Quilting Projects

Happy New Year!  As I usually do, I made a list of my projects.  I really did make progress and I have the proof.  It's just that I like to shop!  I made a collage of most of my projects this year.  A few aren't here, but when I look at this it does remind me I got some things done!

Here is my annual list of projects.  I will do another post tomorrow of some finishes in the last couple of days!

2019 UFO List – Dec. 29, 2018

TOPS TO BE QUILTED:  in no particular order

1.    Farmer’s Wife – basted

2.   Country Snowflakes – backing

3.   Bright Sampler from FQS

4.   Red/White baskets – backing

5.   Primary Lone Star #1 from Jo

6.   Primary Lone Star #2 from Jo

7.   Butterflies from Jo

8.   Scrappy Trip Around the World – started 2018

9.   Pansies (from MIL’s stash already marked with quilting lines)

10.Red/White Sampler – backing

11.Floral Sand Castles

12.Mocha Meringue #1 – backing

13.Mocha Meringue #2 – backing

14.Kaffe/black/white pieced in 2018

15.WASIQ – blue

16.Kaffe Stars

17.Bright Jelly Roll – half quilted – DONE Jan. 1, 2019

18.Modern Jelly Roll – basted

19.earth tones sparkling gemstones – ½ made into a throw and done

20.wedding ring – basted

21.Antique Dresden

22.Butterfly Row X Row – backing

23.Purple/Turquoise Sampler – backing

24.Turquoise/Black Stack and Whack – backing

25.Scrap Swap quilt top – backing

26.Janice’s stars

27.Monkey Business pieced in Dec. 2018

28.Red Truck – pieced in 2018 – DONE Dec. 31, 2018

29.Scrap Christmas leftovers with rick rack – basted pieced in 2018  DONE – Dec. 29, 2018

30.Christmas Eve Tablerunner – backing

31.Food tablecloth – backing

32.Fossil Fern – backing

33.Hawaiian applique - backing

34.Blue baskets – backing

35.charity quilt 1

36.charity quilt 2

37.charity quilt 3

38. Jan’s hand quilting top

39. MIL’s Irish Chain hand quilting

40. Mini hand quilting wholecloth

41. Scrap tablerunner – DONE Jan. 1, 2019

UFO’s or PIP’s (projects in progress)

1.    Purple batiks scraps

2.   Batik rail fence scrap

3.   30’s scrap blocks.

4.   Something Blue – paper pieced

5.   Batiks Farmer’s Wife

6.   Rose Applique

7.   Winter Wonderland

8.   Amish Sampler

9.   Bow Tucks Purse

10.Bright Sampler

11.Blueberry Granola (purple/green)

12.Kaffe Stripes tablerunner

13.Quilt of Valor

14. Magic of Christmas

15.12 Rows of Christmas

16.Landscape

17.Antique Hexis

18.Embroidery Denim blocks

19.Carolina Lily

20.Scrap Vortex

21.Kaffe Mystery (started 2018)

22.Tesselating Pinwheel

23.Washington Royal Star

24.Postage Stamp

25.Flannel Pillow  DONE 12/29/18

HSY (Haven’t Started Yet – but have the fabrics)

1.   Glacier Star paper pieced

2.   Mistletoe Lane BOM

3.   Row by Row kits

4.   Country Journal BOM

5.   Aunt Helen’s rush Trip around the World

6.   Cat’s Garden BOM

7.   Old Glory

8.   Celebrate June

9.   Spring Wagon kit

10.Brentwood Bag

11.Joyful Adventures

12.Lakehouse

13.Fishing quilt

14.many panels

15.Simpleworks kit

16.Spirit of America kit

17.Betty’s Wool Applique kit

18.Elk Quilt kit

19.Butterfly Magic Trip Around the World Kit

20.Greetings Christmas kit

21.Cadence Court kit

22.Vintage Holiday

23.Folk Art Flannel kit

24.Sunflower kit

25.Tranquil Lake kit

26.Sea Glass

27.Metro Rings

28.Red Truck One Block Wonder

29.Floral One Block Wonder

30.Ocean One Block Wonder

31.Poinsettia One Block Wonder

I am trying out what to work on next!

Where did November and December go?

Time just continues to fly by! November was really busy with the major house cleaning and painting spree getting ready for Thanksgiving. That went well, there were 31 of us here.

However the weekend before Thanksgiving I managed to go to a retreat. I worked on a few things, one of them was this wallhanging. I had printed out photos on Printed Treasures fabric and then used lots of thread embellishing to enhance it. I love the way it turned out. The photos were all from my yard and were taken by my daughter Amy and myself. Here is a closeup of one of the flowers.
Another project I worked on was this wallhanging. 9 of the blocks were made for me in an exchange from a small yahoo group. I made three more and set the top together for a calendar quilt and got it done by the deadline of November 30!


Yet another project at the retreat was this tablerunner for a Christmas exchange on this same yahoo group. The recipient asked for cardinals and I had a picture of her dishes.
This is the one I received in exchange last week.

Another American Hero Quilt Top Finished

I just had the borders to add to this top and it would have been done long ago. It's a disappearing 9 patch from a great tutorial at this blog. Last night I didn't feel like machine quilting and decided to just cut and and sew borders. I had the previous top I made from an earlier post still sitting here so this morning I packaged them up and my son is mailing them off after school to American Hero Quilts.

Another Month Gone by

Note, the new photo on my blog title. Description below!

I can't believe it happened again. Another month went by. I have done some painting in my house, put in extra hours at work due to my boss's appendectomy, went to the big quilt show in Spokane or two days and did some sewing. I made my dad two heavyweight flannel shirts for his birthday this week. I am quilting on a commission quilt, but my big accomplishment was an original quilt I finished yesterday and delivered.

It started as a Brown Bag Challenge at Becky's Fabrics in Lewiston. I purchased a bag with three fabrics in it, but of course I couldn't see the fabrics. I kept procrastinating (story of my life) and had to do something. I just started cutting and made a strata using some fabrics in my stash and one of the challenge fabrics.

I then cut 6" squares from different directions on the strata and interspersed some squares of the focus fabric and assembled the top. I added a border of the floral, then cut paper flowers and played with placement and sizes. I did not use fusible web, just put some fusible thread under the edges of the flower shapes I cut to hold them down enough to heavily stitch them. I used batting, but no backing at this stage. I heavily machine quilted the piece and added yarns and beads. Once I was finished I fused a backing onto the quilt and bound it. I didn't have to worry about hiding knots on the back this way! The finished quilt measures about 36 X 41. I got it entered one day before the deadline, I can't wait to get into the shop during the month of November to see all the challenge pieces!

Hectic Summer

Time flies so fast, it's unreal! In June I had a fantastic quilt retreat in Leavenworth, WA at Dee's Country Accents with members of my Washington State Quilters internet group. I came home on June 15th and had surgery on June 16th. Time was spent recuperating and then it was gung ho back into quilting, although I was thrilled I had some restrictions and couldn't do heavy lifting or vacuuming!

The second weekend of July I took a class from Terrie Kralik and this is my finished wallhanging, start to finish in three days, complete with binding. I hadn't planned ahead and didn't even have my book so I took fabrics from my stash and winged it. I changed her pattern in the book A Forest of Quilts slightly. She was a delightful teacher who let us work on whatever we wanted from her books or patterns.

Last week I made this quilt, Canyon Circles for a friend of mine. It's all batiks and I loved how easy it was to do. It's taller than my son, so I would say it's a nice lap/throw size. I had lost contact with this friend for about 5 years and she wrote to me at Christmas. We have birthdays two days apart so I thought this would be a great surprise since she doesn't get to spend much time quilting. It's definitely more earthy than my usual color scheme.

The other big news was turning 50 on July 29th. I am proud of it and insisted on no party, but I had two small parties with family. I love my new iPod so I guess it was worth it!

A Little Quilting

This is the third time I have tried to post and my browser closes on me with this new blogger! It's driving me crazy! I spent most of February either sick or working on commission projects.

I worked on a variety of different things, but I pieced this top at a recent quilt retreat for the American Hero quilt project. I plan on getting it quilted as soon as I can!

I also fused and blanket stitched a wallhanging that I have had the pieces traced and fabric picked for several years. It's a Pat Sloan design, Katie's Tulips.I am going to try to publish this now before adding anything else. So far so good on not crashing!