Yesterday in the mail was a wonderful surprise. Three FQs and two coordinating spools of thread all tied together in a neat package. This is what Shelly at Prairie Moon Quilts sent me when she drew my name from the participant of her End of Year Countdown.
Thanks, Shelly!
It seems that after I have a big finish, I need to step away from quilting for a bit to catch my breath and work the kinks out of my shoulders. Here it is the 15th of the month and I have had 3 “big” finishes.
The first two items are on my to-do list for this year. The third is a bonus, but doesn’t get me off the hook for finishing the rest of my list. There may be a lull, but it just means I’m not sitting at the sewing machine. For the past few days, I’ve been playing with quilting ideas for Deadline III and I’ve settled on one. Now to get it marked on the quilt, the quilt layered and to start the quilting. I really want to have it finished before the end of the month. I also need to get the rest of these rail fence blocks trimmed
M is for Monkey Wrench is this month’s block in Dorothy Young’s Alphabet BOM. We are now half way though the series, but it’s still not too late to join the fun. To join the fun, join the Yahoo! Group apocketfullofmysteries.
The rest of my blocks can be seen HERE.
I just finished stitching down the binding on Deadline IV and have made a matched pillowcase. Now I have to hand stitch down the label and the hanging sleeve. Once that’s done I can wash the quilt to see if this batting I used will shrink up. I’m thinking it won’t now that I look at The Warm Company website. I think this is Soft & Bright, not Warm & White. Oh, well, it’s done now.
Earlier this week I was looking for yellow lead for my marking pencil – I found black, white & pink lead and kept finding packages of machine needles. I sorted them universal needles to the left, specialty needles to the right. The blue box has needles in it as well. I think I’m set for needles for a while.
Oh – the yellow lead? Never found it. I don’t know if it’s because I didn’t dig deep enough or if I simply don’t have any. I did find some yellow chalk marker which worked for my project.
With a new blog, I have to make a new claim at Bloglovin.
Nothing like waiting to the last-minute to finish this month’s Alphabet block.
This is Lady of the Lake from Dorothy Young’s alphabet block-of-the-month. I’m doing my blocks in recycled shirts and muslin. It’s not too late to join. Click on the “Join Now!” button.
Click to join apocketfullofmysteries.
The Frog Quilt is DONE!
I started it 1/11/12 and finished it 12/31/13. The hold up? Deciding on the face. The eyes had been decided on for months. (I have a picture from March 2013 with paper eyes pinned in place and who knows how much earlier I had the eyes in place).
Finally, I decided done was better than perfect and who knows – Frog may no longer need a quilt now that his owner is two years older.
All the fabric came from stash – with the exception of the peppermint fabric. It was purchased specifically for this quilt, picked out by my nephew. The back is a bit wild. I reached into my Novelty box and grabbed the first piece big enough.
The quilt measures 19 1/2″ x 23 1/2″. I used Hobbs Unbleached 80/20 for the batting and quilted it in a soft yellow thread.
Now, to get it delivered….
Task three of the Final Countdown has been announced.
Well, I’ve been compiling lists and tossing them out only to recompile them again. Some have actually made it onto paper. But this is the first one I’ve published. Since I want to do another UFO push like I did back in 2011 I have have two lists.
The only order either of these list are is by date I started the quilt or when I finished the top. Trust me when I say they won’t be finished in this order. In fact the first up on my list beginning tomorrow is Deadline Project IV.
Frog Quilt is in the dryer (completing Task One and giving me another 2013 finish – photos to come); my sewing area has been cleaned up and now I have a plan for 2014. Thanks Shelly for doing the Final Count Down Challenge.
Today’s task of the Final Countdown is:
My translation of this task was to clean up the sewing room. I commented on the post thinking my sewing room was in decent shape and then took some before pictures. Oh, my! It was worse than I thought. So I took another set of pictures that didn’t quite show how bad the room was.
Of course now that I look at these, the really bad part (the floor on the other side of the ironing board) isn’t shown – just as well.
Anyway, the room is in better shape now. The large crate has been taken out to the garage, the cut off batting from the last couple of quilts has been tucked away into the batting crate and the stacks of fabrics have been put away.
I’m calling this one Done. Now back to the Frog quilt. I need to make a label, hanging sleeve and attach the binding.
