Winter 2012 *To Sew* List

My Winter 2012 Sewing List...in no particular order:

Personal

• DS birthday gift...January 2nd Birthday!
• grocery bags
• Cher's Sister's Panel Challenge
• place mats:  January, February and March
• Admirals flag
• Scott Valentine's photo album cover
• Admirals Auction quilt and bag
• DH's co-worker Baby quilt A
• DH's co-worker Baby quilt B
• Mr. Hezzie quilt
• Fishi quilt

UFO's

• Cub pals' wall hanging
• red embroidery wall hanging
• blue fq wicked easy quilt
• Everglades panel quilt
• Quilt Expo 2011 kit  
• class quilt~blue ridge beauty
• class quilt~virginia bound

Mix in a few donation quilts here and there and I should stay busy until Spring 2012!

This time I am going to post a list in the sewing room...teehee....

Merry Christmas!

May you have a joyous and peaceful Holiday Season!

Fall 2011 Re-Cap

My Fall 2011 *To Sew* List

Personal

• OQG Ugly Fabric challenge due October 2011:DONE!
• LCQG Paint Chip challenge due December 2011:DONE!
• LCQG Mystery quilt due January 2012:CONTINUING!  new due date: March 2012 
• grocery bags
• hockey lace bracelets :CONTINUING!
• Cher's Sisters' Panel challenge due January 2012~tenative
• place mats w/ table runner: Halloween:DONE!, Christmas:DONE! and January
• assorted Holiday gifts:DONE!
• FAB birthday gift due November 2011 :DONE!
• Packers flag:DONE!
• Admirals flag
• Admirals photo album cover

*OQG=Oconomowoc Quilt Guild
*LCQG=Lake Country Quilt Guild

UFO's

• Cub pals' wall hanging
• red embroidery wall hanging
• blue fq wicked easy quilt
• Everglades panel quilt
• Quilt Expo 2011 kit
• Construction staggered bricks:DONE!
• class quilt~blue ridge beauty
• class quilt~virginia bound

I was wondering *why* I have not been very motivated in the sewing room this quarter...I discovered the *why* last night.  I found my Fall 2011 *To Sew* List under a pile of magazines in the kitchen!  No wonder!  I usually tape it to the cupboard to help me keep track of my progress.

I'm a *LIST CROSS-ER OFF-ER*! 

I actually made progress on my list and also completed a couple of QOV's for Alycia to replenish her cupboard.  So all in all~not too bad.  I'll be back next week with my Winter 2012 *To Sew* List...

The Winter Solstice arrived last night here at Bell Creek Quilts.  I'll be back later with a review of my Fall 2011 *To Sew* List and work up a Winter 2012 *To Sew* List.

graphic google imaged searched here.

Christmas Treasures Finished!

Just in time!

The Christmas Treasures quilt is finished!  This is the fourth in a series of Treasure Quilts I have been making to gift to my family.  The Blue Treasures here.  The Green Treasures here. The Purple Treasures here.

I quilted it with Curly Hearts from Lorien Quilting.

WIP Wednesday

The Christmas Quilt is a flimsy!  woohoo!  Enjoying the familiar *rush* of having completed a flimsy.  :)

These blocks are based loosely on this Chaos Crumb Block tutorial, found here.  There are many different tutorials out in blogland to make this type of crumb block.

A Little More While I Was Away...

...from blogging...I made 17 blue hockey skate lace bracelets.  I also started this *cookie* thing.  I make cookies for the girl,T that escorts the players to the autograph corner and for the players, too.  Each one has the ooportunity to accept a bag of 6 cookies!  Currently, *T* has enjoyed all 6 bags and 4 out of 8 players have taken the cookies.  Robert Slaney was so funny!  He started munching on the cookies right away! He looked very hungry after the game!!




I am merely keeping count on the blog as it is easier to reference written here than anywhere else.  :)

note to self:  108 in lace yields 17~6.5 inch cut lace.  elastic cut at 2 inches

just a little hockey biz...  :)

Oconomowoc Quilt Guild Exchange

Last year I got into trouble at the Oconomowoc Quilt guild because I gave *too nice* of a gift!

This year, I shifted through the sewing room and found 4 fq's of flannels that I will never use and this Santa suit coffee mug. Well, the Santa suit mug was in one of the Christmas boxes. Combined with some candy canes~I can only hope that this is *trashy enough* for the Oconomowoc Quilt Guild.  Perhaps this is another example of *One quilter's trash is another quilter's treasure*?! 





Hope whomever receives it~likes flannel. 

tee-hee and Merry Christmas!  :)

This is the *trash* I picked out!  Trash or Joy?!

We were all asked to bring in a dozen cookies for the snack.  Any leftovers are being donated to the staff at the church where we meet.  Usually this is a very lightly attended meeting but LOADS of fun...  I decided to make my Seven Layer Bars that I traditionally take to our families during the Holidays and and merely *snuck* 12 onto a donation plate.  :)   Now my *treats* are ready to travel!  Check one more thing off the *To Do* List!

 ~SWEET~

Design Wall Monday

The Christmas quilt is starting to come together!  woohoo!

I have errands to run this morning but I really need to get back to the assembly today!

Stash Report Week #51

Nothing in. Nothing out.  Numbers stay the same. 

Motivation stays low.  I did manage to sew a few blocks on the Christmas quilt, though.

Goals for next week:

Finish Christmas quilt~needs to be gifted on Saturday! 

Stash Report Week #50

Well, the little one told me that I needed to update the blog. Our main computer is in for a cleaning and de-virusing so I am running with the tablet! Let's see how I do! My fingers seem a bit large for the keys....lol!

Fabric added this week: +10 yards. Ouch!
Fabric added this year: +243.5 yards

Fabric used this week: 0 yards
Fabric used this year: -268 yards

Net fabric for the year: -24.5 yards

What I accomplished this week:
Made Lake Country Quilt guild gift...water bottle cover
Made red coiled trivets
Started family Christmas quilt
Made flying geese for Lake Country mystery

Goals for this week:
Continue working on family Christmas quilt

Lake Country Guild Exchange

I made a water bottle cover together with a Thermos stainless steel water bottle. :)

I received this cool stocking filled with all sorts of goodies.  Chocolate caramels, tea, Hersey kisses and candy canes...yum!

This is the snack I shared as suggested by DD, the Dirt Pudding dessert...double yum!

WIP Wednesday

Well, I made it back to the sewing room today.

I made the second coiled trivet for my table.  The red pattern is the same fabric as in this cookies in the jar.  Hardly looks the same, right?!

I also managed to push a few buttons and fabric arrived at my door step. 
+10 yards hockey for backing of two donation quilts~neither of which I have started and both are *due* shortly after the new year!

This week I have been concentrating on making Christmas cards.  I have all the components ready. Next is to address and sign...

Stash Report Week #48 and #49

Very late and a little late so I thought I would combine the two stash reports.  Thanksgiving weekend I was away and last week was a blur~the only thing I accomplished was to finish the binding on my Holiday place mats.

fabric added week #48/49:  0 yards
fabric added year to date:  +233.5 yards

fabric used week #48/49: -7.5 yards
fabric used year to date:  -268 yards

net fabric for the year:  -34.5 yards

What I accomplished (two weeks):

finished and mailed Norma's Birthday Gift~shhhhh....it's a secret!  :)
completed binding on the  Holiday place mats

Goals for this week:

make Lake Country Guild Gift
sew another coil trivet
work on next clue for Lake Country mystery
start family Christmas quilt

Finally a Finish!

Finished my Holiday place mats~just in the nick of time!

We almost have the inside of the house decorated for the Holidays~only my lighted garland is missing. And I would NOT BE surprised if I had tossed it.  It was getting pretty thin after many years of display!

Tall bottle jar pattern found here.