Quilted Jonquil

After discovering the setting triangles for my Vicksburg quilt were cut wrong and thinking it would be hard to find some fabric to replace them with, it turns out it wasn’t bad at all   Here’s my design wall with half of Vicksburg sewn together.  Woo hoo!!!!   Turns out I had purchased another piece of the Moda Apple Cider print I ended up using for the borders so I had enough to use for the setting triangles.  I’ve made this applique quilt completely from stash fabric  

While sewing the Vicksburg top together, I managed to get all the red string blocks started leader/ender style.  They are looking good

We went to the Quilted Fox First Saturday and I used my 30% off all Fox Tails to purchase some fun pieces to add to my stash.

Additions to my stash include the shirts I’ve cut up.  These are women’s shirts and pajama bottoms so there aren’t as many good sized pieces as you’d get from men’s shirts, but I love the variety

Stash Report:

• Fabric in:  6 yards
  
• Fabric out: 0 yards
  
• YTD Fabric in: 6 yards
  
• YTD Fabric out: 0 yards
  
• Net Fabric In/(Out): 6 yards
  

Happy Quilting, Cherie    

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

Here’s this weeks design wall picture.  Click over to Judy’s DWM post for links to other DWM posts.

Again, the only thing new is this week’s civil war BOW from Barbara Brackman, but hey, there is something new at least!

The three-patches have multiplied and they are pictured with, WHAT?!?!!?!?!?!, another project????  I’ve stopped keeping count of works-in-progress at the moment for the shame of having so many.

The blue/green three patches are for a Scrap Club project and will need to multiply faster over the next two weeks.  The purple strip sets are for a baby quilt for my soon to arrive granddaughter, Lily so they too better multiple fast!

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Last, here’s my stash report update:

Aren’t these fabulous?  When I first started thrifting shirts for fabric, I selected muted colors, blues, browns, greens, reds and neutrals.  Now I’m on the hunt for bright, bold colors and these fit the bill.   They do my stash report no good but I love them

Stash Report:

• Fabric in:  3 yards (pink and orange thrifted shirts)
  
• Fabric out: 0 yards
  
• YTD Fabric in:  15 yards
  
• YTD Fabric out: 9 yards
  
• Net Fabric In/(Out): 6 yards accumulated

I continued sewing on the Roll, Roll, Cotton Boll step 3 string blocks last night.  Bonnie mentions she works two string blocks, leader-ender style…..she sews a few, trims a few and de-papers a few.   I’m more of a sew the first seam on all the blocks kind of a person.  I worked at doing 10 at a time this weekend but I just couldn’t do that last night.  I -had- to get the remaining 49 blocks started with the first two strings, I’m just driven to do that.   The downside is I don’t get to say, “I finished X blocks last night”, lol.   Of course, I still do them leader-ender style so there’s always a couple of blocks running ahead

It’s Design Wall Monday again and I’m usually excited about it but that’s because I usually have something new up.  Not so this week….boring   Click over to Judy’s DWM post to see some exciting design walls

I did accomplish something this weekend…..drum roll, please……I have ALL the blocks for Technicolor Yawn sewn.   YEA!!  Here are all 18 “A” blocks and 17 “B” blocks, ready to sew into a top.   In fact, I was humming along on these blocks, having such fun, that I ignored that voice in my head that said, “You should spend a bit of time working on something else so you have some new on the wall for DSM”.

Did you hear that Bonnie Hunter is having another mystery quilt-a-long?   It’s Roll, Roll, Cotton Boll and I’ve been toying with the idea of doing this one.   I pulled two of the colors needed just to see if I’d have enough in my stash as I refuse to buy any more fabric this year.  I’m pretty sure I have enough…….

Click this link: Friday Night Sew-In to see all the sewing action at Handmade by Heidi.  In my FNSI action, we have……more Technicolor Yawn (aka Scrap Vomit) “B” blocks.  I was able to get 4 blocks done on Friday night.  I have 12 sewn & one ready for the final seams so I’m counting it as 13 down & 4 more to go, yea!!!

And it’s “Technicolor Yawn”.  It’s perfect, really, because as Katy says, “It’s technicolour for sure. And sewing all those little squares together is certainly Yawnsome.”  Much better, don’t you think?  I have 10 of the “B” blocks finished now so only 7 more to go before I can start assembling the top

It’s design wall Monday and here is my scrap quilt again   I have six of the 17 “B” blocks together.  I’ve taken them down from the design wall so this is the last time you’ll have to see them until the quilt is together   Don’t forget to stop by Judy’s DWM post to see what other projects are in the works.

I also did a couple more test blocks using the method described by Jeanie in the comments of my earlier post here.

Jeanie figured out how to make these blocks without ending up with biased edges.   Jeanie said, “Anita Estes longarm quilter had a similar blk on her blog recently.  It was different but along the same lines of ‘backward piecing’.  Following Jeanie’s directions, here’s what I did.

Cut two 12 1/2″ squares of contrasting fabric.

Then make two half square triangles from the squares.

Then layer the two half square triangles (see picture) and make two hourglass blocks.

Next cut 1 1/2″ from the center line on each of the two hourglass blocks but make sure they are cut so the fabrics are alternating.  See how the dark fabric is on top in the left one and the light fabric is on top in the right one?

Now flip the pieces and sew.

Repeat with the other side cutting 1 1/2″ from the center on both squares, flipping the pieces and sewing to get these blocks.

If you open the seams and iron them to alternating sides, twirling the seams, it will reduce the bulk.

Next, cut 1 1/2″ from the center line perpendicular from the seams you just did, flip the pieces & sew.  Cut 1 1/2″ from the center on the opposite side, flip the pieces & sew.

Important, DO NOT cut the when you’ve just gotten off the phone to find out if the installers are going to show up because you took the day off especially for them to come…..you will cut 1 1/2″ away from the seam you just sewed, have to sew it back together again, and end up with an owie in your block.

Here’s the blocks after cutting & sewing the second center line.

Jeanie trimmed her’s to 10″ so I did too but there’s a bit of a gap were my owie occurred.  This took a little longer than the block that’s in Quiltmaker Magazine but you end up with two blocks versus one and no bias edges.  So there is backwards sewing as described by Jeanie & Anita Estes

Happy Quilting!

I worked on another “B” block of the Scrap Vomit quilt and threw the pieces on the design wall to see how I like the solid colors I’ve chosen.  What do you think?

I need to pay attention to where the dark squares fall on these blocks or they’ll end up diminishing the pattern made by the solid black squares.  Overall I’m happy with the colors so it’s full steam ahead   Aren’t the two First Saturday blocks cute?  The colors for the Nov First Sat blocks is a great teal color.  Can’t wait to get them together.

Stash Report –

• Added:  0  (haven’t finished cutting up those shirts yet )
  
• Cumulative Added:  137 yds
• Used:  2    Kaffe Fassett fabric left from the Foxy Fassett top sold to Darlene
  
• Cumulative Used:  50.25 yds
• Net Out/(In):   (86.75 yds)

Have a terrific Monday!

The last two seams on the First Sat block are not ironed but I took a quick pic to prove I am ready for tomorrow’s First Saturday

Even though the lighting was horrible, I took a picture of  a sample layout of a “B” block for the Scrap Vomit quilt-a-long.   I’m testing black and red for the solid blocks.  Yes, those are -red- squares even though they look orange in this picture.   I’ll sew up this block and leave it on the design wall for a couple of days to see how I like the colors.