Quilting and Stuff by Knitnoid

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I made my first quilted item as a visual aid for a math project in 7th grade. Over the next 25 years quilting was hit or miss, but quilting took over all the other crafts I've done in 2003.

Quiltathon Progress Report


Yesterday after we got home from my nephew’s wedding, I made significant progress on the music quilt. So much so, that this morning I only had 8 lines of stitching to complete the quilting. I’ve done that, and the quilt has passed Quality Control. We’ve also settled for a name for the quilt –  Music Lessons.

I’ve printed the label so it will have time to dry before I wash the quilt. Now, I’m off to make the binding, then I’m going to have to boot the cat off the quilt so I can square it up. Seven does look comfortable though.

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Stash Report

This past week my focus was on quilting the Double Wedding Ring and Music Quilt, so the only fabric used was for the weekly Sylvia’s Bridal Sampler block. Check out Judy‘s page to see if anyone elses stashes is shrinking.

Fabric Added this Week: 0 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 0.25 yards

Fabric Used this Week: .125 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 9.715 yards

Net Stash for 2010: -9.215 yards

Wind-Up for the Weekend

This is a 3-day weekend for me, so even though I’m going to my nephew’s wedding on Saturday, I’ll still get in two days of quilting – at least that’s the plan. My Wind-Up for the Weekend that Tamara is hosting consists of more of the same. Thirty minute spots of hand quilting on the Double Wedding Ring and finishing the quilting on the music quilt. If I don’t get my 30 minutes in Saturday, I’ll try to make it with 2 sessions Sunday or Monday. Meanwhile the second half of the quilting on the music quilt seems to be going faster. I’m not sure why, but I’m not going to argue.

To cap off my weekend, Monday night is my quilt guild meeting. Kaw Valley Quilt Guild member, Carol Jones will be discussing her new book “Tile Quilt Revival: Reinventing a Forgotten Form”. She co-authored the book with Bobbie Finley. It should be an interesting program.

Music Quilt Half Quilted


I might just make my self imposed deadline of Monday on this quilt. The first half of the quilting is done. Now I’ll do the diagonal lines the other direction.

QA Wednesday

Quilting Accountability.

Last week the goals were get the borders on Ladder to the Stars – http://knitnoid.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/stash-report-4/.

Piece the weekly Sylvia’s Bridal Sampler Blocks – Done.

Start machine quilting the Music Quilt – 1/4 of the way through.

Start hand quilting the Double Wedding Ring, 30 minutes – 1 hour in so far this week.

In the next 7 days, I want to finish the Music Quilt, and get in 3 1/2 hours of quilting on the DWR.  This week’s SBS BOW is already finished, but there will be a new one next week.  After the music quilt is done, I’ll finish up Step 4 of Carolina Christmas.

Thanks Bari for starting the Accountability Challenge.QA

The Quilting Has Begun

After a bit of running around this evening, I finally sat down and started quilting.  The top half of the photo is the music quilt.  I’m doing simple straight line quilting using the star points as guides.  It turns out I have to mark one side of the star, but I can use the guide on my walking foot for the second side of the star.    This is a large quilt (roughly 87 x 102) so I’m having to wrestle it a bit.  Hopefully there won’t be any running around Tuesday night and I can get more done on the quilt.

The bottom half is the hand quilting I was able to do in 30 minutes.  Actually, it is probably only 20 or 25 minutes as I’m watching M*A*S*H on DVDs and using it as my timer. I need to check to see how long each episode is and maybe “watch” two episodes and include my marking in the time.

SBS Block Due 1/17


C5 – Lady of the Lake

This is a paper pieced block. When I saw the announcement this morning I thought it would be quick. What I failed to remember is that these tiny 6″ block take as long if not longer than a 12″ block. I’m off to work on the music quilt now.

Batting and Basting Pass Quality Control


After finishing the basting last night on my DWR and loading it into the frame, I carefully folded up the excess off the back of the frame and propped it on a crate. The excess to the side I flipped onto the frame.

But this did not prevent Seven from doing her job as Quality Control Cat. She must like the Quilters Dream Cotton Request that I’m using and she appears to have no issues with the way I basted the quilt.

I think I’m going to look for a couple more sets of bicycle pants clips….

What’s On My Design Wall

Technically, I still have Ladders to the Stars hanging on my design wall.  However, for this week’s report I’m showing that I’ve gotten my Double Wedding Ring into the frame.

I basted with a combination of basting spray and #1 pins.  There are spots which simply don’t lay flat.  This was never intended to be a show quilt, so I’m OK with that.  Or maybe I simply want it done, so I’m willing to over look things.  Either way, I plan on starting the quilting this evening.  My plan is to spend 30 minutes a day on this quilt.

The music quilt is up next.I’ll baste it tonight so I can start the machine quilting.  I’d like to have it finished by next week, to take to the guild meeting but I’m beginning to wonder if I’ll get it done.  Saturday is my nephew’s wedding to no quilting then, but I’ll have all day Monday instead to work on it.  Of course the Sylvia’s Bridal Sampler BOW will be announced.  I’ll need to get that worked in by Sunday night.  I’m thinking something is not going to get done.

This will be especially true if I spend much time checking out other quilters’s design walls by following the links over at Patchwork Times.

Stash Report


After what seems like months of me saying I’m going to put the borders on Ladder to the Stars, I’m happy to report that they are done! In addition to this top, I made 4 swap blocks, a SBS block and 100 pickets for Oklahoma Backroads. All had fabric I can count in this week’s report.

There was no fabric in, and I spent an hour in a quilt shop. Admittedly signing up for the UFQ Program — UnFinished Quilts. I’ve picked 5 quilts that I want to make significant progress on — 4 are to be completed and bound, the 5th on I’m just aiming to get the top complete.

Here are the totals:

Fabric Added this Week: 0 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 0.25 yards

Fabric Used this Week: 3.664 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 9.59 yards

Net Stash for 2010: -9.09 yards

Check out other stash reports over at Patchwork Times.