Category Archives: Leaders & Enders

What’s on My Design Wall

May 7, 2023 11:43 pm ⋅ Pam

This is a photo I took Saturday afternoon. Friday night I was cutting fabric for a couple of new quilts and cut something wrong, so I decided I needed to focus.

Clockwise, starting on the long arm

Christmas Star Swap on the long arm
Squedge 18 degree tablerunner on the design wall
Community Quilt for Brandon Quilters (brown bag on floor by design wall)
Auction Quilt from Brandon Quilters (butterfly bag on floor by design wall)
Postage Stamp Leader/Ender because I need to cut more HST for Rivanna (brown bin)
Pink, Green, & Purple Quilted Sweatshirt
An old sheet to make some body pillow cases
Fairy Frost Sunset pillowcase and remaining fabric to process
Christmas Star Swap pillowcases & binding fabric
HSTs for Rivanna
Kimberly from Stripology 3
Tara from Stripology 3
Crystal from Stripology 3

So this is the progress I made over the weekend. I’ve left the numbers the same, but obviously stuff has been moved around.

Christmas Star Swap is off the frame and trimmed. Not only that, I have the binding cut (it’s on the far side of the sewing machine) and most the trimmings have been processed.
Squedge 18 table runner is now a top. There is a pile of fabric on the corner of the ironing board that is for the backing and binding. I counted wrong and have some extra wedge pieces, so I may end up making either a square table topper or a pillow.
The Community Quilt is still waiting to be quilted.
The Auction Quilt will be up next on the longarm.
Postage Stamp Leader/Ender. It’s put away. I only sew use the 1-1/2″ squares as my L/E when I don’t have another L/E project going on.
Pink, Green, and Purple Quilted Sweatshirt is still waiting to be finished — I don’t need it until September, so I have some time.
An old sheet to make some body pillow cases – I’ll work on it after I get the Christmas quilt bound while the longarm is running.
Fairy Frost Sunset pillowcase is pinned to the design wall. The extra fabric is processed and put away.
Christmas Star Swap pillowcase and extra binding if I need it. I won’t make it until after the quilt is bound in case I need more fabric for the binding.
HST for Rivanna. I trimmed the 60+ HST which were sewn, then cut another 240, which should keep me going for a while.
Kimberly from Stripology 3 – 4 of the 14 fabrics are cut
Tara from Stripology 3 – 4 of the 14 fabrics are cut
Crystal from Stripology 3 – I’ll the fabric for this quilt after I get the rest of the fabric cut.

As I was recording my most recent purchases I realized I missed the April Stash Report.

Posted in: Christmas Star Swap, Crystal, Fairy Frost Sunset, GE Designs, Kimberly, Leaders & Enders, Moms Sweatshirt, Pillowcases, Rivanna, Rulers, Squedge 18, Stash Busting Report, table runner, Tara

Design Wall Monday

January 2, 2023 1:50 am ⋅ Pam

On this first Design Wall Monday of 2023, I have a quilt top finish. This is the log cabin quilt I started piecing at the quilt retreat in September. When I packed up after the retreat half the blocks needed 3 logs and the rest just needed two logs. I got those added last week and started piecing the top New Year’s Eve. I had the first half finished about 4 minutes before the clock struck midnight, ringing in the new year. The 2nd half of the top was finished by 11:30 PM on the 1st. Up next is the quilting.

This is the backing I’m planning on using. Now to figure out the quilting design.

As I was assembling the quilt my Rivanna HST were getting created. At last count I had 11 bags of HST. I still have a few more of this combination, then it will be on to another fabric. I have 2 more fabrics prepped.

I’ve stitched a bit more on my Faux Applique. This is a direct result of the Final Countdown Challenge over at Prairie Moon Quilts.

Chilhowie Clue 6 will be worked on this week. It’s simple enough, but I ran out of bobbin thread the night I was working on it, then got caught up with the log cabin.

Posted in: 2023 Brandon Quilters UFO, Chilhowie, designwall, Faux Applique, Final Countdown, Leaders & Enders, log cabin, Rivanna

What’s on My Design Wall

December 19, 2022 9:33 am ⋅ Pam

Over the weekend I finished both Clue #3 and Clue #4 of the Quiltville Mystery Quilt Chilhowie. I saw some grumbling about folks running out of orange fabrics and I think I know why. Although 2 yards is mathematically 1/2 yard more than is needed, when working from FQs and needing matching sets, if the orange squares from Clue #2 were not evenly distributed from each FQ and not cut along the width of the FQ I can see where you would run out if you only purchased 8 FQs. I had 13.

My current Leader & Ender project is Rivanna. I think I have 30 different fabrics, so I’m about 1/4 of the way through the HST. This is a quilt for my guest bed, so there’s no rush.

After finishing Clue # 4, I worked on the sashings for my Pizza Box quilt. The units for the inner portion of the border sashing is done and now I’m working on the outer portion. I hope to have everything pieced before the next clue comes out.

But I’m already planning my next quilt – or rather how to finish a quilt on my UFO list. I pulled the fabrics on the left from my stash, but naturally I don’t have enough fabric, so a trip the LQS was in order to see what I could find. The fabric on the right came home with me. I love the that diagonal stripe as a binding. We’ll see if I use it or not. My plan is to have my decorating Christmas Quilting done by July this year as the guild program that month is Christmas Quilts by our members. I have 2 Christmas quilts on next years UFO Challenge list. The list was complied and turned in prior to knowing what the program was going to be. I might have added a 3rd quilt had I known.

Posted in: 2023 Brandon Quilters UFO, Chilhowie, Christmas Star Swap, Leaders & Enders, Pizza Box, Rivanna

July 2022 Road Trip Fabric

October 26, 2022 2:05 pm ⋅ Pam

While in Kansas City, my SIL and I did a quilt shop hop of our own making. I knew I wanted to go to Hunters Quilt Mart in Centerview, Missouri since the batiks were on sale. I am making Bonnie Hunter’s Rivanna in batiks on black. I picked up 18 of the batiks at Hunters and more at other shops during the week. Since I’ve been home I’ve brought my total count up to 30.

The pictures are sorted by ‘quilt’, not shops and are not in the order I visited the shops. The Magnolia, gold, cream and gold & green piece I found at Hunters. I think the dark green, almost black I found at Stitch On in Lawrence, Kansas and the bottom green on green was in the bucket I won at the Guild meeting! It’s going to be the backing. As I look at this picture I think I have an extra fabric.

The stripe in the middle I found at Missouri Star, which is where I picked up the pattern Quartered Stripes. The purple fabric I bought on a whim while I was at Hunter’s. Later that week we called and ordered the rest of the bolt as we discovered it works so well with several fabrics we picked up.

The final stack of fabric is from a variety of shops and are not for specific projects. The solids were on the clearance rack at Hunters. the FQs I bought at Mes Amis in New Orleans. The black on white I found at KC Maker Studio.

Tuesday we stopped in at Show-Me-Quilting in Raytown, MO specifically to pick up a couple of things I ordered on line — the book and blue fabric in the left picture. I picked up some cork to use in bag making and found fabric on clearance for the quilt, binding and backing. Of course now that I look at the stripe, I’m not sure it will work well for the Quarter Stripes quilt.

Purchased at Mes Amis, the tiger stripe will be the backing to the purple, yellow & white Athena I’m making. The green backing I picked up at Missouri Star to make tablecloths. I’m not sure where I found the red buttons. I purchased it for the centers of a log cabin quilt, but then opted for another fabric.

I love these waterlilies and dragonflies. The prints I picked up at Missouri Star, there’s that purple again from Hunters. I’m not sure where I picked up the pink/lavender.

At Prairie Point Quilt and Fabric Shop in Lenexa, Kansas I picked up fabric to make a blouse and the pattern for a bag. The bag fabric came from KC Maker Studio off the clearance rack.

Notions from Mes Amis, KC Maker Studio and Missouri Star, thread from Hunter’s Quilt Mark, and the barn wood star from the grocery store in Hamilton, Missouri.

I’m happy to report that the tablecloths are made.

And I’ve started on Rivanna. I’m using it as my leader/ender project. Lots of HST, so I’m working on them one color at a time. 3 down and 27 to go.

Posted in: Athena, Butterscotch, Leaders & Enders, Rivanna, Road Trip, Stash

Correct Corners

April 6, 2021 8:22 am ⋅ Pam

Since I’ve started going back to the gym, I’m only gone for a little over an hour, but it sure has eaten into my quilting time. That’s because I’m still wiped out. It was a little better Monday (day 3), not that I have a finished blocks to show for it. I do however have correctly made corner units.

I rooted around in my yardage and decided the second Easy Breezy quilt will be red. Both quilts will have the pink floral as the backing. I haven’t decided if I’m going to try and load them both at the same time or not. Either way, I plan on using “Leather” as my thread color.

I have the 4 extra Easy Breezy blocks cut to use as my leader/ender for a little bit longer. My postage stamp quilt is my backup L/E. I’ve been working on it since the Spring of 2011.

I have 25 blocks made (in the bag) and enough quarter units for 10 more blocks.

Posted in: Easy Breezy, Leaders & Enders, Postage Stamp, Shimmer

Quilting in 2021

January 1, 2021 11:39 pm ⋅ Pam

The first day of 2021 saw me assembling 1/4 of the wedding quilt I’m working on, piecing 4 sampler blocks and completing 3 Easy Breezy blocks as my leader/ender project.

As for my quilting plans for 2021, as with years in the past, I’d like to cross a few quilts off my UFO list. With 40 quilts in progress, 20 tops needing to be quilted, and 1 which needs to be bound, I could work on a different quilt each week and still have a few left over.

As for challenges, I think I will participate in Prairie Moon Quilts 350 Blocks Project. The 2020 challenge is wrapping up and the 2021 challenge will begin mid-month, but our block count begins today. I’ll try to remember to put the tally’s at the bottom of my posts.

Tomorrow I think I’ll tackle that binding that I picked out for my 3rd Task.

Edited: I was looking for some challenges and this morning (Saturday) I found Finished (or Not) Friday at Alycia Quilts. So, I’m linking this post.

350 Challenge = 15

Easy Breezy = 92

Posted in: Easy Breezy, Leaders & Enders, Ruby's Sampler, wonky dishes

40 Day Challenge – Day 30

July 3, 2020 10:25 pm ⋅ Pam

Ten days left in my 40 Day Challenge and I probably should have put the binding on the baby 4-Patch Stacked Posy quilt then the only thing left would be Frolic. Perhaps I’ll do that tomorrow. Today, I finished 8 more blocks to Frolic. You’ll notice there are a few smaller blocks on the wall. Those are the first blocks from the 2020-2021 Quiltville Leader/Ender Project – Easy Breezy.

Bonnie posted 2 different sizes and I’ve opted for the smaller 4 -1/2 inch blocks. The first two blocks I made as she showed, but given one block was getting made as I finished each Frolic block and I don’t have many pieces cut, I’m now only sewing one piece at the end of each line of stitching. I think I have 3 more blocks cut, so I’ll need to cut more blocks before I finish the rest of the Frolic blocks.

Tomorrow I hope to finish the rest of the Frolic blocks, and at least determine what I need to cut for the setting triangles. Or maybe I will put the binding on the quilt. Here’s what’s left:

Bind Baby 4-Patch Stacked Posies
The blue, black and white quilt is my Frolic the goal is to finish the top. Started with 5 blocks I need 41, 16 side setting triangles. 4 corners and the pieced borders for my enlarged quilt.
- 3 blocks 6/26/2020
- 3 blocks 6/27/2020
- 6 blocks 6/28/2020
- 3 blocks 6/29/2020
- 5 blocks 6/30/2020
- 8 blocks 7/2/2020
Bonus #1 – Pillowcases:
- Allietare
- Narragansett Blues
Bonus #2: Pillowcases for quilts already completed
- Christmas Crazy 8s
- En Provence (2)
- Carolina Chain
Bonus #3: Quilt, bind, label and make pillowcase (2) for Frolic.

Posted in: 40 Days - 2020, Easy Breezy, Frolic, Leaders & Enders

What’s On My Design Wall

April 18, 2016 2:14 am ⋅ Pam

Clue4-Done

Clue # 4 of Alletore is done! Now on to Clue # 5. Oh wait. I didn’t get that clue downloaded and saved. But no fear – I can use Clue # 6 to back into Clue # 5. This evening I’m going to finish the cutting which I’ve skipped — the pieces for the outer edge of the quilt center and then pack everything together so I can work on other projects which need to be finished sooner than later.

tumblers0418

Meanwhile, the Tumbers Leader/Ender project has been moving along. 400 more seams and then I’ll be ready to sew rows into a quilt top.

Check out what others are working on over at Patchwork Times.

Posted in: Allietare, designwall, Leaders & Enders, Tumblers

480 Tumblers

August 19, 2015 9:38 am ⋅ Pam

July 1st I started this year’s Leader/Ender Challenge that Bonnie Hunter is hosting. My tumblers are from recycled shirts. Thus far I’ve managed to stitch 480 tumblers into 240 pairs while working on the Disappearing 9-Patch quilts over the past 7 weeks.

Speaking of the Disappearing 9-Patch, I didn’t quite get the 3rd section sewn together. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that I’ll finish the quilt top tonight. Since I’ve run out of light tumblers. I’ll stitch the pairs into 4’s until I finish the D9P. Then more tumblers both light and dark will be cut as I cut the squares for the backings.

Posted in: Leaders & Enders, Tumblers

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

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