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37
Timestamp: 2011-12-18 05:32:43 UTC
37. Marcia -Tulip Fields is my first choice. I am dutch and we grow lots of tulips in the Netherlands! Thanks!!
Marcia — I’ve sent you an e-mail to get your mailing address.
Most of the Give-Aways on the Blog Hop Party end Saturday. I’m planning on closing the comments on mine Saturday at 10 PM Central . Be sure to sign up HERE.
Last night and this morning I worked on a bit on my Orca Bay purple string blocks from Clue #4. I’ve got a stack of HST triangles leftover from my Old Tobacco Road quilt that I’m using as the last string. Instead of squaring up the blocks then sliver trimming them with my Companion Angle Ruler, I cut the blocks in half, corner to corner and remove the paper and give the blocks a good pressing. Next I straighten the bottom edge and then finally trim the sides of the triangle. It’s what works for me.
Another project I’ve made a bit of progress on is the Ocean Wave quilt. The first 25 blocks and associated half/quarter blocks are sewn together.
Both of these projects are going to get set aside for a couple of days as I work on a couple of more pressing projects.
Don’t forget to enter the drawing for four patterns I’m giving away as part of the Quilting Gallery Blog Hop. Enter HERE.
Instead of working clue # 4 for Orca Bay, I spent time on my log cabin quilt. I know doesn’t fit on my design wall — the wall is only 60 x 80. Since I designed the layout I know it’s supposed to be 84 x 98 when it’s finished. But — WOW! — this is a big quilt. I don’t think I realized just how big. Lately most of my quilts are in the vicinity of 60 x 74 so the extra 24 inches is somewhat overwhelming. I’m so glad I didn’t try to do this in rows.
As I was sewing the blocks and rows together, my leader/ender project was the HST Squares for Ocean Waves — I’m up to 1030 – only 554 more to go. No picture today – but I do have the blocks in the top right quadrant of the quilt sewn into rows.
I say I didn’t work on Clue #4. More accurately I didn’t sew on Clue # 4. I’ve got the foundation papers cut and I pulled more purple strips, squares, rectangles and triangles from my pre-cut boxes and pressed a few strings.
But, all the other parts are done. I’ve got them pinned in groups of 10 and tossed into my mom’s knitting bucket.
To how others are doing on their Orca Bay quilts, check out the links over on Bonnie’s blog. Judy’s blog has links to design walls. Finally, if you are looking for my giveaway — here’s the link.
This past week I worked on my Orca Bay, Ocean Waves and Log Cabin quilts. At the Friday night sew-in I took my log cabin blocks for mindless sewing and Saturday I continued working on them, finishing up the rest of the logs – so I get to count them! I’ve got the top left quarter of the quilt on the design wall ready to sew together.
Fabric Added Last Week: 0 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 130.686 yards
Fabric Used Last Week: 9.528 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 178.683 yards
Net Used for 47.997 yards
The links over at Patchwork Times will show how others are doing.
If you are looking for my give away click here.
Quilting Gallery is coordinating a blog hop where the blog participants are hosting a give-away. If you’ve never been to the Quilting Gallery site you should check it out. They host weekly themed quilt contests (I entered this week’s contest) and maintain lists of quilting blogs, quilt shops and quilt guilds among other things.
If this is your first visit to my blog, welcome. If you’ve been here before, thanks for stopping by again.
My blog is mostly about my quilting, but occasionally other “stuff” drifts in. The biggest reason I blog is to have a record of my quilting. To that end I’ve setup tabs that show the progress of my quilts from the cutting the fabric (quilts in progress), to becoming a top (tops to be quilted), and finally the finished quilt (finishes). The idea is to motivate me to finish some of the quilts I’ve already started.
Now to the give-away.
These four patterns are from my stash. I’ve made the Geese in My Garden (I called mine No Blue Geese in My Tropical Garden), but the other three patterns are new — well at least not used. To enter, please leave a comment on this post telling me which of the four patterns you want to make first and a way to contact you. I’ll use a random number generator to pick a comment after 10 PM Central on December 17th.
Please note, WordPress sets your first (and sometime later) comments to moderate. As near as I can tell, I can’t change this. I’ll approve comments a couple of times a day, so if you don’t see your comment immediately, check back the next day.
Meanwhile, check out the other blogs on this hop by clicking the party balloons.
Update: I just realized that it may appear that I’m only sending one pattern. The winner of the random draw will get all 4 patterns. – Pam
The theme this week is Christmas Table Runners. I’ve entered “Gift Wrapped” in the Quilting Gallery contest. I’d love to have your vote.
Yes, I have finished Orca Bay Clue # 3 – 350 Black and White Half Square Triangle Squares which will finish at 1 1/2″. And sure enough at one point I picked up a stack of Ocean Wave HSTs and didn’t discover it until I went to press them and they were BLUE.
Will Clue #4 be where Red is introduced into the quilt — or in my case Purple?
Instructions for this quilt can be found HERE.
Like the Log Cabin, Ocean Waves is too big for my design wall. So, I’m going to sew it together in sections. I guess I need to work on those half blocks now.
Quilting Gallery is coordinating a blog hop and I thought I’d join. I’ll post more about this on Friday.
