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!

Sunday Stash Report

No finishes this week, but I did get #6 block prepped for hand applique. I am doing pretty good with this BOM from Stitchin Heaven, and I am caught up. 

No additions to the stash, and not too much sewing accomplished. Hope the coming week will be more productive. Finishes will be coming!!

Used this week: 0 yards.

Used YTD: 110 yards.

Purchased this week: 0 yards.

Purchased YTD: 34.5yards.

Net Fabric Used YTD: 75.5 yards.

Design Wall

 

On my design wall is a quilt for made from a collection of different fabrics. Above is a simple design to showcase the different designs.

The fabrics are 100% cotton and hand dyed with very large motifs. I believe they are made in a similar fashion as batiks. This should go together pretty fast and I hope to have done by the end of the month.

Have a great rest of the week!

Stash Report

 

It has been a month since my last post. DH and I took a trip to South Dakota and visited a couple of National Parks and monuments in the Black Hills, and then headed up to North Dakota to visit Teddy Roosevelt National Park. We ended up in Moab, Utah, for Fourth of July. You can see some of our travels posted here in facebook. 

On our way home we stopped in Holbrok, AZ at one of my favorite quilt shops, Painted Desert Quilts. It is always great to see Betty and Steve the owners and pick up a few things for my stash. So much for my Fabric Diet!😁

More Grunge

Some great neutrals.

It was a long trip and I was home for a few days and then off to San Diego for a week, to visit the Grandkids. Needless to say, not much sewing was completed in the past month. 

Here is the updated Stash Report:

Used this week: 0 yards.

Used YTD: 110 yards.

Purchased this week: 12 yards.

Purchased YTD: 34.5yards.

Net Fabric Used YTD: 75.5 yards.

Design Wall Monday

 

Not too much happening this week from a sewing standpoint. I will be finishing up the quilting of the quilt above and then on to some binding. Hope to get a few more charity quilts on the longarm this week. On the cutting table are the fabrics for Sugar, Sand, Beach, that I will also try to get to this week. This is my next in line for UFO's to be completed this year. 

Sugar, Sand, Beach.

Have a great week!