Quilted Jonquil

Waste Not Wednesday

Cherie — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:14:47 +0000

Jo of Jo’s Country Junction starting hosting Waste Not Wednesday posts and this is my first one. I use phone book pages for string pieced blocks, lot’s of folks do this, but then I use the papers after they are removed for worm bin bedding

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

Bapron

Cherie — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:10:51 +0000

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?

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

Vicksburg is Coming Together!

Cherie — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:08:07 +0000

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