Category Archives: Quilting

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Wow Us Wednesday @Savvy Southern Style

Show and Tell Wednesday @SNAP

Really Random Thursday @Life a colorful life

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Fresh Sewing Day @Lily’s Quilts

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April 16, 2014 · 17:54

WIP and Triangle QAL

I’ve got all my rows sewn together for the Triangle QAL at the Sassy Quilter. I’m really looking forward to the FMQ so that I can use some of the techniques that I learned in my longarm class with Judi Madsen last week. Although all the fabrics are pretty busy and they will hide the quilting, I’m still going to let my inner ‘Madsen’ out to run wild and free. I haven’t trimmed the sides yet because I haven’t decided if I want to bother with bias binding to go up and down the points or take the easy way out and go with a straight seam.

Linking up to:

Linky Tuesday @Freemotion by the River

WIP Wednesday @The needle and thread network

WIP @Freshly Pieced

Triangle Quilt-a-long @The Sassy Quilter

We Did it Wednesday @Sew much ado

Wow Me Wednesday @Polkadots on Parade

Wow Us Wednesdays @Savvy Southern Style

2014 WIP	Size	Current status
Pink & blue batik	King	binding
Jana’s Wedding	Queen	piecing
Triangle QAL	Twin	FMQ
Waterlily	Wall hanging	quilt top
One block wonder	Queen	binding
Peacock	Lap/wall	FMQ
Blue Hydrangea	King	FMQ
Dragonflies	Wall hanging	Binding
Charm Square Crib 2	Baby	binding
Charm Square Crib 3	Baby	binding

2014 Completions	Size
Kimono	Wall hanging	Hung
Asian Shadow Box	King
Little Warriors Charity (x7)	Twin	Donated
Charm Square Crib 1	Baby	Donated

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April 11, 2014 · 14:58

Judi Madsen Class

When you see her quilts on her website or in her book they look amazing. But……in person they are absolutely unbelievable. The incredible detail and the way her quilting enhances the piecing is truly inspiring. And to top it all off she is incredible gracious and humble. All that talent in a wonderful lady. If you get the opportunity to take a class with her I highly recommend it.

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April 8, 2014 · 10:22

FAL Quarter 2 Wish List

It is time to commit to my list of projects for Littlest Thistle’s 2014 finish-a-long. I guess it has to at least include the 3 quilts that were on my Q1 list that didn’t get finished. My one block wonder from 2010:

And the two baby quilts:

I will add three more for good measure: king size “house” quilt for our Niece’s wedding in May, twin size triangle quilt-a-long and the Shoji screen wall hanging::

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February 15, 2014 · 18:14

Riley Blake Challenge

Last year Riley Blake Designs got together with the Modern Quilt Guild and challenged members to take a bundle of 6 fat eighths and make something out of them. Your project had to be completed by Feb 17th to qualify. You could use anywhere from 1 to all 6 of the fabrics and combine them with any other Riley Blake print or a solid fabric from your stash. I put my name into the challenge and my fabrics arrived in late September. When I opened the package I was hoping that I would immediately be inspired. Unfortunately that didn’t happen. I had no idea what I would do with the fabrics.

I put my package aside and completely forgot about it. Fast forward to Valentines day and I saw the package sitting on my cutting table. Now what??? 3 days to design, cut, piece, quilt and bind my project. Yikes! I decided that I was going to make a pillow in the style of a quilt, using batting to give the pillow top dimension when it was quilted and having binding on the edges. I laid the fabrics out and just started cutting odd shapes and sewing them back together.

It took a couple of hours but I had the pillow top completed and ready for quilting. I decided to use a stiff, iron on batting to give the pillow some shape and structure. Since I was going to do mostly straight line quilting I decided to just use my domestic machine rather than my longarm. Dumb decision. By the time I was finished my shoulders were killing me and I had a mountain of threads to pull through to the back and tie off. It didn’t help that Tilly insisted on helping me quilt by standing on top of the fabric as I was trying to move it.

It took me a couple of hours to clean up the pillow top and then a few more hours to sew on the binding and then hand sew it onto the back of the pillow. All things considered I am pretty happy with the final project. Is it a modern quilting masterpiece? Nah….but for my first attempt at just winging not only the piecing but the quilting……I’m content with the final outcome.

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January 22, 2014 · 16:25

First WIP post for 2014

It is already the 3rd week in January and this is my first WIP post. That either means that I haven’t done any work or I’ve been to0 busy working to take the time to post. Unfortunately I haven’t been doing much quilt work. Life has gotten in the way of the things I want to do. Oh well it can only get better from here.

I have made some progress on my Asian Shadow Box quilt. I finished the borders and it has been on the longarm for the last couple of weeks. I made my own pantograph for this quilt. I had some 11×17 graph paper that I used to create my design and then I just made a bunch of copies and taped them together.

Linking up to

Linky Tuesday @FreeMotion by the River

WIP Wednesday @The Needle & Thread Network

WOW me Wednesday @Polkadots on Parade

WOW Us Wednesday @Savvy Southern Style

We Did it! Wednesday @Sew much ado

Needle & Thread Thursday @My Quilt Infatuation

Really Random Thursday @Live a Colorful Life

2014 WIP	Size	Current status
Pink & blue batik	King	binding
Asian Shadow Box	King	FMQ
Kimono	Wall hanging	quilt top
Waterlily	Wall hanging	quilt top
One block wonder	Queen	piecing
Peacock	Lap	quilt top
Blue Hydrangea	King	FMQ
Dragonflies	Wall hanging	Binding
Charm Square Crib 1	Baby	FMQ
Charm Square Crib 2	Baby	quilt top

2014 Completions	Size

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December 31, 2013 · 14:17

2013 in review

Well 2013 is almost over. For the most part it was a good year. The last few months have been a little hectic with the rapid decline in Don’s Mom’s health and Tango’s diagnosis of degenerative myelopathy. I only managed to do one half marathon and few shorter races this year but I guess that is better than sitting on my fanny and doing nothing.

The highlight for me was getting my longarm machine. It has been my creative escape when life gets the best of me. Here is a mosaic of my quilt finishes in 2013:

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December 28, 2013 · 12:00

Darwin – FAL finish #7

I actually finished this quilt in early December but I wasn’t able to post any pictures of it because it was a present for our son and daughter-in-law who subscribes to my blog. To read more about it and see more pictures please follow this link DARWIN.

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December 27, 2013 · 12:01

Tropical Punch FAL finish #6

I can’t believe that I have managed to finish so many of my 4th quarter FAL projects. I finished this one at the end of November but I’ve held off with my ‘ta-da’ post because I didn’t want the recipient to see the quilt before she opened the present Christmas morning. To see more pictures and read about the making of this quilt click here.

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November 20, 2013 · 17:40

WIP

I’ve got lots of works in progress this week. This is the first quilt I ever pieced. I took a 6 week intro to quilting class and while I was learning stuff each week in class, at night I made two king size quilts on my own. The teacher thought I was ‘woman obsessed’ and she was right. This poor baby has sat all alone in my closet waiting for the last two borders to be sewn on and then quilted. Now that I have my longarm I decided it was definitely time to tackle this 110″x110″ monster. It is on my 4th quarter FAL list so now that it is finally quilted … hopefully I will get it bound by the end of the year.

This is another FAL quilt. The FMQ work is done and I am working on hand sewing the binding on (my least favourite task). It is a Christmas present so I don’t want to show the whole thing and spoil the surprise.

On Friday I took a 3 hour class at my longarm dealer. It was just a freehand basics course that they offer to new longarm owners or people who want to rent their equipment. I tried a freehand edge to edge design. I’m managed to keep the design relatively the same size throughout the quilt but if I were to do it again I would probably make it 50% larger so that you could see more of the loft in the quilt. Every quilt has been a wonderful learning experience to help me move successfully from my FMQ on my domestic machine to the longarm.

Linking up to

Linky Tuesday @FreeMotion by the River

Wow me Wednesday @Polkadots on Parade

2013 WIP	Size	Current status
Pink & blue batik	King	binding
Asian Shadow Box	King	waiting for borders
2012 BOM ‘Blues’	King	quilt top
2012 BOM ‘Opera	King	quilt top
Kimono	Wall hanging	quilt top
Waterlily	Wall hanging	quilt top
One block wonder	Queen	piecing
Peacock	Lap	quilt top
Leftovers I	Lap	Binding
Leftovers II	Lap	quilt top
Tropical Punch	Lap	quilt top
Blue Hydrangea	King	FMQ
Dragonflies	Wall hanging	Binding
Xmas Surprise	Lap	Binding
Charm Square Crib	Baby (x3)	quilt top(1), binding(2)


2013 Completions	Size
2011 BOM ‘Spring	King
Blue Odyssey	King
High River Quilts	Lap (x5)
Kassidy’s flannel	Baby
Sue’s Summer Breeze	Queen/King
Star Surround QAL	Lap/Twin

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November 19, 2013 · 09:52

Jamie Wallen heaven

Yesterday I was lucky enough to take 2 classes with this amazing quilter. He was very personable and happy to share his gift. He is in town for 4 days but I could not swing all the time off work. I went home inspired and just itching to spend some quality time on my long arm. Working for a living sucks when all you really want to do is be creative and “play”. Look at some of his amazing work:

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October 23, 2013 · 17:32

WIP Wednesday/More FAL finishes

I am scheduled to take my first longarm class in a couple of weeks and I need to bring a small finished quilt top to work on. Wouldn’t you know that although I have more than 10 quilt tops waiting to be quilted, they are all large queen/king or small wall hangings that I want to do some special quilting on. Once again I looked to Pinterest for some inspiration for a quick baby quilt. I found this upsized charm square idea on a blog called Thumbelina. I changed it to run the stripes vertically instead of horizontally. I had 3 charm packs and a couple of co-ordinating fat quarters which will give me enough for 3 baby quilts.

I finished free motion quilting the last two charity quilts for High River. That gives me finish number 4 and 5 for the 4th quarter FAL at She Can Quilt.

I also finished piecing my final Christmas gift (lap quilt) but I can’t show a picture because it is a surprise for the recipient.

Linking up to

Wow me Wednesday @Polkadots on Parade

Wow Us Wednesdays @Savvy Southern Style

We Did it Wednesday @Sew Much Ado

Needle and Thread Thursday @My Quilt Infatuation

Thursday Threads @627handworks

I Quilt Thursdays @Pretty Bobbins

Really Random Thursday @Live a Colorful Life

2013 WIP	Size	Current status
Pink & blue batik	King	waiting for borders
Asian Shadow Box	King	waiting for borders
2012 BOM ‘Blues’	King	quilt top
2012 BOM ‘Opera	King	quilt top
Kimono	Wall hanging	quilt top
Waterlily	Wall hanging	quilt top
One block wonder	Queen	piecing
Peacock	Lap	quilt top
Leftovers I	Lap	Binding
Leftovers II	Lap	quilt top
Tropical Punch	Lap	quilt top
Blue Hydrangea	King	FMQ
Dragonflies	Wall hanging	Binding
Xmas Surprise	Lap	quilt top
Charm Square Crib	Baby (x3)	quilt top(1), piecing(2)


2013 Completions	Size
2011 BOM ‘Spring	King
Blue Odyssey	King
High River Quilts	Lap (x5)
Kassidy’s flannel	Baby
Sue’s Summer Breeze	Queen/King
Star Surround QAL	Lap/Twin

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October 16, 2013 · 08:38

WIP Wednesday and first FAL finishes

I’ve had a real productive week thanks to my new long arm. On Friday I was given 5 quilt tops that were donated to the High River Quilt Project. I’ve managed to quilt 3 of them so far. They are all quite scrappy and colourful so I just used a simple all over meander. As a bonus this also means that I have the first 3 projects for Leanne’s 4th quarter FAL done.

I’ve also finished piecing Tropical Punch so it is waiting in the queue for FMQ.

Joining lots of linky parties this week:

Linky Tuesday @Freemotion by the River

WIP Wednesday @The Needle and Thread Network

WIP Wednesday @Freshly Pieced

Wow me Wednesday @Polkadots on Parade

Whimsy Wednesday @The NY Melrose Family

Wow us Wednesday @Savvy Southern Style

Needle and Thread Thursday @My Quilt Infatuation

Thursday Threads @627 Handworks

I Quilt Thursdays @Pretty Bobbins

Really Random Thursday @Live a Colorful Life

Anything Goes Monday @Stitch by Stitch

2013 WIP	Size	Current status
Pink & blue batik	King	waiting for borders
Asian Shadow Box	King	waiting for borders
2012 BOM ‘Blues’	King	quilt top
2012 BOM ‘Opera	King	quilt top
Kimono	Wall hanging	quilt top
Waterlily	Wall hanging	quilt top
One block wonder	Queen	piecing
Peacock	Lap	quilt top
Leftovers I	Lap	Binding
Leftovers II	Lap	quilt top
Tropical Punch	Lap	quilt top
Blue Hydrangea	King	FMQ
Dragonflies	Wall hanging	Binding
Xmas Surprise	Lap	Piecing
High River Charity	Lap (x2)	quilt top

2013 Completions	Size
2011 BOM ‘Spring	King
Blue Odyssey	King
High River Quilts	Lap (x3)
Kassidy’s flannel	Baby
Sue’s Summer Breeze	Queen/King
Star Surround QAL	Lap/Twin

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October 12, 2013 · 19:43

Meet Milzie

I took the plunge….ok maybe it is more like a giant leap…and bought myself a longarm machine. I got an APQS Millenium but I’m calling her Milzie. Here she is being assembled by Matt (aka The Manquilter) and his father-in-law. When he pulled it out of the box it had a giant red bow on it. I feel like an overly excited kid with a new toy.

Here is my first quilt loaded and ready to go. It seems only fitting that the first one is a charity quilt for the folks in High River Alberta who lost everything during the record flood earlier this year. I have a total of 5 quilt tops that I am going to free motion quilt for them.

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October 10, 2013 · 07:46

4th Quarter Finish-a-Long

I took a break and skipped out on the 3rd quarter so I am primed and ready to commit to finishes for the final quarter of Leanne’s finish-a-long (FAL).

I am going to try and finish a whopping ~~8 (Update 2013OCT11)~~ 13 projects. Most of them are quilt tops waiting to be quilted .

First, I have two Christmas present projects that are in the piecing phase. Both are lap quilts that I hope the recipients will enjoy. Can’t give too many details or pictures in case they see my post.

Next I have two quilt tops from the Quiltessential Co. 2012 block of the month program. I did the blocks in two colour ways: Blues and Opera. They both need to be sandwiched, quilted and bound so that they will be ready for the quilt show in early January.

Then I have Leftovers I (trim and bind) and Leftovers II (sandwich, quilt and bind).

My Kimono wall hanging is still waiting to be quilted. I think it was on my Quarter 2 list but never got any attention.

I still have the first quilt top that I ever made. It is waiting for the last piece of the border to be sewn on and then comes the fun part…FMQ.

(Update: 2013Oct11) And last but not least I have volunteered to free motion quilt 5 tops for the High River Quilt Project (read more about it here).

Boy this is a big list but I’ve got faith that I can make a significant dent in my pile of quilt tops waiting for some free motion loving.

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October 9, 2013 · 18:21

WIP Wednesday

I’ve made quite a bit of progress on Tropical Punch. All the blocks are finished and I’m just starting to sew them all together.

I’ve started working on another Xmas gift. I can’t show much because I don’t want the recipient to see too much and make the connection that it is for them.

Linking up to WIP Wednesday at The Needle & Thread Network and Freshly Pieced, Needle and Thread Thursday @My Quilt Infatuation and Linky Tuesday at FreeMotion by the River.

2013 WIP	Size	Current status
Pink & blue batik	King	waiting for borders
Asian Shadow Box	King	waiting for borders
2012 BOM ‘Blues’	King	quilt top
2012 BOM ‘Opera	King	quilt top
Kimono	Wall hanging	quilt top
Waterlily	Wall hanging	quilt top
One block wonder	Queen	piecing
Peacock	Lap	quilt top
Leftovers I	Lap	Binding
Leftovers II	Lap	quilt top
Tropical Punch	Lap	piecing
Blue Hydrangea	King	FMQ
Dragonflies	Wall hanging	Binding
Xmas Surprise	Lap	Piecing

2013 Completions	Size
2011 BOM ‘Spring	King
Blue Odyssey	King
Kassidy’s flannel	Baby
Sue’s Summer Breeze	Queen/King
Star Surround QAL	Lap/Twin

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September 15, 2013 · 19:25

QAL is finished….just in time

I am thrilled to say that I have free motion quilted and bound my quilt for the Star Surround Quilt-a-long. I put the last hand stitch in the binding at 5:03pm……done with just hours to spare before the cutoff. We spent the last 3 days up in Slave Lake at a mock search so I really didn’t think I was going to make it. I worked on the binding during the drive up and back and any time I could get a few moments to myself .

To see more pictures of the finished quilt and to read more about the QAL…..click here.

Here she is……..

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September 11, 2013 · 07:28

WIP Wednesday

It has been a while since I’ve had a WIP post……I was too busy working. I managed to finish the quilt top for the Star Surround Quilt-a-long (you can see it here). I am hoping to get it quilted and bound by the September 15th deadline for the parade.

I’ve also made some progress on “Leftovers II”. Here are some of the blocks laid out on my design wall. I think I still need to add a sashing or something to give it a little more ‘umpf’ and show off each block better. I’ve been playing in EQ7 and I think I’ve come up with a interesting on-point design.

Linking up to WIP Wednesday @ Freshly Pieced and The Needle and Thread Network

2013 WIP	Size	Current status
Pink & blue batik	King	waiting for borders
Asian Shadow Box	King	waiting for borders
2012 BOM ‘Blues’	King	quilt top
2012 BOM ‘Opera	King	quilt top
Kimono	Wall hanging	quilt top
Waterlily	Wall hanging	quilt top
One block wonder	Queen	piecing
Peacock	Lap	quilt top
Leftovers I	Lap	quilt top
Leftovers II	Lap	piecing
Star Surround QAL	Lap	FMQ
Blue Hydrangea	King	FMQ
Dragonflies	Wall hanging	Binding


2013 Completions	Size
2011 BOM ‘Spring	King
Blue Odyssey	King
Kassidy’s flannel	Baby
Sue’s Summer Breeze	Queen/King

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August 29, 2013 · 15:12

QAL – Week 7

We got to assemble our quilt top this week. All my points aren’t perfect…..but I’m ok with that. I think that adds to the beauty/uniqueness of something that is hand made and not mass produced. I will only go back and redo something if it is really off and it bothers me.

We’ve got two weeks to sandwich and quilt our tops if we want to participate in the final quilt parade. I don’t know if I will get mine done….but I am happy to have the top finished. For a quilt with colours that are totally outside of my comfort zone…..I like the final product. It has a bit of a modern feel to it even though the blocks are more traditional. I’ve been playing around with free motion quilting ideas….but I’m not totally happy with my plan so far. I need to do a little ‘surfin’ and ‘pinteresting’ to see if I can fine tune my ideas.

Linking up to Happy Quilting Star Surround Quilt-A-Long

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August 25, 2013 · 13:58

QAL – Week #6

This week’s assignment was to assemble the pieces that fit around the centre star. With these pieces done, we were so close to assembling the blocks that I decided to go ahead and just sew them all the together to complete the full 16″ block. Here are all 16 of my blocks.

Linking up to Happy Quilting QAL

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August 21, 2013 · 20:03

WIP – Week #6

We are at the exciting step of assembling our Star Surround QAL blocks. Here is my first one…only 15 more to go.

No sign of my Kona solids order so I’ve given up on that idea and bought two other fabrics to use as background for my ‘Leftovers II’ quilt. I hope the idea in my head turns out as nice in real life. Tomorrow I will start laying out the blocks and see if I like the design…if not…then I’m going to have to come up with a new way to assemble the blocks. No worries, it is just all part of the creative process.

Linking up to WIP Wednesday @ Freshly Pieced and The Needle and Thread Network

2013 WIP	Size	Current status
Pink & blue batik	King	waiting for borders
Asian Shadow Box	King	waiting for border s
2012 BOM ‘Blues’	King	quilt top
2012 BOM ‘Opera	King	quilt top
Kimono	Wall hanging	quilt top
Waterlily	Wall hanging	quilt top
One block wonder	Queen	piecing
Peacock	Lap	quilt top
Leftovers I	Lap	quilt top
Leftovers II	Lap	piecing
Star Surround QAL	Lap	piecing
Blue Hydrangea	King	FMQ
Dragonflies	Wall hanging	Binding


2013 Completions	Size
2011 BOM ‘Spring	King
Blue Odyssey	King
Kassidy’s flannel	Baby
Sue’s Summer Breeze	Queen/King

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August 17, 2013 · 17:11

Help for premature babies in the NIC Unit

Today members of our Modern Quilt Guild got together for a sew day. Some worked on their own projects and others worked together to make quilted incubator covers for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Royal Alex Hospital. These covers help block out the light to make for a more relaxing/soothing rest for the little ones inside. I was on quilt duty. I managed to quilt enough pieces for 2 covers. One with an overall grid pattern and the other with a large improvised baptiste fan design. I hope we get to see how they look when they are put to use.

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August 17, 2013 · 00:57

QAL – Week #5

This week we have started to assemble our blocks for the Star Surround quilt-a-long. I am happy to say that I finished piecing my centres two days before the deadline. Wow that’s two weeks in a row that I didn’t finish at the last minute. I’m liking the results and looking forward to adding the colour around the stars next week. Linking up to Happy Quilting’s QAL

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August 14, 2013 · 19:47

WIP Week #5

I’ve managed to get all 35 of my 6×6 blocks done and 4 of the 24 3×3’s. I’ve ordered some fabric to use for my background but it hasn’t arrived yet so I am going to be in waiting mode soon.

We are starting to assemble our centre blocks in the Star Surround QAL. I’ve got one inner star completed…..only fifteen more to go.

Linking up to The Needle and Thread Network, Freshly Pieced:WIP and Happy Quilting: Star Surround Quilt-a-long.

2013 WIP	Size	Current status
Pink & blue batik	King	waiting for borders
Asian Shadow Box	King	waiting for border s
2012 BOM ‘Blues’	King	quilt top
2012 BOM ‘Opera	King	quilt top
Kimono	Wall hanging	quilt top
Waterlily	Wall hanging	quilt top
One block wonder	Queen	piecing
Peacock	Lap	quilt top
Leftovers I	Lap	quilt top
Leftovers II	Lap	piecing
Star Surround QAL	Lap	piecing
Blue Hydrangea	King	FMQ
Dragonflies	Wall hanging	Binding


2013 Completions	Size
2011 BOM ‘Spring	King
Blue Odyssey	King
Kassidy’s flannel	Baby
Sue’s Summer Breeze	Queen/King

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August 7, 2013 · 18:50

WIP Wednesday #4 and QAL Week #4

I have the week off work so I’ve been able to play in my studio a lot more than I normally would. This is week four of the Star Surround Quilt-a-long (QAL) and this week I had to cut and piece 192 flying geese. Here are mine all pressed and ready to go. The past two weeks I have finished my assignments with just hours to spare before the deadline. This week I am finished 4 days early…..yeah me!!! Next week we start assembling our first block.

I also started working on Leftovers II. I had so many left over 1-1/2″ wide strips of fabric from my Blue Odyssey Quilt so I came up with a new quilt design to utilize a few of them. It will have thirty five 6×6 blocks of 1 inch squares and twenty four 3×3 blocks of 1 inch squares set on point and then a border of 1×1 inch squares. I haven’t decided if my background will be a bright white kona solid or a deep black. I’ve ordered both from my local quilt store and I will make my decision once I can lay out my blocks and see which one makes it ‘sing’.

Linking up to The Needle and Thread Network and Happy Quilting: Star Surround Quilt-a-long.

2013 WIP	Size	Current status
Pink & blue batik	King	waiting for borders
Asian Shadow Box	King	waiting for border s
2012 BOM ‘Blues’	King	quilt top
2012 BOM ‘Opera	King	quilt top
Kimono	Wall hanging	quilt top
Waterlily	Wall hanging	quilt top
One block wonder	Queen	piecing
Peacock	Lap	quilt top
Leftovers I	Lap	quilt top
Leftovers II	Lap	piecing
Star Surround QAL	Lap	piecing
Blue Hydrangea	King	FMQ
Dragonflies	Wall hanging	Binding


2013 Completions	Size
2011 BOM ‘Spring	King
Blue Odyssey	King
Kassidy’s flannel	Baby
Sue’s Summer Breeze	Queen/King

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August 4, 2013 · 20:21

QAL – Week #3

Here it is late Sunday night and once again I am finishing my QAL tasks with only hours to spare. I got my HST done fairly quickly so I thought for sure I would be finished this week’s task days in advance…..little did I know how long it would take to square up 256 half square triangles. Look at the pile of trimmings…..man that’s a lot and my right hand is exhausted. I’m liking what I see so far…..can’t wait to get these babies all pieced together to see the full effect.

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July 31, 2013 · 19:38

WIP Wednesday #3

I am happy to announce that I have finished “Leftovers I”. It will now go into my pile of finished quilt tops waiting for cooler weather so that I can sandwich it and start the free motion quilting. I still have tons of 2″x 1-3/8″ tiny rectangles that I need to use up. Time to start designing a “Leftovers II” quilt.

The picture is a little dark. The background is a much brighter white on creamy white pattern.

2013 WIP	Size	Current status
Pink & blue batik	King	waiting for borders
Asian Shadow Box	King	waiting for borders
2012 BOM ‘Blues’	King	quilt top
2012 BOM ‘Opera	King	quilt top
Kimono	Wall hanging	quilt top
Waterlily	Wall hanging	quilt top
One block wonder	Queen	piecing
Peacock	Lap	quilt top
Leftovers I	Lap	quilt top
Leftovers II	Lap	piecing
Star Surround QAL	Lap	piecing
Blue Hydrangea	King	FMQ
Dragonflies	Wall hanging	Binding


2013 Completions	Size
2011 BOM ‘Spring	King
Blue Odyssey	King
Kassidy’s flannel	Baby
Sue’s Summer Breeze	Queen/King

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July 28, 2013 · 18:35

QAL – Week 2

Week two and with only hours to spare, I’ve managed to get all my fabric cut. Tomorrow we get the piecing instructions. I’m looking forward to seeing how all of these pieces will work together…..hopefully???

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July 20, 2013 · 16:02

QAL – Week 1

Well I have managed to complete my tasks for week 1 of the Star Surround QAL. It took me several trips to the various quilt stores in my area but I have all my fabric ready to go. I went way outside my comfort zone on these colours but I like them. They definitely have a modern aesthetic which appeals to me but grey…..never in my wildest dreams. I’m looking forward to the challenge.