Black and Blue aka Black Crumbs aka Kelsey's Crumbs is now a flimsy! Black and very dark blue not baby blue! are the color preferences of Kelsey Wilson, resident protector of *non fighting* Milwaukee Admirals. :) donation
long arm quilting
Hopefully, I will be able to stay a little more focused and complete the items I seem to carry over from list to list. :)
In this post here, I set a few sewing goals for Winter 2011. I did manage to sew quite a few items off the list and a few that were not on the list! In the week since Spring began, I did finish the second Quilt of Valor. I also sewed more of the two color quilts than I had originally planned. But hey, they were sooo much fun~I couldn't stop! :)
Goals for next week:
A look at the +5 yards, this week.
For other stash reports, check out JudyL's blog.
okay...i cry *uncle*...blogger keeps changing my format even though i have typed it the same way ever since i started the stash reoport...maybe later~i'll edit it and blogger will behave :).
Just finished the binding on Andreas's Stars. Although this quilt is a little smaller than my usual size and 9 out of 12 blocks were already made~it stills feels like it took a looong time to finish.
The Popcorn quilting.
...of it. I've been working on the binding of the Stars Sampler UFO but not much progress has been made. Just one side has been sewn back. Hopefully, tonight I will be able to finish after supper. :) and in time to count it out of the stash for this week! Thank Goodness for deadlines~even self imposed ones. Hope you have a fun day today in whatever you choose to do. :)
This afternoon I quilted the Stars UFO. I was trying on a few different names such as Pizza Box Stars, Stars Sampler, Stars UFO or Andreas' Stars. I'm not too thrilled with the names yet. I'm thinking the right name will popped into my head and I'll say, 'Yes! That's it!'
At approximately the same time (October 2010), the family was at the Milwaukee Admirals hockey game where the players were wearing their *Hunt For Pink October* auction jerseys. DD and I were joking that they probably didn't really like the pink and wondered what colors they like. Now my DH and DS are pretty tired of me asking them quilting questions all the time~not really~just seems that way to them. 
The Admirals are a very family and fan oriented team. Every few games, they have an Autograph Corner (after the game) where fans are able to *meet and greet* two players. It is mostly at these *meet and greet*s that DD and I received players' autographs and I asked about color preferences. I kept a list and have been looking for patterns to go along with color choices of the Milwaukee Admirals. Since most of the front office I deal with is also male, I included those guys on my list, too. Last night I even asked the mascot, Roscoe what colors he liked. :)
I started the black and blue quilt. The plan was to make black crumb blocks with a dark blue sashing. The outer border will be stars and the backing planets. Sounded like a good plan and one a boy of any age might like. :) Goals for next week:
1. I made more hockey lace bracelets. The fans at the Bradley Center just can't seem to buy enough of these! For $1.00 each~they are the cheapest thing going at the Booster Crew table.
2. I quilted a neonatal donation quilt.
3. The Angel Wings pattern from Willow Leaf Studio shows on the back more. Unfortunately, the long arm oil spotted the back in one place and I will need to research how to remove it.
4. I loaded the Stars Sampler. I'm thinking yellow or maybe the light blue thread.
Well, I kept wanting to make yellow stars on a blue background for this quilt. More traditional, if you know what I mean. As I looked at more and more star patterns, I remembered I had started a star sampler about 7 years ago. I put it away from some reason~frustration maybe? I pulled it out and I had 9 yellow stars on various blue backgrounds. I made 3 more uneven (were suppose to be wonky but didn't quite *wonk out*) then dug into the yellows for sashing and borders. Not enough for both and since I didn't want to buy~I just sorta cobbled it together. I also had 29 inches left of a blue/yellow print that I used in the outer border.
Check out the one point on this friendship star! yikes.
I know I have a tri-recs ruler somewhere. Here is the block that proves it and look at these points! Just chopped off a little, right?!
What was I thinking here?! Don' answer! I don't want to know!
I finished sewing back the binding on my JR1600 Blue quilt. I am still undecided *if* I should add stars to it or not.
I quilted it with the Star and Crescent panto from Golden Threads.
I backed it with this light blue patriotic fabric.
Today I quilted my friend, Cathy's Round Robin quilt. She had given me permission to do 'whatever' I wanted with it! I feel as if I committed several crimes against quilting with this challenge piece. The first thing I did was sew down the flange...gasp...so it wouldn't flap back on the backtrack portion of the panto. The second thing I did was sew right over the applique and couching...double gasp! Don't come looking for me! I'm hiding from the quilt police!
The Angel Wings panto from Willow Leaf Studio. It took me 4 months to figure out what to sew on this. I decided to go with the somewhat 'Garden Theme' and the look of butterflies. Plus they are very forgiving. :)
Here is my niece's finished t*shirt quilt. I need to make and sew the label then I will be able to mail it off to her.
A little peak at the peace symbols on the back and the Inkblot panto from Willow Leaf Studio.
I finished adding the borders to my jr1600 last Saturday but this is pretty much what has been done quilt wise. 
This is the present I mailed to Pam. She loves 30's prints and Mary Englebreit!
Here is my inner part of the quilt. I took a little longer than the lady in the video~about 90 minutes from when I first started sewing the long seams. It also took me about 30 minutes to press...lol. I like this technique except you have a lot of twists in the first long seam but it straightened out for me as my center grew. I had to double up on some of my strips and wouldn't you know, the same fabrics fell together in a few spots. iiwii. 
I finished piecing the t*shirt quilt to a flimsy.
DD and I found this backing the other day when we were looking for a bigger(!) Andreas' scrapbook.
Saturday March 5th, the FAB's are celebrating a birthday! There will be presents for the FAB Birthday girl and we are all making the same quilt pattern!
I added the shadows to the framed t*shirts. This completes the block. Next up: time to add the horizontal and vertical sashings.
I've been working on the latest t*shirt quilt. My *magic* number for the t*shirt width is 12.5 inches~it really should have been 13 inches but~I have a 12.5 inch ruler which made the cutting easier. :) The *powder puff* t*shirt just looks a little squashed is all. Figures, I cut it a little skewed, too. Oh well...
Popcorn by Willow Leaf Studio
