Friday Finish

 

We had a beautiful, sunny 80 degrees here today!  I didn’t spend as much time outside as I’d like though, this was calling me.

It’s entirely hand quilted, many many hours of it.  I’m a lousy hand quilter, my stitches are big & child-like but I adore the finished look.  I made this with the very small amount of leftover charm squares from my first Central Park quilt.  It measures 31.5 x 41.5.”  Bound in orange, I think that’s my favorite part.

I got a great deal on the backing fabric, $1/yd.  It’s hard to see but there are little hearts, dots & stars, I think it works pretty well with the line.  Off to the washer, can’t wait to see the crinkled look.  Thanks for stopping by, have a great weekend!

Woo-hoo Wednesday!

 

Wednesday’s my favorite day of the week, I don’t really know why, sometimes I go out for a little evening entertainment on Wed, sometimes not.  I think it’s just knowing I’m that much closer to the weekend.  ETA, I had to look it up, I was born on a Wed, maybe that’s it *grin*

I’m trying out Freshly Pieced’s WIP Wednesday this week, glad to have found you all, can’t wait to see what everyone’s working on!

I’m almost finished hand quilting my Central Park #2 quilt (made from the teeny amount of scraps I had left from the first one).  I’m NOT a hand quilter, my stitches are big & childish, crooked, meandering, but HEY, you can definitely tell it’s got hours & hours of hand work in it, LOL!  I like it regardless.

I got my red block stitched but I’m running short on oranges for the next one…I even dug out and cut some stash.  Not sure what’s up with that, I love orange.  I’m going to move on to another color for now.

Just other stuff I wanted to rattle on about…

1. It’s Creative Mojo day!  3pm eastern, don’t forget to listen (or download) Mark Lipinski’s great show!

2. Just One Star for a great cause, check it out!

I think that’s it, I have a TON of work sewing to finish & deliver today.  Have a great Wednesday!

Design Wall Monday

 

Here we go again, I’m creating an insane pile of tops that I need to quilt.  I have a ton of “work” sewing to do but I couldn’t get inspired there, this charm pack was calling.  I’ll be honest, I wasn’t excited about this one at all, it looked better online than in my hands.  But I like how it morphed once I was playing with the pieces.

This is Hideaway by Lauren & Jessi Jung for moda.  I adore green, especially for babies. 

I think it could have been fairly gender neutral but I had to use some of the extra squares and appliqued some flowers, girly now, huh?

I let the petals go all whimsical, I think it works.  This one will also be hand quilted & shouldn’t take nearly as long as the Central Park one I’m quilting now (which is kicking along pretty well).  I think I’m going to continue the flower theme by quilting some in the borders.  Very fast project, I had the top together (minus the applique) in about an hour. 

Editing Tues to add a pic of my WIP.  I saw a Ticker Tape Quilt Along on a blog and had to hop on the bandwagon, I love TT’s!  Here’s my morning progress, I’m digging a QAYG project, one less top to get to “later.”

Thanks for stopping by, don’t forget to visit Judy’s for more Design Wall Monday & Quilt Story for Fabric Tuesday!

Woo-hoo Friday!

 

Oh thank goodness, it’s been a LONG week!  I’m SO ready to go out and party a bit tonight.  Here’s how I spent my morning.

They’re ready for binding but I’m bored & setting them aside for now.  Here’s the one I finished yesterday.

It’s a little housewarming gift for my best friend who I’ve been helping move.  It measures 5 1/2 x 8 1/2.  The ones up top are also for gifting.  I found the design online, I think it was a tattoo sketch.  And that’s all for now, I have to go babysit and set up my friend’s computer.  Have a nice weekend!

Design Wall Monday

 

I wish I had room for an actual wall but here’s my table in progress.  This is Sugar Pop! by Liz Scott for Moda, another charm pack, this one paired with a dark almost turquoise solid (it looks very green here for some reason).  I’ve had a zigzag quilt on my list for a while now and I used that method where you sew two fabrics RST around the edges and then cut on the X.  Quick & easy, we’ll see if I can get this top finished today, I have to go in to work soon.

Here ‘tis!  Might add a border in the blue but I love it with the morning sun shining through.  Boy was I sick of triangles, lol.

 

Editing to add Monday night’s progress (hope you can see the tons of stitching).

I’ve decided to attempt hand quilting this Central Park #2.  I don’t have a walking foot and want simple straight line quilting, I’m afraid my less than stellar meandering will distort the nice lines.  If it goes well I’ll also hand quilt this one from Saturday’s sewing marathon.

Don’t forget to swing by Judy’s for more Design Wall Mondays & Quilt Story for Fabric Tuesday!

Quilt top a day

 

Well OK, 2 days, but still, this was a fast project!  I got the charm pack yesterday morning and dove right into it, no pattern, no real plan, I just wanted white & on point blocks.  They’re put together log cabin style so it was a lot of back and forth to the ironing board but I really love it! 

These photos are SO bad, I can’t believe I’m sharing them here but you can see in the layout that I should have counted before I started sewing, I had to add a couple more blocks and remove all of the bottom triangles and flip them around, lol.  I’m leaving off the corner triangles on purpose, gives it a different look being non-rectangular.  I have no idea how I’ll quilt it so I’m setting it aside for a few days.

The charms are Dilly Dally by Me & My Sister Designs for Moda.

Back up and running!

 

The internet, that is.  Need to get my butt back out on the road running but I’m sick of the cold!  I’m about half caught up on my blog reading, gosh did I miss that for the last week.  We’ve already called & set up internet & tv with a new company but I’m not cancelling the current company until they get here next week.  I’ve done SO much sewing!  Even knocked out a 3 day work order, delivered it and picked up some more for the weekend.  I’m not sewing on it today though…some fluffy mail arrived a couple hours ago.

My thanks again to my supplier, I’m totally addicted to these little charm packs.  I already dove into the Dilly Dally, it’s about half cut and assembled for another cute baby quilt.

Did anyone catch the boo-boo in my 2nd Central Park quilt?  I left out a whole row of sashing, oops!  Here it is fixed & ready to quilt when I figure out what I’m doing with it.  I can’t believe I laid it on the kitchen floor but that’s all that was available right now.  Not that wonky, I was just in a rush & didn’t lay it out nicely (that would mean crawling on the floor that surely has some cat hair on it, I did give the quilt a good shake, lol).

OK, back to work, just had to check in, happy sewing!