Stash Report

October 2, 2010 10:51 pm ⋅ Pam

It’s a good thing we aren’t tracking pattern purchases. “Foldy” Stuff came home with me from the St Claire County Quilt Guild Show in Lawry City, Missouri. It’s a neat technique and will make use of my shoebox full of 2″ strips. The thread I bought at Jo-Ann’s with coupons. The yellow is for the remaining quilting in Compass Lone Star. It’s a bit brighter than what I started with, but I don’t think it will matter. The gray I’ll use for piecing.

No fabric came in, but I used enough fabric this past week to put me over 75 yards used. Hum…I wonder if I can use another 25 in the next 3 months?

So here are the numbers:

Fabric Added this Week: 0 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 149.761 yards

Fabric Used this Week: 2.733 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 75.357 yards

Net Stash for 2010: 74.404 yards

See if others are where they’d like to be here at the start of the 4th quarter by checking out the links at Patchwork Times.

Posted in: Stash Busting Report

October Quilting Goals

October 1, 2010 6:00 am ⋅ Pam

It’s a new month, so it’s time for a new list of monthly quilting goals.

Continue quilting the Double Wedding Ring — can I get 3 rows done by Halloween?
Make the September & October KVQG BOM
Prep backing for quilt*
Bind quilt*
Make progress on Cream & Green quilt

My stated deadline for the DWR is looming ahead, so this needs to be my #1 priority for the next two months. But a quilter can’t live by quilting alone. At least I can’t – I’ve got to piece as well. So, my piecing will be the BOM blocks — last month’s and this month’s. I suspect Blue Ridge Beauty and Star Struck will also get worked on.

Prep backing & bind quilt*. You would think I’d know what quilt I’m talking about. In reality I can’t decide if I want to take Turning Twenty Again or one of these two baby quilts (quilt 1, quilt 2) to Butler on the 20th. Regardless of what I take, I’ll need to prep/make the backing and bind it.

The Cream & Green quilt is back on my list this month since it’s one of my challenge quilts to finish by the end of the year.

Noticeably absent is keeping up the Sylvia’s Bridal Sampler quilt. I’m not abandoning it, simply setting it aside for a bit for more pressing deadlines. Who knows maybe I’ll make a few blocks this month, but if I don’t I’m not going to lose any sleep over it.

Posted in: goals

September Recap

September 30, 2010 10:42 pm ⋅ Pam

A road trip to visit family, two weekends with visiting family, plumbing issues and work. I may not have accomplished everything I set out to do this month, but I sure got a lot accomplished.

At least 8 SBS blocks – Made 4
The September KVQG BOM – No
Finish Quilting and Bind Oklahoma Backroads – Yes
Quilt at least 15 rings on the DWR – 6 done
Make progress on the Cream & Green quilt – No
Make progress on Star Struck – Yes – all blue stars are made and significant progress on the red stars

In addition to the above, I finished 5 more embroidered dragonflies, made a nap quilt for Head Start, made significant progress on Blue Ridge Beauty, tested a new pattern for a mini quilt, tested a quilt block, then made a large quilt top, and pieced, quilted and bound a baby quilt.

I haven’t posted a full picture of the baby quilt yet so here it is:

This is the quilt I quilted on HandiQuilter at Rocking Chair Quilts. I have an appointment next month to go back. I haven’t decided for what I’m taking to quilt. I do have a “few” tops which need to be quilted.

Posted in: finish, goals, Modern DP9

QA Wednesday

September 29, 2010 12:06 am ⋅ Pam

Simple goals last week:

Keep working on the DWR – Did quilt some, but not enough
Piece 2 SBS Blocks – Pieced one block
Finish the Fairy Frost Sunset top – Finished Saturday night

Did I accomplish everything — no. Did I good off –no. Instead I got distracted by other quilting. I’m sure no one has had that happen.

There was the “Modern DP9” which I quilted and bound — in pink from my stash:

The turquoise and purple dragonflies:

And the Love quilt for Head Start at the church where the guild meets:

With the summer dramas on USA and TNT off the air, I need to find something new to “watch” while I quilt. But if I can’t find anything I still need to make progress on my DWR. So there is just one goal this week.

Quilt on the DWR — at least one hour a day –perhaps 2.

It’s lofty but if I cut out the piecing for at least a week, maybe I can see some head way. I really wanted to have 4 rows finished by now and I’ve only got 2 1/2 rows done.

Check out the links over at Bari’s to see if anyone else got distracted last week.

Posted in: goals

Star Struck Progress

September 28, 2010 6:16 pm ⋅ Pam

Each month I list out what I want to accomplish during the month. Sometimes it’s easily done, other times I’m overly optimistic -or get distracted. Unless I don’t sleep or take the next two days off from work, this is going to be an optimistic/distracted month.

One of my goals for the month was to “Make progress on Star Struck”. Furthermore somewhere I defined the progress as completing at least 20 blocks — which would get all of the blue blocks made. Well, I’ve finished those blue blocks, made a couple of red blocks and sewed the squares on the rest of the red units. If I I had been thinking, I would have been using this quilt as my leader/ender project instead of Blue Ridge Beauty. Oh well.

Regardless, I’ll be able to say “Done” to Make Progress on Star Struck on Thursday.

Now to “Make progress on the Cream & Green quilt”. Does uncovering it again count?

Posted in: goals, Star Struck

SBS Block

September 27, 2010 4:27 pm ⋅ Pam

M8 – Dogtooth Violet

69 of 140

Posted in: SBS

Design Wall Monday

September 26, 2010 11:33 pm ⋅ Pam

Today I’m deciding on the binding for the ‘Modern DP9″ baby quilt I threw together a couple of weeks ago. Yesterday I drove down to Rocking Chair Quilts and quilted it on their Handi-Quilter. I am thrilled with the way it came out. Here’s a picture of the back:

Now I have to decide on the binding. I have 3 choices from my stash:

Use the backing fabric
Use the white I used in the quilt top
Use the pink/orange mottled fabric.

My original intent was to use white — not that it makes a whole lot of sense as either a binding or on a baby quilt, but I like the concept of the “crispness” it would give to the quilt. The backing fabric I think is too pale, but it did send me off to my stash to search for some orange fabric which is where I came up with the pink/orange fabric. I’m not sure it’s right either. I guess I’ll dig some more through my stash, perhaps looking for a ‘pinker pink’ or a yellow. I only need 10″ WOF – but since most of my stash is FQ or smaller, my options will be limited.

Check out the links at Patchwork Times to see if anyone else is having binding issues.

Posted in: designwall, Modern DP9

Stash Report

September 26, 2010 7:25 am ⋅ Pam

A day off from work, a trip to a quilt shop on route to a mini-quilt retreat and no fabric came into the house – just this book, which my husband encouraged me to get.

I saw Get Your Stitch on Route 66 at Quilting Bits a Quilting Bits & Pieces a couple of months ago. When I came home and told my husband about it, he wanted to know why I didn’t buy it.

On the usage front, I finished up my Fairy Frost Sunset quilt top.

So, here are the numbers:

Fabric Added this Week: 0 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 149.761 yards

Fabric Used this Week: 2.85 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 72.624 yards

Net Stash for 2010: 77.137 yards

See how others are doing by following the links over at Patchwork Times.

Posted in: Stash Busting Report

Fairy Frost Sunset

September 25, 2010 7:04 pm ⋅ Pam

This evening I finished the Fairy Frost Sunset top. I really think I need a better name for this quilt, but for now I know what I’m talking about.

Ok, enough playing, I need to work on my Sylvia’s Bridal Sampler blocks and my Double Wedding Ring. Of course in the process of making this quilt top, I’ve made significant progress on my Blue Ridge Beauty as leaders/enders…

Posted in: Fairy Frost Sunset