Quilted Jonquil

Happy Monday!  Go check out Judy’s Design Wall Monday post to see a bunch of other design walls   I added a couple of more crumb star blocks to my wall.

I finished the Steeler’s quilt and got it in the mail Saturday so Sunday I worked on adding borders to the First Saturday Kaffe Fassett blocks.

Here you see half of the top.  It really grew and is something like 100 x 72…wow-za.

Edited to Add:

Stash Report:

• Added:  0   that’s right, nothing in Cumulative Added:  108.5 yds
• Used:  9.75  (Pinwheel Party Navy top and sashing & borders for Kaffe top)     Cumulative Used:  38.75 yds
• Net Out/(In):   (39.75 yds)  Woo Hoo, under 40 yards net in….think I can be a zero by year end.  Nah, me either
  

The Steeler’s quilt is finished and in the mail!!  Yippee

And the back!

Last year at about this time Art, the IBOL Guy, put out the call for some bundles of sewing (or knitting) supplies to be distributed to women in Iraq, Iraqi Bundles of Love, IBOL.  Well, he’s organized it again this year…..and he’s not even stationed in Iraq any more.  Way to go Art!  There are two types of recipients this year, directly to the women and, new this time, to sewing co-ops, yea!!   Here’s a picture of one of my bundles from last year.

If you are moved to create a bundle, which you can send in a flat rate USPS box to an AP address, go here and leave Art a comment.  He’ll send you the AP address.  The only catch….bundles must be mailed by Oct 1, 2010!  On the right side, under Pages, there’s a link to suggestions of what to include in the box…..fabric, of course, but also buttons, scissors, pins, thread, beads…..

Last night I got the Steelers quilt loaded.

I had picked up some bottom line poly thread in gold and thought it would work well for this quilt.  I adjusted Sophie’s tension and after about 45 mins got her sewing pretty well.  After a couple of starts, I figured out I need to quilt at a slower speed to avoid having the thread break.   I only quilted the top border and first row as my patience had run out.  I do like the look of the gold thread, though.

Since I was done quilting for the night, I thought how nice it would be to just sew……. so I made another free pieced scrappy star   These make me happy.

I won!!  I participated in the August Friday Night Sew-in and Bobbi at Crafty Vegas Mom randomly selected me,  Happy Happy   Best of all I will receive a signature FNSI pin cushion!!  I’m also getting a charm pack of BLISS squares.  Yippee!!

A big thank you, Bobbi & Heidi for hosting FNSI’s!!

There are five Mondays in August…that means I should be getting a lot done, right?  I was supposed to be quilting the Steelers quilt on Sophie but instead I made two bindings, turned some crumb blocks into stars, made a couple of pillow cases, started & caught up on the Stay At Home Robin (SAHR) and thought about quilting the Steelers quilt!   Here’s my wall…..check out other design walls on Judy’s DWM post here.

These are the July & August blocks for the SAHR which I made using my Cherrywood grab bag pieces and my 15 mins of play.  FUN!!

These pillow cases are destined for Texas for a couple of cute DGS’s

Stash Report:

• Added:  0   that’s right, nothing in   Cumulative Added:  108.5 yds
• Used:  3  (2 pillowcases and 2 bindings)     Cumulative Used:  29 yds
• Net Out/(In):   (79.5 yds)
  

Have a terrific Monday

I’m posting Friday Night Sew-in pictures a little late but Saturday was a busy day

I cut, sewed & ironed bindings for the Steelers quilt and the Recycled Cabins quilts, yea!  AND…..

Worked on making liberated stars from crumb blocks.  Fun!

Tonight is the Friday Night Sew-in for August

I mentioned I wanted to get the binding pieced for the Steelers and Recycled Cabins done but now I want to work on the Stay At Home Robin (SAH Robin) which started in July by Kate at Kate’s Quilting blog.  I’m thinking of using some of the fabrics I won from Blue Nickel Studios, I’ve even sketched out a few ideas…….

Have a great weekend!

I’m going to participate in the August Friday Night Sew-In this Friday night.  Maybe I’ll get the binding ready for the Steelers quilt and the Recycled Cabins quilt    Click the link on the right side of my blog to go to the post about the sew-in.

Here’s the backing I finished Sunday and the navy Pinwheel Party quilt top all done….it’s a flimsy!

If you click to enlarge the Pinwheel Party quilt, you’ll see Simontacchi’s paw on the left side….he was reaching up to bat at the quilt.  I’ll get a better picture of the top to post later but I was so excited to have completed it I had my DH hold it up real quick this morning.

Check out the design wall links in Judy’s Design Wall Monday post here.  Here’s my wall with my finished (maybe?) crumb quilt top.

I finally trimmed the second purple border from 2 1/2″ which was just too wide and got the crumb borders sewn.  I think it might need something more so I’ll see what a 2 1/2″ border of the orange fabric does…..  I sewed on this quilt leader/ender style while finishing the Steelers top and back.  You’ll just have to take my word on the backing which I pieced using both the black & gold Steelers fabrics because the picture I took this morning was so blurry I just couldn’t subject you to it

I went with a narrow blue border as you can see (it looks like it’s glowing in this pic, hmmmm) and added the yellow corners to the final border.  I don’t really like the black Steelers fabric even though it’s easy enough to work with.  It’s not a true black and therefore looks a bit faded and it has a rubber or coated feel to it.   I was hoping the blue border would provided enough of a break so the true black sashing fabric wouldn’t make the black border fabric look faded.  By the way, I love the sashing fabric…..like the way I fussy cut it so there are whole circles in each strip

Stash Report:

• Added:  9  (flower fabric)    Cumulative Added:  108.5 yds
• Used:  3  (stash fabric in Steelers Quilt)     Cumulative Used:  26 yds
• Net Out/(In):   (82.5 yds)