August Recap

August 31, 2010 5:30 pm ⋅ Pam

At the beginning of the month my goals were to piece 13 blocks for various projects; resume quilting my Double Wedding Ring; quilt, bind and label a baby quilt; finish piecing Star Struck and quilt Texas Braid if there was time. Overall, I’m really pleased.

I think I ended up with 15 blocks, I’ve nearly completed two rows of rings on the DWR, and the baby quilt is ready to be delivered. Instead of finishing Star Struck, I finished Oklahoma Backroads, pieced the backing and have it about 3/4 quilted!

I nearly forgot. I got a great idea for some pre-printed embroidery dragonflies — and only made one. The rest are in my bag for the mini-retreat in a couple of weeks.

Posted in: goals

SBS Block Due 9/5

August 30, 2010 11:09 pm ⋅ Pam

I-3 Dutchman’s Puzzle

This was a snap to make using my Quilt In A Day flying geese ruler.

65 of 140

Posted in: SBS

What’s On My Design Wall

August 30, 2010 12:16 am ⋅ Pam

The wall still has bits and pieces of what was up there last week. However, this past weekend, and into the foreseeable future, I’m quilting, not piecing. I’ve completed 5 of the 7 rings on the second row of the DWR. When I wasn’t hand quilting, I was machine quilting on Oklahoma Backroads.

There’s enough quilting to hold the layers together through repeated washings, but I’m going to add a bit more. I plan to stitch in the ditch (or in the vicinity) across the width and down the length of the quilt, bowing out at the star points. My hope is to highlight the stars. Too bad I didn’t realize this was my plan before I had the first layer of quilting done – stitching diagonally through the light chains.

Check out what others are doing by following the links over at Judy’s.

Posted in: designwall, dwr, Oklahoma Backroads

Stash Report

August 29, 2010 6:00 am ⋅ Pam

It’s amazing how much the fabric usage will jump when you make a backing. Combine that with a bunch of the SBS blocks and a couple of swap blocks and the number is quite nice. Nothing fabric came in so that helps as well.

That’s Oklahoma Backroads on the sewing machine. I’m probably about 1/3 of the way through it. I finally decided how to quilt it — I just hope I get the effect I was going after. I really do need to learn to do free motion quilting.

To the numbers:

Fabric Added this Week: 0 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 132.261 yards 136.261 yards

Fabric Used this Week: 5.812 yards

Fabric Used to Date: 64.418 yards

Net Stash for 2010: 67.843 yards

Check out how others are doing over with their Stash Busting efforts over at Patchwork Times.

Posted in: Oklahoma Backroads, Stash Busting Report

QCC Review

August 28, 2010 9:23 pm ⋅ Pam

This stack of quilts still meets the Quality Control Cat standards.

Posted in: QCC, Seven

Making Progress

August 26, 2010 10:25 pm ⋅ Pam

I found a length of leaf fabric in my stash — I think I got this from S last year when she was clearing out her stash. It wasn’t quite long enough to be a backing for Oklahoma Backroads, so I lengthened it. I’ve got a spool of khaki thread which will blend nicely with both the front and the back, so now all I have to do is sandwich the quilt and decide how I’m going to quilt it.

Since I hope to start quilting tomorrow, I needed to finish up any piecing I wanted to do. These are the two swap blocks, so now I need to get them in the mail.

Off to quilt on the DWR for a few minutes.

Posted in: block swaps, Oklahoma Backroads

QA Wednesday

August 25, 2010 11:59 am ⋅ Pam

It’s Wednesday again!

Last week had simple goals:

Continue working on the DWR – working on daily, missed one day
Make at least two SBS Blocks (I need to do 8 more this month). – Got all 8 done!
Make two swap blocks. – made one
Don’t work on the dragonflies. – done! — or is it not done?

I kited up everything I need for the dragonflies and put them in the bag I take to guild. This bag is hung on the end of my shelves and currently my library bag is hanging in front of it. So between the deterrent of them not being easily assessable and that I stayed busy on the SBS and DWR no progress was made on the dragonflies – which is a good thing. (I need some hand work to take to the guild retreat next month).

Progress is being made on the DWR. I’m on the second row and this row is going quicker. I think I’m still on track to finish the quilting in November.

I pushed this past week and finished 10 blocks for my SBS – 1 for each week of the SBS BOW and 5 for the SBS Offline Quilters. Since these are 6″ block, my leaders and enders are larger than most of the block pieces (currenly working on 4″ HSTs as my L&E project)

So what do I want to get accomplished this week?

Get the label on the baby quilt (my great-nephew arrived last week!)

Continue working on the DWR
Make two swap blocks
Piece the backing for Oklahoma Backroads and decide on a quilting design

Check out what others are planning on this week by following the links over at Bari’s.

Posted in: goals

Another SBS Block

August 24, 2010 5:53 pm ⋅ Pam

L8 – Kansas Troubles

This is the 10th block I’ve made this month for my Sylvia’s Bridal Sampler. That’s one for each week of the SBS BOW and 5 from the SBS Offline Quilters Challenge. It brings my total up to 64 out of 140 blocks.

There’s a new tab “sbs” which shows all of the blocks I’ve completed on a virtual design wall. Unfortunately I haven’t figured out how to just plug in my latest blocks to update the wall on-line. What you see is a screen shot of the “wall” I have on my laptop. Don’t expect it to be updated more than once a month.

Posted in: SBS