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2012 January Palette Challenge

Cherie — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:48:18 +0000

Here is the piece I made for January using the color palette Vicki selected here. I knew what I wanted to do but, of course, didn’t finished it until last night “Amish String Theory” will go to AAQI

Hearts for AAQI

Cherie — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:58:48 +0000

I’ve finally finished hand quilting my AAQI hearts. If you remember I was supposed to have this finished to send in with all the rest of the Priority quilts from my guild. I’m late, late, late but I’m almost there. As the temporary quilt registration goddess, I feel bad about not getting mine done but I did complete my registration duties…….our quilts are 9058, 9059, 9060, 9061, 9062, 9063, 9064, 9065, 9066, 9067, 9068 and 9069. Not all the photos have been loaded but I’m sure they will be soon.

I bought this fabric on a whim a few years ago and thought it would be perfect for the backing.

Here’s a picture where you can see the quilting I plan to get the binding on this weekend and drop it in the mail on Monday…..finally.

Tomorrow on Judy’s blog the 2012 Color Challenge quilts will be posted…….I have mine started and I hope to finish it tonight. Whew, nothing like cutting it close, right?

Happy Quilting, Cherie

It’s a Red, White & Blue Monday

Cherie — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:29:20 +0000

It’s Design Wall Monday and the theme of this post, by pure coincidence, is Red, White & Blue. I cut the fabrics for my First Saturday blocks and a couple Civil War blocks. For this civil war block, I used one of the fabrics I received from Vicki…..as soon as I saw the blue fabric with stars, I knew it was perfect for the flag block!

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

Monday-Design Wall Time

Cherie — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:56:05 +0000

It’s Monday and time for Design Wall Monday I finished some of those red string blocks I’ve been sewing for who knows what

Check out Judy’s DWM post here. I’ve also gotten out the Topsy Turvy Nine Patch from forever ago (started at the Oct 3, 2009 workshop). All it needs are the borders added….and they are pieced already! I’m not sure they are pieced correctly because they don’t seem to fit any of the sides. I need to re-read the directions and see what’s up. It would be nice to finish this one up finally!

Stash Report:

Fabric in: 1.5 yards (a couple more Goodwill items cut up and in the stash)
Fabric out: 0 yards
YTD Fabric in: 15.5 yards
YTD Fabric out: 7 yards
Net Fabric In/(Out): 8.5 yards

Happy Quilting, Cherie

Stash Swap

Cherie — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:45:42 +0000

I attended our quilt guild meeting which was fun but what was even better was finding out the package of scraps from Vicki had arrived! Woo hoo I love the fabrics she sent, especially the reproductions. I’ll be using some of the them in the remaining civil war blocks from Barbara Brackman’s block-of-the-week which I’m now excited to get moving on again. Thank you, Vicki, for agreeing to swap with me and I hope you like the scraps I sent you. I took a quick picture of them this morning but I can’t wait to get home tonight and comb through them again.

It’s a Flimsy!

Cherie — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:19:11 +0000

I finished the Vicksburg top and since it won’t fit on my design wall, here it is on my cutting table. Woo Hoo!! And it’s Design Wall Monday so click over to Judy’s post to see what other quilters are up to

I still think I’ll applique some ovals where the swags meet but they look better than I had anticipated they would. I started this quilt in Sept 2009. It was a free BOM from Dawn Hesse of Linen Closet Quilts. Dawn posted the final directions in July 2010. Good to finally finish the Vicksburg top It measures ~69″ x 69″ and lays flat It used 6 yds of fabric but in reality it used more like 7 because I cut the setting triangles incorrectly the first time.

I’ve continued cutting up shirts……

and sewing red string blocks.

Stash Report:

Fabric in: 8 yards
Fabric out: 7 yards
YTD Fabric in: 14 yards
YTD Fabric out: 7 yards
Net Fabric In/(Out): 7 yards

Happy Quilting, Cherie

Sneak Peak

Cherie — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:05:18 +0000

I’m swapping some scraps!! These will be dropped at the post office Saturday to head to Vicki’s house. She asked for brights and lights….there’s a tad bit of space left so I’ll be snitching a few more scraps to add tonight

Colors & Shirts & Quilts, Oh My

Cherie — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:14:14 +0000

So I’ve decided to participate in the January Color Palette Challenge and make an AAQI Priority quilt. I have an idea for it and a name already, which is usually the hardest part for me! Here are the Cherrywood fabrics I’ll be using.

I’ve cut up some shirts and pajama pants that will need to be added to the stash report. I think I’ve broadened by color ranges with these few Check out the bonus zipper with the ribbon in the zipper pull I got from the pink and white gingham shirt…..have you seen metal zippers used as embellishments? I think I have an idea of a way to use it.

Lastly, here’s my progress on my current AAQI Priority quilt that was supposed to be done in October or at least by the time I sent the guilds quilts to AAQI. I’ve had trouble getting the embroidery done mainly because I’m out of practice. I want it to be the best I can do rather than hurry up and get it done….perhaps there’s a happy medium? I want to take out the “tail” of the daisy chain stitched heart. I used stem stitching to fill in the tail but realize now I should use smaller and smaller chain stitches so it isn’t so heavily filled in. It’s almost done……

Storage and Strings

Cherie — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:19:11 +0000

Here are updated pics of the bunk bed sewing table after the mattresses were removed. Look at all the space

Most of the puzzles there are from the Goodwill Clearance center, score!

See the large boxes? One is empty so there’s even more space than it appears. Woo hoo! See the Vicksburg quilt laid out and ready to sew? Well, it’s not ready. The setting triangles were not cut right and there isn’t enough fabric left to cut more which means I have to decide on different fabric. It was hard enough deciding on the fabric for the borders!

I’ve continued to have fun sewing red strings. They aren’t going as fast as the blue strings……perhaps because they are larger?

Happy Quilting, Cherie

Thoughts for 2012

Cherie — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:28:25 +0000

I left a comment for Jill on her blog Ramblings of a Fabric and Yarn Obsessor about New Year’s Resolutions. Her only resolution this year is to use more stash. That sounds like a good plan to me because I didn’t do well at all following through on Judy’s 2011 UFO Challenge. My list is here. I pieced a few of the Moonglow blocks and that is it, as in nothing else on the list got done Judy is hosting a 2012 UFO Challenge but I’ll sit this one out…..just like I did last year, apparently, lol.

So for 2012, I resolve to use more of my stash….further, I will limit my net stash in to 25 yards. Now that might not seem right, letting myself have net stash in but I can’t go cold turkey! For 2010 & 2011 I accumulated 105.5 and 88 yards respectively so limiting my net stash in to 25 yards will be really hard!!! REALLY, REALLY hard. And since I can’t post without pictures, here’s my stash:

Well, that’s most of it anyway

Happy Quilting, Cherie