I’m working away on the two mystery quilts that I’m doing. Here are the blocks for Scrappy Stars Around the Corner.
And here are 24 bricks and 8 nine patches for the final round of Bricks, Cobblestones, and Pebbles.
Hope you’re making lots of progress on your projects.
Snowy and cold here, so I’ve been doing lots of sewing. I got caught up on Gyleen’s mystery quilt yesterday. It’s not my favorite thing, but I like it better since I started trying to control the value. It does use almost all pre-cut scraps, so that’s a positive!
Then I got to work cutting up the scraps (and a little extra fabric) from the Sports baby quilt into 3.5″ squares to make a similar one. I did turn every other wavy patch 90° to break them up. I have it about half sewn together now.
While doing all this piecing, I’ve completed thirty-five 16 patch (8″) leaders and enders blocks in blue and brown, so that will be in the que.
And Charlotte released Clue 2 in her mystery quilt last night. I’m excited to work on that, as I know that one will look great!
Hope you’re all making progress on your projects!
Finishes this week! So I’m nibbling away at the deficit. These donation blocks for Kat’s February block drive used a yard and a quarter.
The Scrappy Baseball Quilt took seven and a half yards, and the Quiet Baby Quilt used three and a quarter yards.
This week: + 0 yards, – 12 yards
This year: +38.5 yards, -27.75 yards
Net destashed added in 2016: 10.75 yards
Give me another week or two and I’ll be in the black!
Enjoy your sewing and good luck with your Stash.
We’re linking up to Judy’s report at Patchwork Times.
I nailed the January Goals! As an example of the way these help, my DH and I debated about when to take our little journey to the quilt shop to drop off donation items and decided to do it right away, because the next available date would be in February. It helps to have these commitments.
January Goals
Bonus: I made a dozen blocks to donate to Alycia for Quilts of Valor, and am almost finished with an extra quilt for my shop from the Baseball scraps.
February Goals
Stash Report
I only used 3.75 yards for the back and binding of the Hashtag quilt.
This week: + 0 yards, – 3.75 yards
This year: +38.5 yards, -15.75 yards
Net destashed added in 2016: 22.75 yards
Good luck on your goals and stash. I’m linking up to Judy’s Report at Patchwork Times.
He should look guilty, he was playing with an open pen on my new quilt!
The Twilters’ Hashtag Quilt is finally finished. On the Twilters! Facebook group, we exchanged wonky hashtag blocks back in the fall, in a world-wide exchange somehow coordinated by the amazing Carole. I sent twenty-four blocks and received twenty-four back, from nine states and four countries on three continents.
I added sashing in celery Fairy Frost, and a border from a metalic gold and green fabric.
For the back I used a piece of fabric I had been hoarding saving for years. It’s not water waves, as it appears, but rows of Queen Anne’s Lace in several greens, white and metalic gold. I finished it with the border fabric and another green. I was afraid of the signatures on the front fading, so I made a label for the back with all the names and locations.
I think the quilt designs show up best on the the back in these photos. I drew these both myself, and one was more visually effective than the other. That’s how we learn. I used white Bottom Line on the top and light green on the back.
This quilt is 56″ x 82″, and should be great to wrap up in during cold evenings, or whenever I need a Twilty hug! Thank you, everyone, for your beautiful blocks!
I”m linking up to Finish It Up Friday at Crazy Mom Quilts.
This week I finished the Hashtag quilt. I’ll post about it as soon as I can get some outdoor pictures.
Yesterday I caught up on the first three steps of Gyleen’s Bricks, Cobblestones, and Pebbles mystery quilt (search that on Facebook and ask to join the group if you’re interested). I chose to do it because is uses tons of 3.5″ and 2.5″ squares, and 2.5″ strips, so there was little cutting to do, just lots of scrap pulling. I think my results so far are okay, but I prefer what people are doing with a more controlled pallette. I’m trying to stay scrappy and trust the process.
And, in the afternoon I traveled to Dubin, OH, to drop off four Project Linus baby quilts and ten Cases for Smiles pillowcases at Red Rooster Quilting (yes, it was a very gray day). This is on my monthly goals list as part of cleaning my studio. And I didn’t even buy any fabric!
Hope you’re making progress this week! I’m linking up to WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced.
It’s snowing a little here, so I’m using it as an excuse to stay home and sew.
This week I pieced the backing for my Twilters Hashtag quilt, and I’ve just started quilting it. I ditch quilted between all the blocks, and started on the sashing. I marked the blocks while it was still a top, which is awfully organized for me. We’ll see how those go.
I also finished this top, made from the scraps from the Baseball Quilt. The backing fabric has arrived, so that should be next in line for quilting.
Everyone, stay warm (or cool, down under!), and enjoy your sewing. I’m linking up to WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced.
Last week I made two baby quilts that are very different from each other. While waiting for the sports fabric to arrive, I found this elephant fabric in my stash.
I rooted around and found the lavender and rick rack and lace fabrics, as well as the pink.
The backing fabric I pieced in is lavender with a large crocheted pattern.
And, in case it wasn’t sweet enough, I bound it with pink rainbow stripe.
The second quilt was for a shower for a friend’s first baby. My information about the nursery was “navy blue and sports”, so I worked from there. 
Mom is a champion softball player and Dad has played and coached lots of sports and is currently into golf, so all those made an appearance, along with the nice graphic prints. I decided on a Disappearing Four Patch design. First, I cut all the 5.5″ patched and sewed them into four-patches. I really liked the quilt just like that, but the squares were awfully large and didn’t really look very crafted or intentional. Still, the prints were very busy, so I decided to only “disappear” half of them. I really like the result.
And I love the sporty sock monkeys on the backing.
I quilted it with a variegated navy and white thread. I’m not sure if I really like it, but it’s okay. I think the thread would look better in a stipple.
I was also pleased by how the quilt matched many of the other items they received at the shower. I know it will be used.
So, those are my two latest finishes. The sports quilt has gone home with the parents, and the pink elephants will be in my Etsy shop.
Hope you all are finishing things!
It’s that time. I’ve had a good year of quilting, both on my own and on a number of community projects. The year had it’s ups and downs, creatively, but you all kept inspiring me, pulled me into projects, and pushed me out of my comfort zone a few times, so this is what it looks like.
I’m glad I have these photos (I seem to have lost a few), to prove that I did accomplish something, because my 2015 Goals don’t really show it.
2015 Goals
This year I want to make more art quilts, including representational quilts. I’d like to experiment with using various printing techniques for surface decoration. I’ve been collecting some ideas and a few photos. I might start with a winter piece.
I made one art quilt, the small lobster trap one, where I learned a new printmaking technique. I did buy some fabric paints and markers, collect some leaves, and look at a lot of inspiration quilts.
I want to quilt the Slow Quilt, and if I’m happy with it, consider entering it in show.
Nope. Just didn’t get to/want to do this.
I have an idea for my own version of stack and whack that I want to try on a piece of fabric.
Nope. I got over this one quickly. Think it’s been done.
And I want to continue to reduce/turn over my stash. I’m not sure I can remove another hundred yards, though. I’ve already taken it down a lot, and I’m planning some very small quilts. I’m setting my goal at fifty yards, and if I do better than that, all the better. Fifty yards in ’15.
Yes! I reduced the stash by 50.5 yards. I’m at the point where I don’t have many large backing pieces, and need to buy sometimes.
I did better on my December Goals, in spite of traveling.
December Goals
I’m mulling over these results, and I’ll be back in a day or two with some thoughts for 2016. Remember, 2016 has one extra day, and I certainly plan to spend it quilting!
Hope your new year is bright and shiny, and I hope I see you at the New Year’s Sew In on Twitter and Facebook. #NYSI
Greetings, and welcome to my last Stash post of the year. I know there’s another week, but I’ll be traveling then, so this is it.
My final sewing of the year was this set of six string blocks for Kat’s December block drive. They conveniently used one yard. I didn’t come up with them just to make my destashing goal; I put them on my December Goals almost a month ago. But I did make my Goal of Destashing Fifty Yards in 2015!!
This week: + 0 yards, – 1 yards
This year: + 134.75 yards, – 185.25 yards
Net fabric destashed in 2015: 50.50 yards!
Whoot!
At one point I thought I would go sailing by this number, but it just didn’t happen. I’m happy being fifty yards in the black.
I hope you’ve done what you want with your Stash this year, and with your sewing, and everything else. I’ll be lurking around through magic of WiFi, and look forward to seeing your posts. Enjoy your holidays! You’ve earned them!
Evening in the Garden Quilts 