My design wall has more red string blocks.  All of the blocks are sewn but I didn’t trim the rest of them because Bonnie pointed out on her blog that it was double work to trim them square them up, cut them in half and then trim the triangles again, duh   I’ll work on getting the triangles cut later. 

On Saturday we went to the parade in downtown St Louis to honor the Iraq veterans home. 

Stash Report:

• Fabric in:  2.5 yards (a couple of shirts from my husband’s closet cut up and in the stash)
  
• Fabric out: 0 yards
  
• YTD Fabric in: 18 yards
  
• YTD Fabric out: 7 yards
  
• Net Fabric In/(Out): 11 yards
  

Happy Quilting, Cherie 

Yes, Bapron as in baby apron   I found a tutorial to make this Bapron on Ucreate.  It was easy to follow.  I made one for Lily Bean and forgot to take a picture before it was put in the box to send…….so here is the lovely Lily modeling the Bapron  

Because the Bapron has arm holes, it stays in place better than a bib and doesn’t Lily look adorable? 

It’s Monday Design Wall time   Click over to Judy’s DWM post here to catch what other quilters have on their design walls.  I’m still working on the SAHR quilting…….I’m just showing the new stuff   It’s coming along but not fast enough!!

Have you seen Jo’s  Crumb-a-long?  I’ve added her button to my blog in case you’d like to click over to her “Jo’s Country Junction” blog and get the details!

And totally not quilt related, here’s a picture of what was in our basement yesterday.  Unlike the one from several years ago, I was not the one to find it, thank goodness!

Our friend Terri from Oklahoma was visiting St Louis so we got together for the first time in years.  We had a great time   Terri gave me flowers, the roses are blooming out so nicely, and us a bottle of wine.  Check out the wonderful wine wrap….it’s a sock monkey!!  Isn’t it GREAT???  It’s too funny…I love it.

The bits in front are size 12 pearl cotton for quilting my SAHR top and two packs of grab bag wool pieces.  These goodies came from Piece-O-Cake and I can’t wait to start using them. 

Hot, hot, hot!!  It was an excellent weekend to spend some time hanging out in the cool basement   I finished cleaning my sewing room.  There are a couple of more thing I want to do (get the mattresses out, refold some reclaimed fabric, etc.) but I declare the cleaning done.  For Design Wall Monday I forgot to take a straight on picture so here’s one cropped from a cleaning picture.   

Those 9 patches on the left side are made from 2.5 inch crumb blocks that I found while cleaning……I vaguely remember working on them

Here is the conference table before:

And after:

There’s still a lot of stuff under the table, including 4 sewing machines and 4 boxes of stuff from the quilt guild quilt show but it doesn’t hurt anything.

The cutting table was cleaned up and then a few projects were strategically placed.

Cutting Table before:

And cutting table after:

The fabric shelves before – notice the stacks of fabric on the floor as well as several bags of reclaimed fabric:

Fabric shelves after – nothing on the floor in front of the shelves now :

And last, before a recap of the chip racks, I have to say there’s a rumor running around my house that one of the chip racks may be recalled. Chip Racks  Before:

And chip racks after:

Happy Quilting, Cherie

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Stash Report:

• Fabric in:  0  yards 
  
• Fabric out: 5 yards (donated to the quilt show )
  
• YTD Fabric in: 135.5 yards
  
• YTD Fabric out: 48.5 yards
  
• Net Fabric In/(Out): 87 yards accumulated Down from from 92…..I know it’s not from finishing projects but it’s still gone from my stash so it COUNTS!!!
  

]]> http://quiltedjonquil.com/2011/07/18/hot-july-monday/feed/ 5 http://quiltedjonquil.com/2011/07/13/lily-bean-on-a-quilt/ http://quiltedjonquil.com/2011/07/13/lily-bean-on-a-quilt/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:38:56 +0000 Cherie http://quiltedjonquil.com/?p=3466  

Lily Bean is chillin’ at an Italian beach on a quilt my mother, Lily’s great-grandmother, made quite a few years ago. 

Cute, no?  Lily’s mommy says she likes putting her hands in her mouth and thinks her toes might be next   Check out this picture!  The flower is almost as big as cute miss Lily’s head, lol.

And now something sewing related…one of the boppy covers I made in action

Okay, enough of the pictures of darling little Lily Bean…….I finished up the June & July First Sat main blocks, woo hoo.  Only the three alternate blocks and I’ll have all the blocks done.

Happy quilting, Cherie

]]> http://quiltedjonquil.com/2011/07/13/lily-bean-on-a-quilt/feed/ 2 http://quiltedjonquil.com/2011/07/08/new-rug-in-the-making/ http://quiltedjonquil.com/2011/07/08/new-rug-in-the-making/#comments Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:50:58 +0000 Cherie http://quiltedjonquil.com/?p=3424 I’m working on a new rag rug.  The hardest part is trying to judge how far a ball of  “yarn” will go.  The picture is a bit dark as I took it this morning before leaving for work.  The bottom part is from a sage green sateen sheet, followed by a gold jacquard striped sheet and topped by a cream print cotton/poly sheet.   It’s much nicer to crochet with the sateen & 100 cotton sheets

Here’s my wall which is the same as last week.  Check out Judy’s DWM post for other design walls

I did finished a rag rug I started crocheting eons ago.  It looks pretty good on kitchen floor.

I sewed some on the Zigzag 9 quilt too but there’s not much progress to show.  I’m sewing the second half of the quilt together and making a few more 9 patches since I didn’t have quite enough.

I’m prioritizing my projects as I have some deadlines coming up.   Here’s a start:

Quilt Show Ribbon – due middle of July

SAHR project – must be completed by Sept 11

Crumb Quilt – must be completed by Sept 11

AAQI Priority Quilt – due middle of Sept

Hope this helps me focus.  I do want to catch up on the civil war blocks before it’s get too daunting…..if I get them cut, they can be my leader/enders.

Happy Quilting