Quilted Jonquil

It’s Design Wall Monday and here’s what’s on my wall.

I finished my First Saturday blocks….just in time for Saturday

I sewed up another block, Port & Starboard, from Barbara Brackman’s Civil War BOW.

And tested out cutting a few red string blocks into triangles

I cleaned off my ironing board in order to iron the fabric for the Vicksburg backing.  That led to cutting scraps into strips and squares to feed the scrap savers system, cutting one square from each of the polka dot fabrics in my stash for a fellow quilter, finishing cutting up the last of the shirts donated from the hubby’s closet, and figuring out what’s up with the TTNP borders.  Not that I’ve worked out how to handle it, but I’ve figured out what’s what. 

Stash Report:

• Fabric in:  4 yards (shirts from my husband’s closet and a couple of Fox Tails)
  
• Fabric out: 5 yards (backing for Vicksburg quilt)
  
• YTD Fabric in: 22 yards
  
• YTD Fabric out: 12 yards
  
• Net Fabric In/(Out): 10 yards
  

Happy Quilting, Cherie

Here’s the first Design Wall Monday posting for the new year.  Be sure to check out Judy’s DWM post and see all the new things folks have on their design walls.

I completed the December First Saturday blocks.

And did some organizing in my sewing room, finally removing the mattresses from the bunk bed sewing table.  This is a before picture when I did my big sewing room clean up last July….see the mattress taking up a lot of room?

This has increased my under table storage tremendously

Stash Report – First one in 2012

• Fabric in:  0 yards
  
• Fabric out: 0 yards
  
• YTD Fabric in: 0 yards
  
• YTD Fabric out: 0 yards
  
• Net Fabric In/(Out): 0 yards – so far so good
  

Happy Quilting, Cherie

It’s Design Wall Monday time and Judy’s DWM post has lots of links you can check out.  Here’s my wall……yep same as last week but only because there isn’t room to show all that I’ve done!

I’ve been busy this week and it’s not due to Thanksgiving preparation as we are going out of town   I completed sewing together all of the Prickly Pear and string blocks for Roll, Roll, Cotton Boll…..did you catch that…..all 30 Prickly Pear, all 20 string blocks and all setting string blocks are finished!! 

Not only that, but I’ve gotten all the pieced border units pieced and ready to iron.  After that, I’m ready to start sewing everything together, woo hoo!

This weekend I went to Scrap Club and Sarah completed her Exploding Star quilt.  Now the Exploding Star is one of Teajuana Mahone’s patterns and Sarah began her’s before the pattern was even available.  Sarah wanted her’s to be a true charm quilt (same shaped pieces, each piece from a different fabric) so she made the light/dark squares out of half square triangles so the entire quilt is completely made of triangles!!  After starting, the project languished for several years (6 maybe??) as Sarah didn’t have enough different light fabrics to keep going.  After telling this story a bunch of us brought in light squares for her to use and now it’s finished.  It was such fun looking to see if we could find any of the fabric we gave her.

Yesterday was rainy and cool and when you’ve set aside your doll sized work-in-process and it looks like this:

This is what happens:

Cats just love quilts, even small ones not hardly big enough for them

I also got the alternate First Saturday block for November finished.

And snagged a couple of nice shirts for re-purposing from the Goodwill. 

Lots of things to be thankful for this Thanksgiving and quilting and quilting friends are high on the list.

Stash Report – No Change from previous (I haven’t washed and cut up those shirts yet, so they don’t count )

• Fabric out: 0 yards
  
• YTD Fabric in: 165 yards
  
• YTD Fabric out: 86 yards
  
• Net Fabric In/(Out): 79 yards accumulated 

Happy Thanksgiving, Cherie

Due to computer issues, I’m quite late with my design wall post.  On the bright side, probably everyone else has linked up to Judy’s DWM post so check it out here.  Lot’s going on on the design wall…..civil war BOW, First Sat blocks and Roll, Roll, Cotton Boll (RRCB) blocks.

I got the main Nov first Sat block finished and the alternate block in progress.

My upstairs sewing spot is busy with RRCB units as the parts are finally coming together

Stash Report:

• Fabric in:  1  yard (Fabric from Italy that Lily brought me & I missed on my previous reports)
  
• Fabric out: 0 yards
  
• YTD Fabric in: 159 yards
  
• YTD Fabric out: 86 yards
  
• Net Fabric In/(Out): 73 yards accumulated 

Happy Quilting, Cherie

I accomplished a few things so my wall has got it going on this week

I cut out five of the Civil War BOW and cut the freezer paper for one of the applique blocks.  I sewed three of them:

And I finished putting the First Saturday blocks for October together:

And my stitchy fingers managed to finish off another tile block on the train ride into work this morning   At the Goodwill Clearance center I snagged a kit, probably from the ’70′s, to make a patchwork tote bag out of 3″ squares.  The squares are why I bought it.   I used the brown calico with pink flowers from that kit in this block…..too fun

And last, some of the 2 1/2″ crumb blocks that are piling up as leader/enders.  I really should focus on getting a proper leader/ender project ready although these crumb blocks are fun.

Stash Report — NO CHANGE:

• Fabric in:  0  yards
  
• Fabric out: 0 yards
  
• YTD Fabric in: 148.5 yards
  
• YTD Fabric out: 49 yards
  
• Net Fabric In/(Out): 99.5 yards accumulated  

Happy Quilting, Cherie

It’s Monday, do you know what’s on your design wall?    I have something new on mine!  I finished the First Sat blocks for Sept.  Next I’ll start catching up (again) on the civil war BOW blocks.  Judy’s Design Wall Monday post is here so click on over for more eye candy.

Our quilt guild directs a quilt show every other year and this is the year.   I took last Thursday off for quilt show judging and, wow, there are some wonderful quilts submitted this year.  The quilt show, Quintessential Quilt, is open to anyone to enter.  It is a judged and juried show with prize money.  It hangs in the University City Public Library for the month of October and it’s wonderful to hear everyone exclaim over the quilts.   This year members were challenged to make a Priority quilt for AAQI to put in the display cases at the library’s circulation desk.   Anyway, this week we’ll hang the quilts and the opening lecture is Sunday.  After that, I think I’ll need a vacation   

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Stash Report:

• Fabric in:  4  yards (cut up 3 GW shirts purchased at the beginning of Sept…..I’d better not visit the clearance center again for awhile)
  
• Fabric out: 0 yards
  
• YTD Fabric in: 148.5 yards
  
• YTD Fabric out: 49 yards
  
• Net Fabric In/(Out): 99.5 yards accumulated  

Happy Quilting, Cherie

Here it is already time for the first September Design Wall Monday!   Pop over to Judy’s DWM post for links to lot’s of other DWM posts .   Here’s my wall with the fabrics for the Sept First Sat blocks underneath the completed August blocks.  These are fun blocks because they are just 1/2 square triangles….the challenge is keeping them in order when assembling the blocks

I’m continuing the quilting on the SAHR quilt….still having a great time but sure hope I finish by the deadline!

No change in my stash report but once I get these new acquisitions cut up I’ll have to add to my total!

Happy Quilting, Cherie

New blocks have appeared on my wall

Still catching up on the civil war blocks.   Click over to Judy’s DWM post here to see lots of other design walls. 

This is another block #18 from Barbara Brackman’s civil war BOW.  I need 4 extra blocks for a 7 x 8 block setting.

Here are blocks 21, 23 and 24 and I’m only 3 or 4 blocks behind now, woo hoo!

The Fox Visits Provence is the first Saturday program that just started and here are the two blocks, the main and alternate, from August. 

The alternate block looks a bit different but I’m going with it.   When I rotated the sub-units, the red triangles made a star….. I hope, in the end, I don’t wish I’d put them together differently.

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Stash Report:

• Fabric in:  5.5  yards (5 more GW shirts)
  
• Fabric out: 0 yards
  
• YTD Fabric in: 142.5 yards
  
• YTD Fabric out: 49 yards
  
• Net Fabric In/(Out): 93.5 yards accumulated  I’m really trying not to break through the 100 yard mark

Happy Quilting, Cherie

The last of the Wild Fox First Saturday blocks are finished!  This session ran from August of last year through July of this year and all 24 blocks are done   These are the alternate blocks from May, June & July.

The sample quilt was put together using solid black sashing and white cornerstones but I want to do something different.  I’m wondering how they would look set on point with no sashing in between since the main blocks are pinwheel stars,  I’m  hoping the alternate blocks will give a chain effect.

Here’s my design wall….still the same.  Hop over to Judy’s DWM post to see all the other designs wall

Why is there nothing new on the design wall, you ask?  Well, I was told it was TIME TO CLEAN MY SEWING ROOM so I that’s what I did….well what I started anyway.   WARNING:  scary and most certainly embarrassing pictures below!

I started with the chip shelves (wonderful wire shelving units on rollers that are for chip displays in restaurants) in the top left corner of the diagram above.  Here’s the before shot:

Scary, right?  The after picture is better    The orange pumpkin hanging on the left (there are actually two of them) is a very old project that I just need to add stitching to.  I left them hanging so they don’t get buried again.  They are at the top of my “Get it done now” list.  The box on the left has an old singer Touch and Sew sewing machine for my dad….perhaps I’ll find a new home for it in the workshop, yeah, that’s it

Next I worked on the Big Board ironing board which is on the left in the room diagram above.  Here’s before……yes, I have a bag collection.

And after………

The table on the right covered in blue plastic is the Singer 301 sewing machine and cabinet named “Black Beauty”.  I keep water bottles there to fill my iron (yes, I iron with steam) so I don’t have to run out and fill one up all the time.  Perhaps there’s a different way I can keep them handy.  I’ll have to think on that because it is a pain to move everything when I want to use Black Beauty.  

So I didn’t get to the whole room but I did get part of the cutting table done.  A word about my cutting table…..my dad took the old bunk beds we had from the kids and built table tops for them.  The beds are on casters so they can move.  They aren’t the most beautiful but they are extremely functional.  

And after……

Big improvement on the left side any way ;0  What’s nice about the bunk beds is the storage under the table tops.  Now that I look at the pictures, especially this one:

I’m thinking I should get rid of the mattresses so I have more storage room.  Yep, I’m going to add that to the list. 

You know how you clean and then come across something that won’t take long to deal with?  Well there’s a sheet piled on top of some fabric in the picture above on the right hand side.  I took the time to fold and cut it and now I have this:

Off my cutting table and ready to go in a rag rug   I also took time to attach the folded flower to my Ribbon rosette.

I cut the remaining 5 First Saturday blocks from the “Wild Fox” black & white series and almost have the June & July main blocks together.  July was our 12th block so I wanted to make sure I got them all done before our new series, titled The Fox Visits Provence starts in August.  

I’ll have more before & after pictures as I finish the BIG SEWING ROOM CLEAN UP>  Happy Quilting, Cherie

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Stash Report:

• Fabric in:  0  yards 
  
• Fabric out: 2.5 yards (shared with Norma )
  
• YTD Fabric in: 135.5 yards
  
• YTD Fabric out: 43.5 yards
  
• Net Fabric In/(Out): 92 yards accumulated Down from from 94.5