Category Archives: Designwall

What’s On My Design Wall

July 13, 2015 10:58 am ⋅ Pam

This is the 3rd section of the Red Disappearing 9-Patch. Those white squares are labels I pinned on the blocks to help me order them on the wall. I have the first two sections sewn together and hanging on my shelves.

As I look at the top hanging, it seems to give off a different vibe that many of my other quilts. This seems like a summer quilt – lightweight & cool. It reconfirms my desire to back it using more shirting fabric. Once I get the green one done, I’ll pull the shirts back out and piece backs for all three Disappearing 9-patches — although I may have enough backing fabric left from my DWR to do one back.

The quilting will be simple – 3 lines of cross hatching through the blocks going both ways – in red thread.

See what others are working on over at Patchwork Times.

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What’s on My Design Wall

July 6, 2015 8:32 am ⋅ Pam

Hey, hey. There’s a change on my design wall this week. Ok, not much of one, but I’m not using the same picture. Last week I took down the Sew Scrappy blocks as I made more progress on the Red Disappearing 9-Patch. Show me the progress you say?

Those 4 huge 9-patches will become 12 DP9 blocks. The stack in the top right corner are 52 blocks waiting to go up on the wall. I still have 10 more big 9-patches to sew together. Of course my wall is not big enough for the whole quilt – 11 x 13 blocks – so I’m not sure how I’m going to lay it out. May just sort the 4 matching blocks into 4 sections and make sure each section looks good.

I started the Tumbler leader/ender Challenge quilt on July 1st as well. I’ve repurposed the strips I had cut for Rectangle Wrangle to cut tumblers using my Dresden Plate ruler.

My tumblers are 2-1/2″ tall and so far I’ve got 12 pairs made. I want to be able to mix the colors up in the quilt and so far most the ones I’ve made are red. My guess is that after the first of the year I’ll start sewing them into rows once I have ton of pairs made. I need over 1100 tumblers for a small lap quilt and twice that many for twin. I have 24 sewn together.

See what other are working on over at Patchwork Times.

Posted in: designwall, Leaders & Enders, Tumblers

What’s on My Design Wall

June 22, 2015 6:59 am ⋅ Pam

Don’t look now, but Star-A-Day # 112 & #113 have been completed. For those keeping score at home, I will not have the top done by August 31st/Sept 10th. I would have to make 3 1/2 stars a day and I don’t see that happening. But, I might get it in gear and get a few more stars done this month.

As for my design wall, nothing has changed — except 2 DP9 blocks have fallen off the wall. I have the next set of 13 9-patches stitched into rows, but have not managed to sew them into blocks yet. Perhaps this week.

Hop over to Patchwork Times to see what others are working on.

Posted in: designwall, Star-A-Day

What’s On My Design Wall

June 15, 2015 6:52 am ⋅ Pam

This past week I worked on two projects. The blocks at the top are for Sew Scrappy using my Kansas Troubles fabrics. There are another 20 of the blocks like the one at the bottom of the design wall which need the sashing and cornerstone added, then it will be time to make those 25-patches and get them sashed.

But Saturday evening I decided I needed something a bit more mindless to work on, so I pulled out the red Disappearing 9-patch. This is about 1/4 of the blocks, so they are not in the final order. Given the size of my design wall, I guess I’m going to have to work on this quilt in quarters. The quilt will be 11 blocks wide and I can only get 8 up on the wall.

Finally, I’ve been debating whether or not to join the 2015 Leader & Ender Challenge – Tumblers. I have a L&E project – my postage stamp quilt and I have plenty of pieces currently cut so I really don’t need a new project. However, aren’t these so cute? Maybe if I can find a quick and accurate way to cut them – preferably without buying a template.

Hop over to Patchwork Times to see what others are working on.

Posted in: designwall, DP9, Leaders & Enders, Sew Scrappy, Tumblers

What’s On My Design Wall

June 8, 2015 6:20 am ⋅ Pam

Well, actually, this was on the design wall at the retreat Friday night. It’s the small of the Disappearing 9-Patches. It does lay flat, but we here having trouble reaching high enough to pin it to the wall and it’s over the iron cord (It was only on the wall long enough to take the picture).

Now on my design wall here at home, I’ve put up the completed blocks from Sew Scrappy – an Evelyn Sloppy design from her 40 Fabulous Quick-Cut Quilts book.

This was the other quilt I worked on over the weekend. It doesn’t look like much, but I have lots of parts assembled – the modified flying geese were done previously.

This UFO has been hanging around for two years, but I want to finish it this year – hopefully get the top done this month and have it ready for quilting.

See what others are upto over at Patchwork Times.

Posted in: designwall, DP9, Sew Scrappy

What’s On My Design Wall

June 1, 2015 1:28 am ⋅ Pam

I sometimes wonder what triggers my productivity. I started this quilt in April 2013. The flying geese like units I managed to knock out “quickly” and I started in on the 9-patches. I even took it to a quilt retreat that summer, but I can find no mention of me working on it since then until last week – although it’s been on the list of UFOs to finish for both 2014 and 2015.

Anyway, last week something was triggered and I’ve spent my sewing time working on the quilt top. It’s a similar feeling to when I finally was able to knock out Orca Bay – only this time, I’ve known all along who I’m giving the quilt to.

So, what have I accomplished. #1 figuring out where I left off. #2 sewing and cutting all of the strip sets for the 9-patches. Now I’m working on the strip sets for the 25-patches. I get up and press after I sew 10 strips. Hopefully this will keep me from getting stiff and it allows me to stitch another leader/ender. For the moment I’m using another part of the quilt as my leader/ender

Perhaps next week I’ll have a quilt top to show.

In the meantime, see what others are working on over at Patchwork Times..

Posted in: designwall, Sew Scrappy, UFOs

What’s On My Design Wall

May 25, 2015 2:39 am ⋅ Pam

My design wall hasn’t seen anything since I finished Eye Fooler. I’ve spent the past week cutting fabrics for not one, but 3 Disappearing 9-Patch quilts to work on at an upcoming retreat. I am happy to say that I’ve finished the cutting — that is the cutting before I start sewing. There’s more cutting after I sew a bit.

My shirt boxes were stuffed to the point there was absolutely no room for another cuff, let alone another shirt. Now that I’ve finished cutting my squares, I have half a box empty — out of 8.

There are three things left on my quilting list for May:

Figure out where I left off on Sew Scrappy
Figure out what I’m taking to the retreat besides DP9s
Trace off some stars for the now ‘Star Every 3rd Day’ quilt.

See what others are working on over at Patchwork Times.

Posted in: designwall, DP9

What’s On My Design Wall

May 18, 2015 6:30 am ⋅ Pam

Last week there were big finishes. First was Eye Fooler — at about 4:00 AM Saturday morning. Nothing like finishing with only hours to spare.

A full picture of the quilt can be seen in Saturday’s post.

The second finish is Orca Bay. The binding is stitched down and now I need to get it washed, photographed and shipped off.

So what’s next? Catching up on laundry and deep cleaning the kitchen. Along the way, I need to put up the extra fabric from the quilts – I’ve already taken care of the backing and batting, but I need to put up the brights from Eye Fooler. After I get that done, I’ll start cutting the recycled shirts for my nephews’ quilts. Now if I can find the note card which tells me how many squares I need to cut….

See what other’s have been working on over at Patchwork Times.

Posted in: designwall, Eye Fooler, Orca Bay

What’s On My Design Wall

May 11, 2015 8:21 am ⋅ Pam

No, it’s not a quilt, but it is fabric that I bought last week.

My husband stopped at a garage sale on his way home from the dentist a couple of weeks ago. He bought two swivel bar stools which needed a bit of TLC. (I forgot to take a picture until we started working on them.) This is one was the ‘good’ one.

With a little bit of elbow grease and $6 of vinyl we now have two good-looking bar stools. Now to figure out where to put them. He’s decided not to use them where he original intended.

Just a few more seams left on Eye Fooler. I’ve got to stay home and stop running around. It interferes with my quilting.