Wednesday Update

Since I made no weekly goals for this week I guess I am doing ok..lol

I have finished 3 1/2 customer quilts in the last week and will be delivering two of them today at my day time guild meeting. I also should be getting back 2 or 3 charity quilts from one of my binding fairies so should have pictures to share in the next day or so.

I also started putting together one of my twister runners last night so hope to have those tops done in the next couple of days.

Lots of teen drama going on this week so that has taken up some of my time. I would like to have the no aches and pains that a teenager in good shape has but I sure wouldn't want to go back to being that age. I must have also driven my parents nuts and for that I am sorry but guess it is all part of the process. You are not a kid but treated like one sometimes, not an adult but you want to be treated like one but of course don't want adult responsibilities and I think the worse part of it is you feel every set back is a crisis. I remember feeling like every problem was the end of the earth and no one else had the same issues. Guess that is the best part of getting older, you go with the flow.

Kathie

Design Wall Monday - January 2, 2012

In some form or another these have been on my design wall all week. Yesterday I finally got the rest of the twister blocks done.

These will be made into two (4 blocks each) table runners. Plan on having two borders but have not decided yet if I am going to have sashing between the blocks or not. Maybe I will do one each way.

Today I am trying to help hubby get the rest of the Christmas decorations down and put away and then this afternoon I need to start on the next customer quilt so I can get a couple delivered on wednesday.

Maybe these blocks will just stay up for awhile to remind myself to work on the runners when I get a chance, hopefully in a couple of days.

kathie

Sunday Stash Report - January 1, 2012

First off Happy New Years. I hope that 2012 will be a happy and healthy year for you. I can't believe 2012 is actually here! This is going to be a huge year for my family, my daughter will turn 18 in May, graduate high school in June and go off to college in late August!! Talk about a lot of changes that I don't feel quite ready for.

I fell off of reporting on the stash report the end of 2011 as I was snowed under with customer quilts and just had no time. Because of that I was sewing little and buying lots of Christmas fabric as it went on sale. I didn't keep track but know I ended up 2011 still in the black on using more fabric than purchasing and that was my goal.

My stash of regular fabrics feels a little "fresher" with some of the real old fabrics having been used up in backings and some of the newer colors and those wonderful batiks finding their way to my stash.

So again this year I think my goal will be to use more than I purchase, keep up on my reporting which helps keep the purchases under control and continue to use up some of the old stuff. Still have MANY panels that I had wanted to try and use up last year and never got to. Guess that will be back on my mental to do list for this year.

Fabric used this week: 3.5 yards (kitty quilt)
Fabric used YTD: 3.5 yards
Fabric purchased this week: 0 yards
Fabric purchased YTD: 0 yards
Net total used in 2012: 3.5 yards

A friend of mine that passed a few years ago always said to be sure and do something fun on New Years day, start the year with something that you want to be doing all year. So as always I will be sure and do a little sewing today, even if it is just a couple of seams.

Kathie

Nice Week

It has been a nice week so far. I am enjoying having some extra time to spend with my daughter who is home all week and my hubby that took a couple of days off.

Have done a little sewing, a little reading and some errands. This is what I did with those 4 patch blocks...

I bordered them. I then used the twister template and cut them apart and sewed them back together to make this cute little block. Four of these blocks with sashing and borders will make a nice table runner.

No charity quilting accomplished this week but I did get one customer quilt done and have about 3/4 of the next one complete.

Kathie

Design Wall Monday - December 26, 2011

Anyone that has read my blog this last week will probably be pretty bored with this picture as it is a picture of the 3rd and last set of these runners (for a total of 6) that I have made in the last week. Figured I would get all I wanted to make done at the same time before I forgot what measurements I used.

Also on the design wall are some 4 patch blocks, can you guess what I am going to make with these?

I have a couple of questions if anyone can help me out. 1) is that I have been tempted to try that iron on tape that you use to join pieces of batting together. If you have tried it please let me know how you like it and also what it is called as I don't remember the name to do a search on it.

2) second has anyone used flannel sheets as a backing for a quilt? We recently got a new bed and we no long have a full sized bed in the house but have a couple sets of flannel sheets that have hardly been used. I know I have been told not to use regular sheets as the thread count is so different and hard to quilt but has anyone tried it with the flannel sheets?

Thanks for any inputs you can give me on either subject.

Kathie

Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas Eve everyone. Hope everyone has all their shopping and wrapping done and will be able to enjoy friends and family. Just the three of us here for Christmas so very quiet but nice.

Here is the second set of runners I made the other day. I like the dark fabric with the neon snowflakes on it. I have a third set in process (different fabrics) and once those are done (for a total of 6) I will stop with this pattern and get started on something new.

Getting a few chores done this morning around the house and intend on spending a little time this afternoon in the sewing room before starting our dinner which will be a family recipe for beef strongoff, yummmmmmmm.

Kathie

5th Hospice Quilt

This is the 5th Hospice quilt I have quilted in the last week and a half. It is made out of beautiful donated batik fabrics and I believe pieced by Elsie. I still have a couple more charity tops that have backings that could be quilted but think 5 this month is enough.

I cut and put together 3 kits to make charity quilts out of donated charity fabric earlier today also. I am trying to reduce the number of boxes I have of charity fabric so figure I will cut a couple kits at a time and take them to January guild meetings to hand out.

I think that will be it for charity efforts this week. I need to get back to working on some of my projects and getting my bookwork up to date for tax purposes.

Yesterday I did spend time working on a couple of runners. The blocks are very similar to ones on a present pattern I have and enjoyed tailoring them to be made into runners.

I think this will be a good addition to the patterns I make for craft shows.

Kathie