Category Archives: Designwall

What’s On My Design Wall

March 3, 2014 8:59 am ⋅ Pam

Friday night and all day Saturday, I attended a local PhD retreat — Projects Half Done — sponsored by a local quilt shop. In keeping with the theme of Projects Half Done and to work on this year’s UFO list, I took my Orca Bay to work on.

No, I did not do all of that this past weekend. I just those purple string triangles that I have stacked up in a square. Yesterday I took stock of what I had done before packing the project away for another retreat. I was afraid that I had more star blocks to make, but it turns out I have nearly 70 +/- QST extra units. Whew!

So, now I have completed all of the clues up through 6. In clue # 7, I have 4 more black & white triangle units to make and I need to cut neutral triangles for the border. The box has not been put back on the shelf, so I may go ahead and cut the remaining pieces so it will be ready to go for the next retreat.

The shamrock is either a wall hanging or the first block of a new quilt – I haven’t decided yet. It was made as part of the fun and games at the retreat.

Next week, I hope to show progress on Eeyore, but we’ll see. I’ve started the border on the shawl….

Check out the links over at Patchwork Times. I’m sure we’ll see some great inspiration.

Posted in: designwall, UFO Challenge 2014

What’s On My Design Wall

February 24, 2014 7:41 am ⋅ Pam

This past week I finished both Deadline III and Baby Deadline III. It will be some time before I can reveal the quilts.

The month started with 4 definite goals and a bonus goal. So far I’ve met two of those goals. There are only 5 days left in the month. I best get in gear. And somewhere along the way, I need to figure out what I’m going to take to the PhD (Project Half Done) retreat Friday and Saturday — that is if it still works out that I can go. It may come down to the wire before I know for certain.

Be sure to check out the links over at Patchwork Times to see what others have been working on.

Posted in: designwall, UFO Challenge 2014

What’s On My Design Wall

February 17, 2014 8:06 am ⋅ Pam

The quilt is on the zippers and I’m ready to quilt it on Wednesday. In the meantime, I dug out the fabrics I’m planning on using on this month’s Alphabet BOM. I also re-evaluated the yellow batik I have and decided it would work on the flowers. The yellow is just glued in place – I haven’t stitched it yet.

To see what others are up to, follow the links over at Patchwork Times.

Posted in: applique, BOM, designwall

What’s On My Design Wall

February 10, 2014 7:53 am ⋅ Pam

Friday night I pulled out my Double Wedding Ring quilt and worked on it on and off over the weekend. All that is left to quilt are part of the end blocks.

To see what others have on their Design Walls follow the links over at Patchwork Times.

Posted in: 2014 Finish Along, designwall, dwr

What’s On My Design Wall

February 3, 2014 6:00 am ⋅ Pam

Don’t look now, but I’ve started a new quilt. This one will finish about 46″ square, so should finish up quickly.

To see what others are working on, check out the links over at Patchwork Times.

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What’s On My Design Wall

January 20, 2014 7:53 am ⋅ Pam

This past week I’ve spent time marking Deadline III, so there are no pictures. However, this weekend was String Fling in Manhattan, Kansas. Over 650 5th – 9th grader string players. This is the 8th/9th grade orchestra that Sydney played in.

I’m not sure what I was thinking, I didn’t bring my camera, so today’s photos are off my camera.

While she was at practise, I spent the weekend trimming the rail fence blocks.

I set up a cutting station.

The bed became the design wall. Half the blocks are trimmed.

I started reading Publish Your Patterns! by Nancy Restuccia. The link will take you to Amazon – no affiliation. Before Christmas I checked the book out from the library. Things were crazy and I didn’t open it until the day before I had to take it back (after the 2nd renewal!) What I saw in those few minutes made me want to buy my own copy to read at leisure.

And I did work on one of my own projects. I grabbed my redwork.

Check out the links over at Patchwork Times to see what others are working on.

Posted in: designwall, red work, String Fling, Sydney

What’s On My Design Wall

January 13, 2014 1:04 am ⋅ Pam

The plan was to work on the red, white and black Rail Fence. I was going to trim the blocks and Sydney would assemble the quilt top. The Bobbin Winder fiasco threw that plan off, and then Sydney said the quilt didn’t have a deadline, but she had another that did. Her teacher’s child has been in the hospital and she wanted to give her a quilt.

I’m not positive how it came about, but my husband asked me if I had any partially completed tops Sydney could finish for this quilt. I looked through my UFOs and pulled swap blocks. Between my husband and Sydney they decided the 7 purple blocks and 14 log cabin blocks could be put together into a quilt. These blocks had been given to me by another quilter who didn’t think she would get around to making anything with them. I had them on my Quilts In Progress list as two quilts. They make an awesome quilt together and I get to cross 2 UFOs off my list!

The quilt finishes at about 47″ x 58″. Soft and Bright batting. Yellow thread in the bobbin and top. Quilted in a wavy crosshatch.

Also “completed” this week is Scrappy Trips which I made on my grandmother’s treadle machine.

I know how I want to quilt it, I just have to decide on a backing fabric and decide if I want to attempt to quilt it on the treadle.

Up next — trimming the rail fence blocks for Sydney’s next visit and figuring out how I’m going to quilt Deadline III.

To see what others are working on, checked out the links over at Patchwork Times.

Posted in: designwall, Scrappy Trips, treadle, UFOs

What’s On My Design Wall

January 6, 2014 12:19 am ⋅ Pam

There’s no piecing on my design wall – I’ve spent the last few days migrating the blog (welcome to the new site – I’d love to have you follow me here) and quilting Deadline Project IV. This is the only view I can show for a few months.

Now off to bind, label and wash the quilt to so I can cross this UFO off the list!

See what others are working on by hoping over to Patchwork Times.

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What’s On My Design Wall

August 29, 2011 1:28 am ⋅ Pam

This past week there hasn’t been much piecing. I started putting the borders on the Row Quilt, but then stalled. I can’t decide if I have too much “white space” before the green border or not. What do you think? Make it narrower or leave it alone and finish up the borders?

I wasn’t totally idea while this was on the back burner. I’ve got all of the light strips cut for my log cabin and half of the dark strips cut.

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What’s On My Design Wall

August 22, 2011 1:23 am ⋅ Pam

I’ve finished True Friends. I had left over pieces from the front, so I included them on the back of the quilt.

The quilting is a simple grid. I used a yellow thread, so if you click on the picture to enlarge it the quilting should show up.

With this quilt, I’ve nearly used up my sticky batting.

I’ve also been working on my Procrastination Challenge and I’m ready to move on to the next project. There are no pictures for the step I’ve been working on since it was “Spring Retreat Mystery – Design”. You’ll have to trust me that I’ve come up with the design.

So, I’ll now be working on this: