Quilted Jonquil

It’s Design Wall Monday.  Hop over to Judy’s DWM post to check out all the links

My design wall looks the same as last week so today I’m having design ironing board Monday

These 2 1/2″ crumb blocks keep stacking up as I sew them leader/ender style while sewing on more civil war BOW blocks.

I’m working on the applique star on this one so forgive all the threads. 

I’ve also got another nursing cover in the works as well.  My daughter selected the fabrics and gave me some modifications to the tutorial which includes using “D” rings rather than Velcro for the straps.  Suits me just fine as I don’t enjoy sewing down Velcro.  She’s also asked that the length of boning be about 2/3 of the pattern length.

A went with a couple of fellow quilters (hi Darlene & Marilyn) to the Goodwill Clearance center last week.  In a surprisingly short amount of time I managed to gather up 18 pounds of goodies   One of which was a 3,000 piece puzzle!?!?!?!  I bought some more sheets for making rugs and these:

Marilyn spied the wonderful gold shirt.  One of us, and it obviously wasn’t me, only purchased one item.  Of course the one item was a silk shirt is a  lovely green color which could just very well be the start of a silk collection for quilting.  Delores Keaton entered the most fabulous silk quilt in our Quintessential 2009 quilt show (it was also in the AQS Paducah 2010 quilt show) so I can see the attraction   All in all we had a great time and we all found something we were happy to bring home.

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Stash Report:

• Fabric in:  1.5  yards (I’ve cut up one of the GW shirts)
  
• Fabric out: 0.5 yards (Water Works SAHR top & back) 
  
• YTD Fabric in: 137 yards
  
• YTD Fabric out: 49 yards
  
• Net Fabric In/(Out): 88 yards accumulated  Now more than half way through the year and I’d better finish a few things FAST and, yes, I know I could stop buying GW shirts but it’s just way too much fun and I am still working on a broader variety of colors.
  

Happy Quilting, Cherie

Late in the day design wall posting because I forgot to bring in my pictures   I sewed with the Scrap Club on Saturday and had such a good time.  I completed the Zigzag 9 quilt top which is BIG….approx 92 x 102!  I didn’t check the size when I started on this pattern.  Guess I just assumed it was about twin sized.  LOL not!

I’ll have to raid my stash to come up with enough fabric to make a backing for Zigzag since I used scraps for the 9 patches and don’t have any of the background left at all.

I also completed piecing the backing for my Crumb quilt top, which is on my priority list.

Front

The result of this is I have a positive change in my stash report, woo hoo!

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Stash Report:

• Fabric in:  0 yards
  
• Fabric out: 14 yards (Zigzag 9 top and crumb quilt backing)
  
• YTD Fabric in: 126 yards
  
• YTD Fabric out: 41 yards
  
• Net Fabric In/(Out): 85 yards accumulated Down from 99

Judy has issued a UFO Challenge for 2011.  Here’s my list:

1 -10 Moon Glow – complete one of the remaining 10 star blocks

Picture from Jinnybeyer.com

11 First Saturday Foxy Fassett quilt – backing, quilting & binding

12 Crumb Quilt – backing, quilting & binding

1a Pinwheel Party Quilt Navy – backing, quilting & binding

2a Pinwheel Party Quilt Orange – piece top & backing

3a Flower Wall Hanging – finish hand quilting & binding.

4a Vicksburg – applique borders & sew together the top

5a & 6a Antique Reproduction Baby Quilts 1 & 2  – quilting & binding

(Picture from Instructions)

7a Seeds of Time – quilting & binding

Picture from Instructions

8a – 10a Moon Glow – complete 4 of the 12 alternate blocks

Jinnybeyer.com

11a Topsy Turvy Nine Patch – borders and backing

UFO’s I’d like to get done but will take longer than a month or didn’t make the list:

Hand quilt Cherrywood Bricks -

Quilt  & Bind Liberty Quilt -

Quilt & Bind Summer Cabins -

Set First Saturday Asian Surprise blocks -

Set First Saturday Tipsy Fox blocks –

Finish & set Scrappy Star blocks –

Quilt & bind Technicolor Yawn –

Folk Style Sampler – applique three remaining blocks

Wowsa!!  I think this is, perhaps, too challenging of a list to accomplish in one year.  I do, however, work best with deadlines so perhaps Judy’s challenge will be just what I need to drive me over the edge help me finish up some things that have been hanging around.

I worked on the pieced borders for the Topsy Turvy Nine Patch quilt and the third step of Roll, Roll, Cotton Boll. I only completed 3 string blocks but I finished the remaining two pieced borders for the TTNP.

My wall looks suspiciously like last week….with some added bits   I’ve starting working on the backing for Crumbs.  It looks kind of messy but click over to Judy’s DWM post to see neat stuff on other quilter’s design walls.

I also took a couple of 15 minutes to play in between cutting shirts for a quilt that I’m taking with me to Shipshewana for a quilt retreat this week.  More crumb parts….I just can’t stop!!

On a completely unrelated to quilting note, a couple of weekends ago we went to Girard, IL to their Pumpkin Festival.  The main attraction was the pumpkin chunkin’ machines and a trebuchet. Here’s a picture of the Fireman’s cannon right after launching a pumpkin.

There were six total pumpkin cannons….quite the experience!

Have a good week!  Cherie

My design wall is almost the same as last week.  Crumbs is finished!  Links to what other quilters are busy working on can be found at Judy’s Design Wall Monday post…..check ‘em out.

I completed quilting the two BASICS quilt tops this weekend after finally deciding to take out the baptist fan quilting.   I forgot to take pictures as I was in a hurry to get them boxed up and returned to Victoria.   I’m happier with the quilting and it didn’t take that long to frog the baptist fan quilting.  I did some on Friday night and the rest of it on the drive we took Saturday to see the Pumpkin Chunkin’ contest in Girard, IL.  Fun, Fun!

Have a great week!

I took Vivian’s comment to heart and went ahead and included the “rejected” right handed rectangles on the top left.  I like the quirkiness so thanks Vivian for the nudge.   Crumbs is officially a flimsy, yea!!!  After ironing the sawtooth border, I realized it was finished.  Now for something fun for the backing, woo hoo.

I’m almost too embarrassed to post this picture I took while quilting the BASICS quilt but since Judy D commented that wonky baptist fans aren’t such a bad thing, here they are.

I like Design Wall Monday because it makes me focus on getting something on the wall for posting.  Thanks Judy! Check out her DWM post for links to other quilter’s design wall posts…..although I see Judy has nothing on her wall this week

I have two pictures.  My crumb quilt with a couple of new borders added and the second pic with what I think will be the final border.   I decided I wanted to include the second orange border so I quit thinking about it and did it.  Those couple of purple/green rectangles are right handed rejects, whoops.  The 3 gold/cream blocks are test blocks for a quilt I’m taking to Shipshewana for the quilt retreat in TWO WEEKS, yea!!!!!

And here’s the sawtooth borders all ready to go on the crumb quilt.  I’m loving them

Stash Report – this needs to be updated because of some fabric has come my way (no I did not purchase it) but I have to see what I’m keeping vs what I’m sharing before seeing how much I need to add to my stash report.  That could take me a while, yes, it could take me quite a while

• Added:  0   Cumulative Added:  119.5 yds
• Used:  0            Cumulative Used:  38.75 yds
• Net Out/(In):   (80.75 yds)

Have a terrific Monday!

I helped myself to a white board being thrown out at work because someone used a permanent pen on it. It works perfectly to practice drawing free hand Baptist fans upside down.   The board it fairly large and after a quite a few passes where I moved the board on my lap to fill the whole thing, I got lazy and just filled in what I could reach.

I thought I was getting pretty good at it so……

Hmmmmmmm…..I think more practice is needed.   It’s okay because the thread keeps breaking and I’m going to take this stitching out so I can change to my beloved Aurafil thread.  I have a goal to get both BASICS quilts done this weekend.  The Aurafil thread better make Sophie happy or I won’t get them done!!

Here’s another border option for my crumb quilt.  I kept the orange fabric, repeated the dark purple fabric and switched the sawtooth border so the green is on the inside.

I’m liking this but will try it with the purple side of the sawtooth on the inside

Have a wonderful fall weekend!

It’s Design Wall Monday time   Hop on over to Judy’s DWM post to see what projects other quilters are busy creating.  I’ve decided I want my crumb quilt to be larger so my design wall has a couple of options I’m considering…..

I’m leaning towards the second one.  I thought I’d like the second orange border in the first picture but I’m liking the second picture much more now.  I have a lot of time to throw up other options while I work on the free pieced sawtooth border

I volunteered to quilt a couple of the BASICs quilts for Victoria at Bumble Beans.  Here’s the first one loaded and ready to quilt………if only I could make up my mind on how to quilt it…….

Guess I’ll click through some blogs and see if I can’t find something to inspire me

Have a great Monday!