I just finished my 2 blocks for January. I have now completed 8 of the 12 pieced blocks.
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Fan Faire BOM January
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WIP
I’ve got all 12 blocks completed from QuiltEssentialCo’s 2015 BOM program. They just made their selection of coordinating fabrics available, so yesterday I went and got my yardage to complete my quilt. I’ve come up with an on-point design that should finish at about 102″ x 102″.
I’m still chugging along with the 365 Block Challenge. Life got in the way and I got behind by almost two weeks. I’ve spent the last 3 days working hard to catch up. Here are my week 9 blocks which includes the big 18″ centre medallian block. By the end of the month we should be able to start assembling the centre section of the quilt.
Linking up to:
Design Wall Monday @Patchwork Times
Fabric Tuesday @Quilt Story
Linky Tuesday @Freemotion by the River
WIP Wednesday @The Needle and Thread Network
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WIP
I’ve got several works in progress this month. First, I’ve got my September and October blocks done for QuiltEssential Co’s 2015 Block of the month. Two more blocks to go and then I have to come up with a quilt top design to incorporate the 12 blocks.
I’ve been playing with layouts for my HST gift quilt:
And I’ve made a bunch of blocks for my Leftovers VI quilt. I still have no idea how I am going to lay them out
Linking up to:
Design Wall Monday @Patchwork Times
Motivate Me Monday @Keeping it Simple
Sew Cute Tuesday @Blossom Heart Quilts
Fabric Tuesday @Quilt Story
Linky Tuesday @Freemotion by the River
Too Cute Tuesday @Funky Polkadot Giraffe
WIP Wednesday @The Needle and Thread Network
WIP Wednesday @Freshly Pieced
Needle and Thread Thursday @My Quilt Infatuation
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WIP
I was great at keeping up to date with Quiltessentials BOM (block of the month) program until June and then I lost the handle. We are a week away from picking up August’s fabric bundle so I got my act together today and completed June and July.
2015 July BOM
2015 June BOM
Little black dress lap quilt is almost done…I am just hand sewing on the binding.
My scrumptious lap quilt has been quilted and trimmed. I just have to attach the binding and then hand sew it on the back.
I’ve made no progress on Leftovers V.
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Design Wall Monday @Patchwork Times
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WIP
I managed to get a little more work done on my Little Black Dress-2 quilt. I sliced the rows apart and added some wide sashing between each row. I still need to add more to it to make it finish at a decent lap size.
I also completed my block-of-the-month for May.
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WIP
Lately I haven’t been quilting as much and I’ve been really bad at posting updates. A new puppy and life is taking up much of my time. I hope that things will begin to settle down a bit and give me more relaxing/down time for quilting.
I have completed the March and April blocks for the 2015 QuiltEssential Block-of-the-Month program.
I’ve also made a little progress on my “Little Black Dress” lap quilt. I just have to figure out how I want to finish it.
On Sunday, QuiltEssential Co had their annual Block-of-the-Month quilt show. I had a real shock when I walked in the door and saw my quilt hanging there with a 1st Place ribbon on it. I was so surprised that I forgot to take a picture of it. I have this old picture. You can read more about this quilt here.
It is very densely quilted but I didn’t take many close up pictures of it.
Linking up to:
Design Wall Monday @Patchwork Times
Show and Tell Tuesday @I have to say
Sew Cute Tuesday @Blossom Heart Quilts
Too Cute Tuesday @Funky Polkadot Giraffe
Linky Tuesday @FreeMotion by the River
Handmade Tuesday @Ladybug Blessings
WIP, BOM and a new puppy
It doesn’t matter how many dogs we have had in our lives, I always forget how much work a new puppy is. I’m not sure I will be making my Feb ALYoF goal. By the time I get Spirit settled in my sewing room, it is time to take her out for a potty break. Don and I tag team who is watching her.
I did manage to finish the borders for my Quilts of Valour top. I hope to get them sewn on this week and maybe get the backing finished so that next week I can start on the FMQ before I head back to work on the 23rd.
Thank goodness the Feb BOM is a very quick and easy one so I managed to get it completed. That’s two months in a row….only 10 more to go.
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Here’s a couple of pictures of my sewing room helpers. I love that Wally is holding a pink stuffy between his paws and Spirit is snuggled up next to him. The second pictures shows why I can’t get much sewing done. Spirit is all wrapped up around the legs of my chair so I can’t move it to get up and shift between my sewing machine and iron. I love that cute, fat belly (you can check out Spirit’s blog here).
Linking up to:
Design Wall Monday @Patchwork Times
Made by you Monday @Skip to my Lou
Show and Tell Tuesday @I Have to Say
Linky Tuesday @Freemotion by the River
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2015 Block of the Month
After a two year hiatus I have decided to participate in QuiltEssential Co’s 2015 Block of the Month (BOM) program again. Their theme this year is novels and I picked “Bridges of Madison County” which features this pretty combination of tangerine/mango and grey prints. The blocks finishes at 10.5 inches so that will make a nice sized quilt once all 12 are done.
Here is January’s block all finished with 10 days to spare.
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2012 BOM Blues – FAL finish #9
Once again in 2012 I participated in QuiltEssential Co’s block of the month program. We pieced a block every month and then you have all of 2013 to assemble the blocks into a finished quilt using a design they suggest or come up with something on your own. The January 2014 quilt show will feature all the BOM quilts from 2012.
This colour way was called blues. To read about the making of this quilt and to see more pictures, please click here.
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Opera – FAL finish #10
This is the second BOM quilt that I worked on in 2012 (this is the other one called Blues). Although the 12 block designs are the same in both quilts, the overall finished quilts are so very different. Follow the link to see more pictures and to read about the making of Opera.
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Four Sisters and WIP
My friend Susan has 4 beautiful grand-daughters and she is the most amazing Nana. The girls love to spend time with her and the two oldest like to help her sew and quilt. She let the girls go through her stash and pick the fabrics they liked best. They cut them into small strips and then they sat on Nana’s lap as she sewed them together to make a string that was as long as they were tall. When they were finished that had four very colourful strips. As a Christmas surprise, Susan incorporated the strips into a quilt design. She was running out of time to complete her gift so I volunteered to quilt it for her. I made a few suggestions to personalize the quilt by having Susan write their names on each strip and then I quilted over her markings so that it was her handwriting. She gave me the freedom to FMQ it as I saw fit.
We used a polyester backing with lots of loft that allowed me to quilt designs into the background. Susan has a dog and a cat that the girls just adore so I thought I should add their foot prints.
The two 2012 block of the month quilts might just be done in time for the annual quilt show in January. “Opera” has been quilted and I am hand sewing the binding. “Blues” is on the frame now. It took me almost 2 full days to do all the ditch work to stabilize the quilt before I start quilting the background. Still don’t have a complete plan in my head yet but I am getting there.
Linking up to
Linky Tuesday @FreeMotion by the River
WIP Wednesday @The Needle & Thread Network
WOW me Wednesday @Polkadots on Parade
Whimsy Wednesday @The NY Melrose Family
WOW Us Wednesday @Savvy Southern Style
We Did it! Wednesday @Sew much ado
| 2013 WIP | Size | Current status |
| Pink & blue batik | King | binding |
| Asian Shadow Box | King | waiting for borders |
| 2012 BOM ‘Blues’ | King | FMQ |
| 2012 BOM ‘Opera | King | binding |
| 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 |
| Blue Hydrangea | King | FMQ |
| Dragonflies | Wall hanging | Binding |
| Charm Square Crib | Baby (x3) | quilt top(1), binding(2) |
| 2013 Completions | Size | |
| Tropical Punch | Lap | |
| Little Warriors | Twin (x2) | |
| Xmas Surprise | Lap | |
| 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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2013 FAL – 1st Quarter
It is time to pick the unfinished quilts (UFOs) that I am going to commit to completing in the first quarter of this year’s quilt finish-a-long (FAL). This is my first FAL so I want to pick UFOs that have been hanging around for a while and that I am sure, ok pretty sure, that I will actually be able to complete as promised.
My first choice is the 2011 Block of the Month (BOM) with Quilt Essential. I managed to get all my blocks done in 2011 and I even started working on assembling the quilt top in early 2012 but I never finished it. This Sunday is the annual BOM quilt show and we are supposed to have our 2011 quilts done and hanging in the show. I’m pretty close. I just have to finish sewing on the binding and cut off all the threads.
You can see why it takes so long to hand sew on the binding…..my little, furry quilt helper loves to take a nap in the middle of my project. I don’t have the heart to disturb the princess so that I can move on to a new section.
My second choice is my Blue Hydrangea quilt. This is the first quilt top I ever made. It hung around my sewing room for a year before I found a long armer to quilt it for me. Unfortunately he forgot to use the beautiful wool batting that I provided (he used a plain cotton blend) and he didn’t quilt the individual flower blocks they way we had discussed. It hung around for another year waiting for me to put the binding on. I procrastinated because I wanted to use a striped fabric on the bias but I had never made biased binding before. I’ve almost got all the binding on now but I still want to pick out all the stitching on the floral blocks and replace it with some free motion quilting that will show off the blocks. I’m a newbie free motion quilter (FMQ) so hopefully I don’t wreck the quilt.
My final FAL for this quarter will be my Blue Odyssey quilt. I saw a beautiful wall hanging in an old edition of Quilt Mania. I decided to try and duplicate the design and change it from a small wall quilt into a king size quilt. I went a little overboard buying fabric. When all is said and done I bet I will get at least one and quite likely 2 quilts out of the leftover fabric. I need to finish the FMQ and then put the binding on….my least favourite part of making a quilt.
Update: 2013JAN13
I’m feeling ambitious today so I am going to add one more project to the FAL. It is a fleece baby/twin quilt. Once again it is one of my many UFO’s waiting for the binding to be hand sewn on to the back of the quilt. I had an emergency appendectomy a few days ago so I am not able to sit at my machine and sew/quilt for a couple of weeks. I have no excuse not to stretch out in the lazyboy and do the hand sewing.
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2011 Block of the Month
I finally finished all 12 of of my quilt blocks for 2011 (these are Sep – Dec). In February, we will all get together to talk about different ideas on how to use these 12 blocks in quilt. I haven’t decided whether to make it a queen or kings size or who I am going to give it to when it is finished. There has been one person who really seemed to like the colour combination. Hey “Susu & Lulu” what size is your bed????
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More Blocks of the Month
Is has been a few months since I have posted my quilt blocks for the Quiltessenial Company 2011 Block of the Month Club. Here are May through August. We are two thirds of the way through the year and only 4 more blocks need to be completed before I can start thinking about how I am going to assemble them into a finished quilt.
To see all the blocks, click here.
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March and April BOM
Finally got around to posting my Block of the Month quilt blocks for March and April. We are a 1/3 of the way through…..4 blocks down 8 more to go. I am proud to say that I finished March’s block the weekend I got my kit and I did April’s block the day I got it. Now that is efficiency. I would like to say that I am always like that but I would be a big, fat liar. I don’t know if it is aging or 20 plus years living with the King of procrastination…but I’ve become quite good at putting things off and never getting around to them.
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February Block-of-the-Month
I finished my quilt block for February. Not bad….it is February 22nd so I made it with 6 days to spare. This one was a little more tricky. We missed the demo class so we had to just go by the written instructions and hope for the best. My finished block looks like the picture so I guess I did it right. Both the January and February blocks have a lot of gray in them so I am hoping for a little more colour in the coming months. Next week we get our fabric and instructions for the March block.
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Quilt club newbie
I just joined my first quilt club. It is called “Block-of-the-Month”. Once a month for 12 months we get together at a local quilt store to pick up our fabric and instructions to create the block for that month. In January 2012 we will have 12 blocks completed and then comes the task of assembling them into a quilt. The store owner will offer suggestions for piecing them together or you can use your own imagination to construct a finished quilt. We had 3 colour options to choose from: red/green Christmas theme, an earthy/fall bali batik collection or one called spring/summer. I chose the spring/summer group. Although I am not a big fan of brown, gray or beige, I thought it would be good to challenge myself to try something outside of my comfort zone. Here are the 6 fabrics that I will be using all year:
Each block will be constructed using the Lazy Angle ruler. I’ve never used anything like this before so I’m looking forward to learning new cutting/piecing techniques.
There is only one rule for this club. You have to finish your block for this month and bring it to the fabric pick-up for the next month to prove that it has been completed. If your block is done you get your next bunch of fabrics for $3.50….if not then you have to pay $5.50 for your fabric. Just a little incentive to help keep you on track. I just finished my block for January. Phew I made the first deadline….only eleven more to go. Here is my finished January block:
I’ve been quilting for a year and half now and to say that I was addicted would be an understatement. I have completed 1 baby, 2 lap, 2 twin, 2 double, 2 queen and 4 king size quilts. I also have 3 wall hangings, 1 lap and 2 kings size quilt tops in various stages of construction. Do you think I need an intervention???
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Life In The Dog House 