Friday night sewing with Heidi and Bobbi

Hey, I almost forgot to show you what I worked on Friday night. I didn't get alot done but I did sew a little....I made one more block of my Crazy 8 quilt and I sewed the binding onto this Star quilt.  



 

Another Crazy block



 I had made the binding on Thursday night and got it ready to sew on.  Let me tell you, that was no small thing.  I had to search all over my sewing room for the left over fabric!  I thought and thought about it and I just knew I had some but when I couldn't find it, I almost gave up and used something else.  I have been looking all week for the fabric and of course, it was in the last place I looked!   It was the last place to look and I wish I had looked there first.  Anyway, I attached the binding to this quilt and I started hand sewing it down today.   This is an old UFO, maybe 8 -10 years ago it was started.  I  passed the block out and asked my group to do it as a friendship block.  I thought it was pretty easy and one of the girls gave it back to me and said it was the hardest block she had ever done.  She didn't speak to me after that ever again and I quit that group. I only received 12 blocks back and I had to do the rest of them myself.  I like this quilt and it will replace the quilt on my bed.  Well, maybe I should say, it will  be the quilt on my new bed. I'm going from a King Size down to a queen size and it will be my new quilt.  I had a lot of the backing fabric and still have alot of it left. I bought plenty of this fabric as I had planned to make curtains with it too.  I just might still do that as I have more than enough for curtains and pillowcases.   A friend of mine did the quilting and I am thrilled with it. She did a wonderful job.  When I finish the binding, I'll take a close up and try to show you the quilting...I'll also take a better picture of it so you can see how pretty it really is.  I didn't have anyone around to help hold it up for a picture. 

I went over to my friend's house today and visited with her and did the hand sewing while she worked on some of her hand stitchery.  I didn't get it all the way done but  it's about half way finished now.  I hope you had a great day today and got alot of sewing done.  I have some pics to show you from my Thursday night group and I'll post those tomorrow.  Til next time.....happy sewing, Linda

Friday night sewing, a few finishes and a friendship block

I went to the church to sew with my friends on Friday night. There were 7 or 8 of us at the church and we sewed until late into the night. I made the binding for my two little pink quilts and attached it and I also made a block for exchange. Now, all I have to do is sew the bindings down by hand and put labels on and I can call these two finished. Woo hoo, that will actually make me three finishes for the month. Cuz, I finished another little quilt too.

Remember this one? This one is Dear Blanche and it is on my UFO list as number 2. It came back from the quilter a few weeks ago and I just laid it aside so I could work on other things. The binding is now on and ready to be hand sewn down...



This next one is Table Manners and it is ready to have the binding hand sewn down too....



I finished this one earlier in the week. It is on my UFO list as #8, known as Funny Flowers. I don't like the name but I'll think of something cute. I hand quilted this one just because I wanted to. You can't see the hand quilting but it made me feel good to do it. I love this little quilt because it is so happy. This is one of my favorite patterns for quick baby quilts. It is from the book, Easy Baby Quilts (an older book) and the pattern is called Will Work For Fabric. Don't you love that??? I have always liked this fun pattern. It makes up quick and you can hi-lite whatever cute fabric in the middle squares. Anyway, all I have to do to this one is put a label on it and I'll do that when I think of a cute name.



I made this friendship block for one of the girls in my small group. This one is for Rita...

Amy's BOM and a Friendship Block

I didn't do alot today. I really couldn't get motivated. I did three blocks, watched John Wayne on TV and cleaned house. Kind of a blah day cause it's still so hot here. I wanted to go outside but it was still so hot, I couldn't stand it. I am definitely ready for cooler weather....

I did two of the August blocks for Amy's BOM. I am really pushing the time limit on this one. Normally, I do these blocks the first part of the month but I really procrastinated.

Here's Block 1: Maltese Star



Block 2: Friendship Star
This one took me awhile to do. It wasn't hard but sure had a lot of pieces...




This is a friendship block for Marcella in my Sew What's Group. This was a fun and easy block from Quilter's Cache website....

Up early and ready to sew!

My body woke me up this morning at 5:00. My back hurt and my bladder was full but, (Yay!!!) my headache was gone. I got up, let the dog out, went to potty and came back to bed. I laid there and started thinking about everything but sleep. I soon realized that sleep was not happening, so, I got out of bed, ate some cheerios, made some coffee and headed upstairs. I made another friendship block, this one is for Anna and her quilt is called Hugs and Kisses. She's wanted pastel colors...Pastels aren't really my thing but I did find enough fabric in my stash to put together this sweet block.

Here's a hug for Anna:


Then, I pulled out this red Christmas fabric that my sweet MIL gave me and decided it was just the thing I needed for my 9 Patch Christmas quilt. I looked at Christmas fabric yesterday but decided I would use what I had on hand instead of buying....
I put this red fabric on for the border of this dull Christmas quilt and I like it alot better now. What do you think? I think it really helped this quilt and now if it's quilted in red thread, I think it will look great. So, here's the finished Christmas 9 Patch flimsy.



I'm going to drink another cup of coffee, visit with my husband for a few minutes and then, decide what else I want to work on. More later...

Small Group meeting, Covers for Kids and some of our projects

Last night was my small quilt group meeting, Sew What's. We worked on Covers for Kids quilts and we had a pretty good turnout. We had our meeting first so we didn't get alot of sewing done. I brought home the little top that we didn't finish. I'll work on it tonight. I also brought home another kit to work on too. These are pre-cut kits and go pretty quickly. That is, if you don't sew them together incorrectly like we did last night! It does help to READ the directions sometimes...You would think that 4 experienced quilters could get a simple pattern together. Too much laughing and talking and not enough brain power at the same time! Anyway, after Mr. Ripper and I have a discussion today at lunch, I'll be able to put the last row where it should go and finish up this little top. We don't have to quilt these ourselves, we are just doing tops. I'll turn them back into the guild and they have longarmers ready and waiting to quilt these. We had show and tell and had some great projects shown last night. Here's some things my talented group has gotten done this month.

Nancy's Little Butterfly top


Nancy's Carpenter Star for her carpenter husband.







Linda'a Piano Quilt for her Songleader at church


Peggy's Cover for Kids Quilts







Sharon's Wool Applique Block


Judy H's Schoolhouse Quilt. She did this one by herself, she was not in our exchange.


Judy B's quilt for her niece



Friendship blocks for Joyce


Ruth's 54-40 or Fight Quilt


Ruth's Leaves

Amy's BOM, Friendship Block, a small quilt,the Jelly Roll Quilt Along Block and a little bit of tatting

I'm sorry I haven't posted this week. I've meant to and just haven't felt good enough to post. I went to the dentist Monday and had the second part to my root canal. When the medication wore off, I was hurting. It wasn't tooth pain, it was pain from being worked on...I hurt for two days. I went to work and would come home and take pain killers and go to bed...finally by Wednesday, I was feeling better. My tooth feels good and Tuesday, I'll go for my crown fitting. I haven't hurt with a root canal before and I'm glad this is over, or I hope it is....

I have worked on some things this week. Here's some of the blocks I've been working on.

Amy's BOM for June:

County Fair


Constellation


Cobwebs


A friendship block for my small group...


Here's block 8 of the Jelly Roll Quilt Along



This is a community service quilt I meandered on my little frame. I just put these 5 inch blocks together for a practice piece. I'm still practicing. I'm going to be doing some more of these for practice but they might as well be used too.



And, I'm still working on my tatted flag. I got the last portion of the navy blue done last night and I've started adding the red and white stripes...It took me longer to do this than I thought it would. I would like to have this done by Judy 4th but I've really got to hurry now.



Here's the instructions I'm working off of. I am using this as a guide only. I'm using these but changing the count and doing the ends as a split ring to climb out. I am not cutting and tying...

Amy's BOM and Dee's Star

I came home and fixed dinner then headed upstairs to sew. I was able to make two of the blocks for Amy's BOM. The third block was Pennsylvania Parade and it just didn't look right to me. I checked some of my books to see if I could find it, but couldn't so I came back downstairs and looked on the internet. Lo and behold, I found the same block. I should have known Amy wasn't wrong! I wasn't really doubting Amy but I just thought the block could have gone together differently. After doing this, I didn't have time to make it, so I'll try to get it together tomorrow night. Here's the first two blocks...

54-40 or Fight:




This is Housewife:


I also decided on the block I would make for Dee. She's one of the girls in my small group and she let us decide what 12 1/2" star block we wanted to make. I don't know if this has a name or not. I just decided to put a pinwheel in the middle square and then do flying geese on the outside to make the star points. I'll try to look it up and see if there is a name for it somewhere. I just know I didn't want the middle block to be plain, as it was 6 1/2" and it was too big to be just a solid piece of fabric. We had to use the black fabric and only one batik fabric with it so...this is what I came up with. I hope she likes it. If not, I'll keep it for myself cause I like it alot....The batik is purple even though it looks more blue in the photo.

This is Dee's star but I found a name for this star off of Quilter's Cache, it's called Diamond Star.




Oh, did I tell you I'm going to a quilt retreat this weekend? I'm going somewhere new and I'm very excited about it. After the last two weekends, I decided I needed some R & R so what better than a quilt retreat. Somewhere peaceful with my fabric, friends and food. (I don't have to cook either!!!) Oh my, I can't wait. I'm still trying to decide what I want to take. I have several things in the works and my UFO's I need to work on but I want to take something that's a no-brainer. I don't want to have to think about or make any decisions. I just want to sew like crazy...Hmm, I'll have to ponder this and decide. I should have started getting it together tonight but I just had to sew some...Oh well, more to come later. Til next time...

Friday Night Sewing

I am participating in Heidi's Friday Night Sew In...here's some of the thigs I sewed on last night. I decided to do what Amy does...I made a list of things I wanted to work on and that was my plan.


I did a BOM for my guild. Here's Willie's block. She chose a real simple heart pattern and wanted it scrappy. She said she did not want it pink but all colors and to do what we wanted. The squares are 3" finished, so this block finishes at 12 1/2"...



I did the last of my nine patches and put them up on my design board. I still have a few hour-glass blocks to do but wanted to see how it was going to look. I won 22 of the nine patches and 22 of the hour-glass blocks and had to do 50 more of each...I like this little quilt and I'll be working on this one this month. I want to have the top put together to show my small group next month. There were two drawings, I won one of the drawings and my friend Glenda, won the other. She and I split doing the nine patches. She did fifty and I did fifty and then we swapped...We are sewing it together and showing it next month, I hope.





(Ok, don't worry, I know some of the hour-glass blocks are put up wrong, I just wanted it on the design wall, I'll fix them before I sew.)

And, I put the binding on this little donation quilt. I'm giving this one to the Quilts For Kids. Thanks to Amy, I'm calling this one "Warm Fuzzies."






I also pinned the little fairy quilt together so I could machine quilt it. I'll be quilting this one Saturday and Sunday and hopefully get it finished this weekend. I want to send these two quilts off to QFK's asap...

Pansy Park blocks, a sweet pillowcase and a block to exchange

Block 7


Block 8


Now that I have 8 of the blocks done I can do the middle part of the quilt. Not tonight but sometime soon. I still have to quilt my UFO #4, Nostalgic Garden. I have a few more days before the end of the month. I'm trying to decide how I want to quilt it.

Here's what Pansy Park will eventually look like..



Here's a little pillowcase I made.I have a little wallhanging to make too but I didn't have time to do that yet. I love pillowcases and they are really fun and quick to make.



This is a block for one of the girls in my quilting group. There are 14 of us that are in the exchange and each one of us gets to pick the block that we want everyone to make...This one was easy and quick. It is out of Eleanor Burn's book, Victory Quilts and Sharon wanted it in blues, yellows and reds..I think the quilt will be really cute.

2010 BOM from Amy

I am doing one exchange this year and you saw the beginnings of that. You remember, the 42 snowball blocks? That's the middle part to the exchange. It is the quilt off the cover of the Quilt Sampler. I will be doing a BOM with my small group and that will be all year. It should be fun. The chosen person each month tells us what block she wants us to do for her. She gives us the directions and fabric (or if she wants scrappy, we use our fabric)and we make her one block. I have signed up for the UFO challenge and will be doing that too but I have also decided to do Amy's BOM off the internet. Here's a link to her blog or click on the picture to the right and go there. She has some cute blocks. You get to choose from 3 different blocks per month. It is a 10 month BOM so you can end up with 30 blocks (if you do all three) or just 10 blocks or whatever....There is no applique in this one. Think about it, it looks like fun. Why don't you join us for that one? I'll be posting pics each month and so will Amy....maybe we can tempt you into it. Til next time....