Design Wall Monday

This week I am making progress on my Grand Illusion Quilt.

The units are finished and I have 3 blocks assembled. Only 22 more to go! 

Then the sashing and borders. Hope to finish in time for the Parade over at 52 Quilts!

This next week I will be making my annual trip with Sandi, over at Kwiltnkats, to Road to California Quilt Show. We try to go every year and take a class or two. This year we are taking a class called Batik Feathers by Donna Lynn Thomas, and a Mystery Quilt class that involves Downton Abbey Fabrics. Looking forward to both classes and seeing the show.

Batik Feathers.

Hope this week finds you working on something fun and getting it completed!

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Design Wall

My First Design Wall of the New Year, finds me working on Bonnie Hunter's Grand Illusion, which was reveled on New Years Day. This also happens to be my UFO for January and hope to have it finished up in time for the Parade over at 52 Quilts.

Image of finished quilt. I love all the movement.

I have a bit more sewing to do with some of the units, before I get to putting the blocks together, but making progress. Will see how far I can get by the end of the week.

Half of the chevron units waiting for the black to be added.

Green Checkerboard units to be sewn together.

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Happy Sewing and have a great week! 

Happy 2015!

Well, this will be the last post for 2014, and I as I look back over the year, I was able to complete 10 of the 12 UFO's that I set out to finish for 2014. See my completion's here. I used up 123 yards of my stash, but added an additional 89 yards, which gave me a net of only 34 yards used. Hope to do a little better in 2015! 

This is Lady of Lake Erie, one of the 12 UFOs I have lined up for 2015. You can see all of them here. Yes, more than half of them are Bonnie Hunter patterns. I love her scrap quilts and they are a great way to use up the stash. I will be joining Aunt Marti over at 52 quilts for the 12 in 2015 challenge. Check it out to see if you would like to play along.

I hope you all have some great projects lined up for the new year!

Happy New Year to all and see you in 2015

Design Wall

It has a been a busy couple of weeks since my last post. I started this post on December 14 and have finally posted it! December is flying by and only a couple of more days to get in the final finishes for 2014. I will be working on catching up with Bonnie Hunters Mystery and working on my Survivor Quilt.

Here is where I am on Survivor. This is one of the two blocks in this quilt and I am busy sewing away. All the pieces are cut for the Star block and waiting by my sewing machine

Next up is Bonnie Hunter's Mystery Quilt- Grand Illusion. I have finished clue one and clue four. Have all the pieces cut our for clue 2 &3, and have started cutting for clue 5. So now just need to sit at my sewing machine and get going. Lucky for me I have the next couple of days off. 

Block 1 complete.

Clue 2 ready to sew all the pieces.

Clue 3- all strips are cut.

What are you working on this week??

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I hope you are enjoying your day with Family and Friends!


This week on my Design Wall is Survivor. This quilt was started over a year ago during the 2013 San Diego Quilt Show. It was a class by Joyce Weeks and I a using all fabrics from my stash, including the chedder, which I purchased sometime ago. This quilt requires a lot of cutting, and is very scrappy. So that is what I have been working on this week. I will catch a little bit of sewing time today in between having a great Turkey dinner courtesy of DH and Mimi's. Then I am off to work, as I have one of thoses jobs in retail and we open the store at 6pm!  

Counting down the hours until Bonnie releases the first clue of her Grand Illusion Mystery tomorrow!!! 

Sunday Stash Report

This week I have a finish to report. Pfefferneuse is done. This is my UFO for December, so I am ahead with this one. But still have October (Lilibet's Garden) and November (Survivor) to complete.

Check this out. I really love the pink and brown, and all the fabrics came from my stash. Mostly leftovers from the Dear Jane Quilt. This one I am going to try to quilt this month.

Just a few adds to report. I am getting ready for Bonnie Hunter's new Mystery Quilt called
 Grand Illusion. The first clue will be out right after Thanksgiving.  I had the greens, pinks, neutrals and blacks, but needed the constant yellow and the turquoise blues. So after a quick trip to Rosie's I now have everything needed to get started. If you have not done one of Bonnie's Mystery Quilts, I would recommend that you check it out and see if you would like to play along.

I also added a couple of neutrals and some reds for a quilt I will be making next year sometime called Lady of Lake Erie.

Here are the current numbers!

Used this week: 15 yards.
Used YTD: 123.5 yards.
Purchased this week: 6.0 yards.
Purchased YTD: 89.5 yards
Net Fabric used in 2014: 34. yards

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Sunday Stash Report

Well, I sort of have a finish for this week. I have finished all the chevron units for our swap coming up at the end of November. All 288 of them. Yes these did take awhile to sew together, but I did get some purple and blue bonus half square triangles to use in a couple of other projects!

Now I just have to pack them up and get to Sandi by the end of the month. These units will be used in Bonnie Hunters Midnight Flight quilt from her new book. You can check it out here.

So really, nothing added and nothing subtracted for this week. Hopefully soon!

Used this week: 0 yards.
Used YTD: 108.5 yards.
Purchased this week: 0 yards.
Purchased YTD: 83.5 yards
Net Fabric used in 2014: 25.0 yards

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