WIP Wednesday

I made a pile of 4 patches today.

More Wonky Houses

Construction of Wonky Houses continues. I'm liking the purple house with the purple roof.

Design Wall Monday

I started this week out working on my Friendship Blocks for the FAB's. (Cher, LindaJ., Norma and Pam.)

This top block is for LindaJ. She sent the directions using EQ6. No~your eyes are not playing tricks on you! The purple and green are closer to 9.75 inches (unfinished) and the pink is more on target at 9.5 inches (unfinished).

The wonky houses are Cher's pick. She had us follow Tonya's link from Quiltville to make the wonky houses. (link here) I would like to see a bit more roof overhang on my block but the purple house is getting closer to what I would like.

Last is my friendship block. These are the wonky stars (link here) that were made and donated from quilters around the world for The Bushfire Quilt Project . My star points aren't as wonky as some but, hey, that is the beauty of the wonky-ness...it all fits together!

Stash Busting Report Week #25

Our first full week of summer vacation!

My report:

Fabric added this week: 4 yards
Fabric added this year: 76.5 yards

Fabric used this week: -3.25 yards
Fabric used this year: -172.25 yards

Net fabric for the year: -95.25 yards (used)

What I accomplished this week:

• sewed with the QOV group and completed out top to a flimsy
• quilted and attached the binding to our QOV
• gifted three fq's

Goals for next week:

• work on a summer project

Passing of the QOV Quilt

Well last night, we didn't work on the binding of the QOV Quilt. Carole volunteered to hand sew back the binding while riding in the car to Colorado later this month.

So the baton, the QOV Quilt, has been passed to Carole for the next step in the process. Thank you Carole!

WIP Wednesday

Not a whole lot is happening here but, I did manage to attach the binding to our QOV group's quilt tonight. The plan is to take it to the meeting Thursday night and we will have an *old fashion bee* where we sit around the quilt and hand sew the binding while the meeting is happening.

Stars and Loops

I quilted *a new to me* panto today. Stars and Loops by LEQ. I think this may have been the first time I used a stacked panto as opposed to an interlocking panto. I really liked the open stars, although my first open stars look more like starfish rather than stars in the sky! :)

Sewing with Cathy, Cathy, Carole and Pat

maybe I should change my name to 'Cat' for this post? just so I match the other gals in my QOV Sewing Group?! LOL

and I totally stole the name of this post from my friend, Cheryl. Thanks Cheryl! :)

With Cathy and Cathy sewing and Carole and I switching between pressing and cutting, we were able to assemble this top in about 4.5 hours. This is the Valor quilt pattern found in the book, The Giving Quilt . I purchased my copy online at Cozy Quilts a few months back.






This is the second time I have been involved in making this pattern. It is quick and easy with a stunning result...I like it!

What's on my Design Wall?

Nothing.

Nada.

Zip.

It's lonely...

Cleaning Days

Since I am hosting the QOV Sewing Party, I decided I needed to clean up a bit.

On Friday, I worked on the sewing room.

This is the *before* with all my scraps thrown into paper Piggly Wiggly grocery sacks. At one time, the scraps were separated by color but DD and her friends *love* to play with the scraps and find treasures only 10 year old girls *know about*! :) and to me, it is a harmless way for the girls to express their creativity.

After.

I cleared off DD's craft table to make room for more sewing machines.

I just organized my *dump and run* area to look a little neater. I really should have purchased a filing cabinet for all the *papers* that find their way into my space. For now, I use the plastic totes for files. My two are totally maxed out so a new one will be added to the *someday* shopping list.

As I have been cleaning the rest of the house I have been thinking about summer sewing goals. In no particular order, here is what I hope to accomplish over this summer.

Summer 2009 Quilting Goals

• DS's bed quilt
• DS's MSU Tshirt quilt
• DS's Corvette quilt
• 6 cancer bags and pillows
• piece some crumb blocks (to try and tame the scraps!)
• piece the FAB exchange blocks
• work on QOV's (Oconomowoc and Alycia's)
• attach bindings to Long Arm samplers (2)