Design Wall Monday

 

Close up of Quilting

This is the other project that I am trying to spend a few hours each day working on and hoping to finish this month. This quilt was completed last year, but needed to be quilted. It is all custom quiltied. Both the quilt and the quilting patterns were designed by Kim Diamond of Sweet Dreams Quilt Studio. It is called Thoroughly Modern Christmas and was made entirely from my stash. This will take me awhile to get this one finished!

On the longarm.

I will be working on this, along with finishing up some behind the scenes projects and working on Clue 2 of the Bonnie Hunter Mystery. A lot to keep me busy, and I still need to get my tree up!

Hope you are enjoying the holiday season!

Stash Report

 

Happy December! 

This is what Clue #2 looks like before sewing. I hope to get this finished this coming week. I traded out the red for a lime green. Crossing my fingers that it will all look great in the end with all the blues.

Still no finishes this week and nothing added to the stash, but a few projects behind the scene that I hope to finish soon.

Used this week: 0 yards.

Used YTD: 154 yards.

Purchased this week: 0 yards.

Purchased YTD: 47 yards.

Net Fabric Used YTD: 107 yards.

Design Wall Monday

 Block 10 of Vintage Valentine is prepped and ready for the hand sewing while I watch TV in the eveinings. Block 11 will be on the way soon!

Next up will be sewing the rest of clue 1 from Bonnie Hunter's Mystery. You can find all the info on it here. Hope you join in all the fun, or at least save all the clues to make at a latter date.

Nothing added to the stash and not finishes to report this past week.

Used this week: 0 yards.

Used YTD: 154 yards.

Purchased this week: 0 yards.

Purchased YTD: 47 yards.

Net Fabric Used YTD: 107 yards.

Have a great week!

Happy Thanksgiving

 

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day!

Bring on the Mystery! Bonnie Hunter's new mystery quilt starts today. You can read all about it and join in here. My first few units below completed. I will be working on this, inbetween other projects that need to be finished, through the month of December and probably into January.

BH Mystery Clue 1.

This weekend I will also be working on prepping block #10 for Vintage Valentine. Yes, I am still keeping up with this BOM. There are 3 more months to go and then putting it all together. This will be on my UFO list to finish in 2024.

Have a great weekend and hope you are finding some great deals shoppin on Black Friday!

Sunday Stash Report

November has been a busy month, with not much sewing getting done. I will be working on finishing up the sampler quilt above. This was given to me with blocks completed, blocks needing to be completed and missing blocks. All I have left to fill in is the top right portion above. I will be using up scraps to try to put together a few blocks to complete this sampler. It will eventually be donated to a local charity.

No changes in the stash. Only a few more weeks to get all those UFO's done!

Used this week: 0 yards.

Used YTD: 154 yards.

Purchased this week: 0 yards.

Purchased YTD: 47 yards.

Net Fabric Used YTD: 107 yards.

Have a great week!

Design Wall Monday

 

This week I will be working on sewing down all the applique for Vintage Valentine block #9. I am actually caught up on this BOM, with block #10 arriving after Nov 15. This BOM runs until February 2024 so I still have a few more months to go.

Also on the list this week is binding for two quilts. One is Chilhowie, Bonnie Hunter's Mystery from last year. Bonnie has just released the fabric colors for this years Mystery, you can find it here if you want to join in. This years Mystery is called Indigo Way and the first clue releases on November 24.

Have a great week!

Sunday Stash Report

 

Arboretum

Finally a finish! Arboretum is finally done, all 99 blocks. It turned out great and is such a fun and colorful quilt. Into the quilting que it will go, though I still need to find a backing for it. Nothing purchased this week. Below are updated numbers.

 Used this week: 8 yards.

Used YTD: 154 yards.

Purchased this week: 0 yards.

Purchased YTD: 47 yards.

Net Fabric Used YTD: 107 yards.

Design Wall Monday

This is the week I hope to get all the rows sewn together for Aboretum and this top completed. It has been on my design wall way to long!

Bonnie Hunter, Chilhowie in christmas colors was also quilted and will be ready for binding this week.

As I get ready to leave later this week for my niece's wedding, I hope to also get to this cute little halloween quilt cut out and started. Hope to work on it this week at my sewing group. Should be a pretty easy one to get together.

Have a great week and happy sewing!

Sunday Stash Report

It has been a busy couple of weeks here in Arizona. Joe and I just returned from a week long road trip to Cottonwood, AZ and then to Flagstaff. We took a hike through the Aspens in Flagstaff and visited the Lowell Observatory. The colors were beautiful on our hike, we saw the eclipse at Sunset Crater, and enjoyed our time at the Observatory seeing the stars and learning a little history. It was a fun trip to celebrate Joe's birthday!

Needless to say, not much sewing was done, with only a small finish. My easy fall tablerunner below. This will sit on our entry way table for a little fall color.

With a wedding coming up this next week, and family coming the begining of November, my sewing time is going to be limited. But I hope to get in a little time here and there as I still have two more UFO's to complete this year and a new Bonnie Hunter Mystery starting right after Thanksgiving.

Not much progress in using the stash!

 Used this week: 2 yards.

Used YTD: 146 yards.

Purchased this week: 1.5 yards.

Purchased YTD: 47 yards.

Net Fabric Used YTD: 99 yards.

Enjoy your Sunday!

Design Wall Monday

 

The picture is a bit dark, but this is Arboretum taking up my entire design wall. I have about 25 more blocks to go and the sewing all the rows together. The blocks go pretty fast, I just need to carve out some time to get it done.

Also distracting me this week is this cute little table runner by GE Designs. A super simple design that uses a 5" charm pack. I am making mine out of an autumn charm pack that I have had for awhile. I needed another smallish tablerunner for a spot in my house.

Blocks are already made and will be putting it together this week and hopefully getting it quilted. Backing and binding are ready!

Have fun working on your projects!

Sunday Stash Report

October already! The year is flying by. I missed my posts last week, so this will be catch up.

Not too much sewing going on the past couple of weeks. I have been prepping applique for a couple of other projects, Flowers for my Wedding Ring and Vintage Valentine.

The top for Flowers for my wedding ring was completed last year with only the applique to go. I have been working on making all the applique pieces and hope to get them all down and ready for hand sewing this month.

Vintage Valentine is a BOM from Stitchin Heavin that was started this year. I am happy to say that I have been able to acutally keep up with this one, a first for me! I am prepping block #8, with #9 to be here around October 15th.

Nothing used this week and nothing added to the stash. I promise, finishes are coming soon!

Used this week: 0 yards.

Used YTD: 144 yards.

Purchased this week: 0 yards.

Purchased YTD: 45.5 yards.

Net Fabric Used YTD: 98.5 yards.

Have a great week!

Design Wall Monday

 

On the design wall this week is more of the Arboretum blocks. Still have a ways to go with this one, but it had been fun to work on with all the different Kaffe fabrics.

Also in the works this week is prepping all the applique for block 8 for Vintage Valentine. It is in the last row, second from the right. Will be a busy week for me.

Have a great week!

Sunday Stash Report

 

Turkey Tracks was finished this week. This is one big table runner, finishing at 32 x65. It will fill up my whole dining table. I will be working on more blocks for Arboretum this week and hope to have it finished by the end of September. Check back tomorrow to see my progress.

Nothing added to the stash this week, so numbers are looking good! Getting close to 100 yards used.

Used this week: 5 yards.

Used YTD: 144 yards.

Purchased this week: 0 yards.

Purchased YTD: 45.5 yards.

Net Fabric Used YTD: 98.5 yards.

Have a great week!

Design Wall Monday

 

Today is Patriot Day, in rembrance of 9/11. Above is a quilt I made using a fabric that show the fireman raising the flag over the rubble of the twin towers. This is a day that we should never forget.

More fall quilting on my design wall, this one called Turkey Trot. I still have to applique the legs and then piect the borders. A fun, fast tablerunner for fall. I hope to also get back to Arboretum this week. Always a lot hapening in my quilt studio.

Have a great week!

Sunday Stash Report

Another finish this week! This autumn quilt is an hour glass pattern that I modified from Missouri Star Quilts Block Magazine. I pieced together the leftover's for backing, so more used from the stash! It is now on the Longarm and ready to quilt. 

No purchases this week. Updated numbers below.

Used this week: 8 yards.

Used YTD: 139 yards.

Purchased this week: 0 yards.

Purchased YTD: 45.5 yards.

Net Fabric Used YTD: 93.5 yards.

Enjoy your week!

Design Wall

 

Fall is in the Air! Here is what I am working on this week. Simple hourglass blocks in autumn colors. I have had these fabrics for quite awhile and figured it was time to do something with them. This should be a finish this week!

Also started this week is my September UFO, called Aboretum. Super fun blocks to put together as you are just free form cutting and sewing in the strips. The quilt takes 99 blocks and are all different prints of Kaffe fabrics. I bought this as a kit last year at Rusty Barn quilt and craft show.

Sunday Stash Repot

A finiah this week! This will be a donation to Arizona Quilts for kids, once it is quilted.

One more block completed for the Sampler Quilt. All the sections are ready to be assembled. This will be put aside for awhile, until I get a photo from Mary.

Also completed last week was block 7 of Vintage Valentine. I will be prepping block 8 this coming week.

Yes, the Sewing and Craft expo was a winner. I came home with a few additions to the stash along with a fun embroidery pattern. More projects to keep me busy!

Fabric for 3yard quilt- DH picked this our.

Another one for DH.

Add to the stash.

Christmas for a future quilt- another Bonnie Hunter pattern.

Super cute embroidery patterns- they finish at 2"!

Up dated numbers for the week:

Used this week: 7 yards.

Used YTD: 131 yards.

Purchased this week: 6.5 yards.

Purchased YTD: 45.5 yards.

Net Fabric Used YTD: 85.5 yards.

Enjoy your Sunday!

Design Wall Monday

August is flying by!This week I will be working on the the quilt above, another charity quilt with leftovers from the quilt for my grand niece. I also have a couple more of the blocks from the sampler to finish up. Mary from our  guild made the sampler quilt back in 2004 and I hope to get a picture of it from her to help me put it all together. It will be a donation when completed.

One more section complete for sampler quilt.

This week is also the Sewing and Craft festival at Westworld. Looking forward to checking out all the new stuff and adding to the stash!

Sunday Stash Report

 

It has been a busy couple of weeks, with not much sewing getting done. DH and I were on a road trip to Washington State the past couple of weeks and have been recovering since we got back last week. You can check out some of my pictures from our adventure here on Facebook.

The block above was completed this last week after I returned home. Hope to get the rest of them done this coming week, and this quilt put together sometime in the future. I was also able to finish quiling a couple of charity quilts and binding was put on. I will ask the ladies in my tuesday group to sew the binding down for me.

Nothing added to the stash, and we did not have the time or opportunity to visit any quilt shops on this trip. No change in the stash numbers.

Used this week: 0 yards.

Used YTD: 124 yards.

Purchased this week: 0 yards.

Purchased YTD: 39 yards.

Net Fabric Used YTD: 85 yards.

Hope you have a great week!

Design Wall

 

This week I will continue to work on the basket of scraps. Making progress, but still a ways to go. I hope to have this basket empty by the end of the week!

Tomorrow is our Sew in with Sunrise Stitchers. We will be meeting from 9-9 to work on charity projects. I have blocks cut out and ready to sew, along with the project above that was given to me that has 4 more blocks to make. This was a BOM from 2004 and I am missing a couple of blocks and dont know what it is supposed to look like when done. So I will be winging it on this one! When finished this will be donated to charity.

Much to keep me busy this week. How about you?

Sunday Stash Report

Two finishes this week! First up is the Courthouse step charity quilt. I headed over to Hobby Lobby on Saturday and picked up the border fabric and a solid blue for inner border and binding during their 40% off sale. The leftover fabric was pieced together for the backing. Hope to get this one quilted soon.

Next finish was the quilt above using big prints and a simple setting. Will need to find a backing for this one. 

Added to the stash this week were the fabrics from Hobby Lobby. Still looking pretty good for the year and nice to have 2 finishes for the first week in August.

Used this week: 14 yards.

Used YTD: 124 yards.

Purchased this week: 4.5 yards.

Purchased YTD: 39 yards.

Net Fabric Used YTD: 85 yards.

Design Wall Monday

 

Happy Last Day of July!

It has been a hot one here in AZ, with 31 straight days of temps over 110! Crazy! Great time to be inside and getting some projects done.

This week I will be finishing up the big block, just need to add borders. Also in the works is another courthouse step charity quilt above. I will be working on this on Tuesday at my sewing group and hope to get all the blocks done. Fabrics are from a quilt called Union Blues that I made a couple of years ago. I will have to add in a few other fabrics and find a border to finish.

I am also hoping to tackle this basket of scraps! They will be cut up using my Accquilt into some half square triangles to use to make a split nine patch blocks. 

Bonnie Hunter has a free pattern on her website, you can find it here. More handsewing is also on my list for the week. I hope to tackle block six of Vintage Valentine.

Have a great week!