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A Busy Weekend – Stash Report, a Finish, and This Week’s Goals

February 11, 2025 3:22 pm ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

This past weekend was jam packed.  Friday I was waiting on a package and finishing the binding on a quilt before driving to Hattiesburg to the MQA meeting.  Saturday after the meeting, I headed home and stopped at Ritzy Quilting. Sunday I went back to Hattiesburg as I left something at the hotel. When I got home I watched “my team” get soundly defeated in the big game. Monday, I cleaned and cooked as I hosted Bunco. So, let’s start with the Stash Report which I planned to post on Friday.

Stash Report

I cut out more of the Little Laura Notebooks and as of Friday, no new fabric added to my stash.

Fabric Added Since Last Report: 0 yards
Fabric Added to Date:  1 yards

Fabric Used Since Last Report: 1.25 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 7.875 yards

Net Fabric Stash: -6.875 yard

A Finish!

This is another variation of the 2024 Brandon Quilters Block of the Month.  I call this one Framed.  All I needed to do was bind and label it.  It’s on my Brandon Quilters UFO list, MQA UFO List, and 2 other online UFO lists.

  • Started 2/4/24
  • Finished 2/7/25
  • 74″ x 92″
  • Glide 40wt in Magic Mint
  • Fresco Feathers
  • Legacy 80/20 batting
  • Made for the program “Got Blocks? Now What?”

Weekly Goals

Last week there were 3 goals

  • Get Framed bound – DONE
  • I have 10 more notebook covers prepped.
  • Living on Cornbread — I need to go pick up another layer cake on Friday.  – Picked it up Saturday.

As expected all I got done on the Living on Cornbread was picking up the layer cake on my way home from the MQA meeting. The extra trip to Hattiesburg kept me from the sewing machine Sunday before the game.

Goals for the Week of 2/10/2025

  • Finish the notebook covers.
  • Bind the BQ 2024 BOM Blue Waters
  • Quilt Cindy’s Pizza Box Quilt
  • Prep Clues 4 & 5 of the BQ 2025 Mystery Quilt
  • Make 10 sets of corners for Living on Cornbread
  • Bind Illusions

Looking at this it seems like a lot – tonight I have to finish the newsletter for Quilters By Hearts Desire, so I can’t really get started until tomorrow. But there’s nothing on my calendar for this weekend.  I want to get as much done as I can, as I’m not certain when my brother will be here.

 

Posted in: 2024 Brandon Quilter, 2025 Brandon Quilters UFO, Framed, Illusions, Lauras Little Notebook, Living on Cornbread, Longarm, mystery quilts, Stash Busting Report

2024 Starts

February 2, 2025 11:56 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

I’m happy to report that most of the projects I started in 2024 were completed last year or in January 2025.  These are the ones which are still unfinished.

First up is Multiplicity.  Diane Knott spoke at a guild event and taught this class the next day back in April.  I was late to the class — it seems like I was working that morning, then after we got going I didn’t like my fabric selection — I didn’t have enough lighter colors.  When I got home I pulled additional fabric from my batik stash, but didn’t get anything done since I shortly left for my trip to Scotland and came back work on multiple quilts for a couple of programs I was giving later in the year.  This project finally was boxed up and put on the shelf. It’s not on this year’s list but maybe I’ll have to pull it out for next year.

The top 2 quilts are from my program “Got Blocks?  Now What?” where I discussed different settings to use when you have a stack of blocks — in these case blocks from a Block of the Month.  The bottom one is Illusions from a 3-yard book, made bigger.  The BOM quilts were quilted in August and the Illusions quilted in November.  They are all waiting to be bound and are on my 2025 UFO Goals list.

At the Brandon Quilters Auction in November, I picked up this top. I have the backing and want to get it quilted this year.

Also started were 2 versions of the Brandon Quilters 2025 Mystery Quilt. For obvious reasons I’m not posting any photos.

If I don’t get too distracted, one of these will rollover onto the 2026 UFO list.

 

Posted in: 2024 Brandon Quilter, Blue Waters, Framed, goals, Illusions, Multiplicity, mystery quilts

Weekly Goals for the Week of 2/3/25

February 2, 2025 6:00 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

How did I do on last week’s goals:

  • Quilt 2 quilts for deliver on Monday. – DONE
  • Bind Framed – In Progress. The binding is made.
  • Finish at least another 4 Laura’s Little Notebooks – DONE — I have 20 finished.
  • At least 10 sets of corners for Living on Cornbread – Did not touch
  • Don’t work on Compass Lonestar – I’ve put it away.

This week’s goals are limited, as Brandon Quilters meets tonight, and I’m going to the Spring Gathering of the Mississippi Quilt Association Friday & Saturday night. I’ll also have the big football game on Sunday as “my team” is playing and I’m prepping to host the Bunco ladies next Monday.

  • Get Framed bound — This is my show-n-tell at the MQA meeting, so it has to be a priority.
  • I have 10 more notebook covers prepped. Technically I won’t need them until December, but I’ll be able to cross them off my list.
  • I haven’t forgotten about Living on Cornbread — I need to go pick up another layer cake on Friday. But I’m not sure I’ll get any piecing done on it this week.

It’s only the 3rd of the month and I’m looking at my packed calendar. I’m not sure how much I’ll get done this month, but that is why I’m setting goals – to keep me on track.

Posted in: 2024 Brandon Quilter, goals, Lauras Little Notebook, Longarm

Weekly Goals for the Week of 1/27/25

January 28, 2025 6:14 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

First did I meet last week’s goals?

  • Quilt 2 quilts – I only got one done.

 

  • Bind the retreat Jelly Roll Quilt – DONE
  • At least 4 of the 12 Laura’s Little Notebooks. – DONE  I have 6 finished, 1 just needs a snap, 2 more need topstitching and a snap and I have another 11 cutout and interfaced.

 

This week the goals are:

  • Quilt 2 quilts (I need to deliver them on Monday)
  • Bind Framed – this is on my UFO list and I’m showing it at the MQA Spring Gathering
  • Finish at least another 4 Laura’s Little Notebooks
  • At least 10 sets of corners for Living on Cornbread – I need all the units done before I can really start to assemble the blocks.
  • And now an odd goal — Don’t work on Compass Lonestar  This quilt has been on numerous UFO lists since 2007.  It started as a Quilt-As-You-Go project, but the reality is for a large project I don’t like this method — especially since I now have a longarm. Really just need to take it off the design wall so it doesn’t tempt me. I don’t need this quilt until mid-May and I’d like to get Living on Cornbread done by the end of next month.I wonder how much I can get done?  There is a new quilt group forming that meets on Saturday morning, I’m going dancing either Friday or Saturday maybe both nights, and Brandon Quilters meets next Monday night.
Posted in: 2024 Brandon Quilter, binding, goals, Lauras Little Notebook, quilting

The Rest of the 2024 Finishes

January 26, 2025 6:00 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

The finishes continued in August, starting with the 2023 Quilters by Hearts Desire President’s Challenge.

  • Started 2023  Finished 2024
  • 18″ x 24″
  • Glide 40wt in Strawberry Blond
  • Overlapping Crop Circles
  • Legacy 80/20 batting
  • Mine, hanging in my Quilt Studio

I made another Double 4-Patch table runner as a shop display.  This one from Wild Wander and Grunge.

  • Started 8/24/24 – Finished 8/26/24
  • 12-1/2″ x 48″
  • Thread – unknown
  • Straight line on the domestic machine
  • Legacy 80/20 batting
  • Mine, currently hanging in the shop

I bought the leaf blocks and background fabric at the Guild auction.  The blocks are set inspired by Bonnie Hunter’s Dancing Nine-Patch. I call this quilt Falling Leaves.

  • Finished 9/4/2024
  • 55″ x 69″
  • Glide 40wt in Strawberry Blond
  • Edge to Edge – Ground Cover
  • Legacy 80/20 batting
  • Mine

This Field and Furrows layout of the Brandon Quilters 2024 Block of the Month was the first of 6 layouts that I finished for a presentation on block layouts.

  • Started 12/9/2023 Finished 9/5/2024
  • 74″ x 74″
  • Glide 40wt in Magic Mint
  • a variety of computerized motifs, ruler work and free-motion
  • Legacy 80/20 batting
  • Mine

The 2nd BOM I finished is So Sweet.  When I took it off the machine I kept saying this is “So sweet”. It was inspired by Scott A. Flanagan’s “Sail Away Sampler”  in Annie’s Quilting Mix & Match Sampler Settings.

  • Started 12/9/2023 Finished 9/7/2024
  • 72″ x 93″
  • Glide 40wt in Cotton Candy
  • Edge to Edge – Fresco Feathers
  • Legacy 80/20 batting
  • Mine

This is “A Modern Twist”. I spotted as similar layout on the blog PolkaDotChair. I found a great E2E design from Urban Elementz.

  • Started 12/9/2023 Finished 9/8/2024
  • 74″ x 74″
  • Glide 40wt in either Linen or Cream
  • Edge to Edge – Square Cut
  • Legacy 80/20 batting
  • Mine

I had a a dead-line of September 9th for the Block of the Month quilts. 2 more are quilted, but did not get bound and I had a 3rd which still needs to be assembled. So, it was a relief to work on something new a the quilt retreat.

The pattern for these little bags are the  Helpful Heifer Tinker Bags from The Quilted Cow.  My kit made 4, but after making 2 of them, I decided I’d rather use the fabric for a Laura’s Little Notebook cover.  These were made September 21, 2024.

This is Laura’s Little Notebook Cover, another Helpful Heifer pattern. They work up quickly you can easily get 4 from 2 fat quarters and if you are careful you can get 5.  I also made this September 21, 2024.

The morning of October 14th one of the quilt shops in Kansas City posted a picture of the Quilted Sneakers. By noon, I had located a class “near me” – 350 miles away — and was signed up. I took the class on October 26th where I finished the first shoe.  I finished the 2nd shoe after I got home the next day – October 27, 2024.  Naturally I showed them at the Mississippi Quilters Association’s Fall Gathering and both guild meetings where there was a lot of interest in them.

So I made a second pair and will be teaching two classes at Ritzy Quilting Company on March 28th a& 29th. I started this pair on December 15th and finished them on December 26th.

That’s 18 finishes for the year 2024.

Also during 2024 I did 2 presentations to the quilt guild – one on Orphan Blocks and another on Block Sets (thus the multiple BOM quilts). I finished making all the HST for Riviana, but misplaces 60 of them! I started another BOM, but got hung up on how to set it so that’s on this years UFO list. And I finally figured out how to set the snowmen blocks. I didn’t quite get the top finished, but it was close. It was my first finish of 2025.

 

 

 

Posted in: 2024 Brandon Quilter, Double 4-Patch Table Runner, Falling Leaves, Lauras Little Notebook, QBHD President Challenge, Quilted Sneakers, Quilts ⋅ Tagged:

Nora’s Notebooks

February 14, 2023 6:00 am ⋅

The Nora’s Notebook pattern is a padded cover which fits those inexpensive black and white composition notebooks. The pattern is exclusive to The Quilted Cow in West Branson, Missouri.

Three Fat Quarters are needed, a little bit of lightweight interfacing, Soft &  Stable (I used Pellon Flex-Foam FF78F2), and an 1/2″ magnetic closer, but a piece of hook & loop tape could also be used.

There are 4 pockets, one on the outside, 2 on the inside left cover,

 

and one on the back cover.

I simply quilted around the circles using pink thread.

My number 1 recommendation is to label the pieces.  2nd, when putting in the snap,  orient the tabs top to bottom so you can stitch around the tab and top stitch the cover when done.  I had to remake my tab so I could to the topstitching.

For my second cover I actually used 5 fabrics.  I wanted a way to easily see this is my Quilters By Hearts’ Desire notebook, so I made it to match my Pizza Box Quilt we made.

To quilt it, I did a 2″ crosshatch, with 1/2″ vertical lines behind the pencil pouch.

The tab is shorter as I oriented the fabric the other way.

The Quilt Studio is a bit neater as well. As I was working on the cover, I cut up my scraps which have been sitting in the pizza box and put them away.

I have one more I want to make for my Brandon Quilters notebook cover, and I think I’ll use the fabric I used in the mystery quilt we did last year.

 

Posted in: Nora's Notebook, Pizza Box

Quilt #2 of 2023

January 18, 2023 10:39 am ⋅

Quilt #2 is the 2022 Quilters By Hearts’ Desire Pizza Box Swap quilt.  Last year we each put a length of background and  focus fabrics, plus some FQs of coordinates in a pizza box.  We made the first block, then at each meeting someone else took the box home.  We don’t meet in December, so we received our boxes back in November with 10 additional blocks.  I made a 12th block then put them together to make this quilt.

The blocks are set together with a 6″ wide sashing and corner stones giving the illusion of alternate blocks.

The quilt is custom quilted with several different quilt designs.

  • Outer border – Alienfleur Border & Corners
  • Inner border – ABM HFzag drop
  • Setting Triangles – Anne Bright Hippie Double
  • Setting Corners – Anne Bright Hippie Single
  • Pieced Blocks – Anne Bright Hippie 4 Block
  • Blocks formed around Corner stones – Sweet Dreams BD 2013 003
  • Triangles formed in sashing – Kalediscope

At this point I must give a huge shout out to Capri, the System Administrator  on the Innova AutoPilot Mach3 Owners FB group and owner of Bear Paw Quilts.  I posted in a panic Saturday morning about something weird in my file when I opened it to resume quilting. She spent nearly 2 hours on the  phone with me working through fixing the issue, then teaching me what I needed to do to finish the quilting. She also suggested the quilting motif for the blue sashing, which still needed to be quilted after I finished the computerized quilting.

I’m not sure it shows well here, but it is Point to Point curves from corner to corner.

I took the quilt outside before I bound it and all of the great texture can be seen.

Quilt Stats

  • Started 1/9/2022
  • Finished 1/16/2023
  • Quilted with Glide 40wt in Cool Gray 7 – 4 bobbins
  • Legacy 80/20 batting
  • Top before quilting and washing 73 1/2 x 91 1/2
  • After quilting and washing 67 x 86 1/2

 

For the label, I created a document in Word and printed it onto printable fabric.  I moved the blocks out of month order, so the label reflects the block order and includes the name of the quilter, the block they made and the month they made it.

This quilt is on my 2023 Brandon Quilters UFO Challenge list.

Posted in: 2023 Brandon Quilters UFO, Machine Quilting, Pizza Box

Time to Quilt

January 12, 2023 8:50 am ⋅

I have lofty goals for the rest of the week. Finish binding the log cabin quilt, bind Princess and the Pea, quilt and finish the Pizza Box quilt.  First up is the Pizza Box quilt.  Ruby finished quilting her Pizza Box quilt last night and then I loaded my quilt.

Thread was picked. It came down to Cool Gray 7 or Zaffree. I think either would work, but have chosen Cool Gray 7 as it is the same color as the lines on the background fabric.

Now to figure out how to quilt this!

Posted in: 2023 Brandon Quilters UFO, Pizza Box

A Little Bit of This and That

January 9, 2023 9:23 am ⋅

I had grand hopes of having my Chilhowie top finished, the Log Cabin finished, and perhaps even the Pizza Box top quilted.  But the last few days since I checked in I’ve done a little bit of everything so nothing is finished.

Bonnie released the final clue to Chilhowie.  The clues will only be available for a short time — my guess is the end of January 2023. Anyway, I need to make 4 more blocks and corresponding border and sashing pieces to finish the top.

When I get the Chilhowie top finished, I have the backing for it. I found it in my stash while digging for binding.

 

Binding was the challenge on the log cabin. The original plan was to carry the center fabric to the border.  I had been warned off using a yellow for the center, for fear it would leap out, but it doesn’t. However, I was afraid the yellow border would, so I dug through my stash and came up with these options.  Each of them had their advantage and disadvantage, but none were “right”. Facebook was evenly divided. So I went to my LQS to see if I could find the “right” fabric. It was suggested that I use the backing fabric and I was just about to walk out of the store when the “right” fabric was spotted.

 

This Kaffe Millefiore. It’s darker than the yellow so will “frame” the quilt nicely, but at the same time it’s lighter than my previous choices.  Finally, it has all the colors.  After my running around over the weekend I started working on the binding. However, in my haste to finish it up missed spots when machine stitching it down.  I’ve got to take another look at it.

In addition to finding the backing for Chilhowie, I found another 3 Yard kit.  I think this was a ‘contest kit’ at the Quilted Cow. They called it ‘Anthony’, but I’m calling it Dragonflies & Flowers. I am adding it to my WHIMMs page.

Today it the last day to post about the results of the Final Countdown tasks. Here’s my recap.

Day 1 – Choose something you can finish quickly and do it  Big dreams, but I finished my pillow – a UFO from 2008.

Day 2 – Clean out a storage area – I got all the books put up which were stacked in the “Quilt Studio Annex”. As I look at the before and after pictures, I realize that I had already started putting the books up and when I took the before.

Day 3 – Take a project inventory and devise a plan. Since my Quilt Tops and Quilts In Progress (aka UFOs) were already tracked, and I had my UFO Challenge List defined, I decided to work on my PIGs and WHIMMs and what that means to me. I’ve added two tabs at the top of my page. I spent a good bit of time digging though my stash cataloging my projects.  I still haven’t found everything.  Earlier I wrote down “Bubbles – 4/23/22 Have a collection of FQs, now need pattern”. I have no idea what this is, but I’m sure it’s bagged up together and when I find it I’ll add it to my WHIMMs page.

Finally, I’m gearing up to begin the next phase of renovations.  My contractor and I have decided to tackle the den next.  I’ve narrowed down my paint color to one of the 2 purples that nearly blend into the sheetrock.  The paneling will be replaced with sheetrock.  The doors will get trimmed out, ceiling accent lights will be installed and replaced, and new flooring and base board trim will be installed.

 

 

Posted in: 2023 Brandon Quilters UFO, Chilhowie, Final Countdown, House, log cabin, PIGS, Pizza Box, WHIMMs

2023 Brandon Quilters UFO Challenge

January 1, 2023 10:26 am ⋅

Happy New Year!

Over the next few days I’ll update my list of Finishes, Quilts in Progress and Tops to be Quilted, but today I’m listing out my 2023 Brandon Quilters UFO Challenge quilts. My list was created and turned in at our December meeting.  The goal to finish all of these quilts by our meeting December 4th, 2023. So here’s the list:

  • Mom’s Sweatshirt – Started in December 2008. My goal now is to have it finished by September at the latest, preferably May.
  • Black & White Stacked 4-Patch – Started this in Spring 2008. I started the quilting on it, but needed to rip it out since the border wasn’t lining up.
  • Christmas Row Quilt – This was a block swap I did in October 2008. I want to have the quilt finished by July.
  • Fairy Frost Sunset – The top was mad in 10 days in September 2010. It’s time to get it quilted.
  • Auction Strings IV: Turquoise & Cheddar –  These are the last of the blocks I bought at the auction in September 2018.
  • Princess & the Pea – The retreat mystery quilt started with a panel. I got it quilted last month, then realized I don’t have binding fabric.
  • Christmas Star Swap – These was swapped in April 2019. I have a plan and the fabric on how I want to set these blocks. My goal is to finish by July.
  • QBHD 2022 Pizza Box – We finished the swap in November, my goal to to take it finished to our next meeting on January 16th.
  • Athena – I started this quilt last January.
  • Donna’s Log Cabin – I started this quilt at the September retreat. All the blocks are finished and I sewed the last seam of the 1st half of the quilt just before midnight.
  • Rainbow Challenge – These squares were swapped during the year. I started doing “something” with them in October. I have a plan.
  • Chilhowie, the 2022 Quiltville Mystery – My plan is to keep up with the rest of the clues, but I will lengthen the top.
Posted in: 2023 Brandon Quilters UFO, Athena, Auction Strings, Chilhowie, Christmas Row Swap, Christmas Star Swap, Fairy Frost Sunset, log cabin, Moms Sweatshirt, Pizza Box, Princess and the Pea, Rainbow Challenge, Stacked 4-Patch