I think there is a young man who is going to get a quilt for Christmas. His sister spent the weekend piecing this top. Now the question is it big enough and how/who will quilt it.

It really wasn’t a day’s worth of piecing — I worked on another project, cooked dinner, watched DWTS & Castle and periodically goofed off. But you see here 62 blocks with one more piece attached.

I finished the 63rd block (or was it the first) to make sure I had everything cut right.

The block measures 8 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ unfinished – I forgot to add that to the cheat sheet I did for this quilt.  The cheat sheet can be found HERE.

It doesn’t look like much, but I’m making headway on my red, white & blue quilt. I have about half of the red squares assembled, then it will be on to the corner squares.

Eventually, I’ll put together a pattern with full directions, but in the meantime, I’ve put together a cheat sheet which can be viewed HERE.

Hop over to Patchwork Times to see what others have been up to this past week.

Quilts in “active” progress. The leader/ender project of black and neutral 2-patches for Bricks and Stepping Stones, Deadline Project 2 and “August Quilt C”.  I really need a better name for it.  It was the 3rd quilt I designed in August.

In between sets of stitching for the deadline project (currently called “September Quilt A”) I added side triangles to a stack of 10 squares.  Every once in a while I would stitch a 2-patch. I now have 50 of them in my knitting bucket.

I have a deadline I need to meet. So what do I do? Spend the evening cutting the fabric for this quilt I drew in EQ back in August.

It wasn’t all goofing off – I did work on the deadline project, but obviously didn’t get as much done as I perhaps should have.  I’ll see about making it up tonight.

This is obviously not my design wall – it’s all I can show of what I’ve been working on this past weekend. 45 2-inch 2-patches all made as leader/enders. I’ll need 288 2-patches, so perhaps this project will last me a bit.

See what others are up to over at Patchwork Times.

Nothing in and nothing out this week. Perhaps I’ll be able to finish Deadline Project 2 in time for next week’s report.

Fabric Added Since Last Report: 0 yards
Fabric Added To Date: 164.037
Fabric Used Since Last report: 0 yards
Fabric Used To Date: -50.146

See how others are doing with their stash over at Patchwork Times.

After pondering a bit I’ve settled on my next leader/ender project – Bricks and Stepping Stones. I don’t have enough 2″ squares cut, but there are enough to keep me going for a while. When all of the 4-patches are made I’ll worry about the 3 1/2″ x 6 1/2″ bricks.

Last weekend I finished my Leader/Ender spools quilt top. That was my goal for the Bonnie Challenge issued by Jo over at Jo’s Country.  But there are two more weeks in the challenge. So I need to figure out what to work on.

My Blue Ridge Beauty needs borders – but I don’t have anything appropriate for borders in my stash and I need to work from stash for a bit.

Orca Bay, the mystery from what – 2 years ago – is still in a million pieces. I’ve got to finish the string piecing before I can assemble the blocks. This would be good to work on — if I wasn’t in the middle of a project with a deadline. I really need something I can use for leader/enders.  String piecing doesn’t seem conducive to that.

So, what other Bonnie quilt tops do I have in progress.  Oh — Scrappy Trips and Rectangle Wrangler. But those are out too.

Scrappy Trips is my treadle project –

and Rectangle Wrangle I haven’t settled on the constant fabric let alone cut enough strips – although I think I have more than these:

So, what’s a quilter to do but flip through all her Bonnie books and look through Bonnie’s Free Patterns to find something that will work with my pre-cut pieces or can be quickly cut so I can have a leader/ender project.

I have said in the past “Anymore it drives me crazy not to have a L&E stack by my sewing machine!”

I’m going to give myself maybe two more hours to figure this out and get some fabric lined up for my L&E project then it will be back to the deadline quilt.

In the meantime, check out how overs are doing with their Bonnie Challenge.

Over the weekend I finished up a couple of outstanding items on my to do list — finished repairing my nephew’s quilt, got the border on my Spool Quilt, made this month’s Alphabet block and cleaned at the sewing room/office. Admittedly I still have a pile of stuff on the cutting table and the “storage” end of the sewing table, but for all practical purposes the room is clean – you can sit in all the chairs.

The next item on my to-do list is the deadline quilt. I worked on it a bit last night while listening to The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon. I love her books, but even the prospect of listening to another chapter couldn’t keep me in the sewing room.  I’m not sure if it’s because I don’t want to mess up the clean room or needing working to a deadline that I can’t move. (Which of course makes it tougher to meet said deadline).

This evening I’m running the quilt up to my nephew. Perhaps when I get back I’ll be in a mood to piece.