This past week I’ve worked on 4 different quilts.  The Double Wedding Ring — my progress is shown in the drawing on the right side bar — if it’s colored in I’ve quilted that section.  My Christmas BOM — I made the Cookie Jar block and attached the sections next to it. Sylvia’s Bridal Sampler — made two blocks — Album 2 and Crown and Cross.  I see now the yellow blends into the pink, but I’m not doing it over.  Finally I pieced a bit of Ocean Waves.

The cool thing is at the end of the first week I  have my January UFO challenge done.

On a different note, I looked down Saturday afternoon and realized I had two pairs of snips on my desk.   I’ve been missing one pair for quite sometime.  Saturday morning I pulled the DWR out of the laundry basket to mark the quilting on the current row.  I noticed the snips in the bottom of the basket and brought them into the sewing room/office.  Apparently I lost them in the quilt.  Now if I can just find the second cover….

Don’t forget to check out the links over at Patchwork Times for some great quilting inspiration.

This week more bits of pieces of the Ocean Waves quilt were stitched together, along with my Cookie Jar block and one Sylvia’s Bridal Sampler block.  These bits and pieces add up.  The 60 HST Squares bring me to 1180 — so I’m getting there.

Fabric Added Last Week: 0 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 4.25 yards

Fabric Used Last Week: .57 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 6.18 yards

Net Used for 1.93 yards

To see how others are doing with their stash follow the links over at Patchwork Times.

Some pieces are turned under, some are fused in place.  All pieces are stitched with invisible thread.  The wicks are satin stitch — that was simply too small of a piece for me to work with — about 3/8″ x 1/4″ finished.  I think batiks and Steam-a-Seam 2 are gong to become my best friends as I work on the remaining blocks.

It’s beginning to look a lot like a cookie jar….

I’ve picked the fabric for the Cookie Jar block.  My first thought was I’d use the red from the knob on the lid for the letters, but now I think I need a brighter red for the knob — and definitely a brighter/lighter color for the letters on the jar.

The last day of vacation/holiday, I just flitted from thing to thing, never settling on any one thing.  First thing this morning my DH and I got the legs back on our new to us dinning table.  We were told it is circa 1910.  Who knows.  I just know that I like it and the price couldn’t be beat.

Then we watched the Rose Parade and I worked on the DWR.  I’ve met my goal for January and then some.

As for other quilting — I trimmed up 40 HST for Ocean Waves, made two blocks and 12 pinwheels.

Judy has picked #5 for this month’s challenge.  That’s the Cookie Jar block, quilting 1 ring of my Double Wedding Ring Quilt and making 2 of my Sylvia’s Bridal Sampler blocks.

I’m not sure which two SBS blocks I’ll make.  I guess we’ll all see the surprise at the end of the month.

But first, I have to clean up the sewing room.  I’ve got parts and pieces, tops, kits and other stuff strewn about the room.  I need a major clean in here, but really, I don’t think it will take too long to set things to right if I would just focus.

Bonnie Hunter released the last clue to Orca Bay this morning.  She did a great job keeping the quilt a mystery. I had NO idea where this was going.  Although I kept up with the clues early on, the larger string blocks did me in.  Since then, I’ve made sure I’ve done a few of each clue.  Now I’m glad I didn’t keep up any better.

Pictured are all of my star blocks and larger string blocks/triangles that I have completed.  Now that I know where this is going and have them up on the wall, I can see clearly I need to lighten up the purple — which I think was red in Bonnie’s quilt.

I’ll use this post to link up tomorrow for the progress report.  Monday you’ll be able to click HERE to see how other are doing on their Orca Bay.

I was off from work last week and I hoped to get a bunch of quilting done. Instead, if I wasn’t go, go, going, I was reading.  In fact it was tough to sit at my sewing machine.  I guess I finally got that break from all the quilting I did last year.  But I do have numbers to report as I took some time to visit quilt shops over the week and I finally got the backing made for a quilt I’ve started quilting.

Fabric Added Last Week: 4.25 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 4.25 yards

Fabric Used Last Week: 5.61 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 5.61 yards

Net Used for 1.36 yards

I’m going to continue to count my usage as I have been  – which lately has been as I’ve finished stitching the units.  I love watching the numbers go up as I work on things.

The links to other stash reports are over at Patchwork Times.

This morning I was doing a bit of clean up on my files, and realized I hadn’t posted a picture of my latest finish.    A while back I made this LeMoyne Star as a practice block and really liked how it came out – so did my husband.  He said it would be a great wall hanging.  So, it’s been floating around my sewing room waiting for me to finish.

I started off with a 12″ frame — it’s a 12″ block right?  All the points were “chopped” off — then I broke the glass.  So Christmas Eve I went back to the store and bought the 12 1/2″ frame.  It’s perfect.

Yesterday was spent quilting on the long arm.  I finally have the feathers on the Compass Lone Star.  Now to finish up the rest of the blocks, quilt them and attach them to the center.

As for the other quilt, after a false start which I’ll have to rip out, I settled on a quilting design — only before I could finish up the last two rows, I had to re-thread the machine and I couldn’t get it to take another stitch.  By then I had been at it all day and decided to come home.  Perhaps next week I’ll get it finished.