Happy Autumnal Solstice!

September 22, 2012 is the Autumnal Solstice.

image found here.

 

 

Time to review my Summer 2012 *To Sew* Wish List

Personal

1. bed quilt: A PLAN HAS BEEN DEVELOPED!
2. place mats: July: DONE!

                       August:  not done

UFO's

1. quilt expo kit 2011: DONE!
2. quilt #1: DONE!
3. blue ridge beauty: not done
4. quilt #3 : not done
5. virginia bound : not done
6. quilt #5 : not done
7. blue wicked easy : not done
8. quilt #7 :not done

Donations

1. quilt for Margaret's Hope Chest~need quilts for Prison Ministry July 2012

    Eight quilts sent to MHC!
2. start on 12 in 12 Quilts of Valor~just a little behind here. :)

    Three flimsies at the ready to quilt stage

 

 

 

Beef Barley Soup

Karen at Sew Many Ways is having a link up party for soup recipes.

Once the weather gets colder, out comes the crockpot for yummy soups to enjoy.  I don't know about you, but summertime isn't a time to enjoy soup but fall and winter are my soup time!

My son was talking about Beef Barley soup last year about this time and I found this recipe at Food.com.  I crock this overnight and in the morning my daughter takes a serving in her thermos for lunch that day.

The ingredients.  I make the beef stock out of the bullion cubes instead of buying a can.

Assembly of the soup in the crock.

Simmered for 10 hours but not stirred.

Stirred~yummy!

Stored.

Lunchtime!

Whoop!Whoop! Friday, September 21, 2012

I finished my July place mats.

I free motioned quilted stars and loops in the stars and more waves in the stripes.

pattern inspiration here.

Today I am going to link up with:

Sarah at Confefssions of a Fabric Addict.

WIP Wednesday

Late yesterday afternoon, I pieced together my July place mats~USA flags.  Either I am late for this season or way early for next season!

pattern inspiration here.

My New Backpack/Purse

I like to be hands free so about 2 years ago, I made my first backpack/purse.

This is my newest one~ready for the Milwaukee Admirals' Season Opener at home on October 19th!  Even though the NHL is in a lockout and will not play, the AHL will play!  The AHL-ers are on a different contract agreement.

DD thinks it looks too summery and perhaps, I should make another for the winter season! 

okay, sweetie! 

On the Design Wall~September 17, 2012

My donation blocks for Margaret's Hope Chest *Fun in the Middle*.

The deadline to mail these blocks is November 15, 2012 so~I have plenty of time to make more and mail them off!  :)  I was raiding my 6.5 inch novelty stash squares looking for centers that would be considered more girlie.  I think I have found a few more to use...

Stash Update Week #38

I finished up one quilt but I had a major stash enhancement!  Not only did DD and I go shopping for her new quilt but my web ordered arrived on Saturday.

fabric added this week:     +32 yards
fabric added this year:  +194.5 yards

fabric used this week:       -5 yards
fabric used this year:  -214.0 yards

net fabric for the year:  -19.5 yards (used)

What I accomplished this week:

finished donation quilt
pieced Snake Charmer to a flimsy

Goals for next week:

work on personal projects
work on donation project

Did you want to see the fabric acquisition?

of course!

For Better, For Worse...

12:15 pm Friday

...Snake Charmer is a flimsy.

The border material I was planning on using~didn't make the cut so I improvised with the snake body leftovers.  Okay, but...I wished I would have planned it better.  :) 

Next time, right?

Famous last words! : )

Snake Charmer pattern inspiration found here.

ps. gotta love the sunlight coming into the sewing room.  The colors are actually true-er in last night's post.

Thursday's Sewing

I decided to start on a smaller project today.  The fabrics I pulled were suppose to be for the August Color Palette Challenge~just a tad behind, right?

I sewed the blocks together today.

I wasn't sure that the lightest blocks in the middle played well with everyone else so I swapped it out for a darker brown.

Next I will need to decide which blocks I like better than work on sewing it into a flimsy.

Pattern inspiration:  Snake Charmer, found here.

At the day guild, we received our FQ Challenge fabric.  I think I see *January* place mats in my future.  :)

WIP Wednesday

My friend, Norma once told me that if there is a lot of excess fabric in a quilt top then try not to backtrack when quilting will help to minimize the puckers that might be sewn into the top.  Thanks, Norma for this tip!

So~I did free hand wavy lines.  I was aiming for 2 finger widths apart on the waves but I wasn't too successful.  Your eyes do not deceive you...this quilt will never lay flat and I hope it will never have to!  It should be a *drag around* for some wonderful child here in Wisconsin.  I was hoping to wash it before giving it to the Charity Quilt coordinator but I have a whole passel of my family laundry to do.  :(  

All in all, done is done and iiwii.  :)

ps...I just realized that I took the picture sideways!  oh no...my quilt holder is at school getting an edumacation!