solid squares and put a design (a la Pam Clarke’s methods of no marking) in the pieced squares. It took me so much longer than just an overall freehand design but I wanted the practice and I like the results.



This picture is Step 2 for my tessellating pinwheel workshop next month. We had to join all 49 squares together and then put a border on it that will become the background? Still wondering about all this.



Today I need to get errands run and get the house ready for a teenage sleep over tonight as they have no school tomorrow. I don't know if sewing will fit in the agenda anywhere but hope to get a seam done on some backing fabric and get that on the frame.



Kathie

Soldier Quilt

This is the soldier quilt I pieced and quilted just back from being bound. I got the label on the other night so it is ready to be delivered next month. I had a personal goal of making two for this delivery and now that both of them are done including labels I feel good about that accomplishment.

I did well on my goals for last week completing all of them. I didn't set any goals this monday but have got two customer quilts quilted this week.

I seem to be slow to get going today. I think I might get the next quilt loaded, get a few errands done and then spend the rest of the day working on craft show items. I have been doing so many charity projects this year so far that I have not got my usual good start on craft show things. Since doing the craft shows pays for my fabric habit during the year I need to start getting in high gear.

kathie

Scrap Quilt Top

Finished the Christmas 4 patch lap quilt made out of left over binding strips. The quilt measures approximately 54 x 65, nice sized lap quilt. When I had the top done I had a bunch of left over 4 patches left so went ahead and made up a table runner top also. If I don’t use up the leftovers right away they never seem to get made into anything.


Kathie

Design Wall Monday - April 26, 2010

On my design wall are a bunch of bright squares. As part of my day time guild next month we are going to have a workshop on making an interlocking pinwheel quilt. We have to do the first couple of steps at home. Step one was picking out 49 six inch blocks of fabric. Though some of these are similar colors I wanted to make sure that I didn’t have two of the same fabric so swapped some with a friend.

Step two will be sewing these all together and then putting a border on it, I think 3 ½ inches or something like that. Then when we go to the workshop we cut it all apart and sew it back together and by magic we have pinwheels. I am very interested to see how this all takes place.

I think I will look at these for another day to make sure I don’t want to replace any of the fabrics and then I will start sewing them together.

Kathie

Sunday Stash Report - 4-25-2010

I am happy with this weeks stash report.

Fabric Used this week: 3.5 yards
Fabric Used YTD: 90.25 yards
Fabric Added this week: 0
Fabric Added YTD: 60.25
Net used in 2010: 30 yards

A lot of good things. I stayed out of the fabric shops this week, am approaching 100 yards used and have a net used of 30 yards used now. Not as much cleared out as I hoped to by the end of April but at least it is progressing.

Our county had a small quilt show this weekend (about 50 quilts). The show had been rescheduled from February when the roof of the building we were going to have it in caved in due to all the snow.

It was a nice little show and I won a ribbon with my Monet's Wedding Ring quilt. Since the ribbons were handmade and didn't say what place on them I had to ask what a yellow ribbon was and was told it was a third place. I didn't expect a ribbon so was very pleased.


kathie

Charity Day

Customer quilts are a little slow so I decided to take yesterday to work on charity projects.

This is a quilt top that Doris made and donated for hospice back in the fall. After many rearrangements this one finally was at the top of the stack. Isn't this a beautiful string quilt? I usually do them scrappy but this one with planned colors is great.

Like I said in the past when I get quilts donated they might get quilted next week, next month or next year but they eventually get done.

I also went ahead and put binding on this one last night so once I get the binding on the soldier quilt done I will have another hand project waiting for me.

kathie

Design Wall Update

I quilted up a few craft show table runners yesterday and then got back to working on my Christmas 4 patch quilt. I now have all the rows done, but none of them joined together. I am glad that I decided on the red cornerstones though I am sure the black or gold would have been ok also.

I did get a good start on hand stitching the binding on the split decision quilt last night while watching American Idol. I love that show, it is one of the few shows that the whole family will sit and watch together. Of course I think my daughter and I drive my husband nuts as we have to comment on everything from the singing, to the hair styles to what they are wearing but it is fun to find something that parents and a 16 year old will sit and watch together.

Kathie